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Category Archives: education
The ‘Hidden Mechanisms’ That Help Those Born Rich to Excel in Elite Jobs
When two sociologists interviewed highly paid architects, TV producers, actors, and accountants, they encountered work cultures that favor the already affluent. By Joe Pinsker Source: The Atlantic Over the past five years, the sociologists Daniel Laurison and Sam Friedman have … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, education, elites, Inequality, Labor, Psychology, Racism, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Class, culture, economic inequality, Economics, Education, financial cushion, homophily, income gap, Jobs, Meritocracy, psychology, society, Sociology, sponsorship, Wage Disparity, Work
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GIVE AMERICA’S ‘HELICOPTER PARENTS’ A BREAK
Hovering parents don’t need lectures. They need a more equal nation. By Sam Pizzigati Source: OtherWords A good many of us aging baby boomers are having trouble relating to the “helicopter parents” of our modern age — those moms and pops … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged culture, economic inequality, Economics, Families, financial crisis, Income Disparity, Parenting, Social Stratification, society, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Gap
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What happens to cognitive diversity when everyone is more WEIRD?
By Kensy Cooperrider Source: aeon For centuries, Inuit hunters navigated the Arctic by consulting wind, snow and sky. Now they use GPS. Speakers of the aboriginal language Gurindji, in northern Australia, used to command 28 variants of each cardinal direction. … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, education, imperialism, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology
Tagged Anthropology, cognitive diversity, Conciousness, culture, Humanity, psychology, science, society, Sociology, Space, Time
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Learning from Gandhi
By Robert J. Burrowes Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869: 150 years ago this year. There will be many tributes to Gandhi published in 2019 so I would like to add one of my own. This reflects … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality, war
Tagged activism, Conflict, culture, Exploitation, Mohandas Gandhi, Nonviolence, Philosophy, psychology, Satyagraha, Socialization, society, Sociology, Structural Violence, Violence, war
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Human Beings are Destroying Life on Earth but Deluding Ourselves that We are Not
By Robert J. Burrowes It is easy to identify the ongoing and endless violence being inflicted on life on Earth. This ranges from the vast multiplicity of assaults inflicted on our children and the biosphere to the endless wars and … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, war
Tagged Behavior, Conflict, Conformity, culture, Dysfunction, Earth, Ecology, Education, environment, Individual, obedience, Philosophy, psychology, Self, Socialization, society, Sociology, Violence
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Retconning History
By CH Source: The Hipcrime Vocab “He who controls the past, controls the future; and he who controls the present, controls the past.”–George Orwell “The mistake of judging the men of other periods by the morality of our own day … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, History, Labor, media, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged capitalism, culture, Economics, George Orwell, history, individualism, Jobs, Labor, Michael Hudson, nation-state, politics, Retconning, retroactive continuity, Revisionism, society, Work
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In Defense of the Human Individual
By Robert J. Burrowes While it is now very late in the life cycle of homo sapiens, with extinction now due to consign us to Earth’s fossil record – see ‘Will humans be extinct by 2026?’ – I would like … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged Children, Conformity, culture, environment, Individuality, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Nonviolence, Philosophy, psychology, School, Socialization, society, Violence
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