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Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies, and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between the individual's place in society and society's role in shaping the individual, and demonstrates the value of sociology for understanding the modern world.
In this new edition, Steve Bruce discusses the continuing arguments for social egalitarianism, considering issues such as gay marriage, women in combat roles, and the 2010 Equality Act to debunk contemporary arguments against parity. As gender divisions are increasingly questioned, he looks ahead to the likely consequences of this for society. Delving into the theory of sociology, Bruce also argues that the habit of dividing sociology into apparently competing "sects" is misleading, and shows how a new understanding of the disciplinary background of many of the most famous theorists, which shows that much social theory is actually philosophy or literary theory, will prove useful to today's sociologists.
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Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politics is polarized and bitterly divided. Culture wars rage on campus, in the media, social media, and other arenas of our common life. And for too many Americans, alienation can descend into despair, weakening families and communities and even driving an explosion of opioid abuse. Left and right alike have responded with populist anger at our institutions, and use only metaphors of destruction to describe the path forward: cleaning house, draining swamps. But, as Yuval Levin argues, this is a misguided prescription.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incisive and Illuminating
- De Jakob en 01-26-23
De: Yuval Levin
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The God Argument
- The Case Against Religion and for Humanism
- De: A. C. Grayling
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 189
What are the arguments for and against religion and religious belief - all of them - right across the range of reasons and motives that people have for being religious, and do they stand up to scrutiny? Can there be a clear, full statement of these arguments that once and for all will show what is at stake in this debate? Equally important: what is the alternative to religion as a view of the world and a foundation for morality?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Topic Made Mind Numbingly Dull
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De: A. C. Grayling
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Moral Politics
- How Liberals and Conservatives Think, 3rd Edition
- De: George Lakoff
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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extremely insightful. awful to get through.
- De Dave en 05-09-18
De: George Lakoff
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Giving the Devil His Due
- Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
- De: Michael Shermer
- Narrado por: Michael Shermer
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Who is the "Devil"? And what is he due? The devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety's sake, because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own. If he can be censored, why shouldn't you be censored? If we put barriers up to silence "unpleasant" ideas, what's to stop the silencing of any discussion? This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times best-selling author and skeptic Michael Shermer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Flawed Audio
- De Private en 04-10-20
De: Michael Shermer
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How Much is Enough?
- Money and the Good Life
- De: Edward Skidelsky
- Narrado por: Clay Teunis
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 38
What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some of the questions that many asked themselves when the financial system crashed in 2008. This book tackles such questions head-on.The authors begin with the great economist John Maynard Keynes. In 1930 Keynes predicted that, within a century, per capita income would steadily rise, people’s basic needs would be met, and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected at all!
- De Brad and Chi en 05-22-23
De: Edward Skidelsky
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Irrationality
- A History of the Dark Side of Reason
- De: Justin E. H. Smith
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the “rational animal”. But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today - from the fifth-century BC murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence of irrational numbers to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump - Justin Smith says the evidence suggests the opposite.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good brain workout
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In Defense of History
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
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- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. To materials that are frustratingly meager, or overwhelmingly profuse, they bring an array of tools that range from agreed-upon rules of documentation to the critical application of social and economic theory, all employed with the aim of reconstructing a verifiable, usable past. Evans defends this commitment to historical knowledge from the attacks of postmodernist critics who deny the possibility of achieving any kind of certain knowledge about the past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
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De: Richard J. Evans
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Suicide of the West
- How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
- De: Jonah Goldberg
- Narrado por: Jonah Goldberg
- Duración: 16 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,407
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,271
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,249
Only once in the last 250,000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift ourselves out of the endless cycle of poverty, hunger, and war that defines most of history. If democracy, individualism, and the free market were humankind’s destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Put some gratitude in your attitude
- De Amazon Customer en 04-25-18
De: Jonah Goldberg
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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands
- Thinkers of the New Left
- De: Roger Scruton
- Narrado por: Rory Barnett
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
