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2012 March | The Socjournal

Freedom of speech? Its a thorny topic. Do people have the right to be hateful, misinformed, even misogynist? Does free speech include allowing emotional and psychologies bullies, like Rush Limbaugh, to use the airwaves for name calling? In the United…

2012 February | The Socjournal

R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me… Dr. Michael Sosteric | Feb 23, 2012 | Comments 0 When it comes to family, do we have a problem?According to Anna we do and I gotta agree with her because in…

2011 September | The Socjournal

War!? What is it good for? Taking stuff from others. Say it again. Oh, ah. Well, enough with the homage to Frankie who was in Hollywood in the 80s. War is another one of those ideological hot buttons, like greed,…

2011 June | The Socjournal

It’s not often you get a honest account of the foundation of modern science. To be honest, accounts of science, especially those given to second year initiates” is often more polemic and ego that it is science and rationality. But…

2011 February | The Socjournal

As a rule academics are not trained to write well. You might even say academics are trained to confuse, hiding their thoughts behind walls of pretentious gobbledygook. It is not our fault. It is part of our training. From the…

2010 November | The Socjournal

Please, Can you explain about the social model of disability which is very different to the social model of care and social model of health. Thank you, Alia Dr. Michael Sosteric | Nov 29, 2010 | Comments 1 So you…

2010 September | The Socjournal

Here is an article submitted by CPT Tanya Rosa of the Human Terrain Analysis Team-South, a US Army group tasked with interviewing Iraqi’s and gathering information. According to CPT Rosa, “the team is a mix of education levels, most graduate…

Cyber McCarthyism

Richard LingTelenor Research and Development [email protected] ABSTRACT Many people are uneasy with the rapid spread of new forms of electronic communication and media such as the internet, video on demand, electronic agents, teletorg numbers (premium rate services), satellite TV, pay…