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» The Sociological Imagination Revisited The Sociological Imagination - 0 views

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  • the popular mood was suffused with a strange sense of unease. It was a condition in which people were told by their papers, their screens, their politicians and ideologues that they lived in a state of freedom.
  • An American could be whoever they wanted to be and follow their own inclinations and desires. But the scope of this freedom was very much limited to every American’s private life
  • that all wasn’t safe and well
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  • What the sociological imagination does is provide a way of thinking through and understanding social life, of how the inner lives of each of us as individuals are conditioned by social forces,
  • the imagination is also a ‘terrible’ realisation as it shows that our fate is largely something that is done to us, regardless of our choices.
  • rivate sphere
  • hat are its components?
  • How is society structured
  • What social groups hold sway
  • ow are they interrelated and mutually conditioning? How do they contribute to social persistence and social change? How does one society differ from another?
  • personal troubles
  • public issue
  • higher social scale
  • Mills’ thesis that unease and anxiety underlined the American (modern) condition
  • nsecurity, fatalism, fear for the future is a mass experience
  • social phenomenon
  • He argues that every age has a common intellectual denominato
  • zeitgeist
  • Consciously and unconsciously, social policy, sociology, emerging nationalisms, encouraged the view that relations between human beings were essentially an extension of the evolutionary struggle each and every species wages in the natural worl
  • Economists are forced to acknowledge the social dimension outside of their equations to explain the crash of 2008
  • sociological imagination is the habit of mind par excellence sociology as a discipline is stuck on the doldrums
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Is dependence on technology the real threat? - Casting Out Nines - The Chronicle of Hig... - 0 views

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  • teaching of fractions:
  • closer to what people needed back before there were calculators.
  • People float the “dependence on technology” counter-argument
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  • all that bad if students became dependent on a technology that’s cheap and easy to come by?
  • eyeglasses, running water,
  • cars, kitchen appliances?
  • That threat of becoming dependent upon technology to do mathematics is only a real concern, for me at least, under one of two conditions.
  • expensive
  • ard to access for some learners
  • other condition
  • definition of “mathematics”
  • so restricte
  • only those tasks that can be easily farmed out to technolog
  • ny discipline that can be replaced by software probably ought to be.
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  • Auguste Comte (born 1798
  • ociety's knowledge passed through 3 stages
  • cience-based). Positivism is the objective and value-free observation, comparison, and experimentation applied to scientific inquiry
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  • Societies had change in unprecedented ways and had formed a new collective of social complexities
  • Industrial Revolution
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    Definition of culture: a group of people enacting a story
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    Use Padlet to share the headlines the groups generate
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Are Women More Generous Than Men | Women and Philanthropy: A Literature Review | Center... - 0 views

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  • Are Women More Generous Than Men?
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      sydney goldman on 08 Dec 11
       
      this publication talks about empathic response based on gender and giving to charity. it includes many dates and names concerning experiment previously done that can prove or deny information that is stated. she states that the amount of money that is to be given is a big factor as well, quote: "men are more generous when it is cheap, but women are more generous when it is more expensive to give." In the end she states that it goes way further than just gender, quote: "single females, married men, and married women are significantly more likely to be donors than single men."
  • In the economics literature, Andreoni and Vesterlund (2001) seminal study demonstrated that the question of “Who is more generous?” is complicated. Their study differences in the “demand curves for altruism” where men are more responsive to the price of giving (pg. 1). They conclude that men are more generous when it is cheap to give, but women are more generous when it is more expensive to give.
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Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 0 views

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  • This argument rests on the premise that we learn best through data collection without the burdens of judgment and discernment.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      Do you agree with this premise?  Do you agree that the previous sentence (the argument) is based on this premise?
  • The Dumbest Generation
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  • incessant communication
  • does not lead to intellectual growth, but rather to a stunting of genuine intellectual development
  • solipsistic,
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      Solipsism: means that the only thing we can really know and be sure about is the self.  All other knowledge is suspect.
  • "being online" can contribute to hyper-individualism and a sense of unearned celebrity,
  • ubiquitous
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      meaning is found everywhere
  • requires literacy
  • Human society has experienced three profound social, economic, and cultural transformations—the agrarian revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and now the electronic revolution.
  • we can blend the best of our traditional intellectual linear culture—Socrates' wisdom of the 5th century BCE—with the current digital culture, creating a new learning and intellectual environment consistent with the cognitive and expressive demands of the 21st century.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      What does the author want the 21st century learner to be able to do?
  • Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      What do you think the author means by technical fixes?
  • Critical reflection enables us to see the world from multiple points of view and imagine alternate outcomes
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      Do you agree with his definition of critical thinking?  What else might be added to it?
  • Thinking empirically is a form of social responsibility
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      Do you agree with these two paragraphs that connect empirical reasoning with abandoning the supernatural?
  • education has taken on the role of dispensing "cultural capital" to individuals on the basis of a merit system that is a camouflaged proxy for social class and social position.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      What he means is that education is more of a system for making sure the rich stay rich than for actually educating people.  The distinctions between classes is more apparent in American society than in Canadian society.
  • real basis of teamwork is the willingness to think collectively to solve common problems
  • that all knowledge is social.
  • When we think about thinking, we turn our mental pictures around ever so slowly to view them from different angles
  • multiple frames of reference
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      means...different ways of looking at a problem
  • where knowledge creation is fluid, fast, and far more democratic.
  • knowledge creation
  • Wikipedi
  • we will incorporate a whole array of technological options into how, when, and where we learn. We will cease to think of technology as something that has its own identity, but rather as an extension of our minds, in much the same way that books extend our minds without a lot of fanfar
  • answers were always steps on the way to deeper questions.
  • Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth
  • f we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking.
  • "personal learning network,"
  • Even thoug
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      I think he has some assumptions about philosophers!
  • Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
     
    the 21st century mind: how are teachers educating for this?

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