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26 Dec 09

One-Dimensional Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Herbert Marcuse strongly criticizes consumerism, arguing consumerism is a form of social control.

Celebrating Saturnalia : Starts With A Bang

Today is Christmas Day, but did you know that this holiday, in addition to being a solstice celebration, has its origins in the second Punic War? Beginning in 218 B.C., the Romans suffered a number of, well, fairly crushing defeats at the hands of Hannibal of Carthage. You've probably heard the story of Hannibal crossing the Alps with elephants (although, according to some sources, only one survived), and invading Italy, making it all the way to the city walls of Rome.

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Structural functionalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • He held that "the social system is made up of the actions of individuals."[8] His starting point, accordingly, is the interaction between two individuals faced with a variety of choices about how they might act,[9] choices that are influenced and constrained by a number of physical and social factors.[10]
  • As behaviours are repeated in more interactions, and these expectations are entrenched or institutionalised, a role is created. Parsons defines a "role" as the normatively-regulated participation "of a person in a concrete process of social interaction with specific, concrete role-partners."[12] Although any individual, theoretically, can fulfil any role, she is expected to conform to the norms governing the nature of the role she fulfils.[13]
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Maura R. O'Connor: Awakening to the blob

  • Mediation, he argues,
    is leading to a fusion of the real and the representational.
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