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Power and Society
@jessij
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sociological perspectives and resources
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2017-12-22 18:05
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jessij
news
2018-01-15 17:48
RE: Did you miss this New York Times article in the late 90s?
Thanks. I post about it on facebook every year... listening now to the CSpan Book Talk by the author of An Act of State.
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jessij
news
2018-01-15 17:47
RE: Did you miss this New York Times article in the late 90s?
It is insane that no one talks about it in the mainstream and so many people don't know. Glad you were talking about it. We all need to be.
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jessij
philosophy
2018-01-14 15:57
RE: Jokes about Capitalism: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Hell yeah:)
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jessij
philosophy
2018-01-12 03:27
RE: Jokes about Capitalism: What do you want to be when you grow up?
:) dialogue, for sure!
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jessij
science
2018-01-11 20:28
RE: Images of Gender in Media Advertising
Hi I am just seeing your reply now. Here is a real world example from a Law website: "Police Responses in the Past According to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), in the 1980s,
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jessij
science
2018-01-03 16:03
RE: Images of Gender in Media Advertising
"not to sound like a monster, but if my wife doesn't want to have sex with me, we are done unless she has a damn good reason." I can move past my initial reactions here and say that I do understand
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jessij
inspiration
2018-01-03 15:32
RE: Inmates Raise $100,000 to Purchase Educational Computers
Awesome post. The massive expansion of the incarcerated population has occurred primarily by throwing nonviolent offenders behind bars, so I appreciate your point about victimless crimes. Likewise the
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jessij
science
2018-01-02 21:20
RE: Images of Gender in Media Advertising
Statistics: Sorry if it seems contrived to you. I agree that women are better off here than other places, but that does not mean that we shouldn't strive for better. Just because it's colder up in Maine
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jessij
science
2018-01-01 18:14
RE: Images of Gender in Media Advertising
A wife didn't want sex. A husband could go for it anyway. That was thought of as part of marriage. Until the 70s, this was not legally considered rape in the USA. It happened all the time. I never said
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jessij
sociology
2018-01-01 00:22
RE: Sociology and the modern obsession with the "individual"
I sense the disagreement is mostly semantic and I am new to this, so I will try to be clearer. You say that "The notion that individual persons have specific obligations, responsibilities, and
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jessij
sociology
2017-12-31 23:30
RE: Sociology and the modern obsession with the "individual"
P.S. It seems bigoted to me that the West imposes its version of human nature ( individual first) on the rest of the world. We are better off seeking collective freedom from the modern state and capitalism
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jessij
anarchism
2017-12-31 23:20
RE: Property is violence.
"Private property is theft". -Proudhon I agree with you here.
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jessij
sociology
2017-12-31 22:58
RE: Sociology and the modern obsession with the "individual"
I appreciate your comment. I see what you mean bringing up the Greeks, but a couple points: Human history goes back far, far longer (200k years or so) beyond Ancient Greece, so this is still quite recent
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sociology
2017-12-31 22:29
RE: Sociology and the modern obsession with the "individual"
Thank you so much! I am trying to learn what I am doing :)
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