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Ricky commented on the post, Black Freedom Movement – leave reply by Mon, June 1 at 9pm, on the site Introduction to Sociology Spring 2020 3 years, 11 months ago
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” highlights the need of the oppressed to […]
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Ricky commented on the post, Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality – leave reply by 9pm on May 11, on the site Introduction to Sociology Spring 2020 4 years ago
“The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority , seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it.” In history white settlers have c […]
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Ricky commented on the post, Sex and Gender – leave reply by May 4 at 9pm, on the site Introduction to Sociology Spring 2020 4 years ago
“Thus humanity is male and man defines women not in herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being.” Women in society are often only seen as an accessory to men. They are never asked […]
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Ricky commented on the post, Race, Ethnicity and Migration – Leave reply by 9pm on April 27, on the site Introduction to Sociology Spring 2020 4 years ago
“They were fleeing a world where they were restricted to the most menial of jobs, underpaid if paid at all, and frequently barred from voting. Between 1880 and 1950, an African-American was lynched more than once […]
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Ricky commented on the post, Racial Wage – Leave Reply by 9pm on Monday, April 20, on the site Introduction to Sociology Spring 2020 4 years ago
“It must be remembered that the white group of laborers, while they received a low wage, were compensated in part by a sort of public and psychological wage… they were admittedly freely with all classes of white […]
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Ricky commented on the post, Workers' Movements – Leave Reply by 9pm on Monday, April 6, on the site Introduction to Sociology Spring 2020 4 years, 1 month ago
“Almost everyone has at one point felt unheard or powerless as an employee. Joining a union simply means that you and your colleagues have a say because you negotiate important elements of employment conditions […]
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Ricky commented on the post, Class and Work – leave reply by 9pm on Monday, March 30, on the site Introduction to Sociology Spring 2020 4 years, 1 month ago
“…that in his work, therefore, he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind.” […]
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Ricky commented on the post, Inequality today (please Leave a Reply by Monday, March 23 at noon), on the site Introduction to Sociology Spring 2020 4 years, 1 month ago
Inequality is something that has always existed in our society and the 1% has always been on top and receives more benefits and less disadvantages than the average middle class worker who does a daily 9-5 job. […]
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Ricky's profile was updated 4 years, 2 months ago
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Ricky commented on the post, Week 2 – Class Structure and Inequality, on the site Introduction to Sociology Spring 2020 4 years, 2 months ago
“Masses of laborers, crowded into the factory, are organised like soldiers….Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class,.. they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the over-looker, and, above […]
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Ricky became a registered member 4 years, 2 months ago