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Daryl Bambic

Chapter 02 - Sociological Imagination - 6 views

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Imagination Sociological

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  • The national cost of a gallon of gas, the War in the Middle East, the repressed economy, the trend of having too few females in the 18-24 year old singles market, and the ever-increasing demand for plastic surgery are just a few of the social facts at play today
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      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      Social facts are experiences as 'outside' of an individual's control. 
  • but we rarely find a way to significantly impact them back.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      They impact us but we don't (or very rarely) have an impact on them.
  • False Social Conscious which  is an ignorance of social facts and the larger social picture.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      Do you think teens live this way...ignorant of social facts?
    • Joe Inhaber
      Joe Inhaber on 15 Dec 11
       
      Absolutely i think that teens live by the following : Ignorance is bliss. And can you blame them? Can you blame any one that thinks this way for that matter. In a sense i wish i could be ignorant to problems present in society because I A) Wouldn't feel so threatened by things i cant control and B) I wouldn't feel morally or ethically at fault for the decisions of my nation.
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  • real power of the sociological imagination is found in how you and I learn to distinguish between the personal and social levels in our own lives
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 14 Dec 11
       
      This is the reason that this sociological imagination is important.  How does this resemble Sam Richard's idea of 'radical empathy'?
    • Marie-Lise Pagé
      Marie-Lise Pagé on 15 Dec 11
       
      I think that it relates because the more you understand the social facts, the more you'll have sociological imagination and the more you'll have radical empathy.
    • adam unikowski
      adam unikowski on 15 Dec 11
       
      people can be selfish and only think about themselves. then there are the people that care about about other people and try to imagine what if they had the same problems for example there family
    • Chrissy Le
      Chrissy Le on 15 Dec 11
       
      Social facts and personal troubles relate with each other. Sometimes things such as our environment can affect our "personal troubles" such as, obesity, depression, poverty, etc. 
    • Lauren Ganze
      Lauren Ganze on 15 Dec 11
       
      It resembles radical empathy in the fact that they both require a person to be able to recognize social facts.
    • kelsey sazant
      kelsey sazant on 15 Dec 11
       
      These two things are intertwined because many of out personal trouble is caused by these social facts that we are powerless against.
    • Joe Inhaber
      Joe Inhaber on 15 Dec 11
       
      I think that this relates because in a sense, we all need to know whats really going on even if it isn't necessarily things that are reported on our daily news channels. I think the relation is that we need to learn to think about things that we wouldn't nesceseraly like to be true, much like how most people find it uneasy to step into the shoes of Iraqi war prisoners.
    • Alyssa Cohen
      Alyssa Cohen on 15 Dec 11
       
      Personal troubles and social facts are very closely related. If you have a sociological imagination, you can see the social facts in different situations or different parts of the world, which makes you more understanding. That is where the radical empathy ties in.
    • Jake Izenberg
      Jake Izenberg on 15 Dec 11
       
      They share the same thought of looking at the situation from another perspective. "Putting yourself in their shoes". Radical empathy plays an important role, it allows us to see how they feel. 
    • mariakanarakis
      mariakanarakis on 15 Dec 11
       
      Social facts and personal problems are related in some kind of way. Radical empathy is the relationship and getting to understand the difference between you and other people. 
    • Karleen Muhlegg
      Karleen Muhlegg on 15 Dec 11
       
      By understanding empathy and the sociological imagination, we become a step closer in having a much broader, educated and compassionate picture of the world we live in, all six billion of us. 
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 15 Dec 11
       
      It resembles the idea because you must be open to put yourself in the other peoples shoes and to understand the bigger picture and that includes understanding the different players in the games
    • sydney goldman
      sydney goldman on 15 Dec 11
       
      Theres a fine difference between social facts and sociological imagination and both are believed to change us into the people we are today. However, in order to understand not only the way in which you are personally effected but how the other societies are effected by there own sociological imagination/social facts. rational empathy come into play when we begin to understand the social facts of the people that your own personal fats have taught you to be bling too.
    • michelle tappert
      michelle tappert on 15 Dec 11
       
      They ressemble each other because in both, they require a person to be aware and take into account the social facts. 
    • Talya Freidman
      Talya Freidman on 15 Dec 11
       
