as you might suspect, whenever i introduce the concept of deviance in my classes, i talk about not only how deviance is defined, but WHO gets to do the...
My deviance class is all about elite deviance, with a heavy emphasis on who's doing the social control and the consequences thereof. Here's a question on the...
Leora, I find your post of interest for several reasons. First, your's is the type question sociologists too often pose to students and its one of the reasons...
Ken, Well, I'm not sure what a mainstream sociologist is, but I would be surprised if I fit the category. I simply presented this torture question to the list...
This is outrageous, and notice done without anyone's knowledge (see the bottom new release pasted below). Kudos to the medical librarians that discovered and...
Kathy Stolley
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Apr 8, 2008 11:49 am
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Kathy, The sad side of this is that it is part of a a pattern. For example, every time you call a health insurance agency you may get a different answer....
Del Thomas Ph D
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Apr 8, 2008 1:04 pm
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Hey, Kathy outrageous indeed...and yet not atypical for this rogue and criminally incompetent administration (hope you saw the 60 Minutes piece i posted last...
Ken this is why i showed the video -- to ask the very questions that you post below; to demonstrate how behavior comes to be defined as deviant (or not). i...
Despite contentions that the human race will never be able to agree on anything, it is amazing that all the major religions and philosophical traditions have...
Following Bill's quote of David Hume - - one insight I get from the Chinese is that "enlightened self interest" MUST include others. For who are we if not my...
dwemhane@...
Apr 8, 2008 8:17 pm
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Well said, Dave. At it's really essential social psychology. Self and Other are entwined. Two sides of the same coin to quote Charles Cooley. Sociology and...
I would be more impressed if the wisdom of China had space for Tibet in these words of enlightenment. Or the major religions like Catholicism had included...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Apr 8, 2008 10:43 pm
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Del, Somehow I don't think the fascist leadership of China has any more to do with the ancient Chinese philosophers than the current facist leadership of the...
Bill and others, Labeling, fascist or best is a mater of the audience. By name calling you avoid the question. The administration did not cause segregated...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Apr 9, 2008 12:13 am
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Del ... no, it does not. intentional infliction of pain on another human being is beyond definition, it is NOT in the eye of the beholder. it is the debate...
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/piehigher.asp "Make the pie higher!" Besides entertainment and a deserved chuckle or eye-roll about the speaker, this...
Kathy Stolley
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Apr 9, 2008 12:12 pm
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Good point, Del, about China - - but then we are talking about traditional Chinese culture versus this aberration in power now, the Chinese new "Manchus" - -...
dwemhane@...
Apr 9, 2008 2:09 pm
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Ok you reject, Skinner, Mead, Weber, Marx and most sociologists. But what does " intentional infliction of pain on another human being is beyond definition," ...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Apr 9, 2008 3:19 pm
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hi, Del you're kidding, right? this needs a definition? it is not patently obvious? like pornography, do we not know it when we see it? the downside to context...
Wasn't that a sociological classic? The Buddhist Ethic and the Spirit of Communism? It was a joke, but now that I think about it...hmmm. ... From: William Du...
Better go back and study the Abu Ghraib prison a little more, for they had a lot to do with it - - and certainly had a lot to do with not doing anything about ...
dwemhane@...
Apr 10, 2008 12:59 am
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All, I re-read my last email and want to add: I mean acts "INhumane" of course and did not mean the particular "you" but the general you as in Americans in...
dwemhane@...
Apr 10, 2008 1:04 am
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I agree, Dave. In fact, the latest Yoo torture memo that has been released certainly seems to have given the green light for us to use just about anything on...
I dunno, I just tried searching using the word 'abortion' and got lots of hits. Dr. Leora Lawton TechSociety Research "Custom Social Science and Consumer...
Hi Dave, This response like some of others makes me feel like I'm in the middle of a Bush/Obama campaign. They are uniters they are going to change, they are...
Del Thomas Ph D
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Apr 10, 2008 2:29 pm
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Del, I don't understand your point. Is it just that you believe everything is relative? Bill...
The Federation of American Scientists has a "secrecy" blog that documents attempts by the Feds (and others) to keep information from getting into the public's...
Hi Del, You asked: You bring up Nuremberg for what reason? Because we as a country prosecuted Germans for war crimes, acts very much in line with what we are...
dwemhane@...
Apr 10, 2008 3:07 pm
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if you want more evidence of the complicity of our "trusted servants" in DC in the authorization of torture, watch this segment from ABC News: ...
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