From one of the leading critics of leftist orientations comes a study of the thinkers who have most influenced the attitudes of the New Left. Beginning with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concluding with a critique of the key strands in its thinking, Roger Scruton conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as E. P. Thompson, Ronald Dworkin, R. D. Laing, Jurgen Habermas, Gyorgy Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Žižek, Ralph Milliband, and Eric Hobsbawm. Scruton delivers a critique of modern left-wing thinking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deconstructing the New Left
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De: Roger Scruton
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Theory and History
- An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (LvMI)
- De: Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Like F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises moved beyond economics in his later years to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. But unlike Hayek's attempts, Mises' writings on these matters have received less attention than they deserve. Theory and History, writes Rothbard in his introduction, "remains by far the most neglected masterwork of Mises". Here Mises defends his all-important idea of methodological dualism: one approach to the hard sciences and another for the social sciences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Without This Book, You Are Uneducated
- De Michael D. Rubin en 10-03-18
De: Ludwig von Mises, y otros
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The Voice of Reason
- Essays in Objectivist Thought
- De: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 15 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 158
In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces are gathered together in book form for the first time. Written in the last decades of Rand's life, they reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Explains Everything Of Today
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De: Ayn Rand, y otros
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The Blank Slate
- The Modern Denial of Human Nature
- De: Steven Pinker
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 22 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,971
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,299
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,263
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits, denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't bother. Outdated science & poor logic...
- De ejf211 en 03-31-10
De: Steven Pinker
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Philosophy
- Who Needs It
- De: Ayn Rand
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 423
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 276
Who needs philosophy? Ayn Rand's answer: Everyone. This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: a rational, conscious, and therefore practical one, or a contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal one.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deep and provocative
- De Sierra Bravo en 05-21-09
De: Ayn Rand
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- De: Richard Hofstadter
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 162
This book throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fifty years later, still valid today
- De David Evan Glasser en 11-13-18
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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
- A John Hope Franklin Center Book
- De: Immanuel Wallerstein
- Narrado por: Fred Filbrich
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered 30 years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a widely utilized methodology within the historical social sciences and a common point of reference in discussions of globalization.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Uneven, but Ambitious
- De Logical Paradox en 08-27-14
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Probably the best summary of Jesus of Nazareth I have encountered.
- De HEATHER CAVANAH en 10-29-24
De: Richard Bauckham
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North American Indians
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 5 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 14
When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million Indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve, and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America.
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4 out of 5 stars
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VSI # 243
- De Darwin8u en 10-29-24
De: Theda Perdue, y otros
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Classics
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Mary Beard, John Henderson
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
We are all classicists - we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ from their original reality?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beard guides the reader through the Classics
- De Darwin8u en 10-29-24
De: Mary Beard, y otros
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Logic
- A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
- De: Graham Priest
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 4 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Along the way, the basics of formal logic are explained in simple, non-technical terms, showing that logic is a powerful and exciting part of modern philosophy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A bit disappointing.
- De MarshallP1991 en 12-16-21
De: Graham Priest
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Sociology, 2nd Edition
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Total2 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia2 out of 5 stars
- doomdayx
- 01-06-23
Ok overview but has factual errors and bad faith arguments at the end
I’ve read perhaps a dozen books by sociologists but not an overview book, so I came in excited about this book.
It was kind of painful to get through the assumptions littered throughout, for example early on there are description’s roughly saying bulls just eat, ram, mate and not much else; then using that to compare to humans. That’s simply not true… there is a rich field of research on animal behaviors to debunk it.
Later on there are arguments about feminist sociology that read closer to a news pundit, I’m very open to to a serious argument about aspects of that literature, but this was mainly straw man arguments that don’t engage with the actual reasoning in high quality research from those areas. It did at least acknowledge topics that were under-studied through such a lens are worth investigating.
There was some basic essential information that was there, such as the observation of there being flaws in the conception of objectivity, and that it isn’t achievable, plus it did an overview of a couple key subfields.
I’ll keep looking for a better high level sociology intro.
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