Postmodernism: Whats it all about

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Postmodernism Whats it all about?
Which of these buildings is modernist and which
are postmodernist?
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Why should anyone care if Derek Freeman thinks
that Mead didnt describe 1930s Samoa correctly?
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• What is the point of Starks version of the
  Titanic story?

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Titanic Survival Rates Male survival rate
20 Female/children survival rate 71
1st Class 2nd Class 3rd
Class Crew Women/Children 93 81 47 87
Men 31 10 14 22 Total 60 42 25 2
4 Absolute dead 130 166
536 85 Do these statistics tell a different
story?
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Being Single Im single because of a conscious
decision that I made for myself.
Data from MicroCase CP trend file
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Ethnocentrism
Its More Subtle Manifestation the interpretation
of the practices of another culture in terms of
the meanings of ones own culture
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Cultural RelativismA Strategy of Understanding
the effort to understand a given social practice
on the basis of the cultural meanings of the
society in which it takes place
It is not the same thing as moral relativism
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Nonspuriousness Is the correlation spurious?
Variable A
is not causally related to
is correlatedwith
A Third Variable
Variable B
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Some Spurious Correlations

• marijuana use and health

Marijuana Use
X
Youth
Good health
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Is this correlation spurious?
Web Use
Education? Occupation? Social Class?
?
Tolerance
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The Panopticon as the Paradigm of Modern
Civilization
Textual Analysis Michel Foucault, Pantopticism
in Kivisto, pp. 410-416
Eastern State Penitentiary,Philadelphia
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The Panopticon presents a cruel, ingenious
cage...it is the diagram of a mechanism of power
reduced to its ideal form...it makes it possible
to perfect the exercise of power. (p. 413)
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War on Poverty got underway in late 1964
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The New Individualism
In the long run, there is no turning back this
age of self-determinism..your choices will make
or break youSo do your homework. The choice is
yours. Time, Jan. 28, 2002 issue
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I. C. Wright Mills The Sociological
Imagination II. Peter Berger Invitation to
Sociology
III. Using the Sociological Imagination and
MicroCase Explorit Data to Follow in Durkheims
footsteps in Understanding Suicide
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The Connection Between Personal Troubles and
Public Issues
Perhaps the most fruitful distinction with which
the sociological imagination works is between
the personal troubles of milieu and the public
issues of social structure. This distinction is
an essential tool of the sociological imagination
and a feature of all classic work in social
science.
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Recasting John Rawls Theory of Justice His basic
idea extrapolated to the global level Rawls
method..is to seek the nature of justice by
asking what principles people would choose if
they were choosing in conditions that prevented
them from knowing what position they themselves
would occupy. (p. 8)
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Schengen Agreement A Border Crossing Today