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I started off in psychology. My first few years in university had me studying Freud and Pavlov and Maslow and the like. I was pretty happy with psychology, for a while at least. Then, in about my fourth year of…
Meetings are rituals, and rituals need symbols, and decorations. I’ve been to a lot of meetings in my time as an academic where I sat bored and confused, but still fulfilled my function as a decoration, and clap on cue.…
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…