      Social imagination and radical empathy relate because you need to understand social facts to have radical empathy. 
  • C. Wright Mills (1916-1962
  • neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both"
  • Troubles”
  • Issues"
  • 50 percent of all college students in the country never graduate, we call that a larger social issue.
  • Does sociology provide personal and larger social insight
  • Be aware of the three-strike issue
  • Know which factors you can control
  • larger social factors that have historically contributed to these patterns
  • brief spike in divorce after World War II
  • It was the highest rate of marriages, highest rate of births (The Baby Boom began in 1946
  • ivorce rates surged in 1946 as all the soldiers returned home having been changed by the trauma, isolation from their families,  and challenges of the war
  • Divorces tended to follow wars
  • Divorces continue to be high during economic prosperity
  • ecline during economic hardships.
  • abundance of single women
  • urban
  • Scientists have never identified a “cause” for divorce.  But, they have clearly identified risk factors.
  • enslaved to those force
  • They still impact you, and you can follow Mill’s ideas and manage as best you can within your power concerning consequences of these forces
  • Marie-Lise Pagé on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
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  • adam unikowski on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Chrissy Le on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Lauren Ganze on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • kelsey sazant on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Joe Inhaber on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Alyssa Cohen on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Jake Izenberg on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • mariakanarakis on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Karleen Muhlegg on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Alex Maguid on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • sydney goldman on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • michelle tappert on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
  • Talya Freidman on 15 Dec 11
     
    A review of the sociological imagination and its relationship to radical empathy.
Daryl Bambic

Hominid Skull Spurs Radical Rewrite of Human Evolution - D-brief | DiscoverMagazine.com - 0 views

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skull fossil species anthro controversy

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    Once again, another discovery challenges the existing scientific theory about the evolution of homo sapiens.
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An introduction to the John Scopes (Monkey) Trial - 0 views

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scopes Monkey trial evolution morality chimps animal

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  • Dayton, Tennessee courtroom in the summer of 1925.
  • The Scopes Trial had its origins in a conspiracy at Fred Robinson's drugstore in Dayton
  • American Civil Liberties Union announcement that it was willing to offer its services to anyone challenging the new Tennessee anti-evolution statute.
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  • The conspirators summoned John Scopes, a twenty-four-year old general science teacher and part-time football coach, to the drugstore
  • Dayton. Darrow was not the first choice of the ACLU, who was concerned that Darrow's zealous agnosticism might turn the trial into a broadside attack on religion
  • Nearly a thousand people, 300 of whom were standing, jammed the Rhea County Courthouse on July 10, 1925
  • Judge John T. Raulston, the presiding judge in the Scopes Trial
  •   William Jennings Bryan, three-time Democratic candidate for President and a populist, led a Fundamentalist crusade to banish Darwin's theory of evolution from American classrooms
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      Catherine Preston on 16 Oct 13
       
      YELLOW= PEOPLE GREEN= ACTIONS
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      PINK= FLAWS IN THE TRIAL
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      BLUE= MAIN ARGUMENTS OF THE TRIAL
  • The proceedings opened, over Darrow's objections, to a prayer
  • Judge Raulston and his entire family listened attentively from their front pew seats.
  • Judge Raulston
  • A jury of twelve men, including ten (mostly middle-aged) farmers and eleven regular church-goers, was quickly selected
  • including ten (mostly middle-aged) farmers and eleven regular church-goers, was quickly selected
  • A jury of twelve men
  • moved to quash the indictment on both state and federal constitutional grounds. This move was at the heart of the defense strategy.  The defense's goal was not to win acquittal for John Scopes, but rather to obtain a declaration by a higher court--preferably the U.S. Supreme Court--that laws forbidding the teaching of evolution were unconstitutional
  • Judge Raulston denied the defense motion.
  • As expected
  • titanic struggle between good and evil or truth and ignorance
  • if evolution wins, Christianity goes.
  • The prosecution opened its case by asking the court to take judicial notice of the Book of Genesis,
  • asked seven students in Scope's class a series of questions about his teachings
Daryl Bambic

A Viking Mystery | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

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viking civilization archaeology

