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Archive for August 31, 2009

Book Discussion… Continued

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Let me reproduce another comment (with footnotes and links, for Pete’s sake!) by Dangger as a follow-up to our previous discussion on Connell’s ideas. It is well worth a post of its own. And my comments in blue again. And for the record I love the idea of sociology as pariah science! “About scholarships and [...]

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The Surveillance Society… It’s Worth It

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BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | 1,000 cameras ‘solve one crime’ via kwout But it probably made a lot of security-related companies very wealthy, what with all these government contracts. And it gave the government and authorities the illusion of panoptic omniscience.

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Just Drop Everything and Go Read Charles Stross

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It is worth it… Charlie’s Diary: Merciless via kwout

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Global Sociology Blogroll Update – Italian Edition

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Finally! An Italian Socblog! Appunti di Sociologia, by sociologist Agnese Vardanega… The blog is in English, the website (content-rich!) is largely in Italian Appunti di sociologia via kwout

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