So to bring the conversation up to speed, a few things that i have been mulling around in my head the last few days...
Noam Chomsky - Been looking at this [amazing] man in two of my classes (media, technology & culture as well as EthnoLinguistics), but i ask myself a few questions (always a devils advocate - when elly is not here that is..) He criticizes elite powers serving their own needs, but i cannot help but think that he is an intellectual elite .. putting him up there on the same scale as those he criticizes. Dont get me wrong, i agree with the majority of his ideas strongly, but i just cant help thinking about a book i read last semester for my Industrialization class called "Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich. The majority of the american population fall on the wrong side of th poverty rate and dont have time to start a revolution (or the energy for that matter) .. anyways, its just been making me think about the luxury of education - sadly, the people who really need to hear Chomsky's messages dont have the time to hear it.
A somewhat related commentary, cross-disciplined theorists and their interpreters. Reading the Chomsky in a Political Science class, his ideals of mass mediated thought control and propaganda generated by the elite to line their pockets while keeping the masses pacifed and how society should look towards rising above it sounds a tad familiar.... Marx, Stuart Hall, or any other concept of ideology in a capitalist state? But when the commonalities were pointed out, our professor was hasty to deny the similarities. Why?
At this point in my education, everything seems to be interconnected.. seems to me there are only 5 core ideas out there that have been expanded on, disected, altered and reiterated in different terms..Steven Seidman touts the end of sociological theory - there is no universal (and useful) theory in sociological theory that covers every society in every corner of the world, but it sure seems to ring true in democratized society, no matter the discipline, at least to this gal!
Noam Chomsky - Been looking at this [amazing] man in two of my classes (media, technology & culture as well as EthnoLinguistics), but i ask myself a few questions (always a devils advocate - when elly is not here that is..) He criticizes elite powers serving their own needs, but i cannot help but think that he is an intellectual elite .. putting him up there on the same scale as those he criticizes. Dont get me wrong, i agree with the majority of his ideas strongly, but i just cant help thinking about a book i read last semester for my Industrialization class called "Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich. The majority of the american population fall on the wrong side of th poverty rate and dont have time to start a revolution (or the energy for that matter) .. anyways, its just been making me think about the luxury of education - sadly, the people who really need to hear Chomsky's messages dont have the time to hear it.
A somewhat related commentary, cross-disciplined theorists and their interpreters. Reading the Chomsky in a Political Science class, his ideals of mass mediated thought control and propaganda generated by the elite to line their pockets while keeping the masses pacifed and how society should look towards rising above it sounds a tad familiar.... Marx, Stuart Hall, or any other concept of ideology in a capitalist state? But when the commonalities were pointed out, our professor was hasty to deny the similarities. Why?
At this point in my education, everything seems to be interconnected.. seems to me there are only 5 core ideas out there that have been expanded on, disected, altered and reiterated in different terms..Steven Seidman touts the end of sociological theory - there is no universal (and useful) theory in sociological theory that covers every society in every corner of the world, but it sure seems to ring true in democratized society, no matter the discipline, at least to this gal!
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