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Tag Archives: society
The Rationality of Literacy
Over the past couple months, I have worked on developing a mission statement for one of my overarching goals – something like a „life goal“. Initial attempts were quite abstract, and I was greatly helped by the very considerate feedback … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged community, engage, engaged, engagement, goal, goals, illiteracy, illiterate, language, literacy, literate, mission, mission statement, rational media, social, society, technology
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What are you going to do about it?
I have a friend who works in the field of healthcare, and we were talking about corruption in the medical and pharmaceutical industries – the kind that leads to patients getting misdiagnosed and mistreated. I had shared something I had … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertise, advertisement, advertising, alternative currencies, alternative currency, anonymity, anonymous, authentic, authenticity, bond, brand, brand name, brand names, branding, brands, care, careless, cash, construct, construction, constructs, engage, engagement, failure, identity, meaning, meaningful, meaningless, money, power, rational media, relationship, relationships, retard media, social, social construct, social construction, social constructs, social engagement, social system, social systems, society, success, successful, system, systems, trace
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Do You Want To Be Right Or Do You Want To Be Happy?
Did anyone ever ask Galileo this question? Why or why not? Why do some people ask other people this question today?
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Tagged censorship, cohesion, communication, confidence, depressed, depression, doubt, doubting, fact, facts, false, falsehood, Galileo, group, group dynamics, groups, happy, network, networking, networks, opinion, opinions, question, questioning, questions, right, sad, science, scientific, scientific method, social, social cohesion, social group, social groups, society, support, true, trust, trusting, trustworthy, truth, wrong
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Delusions of Grandeur
Wikipedia.org has two articles that seem somewhat related — one is about “delusions of grandeur”, the other is about “grandiosity”. From the latter: A distinction is made between individuals exhibiting grandiosity, which includes a degree of insight into their unrealistic … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, communal, communities, community, culture, cultures, group, groups, life, personal, psychological, psychology, share, shared, sharing, societies, society, sociological, sociology, succeed, success
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Intermission
I feel I need to tie up some loose ends from the previous post. There are two phenomena that I seem to have kind of mashed up (at least that’s what I think). Both of these are from my very … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged function, functions, human, humanity, humans, instinct, instinctive, instincts, institution, institutions, Jung, natural, nature, psychology, record, records, role, roles, social, society, writing
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Unternehmungslustig
“Unternehmungslustig” is a German word for which there does not seem to be a semantically close English equivalent. It is a mixture of “adventurous”, “enterprising”, “thrill-seeking”, “fun-loving” and perhaps also some other concepts. One reason why this word might not … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged adventurous, American, community, cultural, culture, English, enterprising, fun-loving, game, games, German, language, norm, norms, risk, risk-averse, risk-seeking, share, shared, sharing, society, thrill-seeking, unternehmungslustig
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Power Corrupts — and So Do Acquiescence, Conformity, Submission and Dumbed-Down Disengagement
Recently I had a little chat about something I posted as a status update on Facebook: A person who says “talk is cheap” is saying more about their own poor listening skills than anything else. I followed this statement up … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged communication, communications, community, conversation, discourse, discussion, participation, public, publicity, retard media, social, society
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What is right / wrong, good / bad about self-promotion
In the 20th century, self-promotion acquired a bad name. I think I can explain why, but explanation is rather complicated. After the modern capitalism was invented in the 18th century and became widely established throughout the western hemisphere in the … Continue reading →
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Tagged anti-social, antisocial, brand, branding, brands, capitalism, companies, company, corporate, corporation, corporations, economy, employee, employer, employment, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial, global, identity, labor, labor force, labor market, narcissism, narcissistic, person, personal, product, products, promotion, self, self promotion, service, services, social, society, spirit, unemployment, west, western
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The Harvard Business Review Ideacast reporter Sarah Green interviews Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center of WorkLife Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, who cites Mary Blair-Loy’s “work-devotion schema”, thereby emphasizing the central role of devotion in the meaning of life, which I wrote about several months ago
Here’s an excerpt from the interview: [T]he work devotion schema, [Mary Blair-Loy] found, communicated that work should be the central focus of your life, unencumbered by family responsibilities; that it entailed overlays of deep emotional ties with your work; that … Continue reading →
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Tagged balance, culture, devotion, family, life, schema, schemas, society, work, work-life, work-life balance
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Paul Krugman has lost the plot
money is like a social network I think Professor Krugman should look into the sociological basis of economics more (much as e.g. Max Weber did in “Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft”). I don’t think that one sentence quoted above is wrong, but … Continue reading →
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Tagged American, economics, economy, monetarism, monetary, money, social, society, sociology, system, systems, theory
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