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Home / Sections / Sociology of Science Homo sapiens has enjoyed singular success at tweaking the environment because of the unique psycho-social wiring of the human mind ( Pagel ). Hearkening back to the nature-nurture debate, the human mind is…
The word “social technology” is a bit of a contradiction. Social technologies connect us like never before, but at the same time the superficiality of our social world, and our isolation, seem greater then ever. We are embarrassed by the…
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,…
Home / Many Worlds, but only One Reality: Stephen Hawking and the Determinist Fallacy / Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking, the arch-determinist. 2012-11-05 +Timothy McGettigan About Timothy McGettigan Tim McGettigan is a professor of sociology at Colorado State University – Pueblo.…
Note: Before we begin, we ask that you contact the Athabasca University Library to request that either the film Thank You for Smoking [Reitman, J. (Dir.). (2005). Los Angeles: Room 9 Entertainment, TYFS Productions & ContentFilm.] or the Matrix trilogy…
Shopping mall culture in Malaysia is ever growing, so much that one could hypothesise about the emergence of a subculture centered on the shopping mall. More and more mega mall projects are coming up as bigger portions of the population…
Objectives At the end of this unit, students will be able to: Identify gender inequalities in their work and life. Discuss the basic theoretical positions that attempt to explain gender (e.g., various forms of feminism). Consider the “why?” questions. Why…
Home / Publication Types / Lectures For a scientists, citations are key. If your papers get cited by others, the assumption is your work is valuable. But is this a safe assumption? This article questions the validity of citation counting…
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…
Home / Many Worlds, but only One Reality: Stephen Hawking and the Determinist Fallacy / Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking, the arch-determinist. 2012-11-05 +Timothy McGettigan About Timothy McGettigan Tim McGettigan is a professor of sociology at Colorado State University – Pueblo.…
