I don’t like Spencer and neither should you. He (not Darwin) coined the term, “survival of the fittest,” which although approved of by Darwin, has not done justice to laypeople’s technical understanding of evolution. He also used evolutionary analogy to legitimate Brittish imperialist exceptionalism, or more specifically, superiority. I do not think that I am … Continue reading Spencer and Modern American Laypeople’s Conceptions of Society →
Category Archives: Spencer
Teens, Sex, Society
Weber would agree on the idea that our society has become highly rationalized. Whether it is what we do for living, our bureaucracy in itself, or how we view our society from our own cultural points. However in a country where everything is extremely sexualized, from commercials to tv shows. We seem to not talk much […]
Organ Failure…?
There is an article I read recently that contained some rather disturbing information, and information that I was not that surprised to learn when I thought about it. This article is not the most recent to the internet, but I searched it out again because I think it is still relevant. It can be found […]
Race and Punishment: Weber
Race and Punishment: In the article, “ Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crimes and Support for Punitive Policies” they talk about “how policy makers actions and statements amplify the public’s racial association of crime” (The Sentencing Project, 3). The media and policymakers and government are such heavy influencer’s on the American people and sometimes […]
Weber & teen pregnancy
Sex education is something that I have always found interesting. How surprising is it that that states that teach abstinence-only have the highest rates of teen pregnancies than those who teach comprehensive sex education. This article states that 60% of students who were taught comprehensive sex education ARE LESS LIKELY to get pregnant than those […]
Home Cooking Burden
When I think of home cooking I don’t think it’s a burden but apparently that’s what it had become to some mothers. According to Pulliam-Moore, mothers have reportedly complained that cooking meals for their family stressful and dissatisfying. I think Marx would be very disappointed to hear that mothers don’t enjoy cooking for their families […]
Teen Pregnancy & Weber
When reading the article “The States With the Highest Teenage Birth Rates Have One Thing in Common” I was learning a lot about society and nation. I knew that teen birth rates were dropping across America but I had no idea that it was because of abstinence education. Who would have guessed that states with […]
The Land of the Free and Home of the Bad
The United States is perceived to be the land of the free. Our foreign policy is motivated to bring freedom and democracy to poor oppressed, yet resource rich countries. If enforcing freedom is our goal, then why does the United States house 25% of the world prison population? Even more interesting is the alarming rate […]
Mothers and home cooking – Marx thoughts
What Marx would think about the article that discussed mothers and home cooking would probably be something along the lines of saying that the reason why home cooking seems burdensome to mothers is because of capitalism. He might think that the reason why homecoming is a hassle is because like the article says, mothers have […]
Home Cooked Meals
This topic hits pretty close to home–hence the reason I chose this. This article (sited below) talks about mothers and the expectation placed on them to prepare these home cooked meals. One thing I really appreciated that this article pointed out, was how, beyond cooking the meal, mothers take on other stresses of picky eaters […]