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O.O.P.S. vs M.O.O.C.s: Midterm Report, Part 2

April 27, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The O.O.P.S. courses Rethinking Capitalism and Feminism, Capitalism and Social Transformation share a critical understanding: capitalism, as we are experiencing it, is undesirable and not the only political economy possible. They also both analyze how major social problems are directly linked to the present order of capitalism, from ...

Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and the Social Condition and Politics: Thoughts Following our Third Session

February 19, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The assignment for the students last week was to read Donald Levine on modernity and ambiguity and Robert Merton on the sociology of ambivalence. These works anticipate the study of the social condition. Levine, by the way, was my dissertation supervisor, and I believe the sensibility that led him to ...

Classical Sociology and the Social Condition

February 8, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

In last week’s meeting of the social condition class, we reviewed classical sociological studies, considering how they reveal or conceal the dilemmas and tensions built into the social fabric, how they illuminate or obfuscate the social condition. We looked closely at the closing pages of Max Weber’s Protestant Ethnic and ...

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