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  • Oxford
  • anuary 2008
  • 4,000-year-old religious complex—an earthwork enclosure, or henge, built by late Neolithic tribesmen, probably for a sun-worshiping cult.
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  • 400 feet in diameter
  • Britain’s prehistoric henges
  • garbage dump
  • uman bones
  • but now a mass grave as well.”
  • all of them victims of violence
  • 960 to 1020—the period in which the Anglo-Saxon monarchy peaked in power
  • riginally from Germany, Anglo-Saxons had invaded England almost six centuries earlier, after the Roman Empire had fallen into disarray.
  • “execution cemeteries”
  • n average, more fish and shellfish than did Anglo-Saxons.
Daryl Bambic

anthropologyatwic / The Nacirema - 0 views

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  • Horace Miner
  • magical beliefs and practices of the Nacirema present such unusual aspects that it seems desirable to describe them as an example of the extremes to which human behavior can go
  • North American group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib and Arawak of the Antille
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  • highly developed market economy
  • devoted to economic pursuits
  • activity is the human body
  • human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease
  • one or more shrines devoted to this purpose
  • more powerful individuals in the society have several shrines in their houses and, in fact, the opulence of a house is often referred to in terms of the number of such ritual centers it possesses
  • ituals
  • re private
  • box or chest which is built into the wall
  • harms and magical potions without which no native believes he could live
  • ecured from a variety of specialized practitioners
  • medicine men
  • ubstantial gifts
  • write them down in an ancient and secret language
  • charm-box
  • mall fon
  • bows his head before the charm-box, mingles different sorts of holy water in the font, and proceeds with a brief rite of ablutio
  • holy-mouth-men.
  • pathological horror of and fascination with the mout
  • supernatural influence on all social relationships
  • oral and moral
  • For example, there is a ritual ablution of the mouth for children which is supposed to improve their moral fiber.
  • mouth-rite
  • small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth, along with certain magical powders, and then moving the bundle in a highly formalized series of gestures.[7]
  • holy-mouth-man once or twice a year
  • f sadism is involved
  • This part of the rite includes scraping and lacerating the surface of the face with a sharp instrument.
  • As part of this ceremony, women bake their heads in small ovens for about an hour
  • latipso
  • "that is where you go to die
  • Psychological shock results from the fact that body secrecy is suddenly lost upon entry into the latipso
  • aversion to the natural body and its functions.
  • fat people thin
  • thin people fat.
  • used to make women's breasts larger
  • inhuman hypermammary development are so idolized that they make a handsome living by simply going from village to village and permitting the natives to stare at them for a fee
  • Natural reproductive functions are similarly distorted. Intercourse is taboo as a topic and scheduled as an act. Efforts are made to avoid pregnancy by the use of magical materials or by limiting intercourse to certain phases of the moon.
  • magic-ridden people
Daryl Bambic

Intelligent design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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intelligent_design

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  • "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
  • version of the theological argument from design for the existence of God
  • leading proponents
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  • The leading proponents of this version of the argument are all associated with the Discovery Institute, a politically conservative think tank based in the United States, and believe the designer to be the Christian deity.
  • irreducible complexity
  • The scientific community therefore considers intelligent design a pseudoscience
  • ID proponents have sought to overturn the methodological naturalism inherent in modern science, proposing that it be replaced by "theistic realism" or "theistic science" in which ID presents a broadly theistic understanding of nature.[12]
  • a single system which is composed of several well-matched interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning".[40]
  • mousetrap
  • Removal of any one piece destroys the function of the mousetrap
  • natural selection could not create irreducibly complex systems, because the selectable function is present only when all parts are assembled
  • bacterial flagellum of E. coli,
  • Coyne responds that in light of the evidence, "either life resulted not from intelligent design, but from evolution; or the intelligent designer is a cosmic prankster who designed everything to make it look as though it had evolved"
  • problem of poor design in nature
  • "What designed the designer?"
  • Invoking an unexplained being to explain the origin of other beings (ourselves) is little more than question-begging.
  • For a theory to qualify as scientific,[n 21][106][n 22] it is expected to be:
  • Consistent
  • Useful
  • Empirically testable
  • Based on multiple observations (often in the form of controlled, repeated experiments)
  • Typical objections to defining intelligent design as science are that it lacks consistency,[107] violates the principle of parsimony,[n 23] is not scientifically useful,[n 24] is not falsifiable,[n 25] is not empirically testable,[n 26] and is not correctable, dynamic, provisional or progressive.[n 27][n 28][n 29]
  • Intelligent design proponents argue that naturalistic explanations fail to explain certain phenomena and that supernatural explanations provide a very simple and intuitive explanation for the origins of life and the universe
  • There is a gap in scientific knowledge. The gap is filled with acts of God (or intelligent designer) and therefore proves the existence of God (or intelligent designer).[124]
Daryl Bambic

