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Gustavo commented on the post, Week 10 – Labor Movements, on the site Introduction to Sociology SSS100.1958 3 years, 11 months ago
” However, the underlying issues are similar. In each case, policymakers feel the need to keep wages low, or eliminate wage standards altogether, to create a positive ‘business climate’
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Gustavo commented on the post, Week 9 – Black Freedom Movement, on the site Introduction to Sociology SSS100.1958 3 years, 11 months ago
“How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral l […]
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Gustavo commented on the post, Week 8 – Social Control and Power, on the site Introduction to Sociology SSS100.1958 3 years, 11 months ago
” It is a war that has targeted primarily nonviolent offenders and drug offenders, and it has resulted in the birth of a penal system unprecedented in world history.”
-Michelle Alexander
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Gustavo commented on the post, Week 10 – Labor Movements, on the site Introduction to Sociology SSS100.1958 3 years, 11 months ago
“Union workers are diverse, just like America.”
-Various authorsThere isn’t much to say about this. Unions need to be in every corporation’s case, so people can actually LIKE working their jobs, and won’t […]
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Gustavo commented on the post, Week 7 – Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality, on the site Introduction to Sociology SSS100.1958 3 years, 11 months ago
“Now, when communications experts tell us that when facts do not fit with the available frames, people have a difficult time incorporating new facts into their way of thinking about a problem.”
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Gustavo commented on the post, Week 6 – Sex and Gender, on the site Introduction to Sociology SSS100.1958 3 years, 11 months ago
“I hold these truths to be self-evident, but let me be clear: I’m a mess. I am full of contradictions. There are many ways in which I’m doing feminism wrong.”
-Roxane Gay
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Gustavo commented on the post, Week 5 – Race/Ethnicity and Migration, on the site Introduction to Sociology SSS100.1958 3 years, 11 months ago
“The U.S.-Mexico border es una herdia abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleed. And before a scabs forms its hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third […]
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Gustavo commented on the post, Week 4 – Race, on the site Introduction to Sociology SSS100.1958 3 years, 11 months ago
“At this point it must be observed that America, relative to all the other branches of Western civilization, is moralistic and ‘moral-conscious’. The ordinary American is the opposite of a cynic.”
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Gustavo commented on the post, Week 3 – Class and Work, on the site Introduction to Sociology SSS100.1958 3 years, 11 months ago
“Finally, it is worth noting that while workers have had some success getting wage increases through strikes and organizing, it has been much more difficult to win unions”
-Stephanie Luce(P77)
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Gustavo commented on the post, Week 2 – Class Structure and Inequality, on the site Introduction to Sociology SSS100.1958 3 years, 11 months ago
“Modern industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist. Masses of laborers, crowded into the factory, are organized like soldiers.”
-Karl […]