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Category: Culture

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Today’s Music Sucks

8 Sep 202113 Oct 2021
CONCEITS OF THE FOGY SET Recounting a fun conversation I had with a peer. By "peer", I mean someone who was in and around my age. Like me he grew…
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They Were Always There…They Were Just Hiding

30 Aug 2021
ON TRANSGENDER STUDENTS COMING OUT OF HIDING AT LAST He walked right up to my desk. "Hey, Mr. Andoscia. I realize I never told you this, but I think you…
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Critical Race Theory, Sex, God, and Dangerous Knowledge

16 Aug 2021
HOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS BECOME THE BATTLEFIELD TO CONTROL THE CULTURAL NARRATIVE McCarthyism...Then, Again, and Always Like other social studies teachers, I was taken aback by the sudden onslaught against the…
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Napoleon, Robert E. Lee and the Cult of Past Personalities

7 May 20219 May 2021
MAYBE WE SHOULD STOP EXALTING PEOPLE AND START EXALTING IDEAS I wanted to take just a few minutes to offer some thoughts on the brouhaha over Napoleon on the bicentennial…
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The Real Problem with Cancel Culture

11 Mar 202111 Mar 2021
SPOILER: IT'S CAPITALISM I've been hearing a lot of commentators on both sides of the so-called "Culture Wars" debate lamenting the rise of Cancel Culture. The debate is presented by…
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Not a Bigot in a Hat. Not a Bigot with a Cat…

6 Mar 2021
THE WAR AGAINST RACIST REPRESENTATIONS When we think about systems of oppression, we tend to think about societies in which a dominant group uses open coercion to suppress a subordinate…
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Protests, Riots, and Discursive Bubbles

5 Jun 2020
DON'T GET DISTRACTED BY THE COMPLEXITY OF STREET PROTESTS. FOCUS ON WHAT THE PROTESTS ARE SAYING. Street protests are messy things. There are lots of people, often at cross purposes.…
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Marx’s Commiebots and the Fall of Capitalism

19 Sep 2019
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, CAPITALISM IS DONE FOR All hail the coming of our robot overlords! Well, I doubt it. The chances are what we'll see is the coming of…
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Remember when it was okay to criticize the military?

3 Jul 2019
IT SEEMS SO LONG AGO Hey, Kids. Would you like to learn a little known fact about the United States of America in the old days that will absolutely blow…
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On Walls, Refugees and White Walkers

4 Jun 20194 Jun 2019
HOW WALLS MAKE US LESS SAFE It's been a long couple of weeks, so I may have missed my opportunity to take advantage of the obligatory Game of Thrones reference…

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The Banality of Book Banning

The Banality of Book Banning

Perpetuating fear is in many ways a banal act of people just doing their jobs by impartially administering the law.

by Mad Sociologist 5 Jun 2023
When They Really Came for the Teachers

When They Really Came for the Teachers

Teachers went from heroes to villains, thanks to right-wing counter narratives.

by Mad Sociologist 31 May 2023
A Course in Mad Sociology Lecture 10

A Course in Mad Sociology Lecture 10

Chapter 3: Methods of Research Section 1: Positivism and Quantitative Methods Introduction It’s time to talk about methods of research! No, look. We have to talk about methods of research. We have to get an understanding of how sociologists know what they know. Sociologists don’t just sit around thinking about society and writing whatever pops…

by Mad Sociologist 17 May 202317 May 2023
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