March 2012
20 posts
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“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them...”
– Max Planck (via expose-the-light)
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“True political action consists in making use of knowledge of the probable so as...”
– Pierre Bourdieu, “Sociology in Question” (via rethinkcapitalism)
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“If we are serious about ending poverty, we have to be serious about ending the...”
– Ode Magazine : Two myths that keep the world poor (via sociolab)
shitthebed asked: do you know where which book Peter Berger's: "the difference between dogs and people.." quotation comes from?
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“Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals,...”
– Michel Foucault (via carnivorousdreams)
February 2012
10 posts
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“The temptation of the ‘eyes down, palms up’ mode of research...”
– Philip Abrams
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“America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that...”
– Tom Morello (via iwanttheairwaves)
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“Practicing active disloyalty has its price, as well as its rewards.”
– Chandra Mohanty
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“To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see...”
– Twelve Things You Were Not Taught In School About Creative Thinking (Psychology Today, via YA Highway via Gwenda Bond)
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wordsfromtheleft:
“Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves. ”
- Zygmunt Bauman, Globalization: The Human Consequences
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“My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state,...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
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“Were it not for the contradictory diversity of Marxist thought, he would be glad...”
– Robert Cox
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“…Fundamental changes were occurring in the world – the ‘real’...”
– Benjamin J. Cohen, “The Transatlantic Divide: Why are American and British IPE so Different?”
January 2012
40 posts
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“Why is sociology absent in public debates … why do sociologists have so little...”
– The Paradox of Sociology (via sociolab)
This paradox is perhaps the most frustrating aspect of being a sociologist, or a sociologist-in-training. For a population that studies society as such, it would appear that society could care less about any notions of ‘self-reflexivity.’
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“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then...”
– Albert Einstein (via occupyallstreets)
Will study social interaction for food: Have any... →
entropyforever:
bodybetraysthemind:
Need a hand here guys, my textbook is very vague on the subject of sociological and ‘common sense’ approaches.
Can anyone give me a clear difference between them?
I already have that the sociological approach starts with a theory and is then tested…
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