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Author: Kennard, Matt Publisher: Zed Books Inspection Copy More details While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam – a deception and rip-off of immense proportions. Kennard’s unbridled access over four years to the crème…
Stephen Hawking, the arch-determinist. One can hardly broach the subject of agency without acknowledging the long-standing and unresolved philosophical debate regarding the agency vs. determination dichotomy. To provide an illustration of the extent of disagreement over this dualism, determinists, such…
Monica Brasted, Ph.D SUNY College Brockport [email protected] Abstract Sociologists have long recognized that our social class influences how we experience the world. Our social position even influences our consumption of cultural products such as television programs. It is possible that…
Sociology 288 is designed to introduce you to the study of social movements from a sociological perspective. Typically, when sociologists talk about social movements, they discuss the labour movement, the feminist movement, or the “new” social movements that have emerged…
Dr. Mike Sosteric believes that it’s time to bring sociology out of the ivory tower — and he is doing so through a new media journal called The Socjournal, which is attracting a million hits [editor’s correction, that’s close to…
The film Groundhog Day (1993) puts the protagonist, Phil Connors, in a time warp. Nothing that he does matters because he is stuck in February 2, Groundhog Day, in a small rural town. For most of the film he seems…
There are now a range of academic disciplines which have been indelibly marked by — indeed produced by — the interests and actions of the propagandists. The field of Public Relations research, the discipline of marketing, some aspects of Human…
What is family… Really? The paradox is, that the answer to that question, in all self-honesty, for most people, is a shock to discover, yet at the same time so univocally familiar. The word, originating from c.1.400 is said to…
It appears not. As of February 25, 2012, the death toll in Afghanistan keeps climbing (28 killed in one week of rioting), but this time it’s not because of terrorism, or because of some sneaky campaign by the Taliban or…
On July 4, 2012, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops concluded their Fortnight for Freedom, a pulpit political initiative that is intended to challenge certain aspects of President Obama’s Affordable Healthcare Act (AHA). The Bishops are cheezed off because, under…
