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As a sociologist I’ve always been interested in surveillance. Jeremy Bentham, Foucault, Orwell. Like it or not surveillance is an aspect of the industrial and post-industrial world. It’s been talked about for centuries and dystopian authors like Orwell, sociologists like…
A sociologist looks at energy. Not oil, not nuclear, but renewable. Solar panels, wind, geothermal, these are all part of a decentralization of power generation. When every home has its own energy generating power plant we won’t be dependent on…
June 18th, 2010 Sweatshops and Post-Industrial Society: Conflicting Contemporary Phenomena Emily Jill Hodgson SOCI 460 Athabasca University June 13, 2010 — The shoes on our feet The results of the Google search on both sweatshops and global sweatshops, as found…
Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not “set them free” but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States? Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear…
February 15th, 2011 TextBooks John D. Carl. THINK Social Problems. Boston: Pearson. 2011. 342 pp. $71.33. James W. Coleman and Harold R. Kerbo. Social Problems. 10th ed. Boston: Pearson. 2009. 525 pp. $86.60. Corey Dolgon and Chris Baker. Social Problems:…
How much money do you need? One of the most important aspects of politics today, is the merging of governments with companies and corporations. We can no longer see the line between public and private business – where one ends…
September 14th, 2010 Social Class and American Sports We are not alone. Growing up we were not the only people to hear our mother’s invoke the adage that nothing good happens after midnight. This saying was designed to justify a…
IPAD workers kill themselves Foxconn Suicide Cluster | Run to your Death It’s slim, it’s light, it’s revolutionary, and it’s…annoying. The iPad’s popularity is nothing short of astounding. Apple’s tablet computer has been setting sales records ever since it was…
Are humans basically good, or basically bad? Some people, like Freud, Hobbes, and Foucault, say bad. We’ve got a beast within and the only way to control that beast is to beat it down and repress it. You want proof?…
Nov 25th, 2010 | By Dr. Michael Sosteric | Category: Announcements, Lead So you got some questions? Want to know why things are? Need to have answers? Don’t know where to turn? Well then why don’t you ask a sociologist…
