Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.
Cornel WestTags: nihilism domination social-science
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McLuhanTags: wisdom opinion understanding insight social-science probes
To me it was plain silly. It is so obvious that life works in terms of species rather than individuals. The individual just has to be born, to develop to the point at which it can procreate, and then to fall away into death to make way for its successors, and humans are no exception whatever they may fancy.
Diana AthillTags: life social-science growing-old
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
Jess C. ScottTags: life truth friendship friends insightful love family humanity society meaning-of-life human-nature reflection reflective social-commentary meaning life-lessons insight humans young-adult humankind cyberpunk elves social-science young-adult-literature human-behavior elven social-issues urban-fantasy young-adult-fiction young-adult-novels inside-ourselves urban-fantasy-series ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-series nq-mobile-omar-khan omar-khan-nq-mobile
Married women are far more depressed than married men -- in unhappy marriages, three times more; and -- interestingly -- in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married!
Dalma HeynTags: love marriage relationships thoughtful depression social-science dalma-heyn
[F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am sufficiently precise. They will have much more difficulty showing by investigation what, precisely, I mean if I am vague. I hope not to be forced to weasel out with 'But I didn’t really mean that.' Social theorists should prefer to be wrong rather than misunderstood. Being misunderstood shows sloppy theoretical work.
Arthur L. StinchcombeTags: theory clarity social-science vagueness
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.
Herbert MarcuseTags: philosophy capitalism political-science social-science
Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed aberration for our species? As ill-suited to our evolved tendencies as corsets, chastity belts, and suits of armor? ...a distorted and distorting family structure inappropriate for our species?
Christopher RyanTags: social-science
doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct
Kathryn SchulzTags: social-science being-wrong
both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold
Kathryn SchulzTags: social-science ted
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