The Mars Trilogy – Good Sociology Novels!
I thought I’d take the unusual step of plugging a series of novels in this post…. The ‘Mars Trilogy’ by […]
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Why Intelligence Doesn’t Explain Success
A summary of Malcom Gladwell’s ‘Outliers’ chapter 3: The Trouble With Genius, Part 1. Over the past Decade, Chris Langan
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The 10,000 Hour Rule
The 10, 000 Hour Rule is the theory that it takes 10 000 hours of practice to become an expert
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The Mathew Effect: A Summary of ‘Outliers’ Chapter One.
Outliers: The Story of Success (2008) by Malcom Gladwell is a great work of sociology, so I thought it’s worth
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Giddens – What is Sociology?
A summary of Giddens’ ‘Sociology’ (2017): The Introduction ‘The world we live in today can feel liberating and exciting but,
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Bauman’s ‘The Individualised Society’ – A Summary of the Preface
It may sound odd doing a summary of a preface, but there is a lot of heavy stuff in here….
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Summary of Zygmunt Bauman’s ‘The Individualised Society’ (part 1/3)
Chapter One – The Rise and Fall of Labour This chapter explains that the decline of the labour movement is
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A Summary of Zygmunt Bauman’s ‘The Individualised Society’, Part Two – The Way We Think
Part Two – The Way We Think Chapter Seven – Critique – Privatised and Disarmed More than anything else so
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This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein: A Summary (of Part 1)
Summary & Study Notes (Part 1, Chapters 1–5) One-sentence overview: Klein argues that neoliberal globalisation turbo-charged emissions, that public planning
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From Pilgrim to Tourist – Or A Short History of Identity, Zygmunt Bauman
If the modern problem of identity was how to construct an identity, the postmodern problem of identity is how to