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Is Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation" just the "Allegory of the Cave"?
Am I missing something or is Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation" just a wordy "Allegory of the Cave"?
To expand, reality is "crowdsourced", patterns occur, and we ...
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is there a theory of social 'vaccination' against destructive ideologies?
One can notice certain similarities between domains of
biology, in which live organisms cope with viruses
sociology, where societies cope with destructive ideologies
Drawing an analogy, we can ...
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Non-traditional (individuals = graph edges) views on societies
In his book Large graphs and graph limits, mathematician and Abel prize winner László Lovász says on page 4:
We can say that the whole universe is a single (really huge, possibly
infinite) network, ...
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Current academics exponents of (classical) liberalism
First of all, I don't want to cause polemic with the question. I know it's a delicate issue and I don't want to touch personal susceptibilities. My question is more on ignorance since I am from ...
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Do you know any Medieval philosophers, who have writings on the problem of anomie?
I know that the usage of the term declined in the Middle ages, but I was wondering, whether someone discussed this problem, perhaps referring to it as normlessness.
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What does Baudrillard mean by "The end of the Social"?
In Simulacra and Simulation (as well, I am told, as in many other works), Baudrillard speaks with the typical obscurity of a French-English translation of the end of society and the "End of the ...
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How Biases and Prejudices Deviate the Philosophy of Peace in round table meeting of world politics
Why do politically strengthened nations deviate from the ideal of peace building and misuse power through bias, prejudice, and subjugation of others towards "peace," but not actual, absolute ...
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What is it when someone from some group (ethnic, religious, disability, etc.) can automatically talk for others from it?
Is there a term for being for and against the view that (only) someone from some group (ethnic, religious, disability, etc.) can automatically talk for others from it?
It's kind of a political and ...
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In Hegelian Dialectic is an antithesis ever a shift in the status quo, or only an opposition to the status quo?
I am trying to understand how the Hegelian dialectic evolves over time. I will use tn (where n is a constant integer) informally, such that tn+2 - tn+1 is not necessarily the same duration as tn+1 - ...
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Which kinds of academic revolutions has philosophy of science indentified so far and when?
Recently, I had an interdisciplinary discussion with some friends about Industry 4.0, internet of things,...which brought up the question, which kind of academic revolutions apart from industrial ...
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Functionalism, its key concepts and social phenomena
I have a class test and have been instructed to find the following information and I have chosen the functionalism perspective and in particular Emile Durkheim as one of its key thinkers.
State the ...
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a relationship with the other
Bourriaud somewhere says:
“artistic practice is always a relationship with the other, at the
same time as it represents a relationship with the world”.
Does he by "with the other" mean "with ...
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Philosophers who have written on aesthetics of ideas
One example I can give is the book "Fashion, Faith and Fantasy" by Roger Penrose. There he talks about the Fashion, Faith and Fantasy of popular physics theories, for instance ones like ...
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Looking for theories/references about how social conventions are formed and followed
Social changes happen all the time. Sometimes changes lead to conventions. Certain ways of living, certain lifestyles, certain regulations become conventional. People follow them without questioning ...
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Do different subjects experience the "economic base" of capitalism in different ways?
History, for Althusser, is a process without a subject.
Does that mean that, For Althusser, subjects do not experience the base in different way, and it's more like a brute fact about the world?
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Ternary logic of 3-person human relationships?
C.S. Peirce studied ternary (and higher-order, n-ary logic, too) logic in the context of which he called semiosis,
an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a coöperation of three subjects, […],...
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Is there any word "Numerical power" in sociology?
I was thinking about how population influences the power dynamics in a polity. The community that has the majority has more say in political discourse. Can we use the term "Numerical power" ...
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Who has criticized the scientific field of sociology of religion as secular and Christian?
Which thinkers criticize the scientific field of sociology of religion as being secular and about Christianity?
I couldn’t find a stach exchange for sociology. So I ask here.
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Are there any philosophical works on the social meta hierarchies created by technology(the emergence of the internet)?
Since the 1990s many people have been able to interact in ways that were not accessible to them before due to the internet.
Since the online interactions differ in many respects from those in real ...
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Authors on Social Evolution, Personal Liberties and Corruption
Institutional corruption as been associated with excessive hedonism eg. libertinism. In history there have been recurring cycles in which economic depression has led to the uprising of authoritarian ...
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What are prominent pro-war 20th century philosphers?
I'm asking from a sociological perspective here.
Motivation: I wonder if it is true that technological development is better during war time, and if so, why? Is it because the review process is ...
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Is "class culture" an artificial construct or does it have "natural" motivation?
Is "class culture" an artificial construct or does it have "natural" motivation?
A lof of things, at least judging by internet, are associated or measured relative to socio-economic class. However, ...
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How is Pierre Bourdieu regarded in current academic sociology and social theory?
I understand that this is a very subjective and generalized question. I recently had someone tell me that he’s been dismissed in academia and I was quite surprised to hear that.
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