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To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters. ↗

— J. Jack Halberstam

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Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the world, but consensually validated statements about it. ↗

— Michael Schudson

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إن تطور المجتمع البشري ناجم عن المنافسة الحادة التي تدفع كل فرد لأن يبرع ويتفوق على غيره ، فالتطور قائم على أكوام أبدان الضحايا ، أبدان أولئك الذين فشلوا في الحياة ، فصعد على أكتافهم الناجحون ↗

— علي الوردي

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Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need. ↗

— Ivan Illich

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Ser radical é tomar as coisas pela raiz. Mas, para o homem, a raiz é o próprio homem. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people. ↗

— Bob Torres

#economics #marxism #poverty #sociology #sociology

الكمال امر اعتباري, فما هو كامل اليوم قد يصبح ناقصا غدا, وماهو كامل في نظرك قد يعد ناقصا في نظر غيرك ↗

— علي الوردي

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Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study. [Adolph S. Ochs - Publisher New York Times] ↗

— Adolph S. Ochs

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Ο άνθρωπος βλέπει, ακούει, μιλάει σωστά μόνο όταν ενδιαφέρεται για τη σύνδεση με το περιβάλλον, με τους άλλους ανθρώπους. ↗

— Άλφρεντ Άντλερ

#humans #psychology #sociology #sociology

Chicago is not the most corrupt of cities. The state of New Jersey has a couple. Need we mention Nevada? Chicago, though, is the Big Daddy. Not more corrupt, just more theatrical, more colorful in its shadiness. ↗

— Studs Terkel

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