Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
Jeff Schmidt writes in Disciplined Minds that industry looks for “an obedient thinker, an intellectual property whom employers can trust to experiment, theorize, innovate and create safely within the confines of an assigned ideology” (Schmidt), so to, the NBA does the same with its players. Have you ever heard a player speak out on the [...]
Looking at the NBA today, it is easy to see that the game has gone through a major change since its inception in 1946. One such change has been the role that owners play in the game and for the cities whom their teams represent. It used to be that owners of NBA teams acquired [...]
As we have talked about in class many times before, capitalists in a capitalist country try their hardest to squeeze what they can out of their workers as they are the ones who turn supplies into goods.Their exploitation is one of the single worst aspects of capitalism and in Romania some foreign workers finally took [...]
I read an interesting article in the Naked Capitalism Blog http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/02/o…) on how the people of Japan have been handling the current economic crisis. As we all know, since WWII, Japan has been looked at as the case study on how capitalism can be brought to a foreign land and thrive because of it. However, [...]
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I found this that directly relates to the subject, it’s pretty interesting.
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Ran across this link on YouTube and obviously it correlates to our ongoing discussion in class. Listen in to what Hannity says, specifically the part where he states “there are even people under the Obama tax plan that don’t work or pay taxes that will get money back”. Hannity makes it seem, as most conservatives [...]
I recently heard an amazing observation about this presidential race that I wanted to share. I know our nation has deeply rooted racial biases that most of the time, are hidden from plain sight. The notion that there is a political science term called the “Bradley Effect”, which essentially says that for a black man/woman [...]
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