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Louise Tilly was apart of the Graduate Faculty at the New School. She was a professor in sociology and historical studies. You can read more about her here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Louise Tilly, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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Perry Anderon taught sociology at the New School in the 1980’s. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Perry Anderson, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" Sociological interest in questions of'reality' and 'knowledge' is thus initially justifies by the fact of their social relativity. What is 'real' to a Tibetan monk may not be 'real' to an American businessman. The 'knowledge' of the criminal differs from the 'knowledge' of the criminologist. It follows that specific agglomerations of 'reality' and 'knowledge' pertain to specific social contexts, and that these relationships will have to be included in an adequate sociological analysis of these contexts. "
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" Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) is considered by many to be the "philosopher of the twentieth century." He came to exemplify a certain form of public intellectual, what Bourdieu critically calls a "total intellectual," by virtually dominating French intellectual life (literature, philosophy, culture) during the early post-World War II period. "
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" Sondra Farganis, chairwoman of the social sciences at the New School for Social Research in New York City supports the importance of popular culture as a course of study . She also believes it belongs in the sociology or history departments. "
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" One of the most striking features of the cities of the Middle East and North Africa, certainly during medieval times but to some extent persisting feebly to this day in the older residential quarters, is its subdivision into smaller quarters whose approximate boundaries remain relatively constant over time and whose names continue to be employed as important referential terms, even when they do not appear on modern markers of street names, etc. "
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" What kind of man, then, does our society need in order to function smoothly? It needs men who co-operate easily in large groups, who want to consume more and more, and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. "
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" Music is a meaningful context that is not bound to a contextual scheme. Yet this meaningful context can be communicated. "
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868—August 27, 1963) was an American historian, sociologist, and civil rights activist, widely recognized for his historiography on Reconstruction, writings on black subjectivity, and involvement in the Pan-Africanist movement. He was known for his emphasis on the importance of economic, not solely political, justice in combating racial inequality, […]
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Thomas Luckmann was a prominent sociologist specializing in the sociology of communication, sociology of knowledge, and sociology of religion. While he spent the majority of his long academic career at the University of Konstanz, Luckmann both studied and taught at the New School for Social Research in the 1960s. Luckmann was born in Jesenice, Slovenia […]