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Tag Archives: Sociology
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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Why Activists Fail
By Robert J. Burrowes Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and as the number of issues being contested has steadily increased, activists of many types … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Biosphere, Consumerism, Ecology, Gandhi, geopolitics, Giants: The Global Power Elite, Global Elite, Nonviolent Action, peter phillips, Philosophy, psychology, Sociology, Strategy, Violence, war
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Elite Banking at Your Expense: How Secretive Tax Havens are Used to Steal Your Money
By Robert J. Burrowes Tax havens are locations around the world where wealthy individuals, criminals and terrorists, as well as governments and government agencies (such as the CIA), banks, corporations, hedge funds, international organizations (such as the Vatican) and crime … Continue reading
Posted in CIA, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Economics, elites, History, Inequality, Neocons, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Bribery, central banks, CIA, contract kickbacks, Corruption, Economics, elites, failure to disclose conflicts of interest, fraudulent invoicing, illicit political donations, insider trading, London, Manhattan, Market Rigging, Money Laundering, Neocons, Offshore Banks, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Plutocrats, psychology, Sociology, State Crime, Tax Evasion, Tax Havens, The Vatican, trade mispricing, weapons trading, World War II
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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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A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat a US Military Invasion of Venezuela
By Robert J. Burrowes To the People of Venezuela Recently I wrote an article explaining how you could defeat, using nonviolent strategy, the US coup attempt that is taking place in your country. See ‘A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neoliberalism, news, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Bolivarian movement, empire, geopolitics, Global Elites, imperialism, John Bolton, Juan Guaidó, Latin America, Mahatma Ghandi, Neoliberalism, Nicolas Maduro, Nonviolence, Philosophy, psychology, Sociology, US Foreign Policy, venezuela
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Jacques Ellul: A Prophet for Our Tech-Saturated Times
Read his works to understand how we’ve been caught in technology’s nightmarish hold. By Andrew Nikiforuk Source: The Tyee By now you have probably read about the so-called “tech backlash.” Facebook and other social media have undermined what’s left of … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, History, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Algorithms, Chamath Palihapitiya, Consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Facebook, Google, history, HyperNormalization, Internet, Jacques Ellul, Modern Civilization, Philosophy, propaganda, Silicon Valley, Social Media, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technological Progress, Technological Society, technology
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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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