Mike Morwood: Archaeologist whose 'hobbit' discovery sparked fresh debate on human evol... - 0 views

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hobbit evolution

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  • far from being the linear narrative of successive waves of colonisation out of Africa, as once thought, the process was, in fact, one with numerous twists and turns involving many different species.
  • among the most outstanding discoveries in paleoanthropology in over half a century.
  • because the cave also unearthed sophisticated stone tools similar to others found around the world in Homo erectus sites
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  • Flores tools were tiny, the right size for people of only 3ft tall with a brain the size of a chimp or grapefruit
  • Remarkably, the skull was found in a layer of sediments dating back only 18,000 years, long after the Neanderthals had vanished from the face of the Earth, having lost the evolutionary battle to Homo sapiens, the sole human species on Earth by then. This had huge ramifications for the varying theories of human evolution.
  • it could have been a descendant of Homo erectus that arrived early on Flores, perhaps using boats, and which, becoming stranded, evolved its petite size as an adaptation to the limited food supply available.
  • They also proposed the unimaginable, that Homo floresiensis lived contemporaneously on Flores with Homo sapiens.
  • Detractors
  • isease of some sort that produced the specimen’s unusual features.
Daryl Bambic

Wegener and Continental Drift Theory - 0 views

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Continentaldrift

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  • Survival of the fittest" gave an ethical dimension to the no-holds barred capitalism of the late nineteenth century.
  • ppropriated elements of evolution by natural selection to justify the ruthless business practices of his time
  • Darwin, was the ultimate insider
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  • Erasmus, was an early student of evolution and his half-cousin, Francis Galton, was a noted statistician who was considered the father of eugenics.
  • o worries about money
  • connections in the scientific world
  • philosopher, Herbert Spencer.
  • famous biologist, Thomas Huxle
  • But fact and reason alone cannot explain the different reactions to new hypotheses and theories we see in the examples above.
  • faith that future scientists will address the shortcomings in the initial theories.
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      Daryl Bambic on 23 Sep 13
       
      When the facts don't neatly fit the theory, scientists have faith that time, discovery and the hard work of others will eventually prove the theory to be true.  Theories are not always neat equations where all variables are explained, accounted for and even understood. We see this with both Darwin and Wegener.
  • Being German wasn't Wegener's only problem; the arguments he used to support his hypothesis crossed into disciplines that were not his specialty.
  • Darwin's theory quickly came to dominate. Within 5 years, Oxford University was using a biology textbook that discussed biology in the context of evolution by natural selection.
  • At Oxford, evolution by natural selection had gone from hypothesis to a priori
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 23 Sep 13
       
      A priori means that something is accepted as true, knowledge that is known without having to investigate it.  We use reason and deduction to know that X is true, so it is a priori.
  • Wegener did not have an explanation for how continental drift could have occurred
  • little challenge until the 1960's.
  • he drew from the fields of geology, geography, biology and paleontolog
  • coal deposits, commonly associated with tropical climates, would be found near the North Pole and why the plains of Africa would show evidence of glaciation.
  • A radical new view on their discipline could be a threat to their own authority.
  • "If we are to believe in Wegener's hypothesis we must forget everything which has been learned in the past 70 years and start all over again."
  • The authorities in the various disciplines attacked him as an interloper that did not fully grasp their own subject.
  • The reactions by the leading authorities in the different disciplines was so strong and so negative that serious discussion of the concept stopped
  • The world had to wait until the 1960's for a wide discussion of the Continental Drift Theory to be restarted.
  • Alfred Wegener is one modern scientist amongst many that demonstrate that new ideas threaten the establishment, regardless of the century.
  • ontinental Drift Theory through the first few decades of the twentieth century.
  • continents had once been joined, and over time had drifted apart.
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