Sociology: what is it good for?

NonEntity · Number of posts: 2598 Registration date: 2007-11-08

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another great Canadian stolen by America, along with Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Jim Carey, and so on and so forth.

stolen = free choice made by another which conflicts with your prejudices? Wink

Have you considered a career in politics? affraid

- NonE

Zebra Foal · Number of posts: 877 Registration date: 2007-08-16

NonEntity wrote:

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another great Canadian stolen by America, along with Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Jim Carey, and so on and so forth.

stolen = free choice made by another which conflicts with your prejudices? Wink

Have you considered a career in politics? affraid

- NonE

Are you calling me a psychopath, NonE. eh? EH???!!!!!

ExyPhylo · Number of posts: 1180 Registration date: 2007-12-12

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would you say that there was a common theme during the classes, or was it like an opportunity to learn and talk about (and experience) many very interesting things?

The class was like good conversation (effortless): where one topic seamlessly leads to another and you feel very satisfied, are wiser and inspired at the end of the discussion.

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wow, please say more about this? did e.g. men become more understanding of women? or did the mild humiliation experienced by some change their status in the group? how was the group affected?

For the men and women both, there was a feeling of pity toward the models. The class felt it was degrading and humiliating. However, the realization was when it came to women put in the same situation that we had become somewhat desensitized to those images and viewed the women as objects vs. the men as living beings. There were long debates and discussions but in the end we all left with the same "sick" feeling that was hard to shake. The bias had been imposed on us like a preference for food. We had to unlearn that and retrain our taste buds to appreciate something healthy and balanced.

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yeah i think i see, that's sort of the reverse of the praxeology-sociology relationship as described above. I mean, the culture around us naturally also affects us as individuals, in thoughts as well as actions. I actually write a bit about this in the paper I'll be presenting, that e.g. social taboos will affect the actions of scientists, and that taboos in a free market of science will play less of a role qua the actions of scientists than they would in a government-controled 'market' for science

exactly

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.. I am simply a part of a whole which at any time may implode on itself.
mmmh, not sure how you mean this and who or what might implode (you or the whole?)

There are many variables, modes of thought, individuals or collectives for example who like the weather are understood, studied and measured and even so at any given moment something can happen to change life as you know it and blow me, my thinking or all of it to shit .
Its all temporary.

NonEntity · Number of posts: 2598 Registration date: 2007-11-08

ExyPhylo wrote:

Its all temporary.

Which is the same as saying, "The only constant is change."

- NonE

ExyPhylo · Number of posts: 1180 Registration date: 2007-12-12

yes I said that ... is there an echo in here? Wink