Archive for the ‘society and sociology’ Category
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
yesterday's epolitix bulletin had this lovely snippet:
"The chancellor Alistair Darling uses an interview with the Financial Times newspaper to say sudden changes on taxing private equity could impact negatively on the "absolutely critical" role of the City in the economy"
oh yes of course alistair. whilst i may not be disagreeing ...
Posted in Cabinet, Corporation, Institutions, Politics, Private Equity, Regulation, Social Institutions, Social Organization, WTO, collaborative markets, critique of economics, social observation, society and sociology | 14 Comments »
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
I've been meaning to write about this wonderful network - the Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) - before but have been procrastinating.
No time like the present:
In a nutshell, they're about female empowerment as part of human equality, and positive thinking : they're a network of networks - they work with ...
Posted in Bangladeshi Women and Equal Rights to Nationality, Citizenship, Feminism, Global Civil Society, Human Rights, Middle East, Nation-States, Nationality, Patriarchy, Policy, Universality, Women's Learning Partnership, World Affairs: politics and news, knowledge society, society and sociology | 14 Comments »
Thursday, August 17th, 2006
So the discussion around 'foreign policy' - Ministers saying but of course we wouldn't change our foreign policy just because of some stupid terrorist threat, or what some stupid people suggested has something to do with the threat'. Right - if that's the only reason you were going to ...
Posted in Democracy, Human Rights, International Relations, Irony, Policy, Politics, Social Organization, Terrorism, War on Terror, World Affairs: politics and news, society and sociology, stupidity and violence | 32 Comments »
Friday, May 26th, 2006
this morning's epolitix summary highlights the following about Tony Blair's trip to the US: -
"Before heading back to the UK, the prime minister delivers a keynote speech setting out his views on the role of international institutions in an era of globalisation. Ahead of the speech, Blair said the international ...
Posted in Democracy, Globalization, Institutions, Social Organization, UK, USA, World Affairs: politics and news, society and sociology | 3 Comments »
Friday, May 19th, 2006
it makes me laugh. we're so stupid and we love accepting what we're told without questioning the basics. ( what! you mean this doesn't apply to just religious people?)
what's so 'free' about the free market? please someone can you explain that to me and give me some simple answers?
there is ...
Posted in Free Markets, Globalization, Liberal, News & info, Social Organization, collaborative markets, critique of economics, society and sociology | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
Some more warbling on my pet subject: the social. I have 'ranted' on this here and elsewhere. in fact sometimes people do think im a silly old so and so for going on about something that they all take for granted. But this is where i always say - what's ...
Posted in Diary, London, News & info, social, socialism, society and sociology | 11 Comments »
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
the ZenPundit blog has a great quote:
" The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities" -- Machiavelli
Yup Machiavelli you clever old thing you were certainly right, no wonder you were a master of statecraft..ha you realized that this meant the great majority ...
Posted in Quotable Quotes, machiavelli, society and sociology | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
Susie Orbach highlighted in her 1978 groundbreaking book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' how female identity is 'hopelessly inextricable from body image' ; she's recently updated the introduction to this book indicating how things haven't changed all that much, well actually ..they've been getting much worse.
An interesting analysis of ...
Posted in Books and Literary Things, News & info, media and gender, social norms, society and sociology | 16 Comments »
Sunday, December 11th, 2005
People seem to be so afraid of freedom. Do they want to be told what to do? Whether by a state in favour of totalitarian conformity - or by their mates - certainly its starting to look that way!
"Totalitarian Conformity - "We can make decisions on what is 'right' ...
Posted in News & info, society and sociology | 13 Comments »
Sunday, November 6th, 2005
re: the quite amusing exchange on this blog - in the comments on the "Stella" post : i wanted to say a couple of things. actually quite a lot of things. im sure there will be quite a few posts on this theme which is another one of my ...
Posted in News & info, Technology, society and sociology | No Comments »