Category: <span>Sociology</span>

Sociology

The British Raj in India

Dr. Tharoor delivers a lecture, entitled ‘Looking Back at the British Raj in India’, and discuses how the British empire ruthlessly has exploited and...

Read

Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time is a work of history written by Carroll Quigley. The book covers the...

Read

On boiling frogs & bold men

The boiling frog is an analogy describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is thrown suddenly into...

Read

H.G. Wells – The new world order

Originally published in 1940 – republished in 2007 under ISBN 1-59986-727-3.

Read

The opportunistic marketable/salable character

Excerpt from Prof. Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion (1950). (Op.cit. p.99): “The attitude common to the teachings of the founders of all great Eastern...

Read

Parapsychology: CIA testing Uri Geller

The CIA was very interested in various methods to manipulate and exploit the human mind. Besides illegal experiments which involved psychotropic drugs and torture,...

Read

The Analects of Confucius

 “Cultivated persons seek harmony but not sameness.” ~ Confucius  (Analects 13. 23). Harmony (和) Confucian value of harmony: 子曰:“君子和而不同,小人同而不和。” See https://uwaterloo.ca/community-and-professional-education/blog/post/confucian-values-and-characters-series-harmony  Waley, A.....

Read

Coup d’état

A coup d’état also known simply as a coup, a putsch, golpe, or an overthrow, is an illegal and overt seizure of a state...

Read

Bertrand Russel – The scientific outlook

Publication date 1954 Publisher George Allen And Unwin Limited     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZv3pSaLtY

Read

The structure of power

Vitali, S., Glattfelder, J. B., & Battiston, S.. (2011). The network of Global corporate control. PLoS ONE Plain numerical DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025995DOI URLdirectSciHub download Heemskerk,...

Read