Originally posted on Miluramalho's Blog:
“Fascismo: O Governo duma ditadura, marcado pelo controle da economia pelo Estado, pela arregimentação social e por uma ideologia de nacionalismo beligerante; Nazismo: Fascismo, segundo praticado pelo Partido Nacional-Socialista dos Trabalhadores Alemães, sob Hitler. A PALAVRA “fascismo” geralmente suscita imagens de milícias militares italianas de camisas pretas…
Cruising along through summer, here’s an entry updated at earthpages.ca… Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) – "To be insulted by these #fascists, it's so degrading…" https://t.co/EmNQExe5c3 via @earthpages #sociology pic.twitter.com/3K9sSAaSXx — earthpages.org (@earthpages) July 4, 2017
This essay on Marxist theory, Time to Reconsider: The Case of Wallace and Wolf, was written in the 1980s when I was an undergraduate at Trent University. Please note that I’m not a Marxist nor a communist! Far from it. This assignment was part of a required course in sociology. I had to take the… Read More Revisiting Marx
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. —Dale Carnegie It’s 2:42 a.m. Two cats howling outside my window woke me up. Unable to get back to sleep, it seemed like a good time to reflect on… Read More Wake up! The social construction of sleep
When I studied Michel Foucault and postmodernism in the 1980s, many so-called intellectuals overlooked the idea of the holy, as taken on its own terms, and focused on a stripped down notion of socio-cultural power. Society was just the outcome of competing discourses and institutionalized practices of power. Everything else didn’t really matter. And if… Read More Postmodern Theology – Who’s got the power?
Last night’s Olympic opening ceremony wasn’t my top priority. I wasn’t going to bother watching it but realized I should see what my country was up to. After all, I graduated in sociology and should know how the Canadian Olympic officials chose to represent this country to the world. I suppose considering the budget they… Read More Opinion – Olympic opening speaks volumes
Back in the 1980s, I looked at the G-7 countries through an arguably simplistic lens. Although getting top marks in sociology at university, in retrospect I was only dimly aware of what was happening in the world around me. Graduate studies in India and later in Ottawa, Canada, certainly helped to open my eyes. But… Read More Review – The Conspiracy to Rule the World: From 911 to the Illuminati (DVD)
