Nicole Sweeney 00:00:00 Two bachelor’s degrees. PhD from Harvard University. Two-year fellowship to study in Berlin. Professor of sociology and history at two different universities. Author of countless books. Activist and co-founder of a key civil rights organization. Editor and co-founder of a magazine. And a poet to boot. Pretty good resume, yeah? What if […]
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Nicole Sweeney 00:00:00 You’ve probably heard of Karl Marx. He’s remembered as the father of divisive political movements, and his name is still sometimes thrown around in American politics as a kind of slur. But I don’t want to talk about that. I want to talk about Marx, the philosopher. Marx, the scholar. In the
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Nicole Sweeney 00:00:00 So, the fact that we have society at all is kind of amazing. Think about it: People with different interests, different amounts of money, members of different subcultures, races, and sexual orientations, somehow all manage to hold together in this thing we call society. A thing that, at least kind of, works.
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Nicole Sweeney 00:00:00 Do you think you’re middle class? If you’re American, there’s a pretty good chance that you do. In a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2015, 87% of those surveyed identified themselves as middle class. That’s a pretty big middle. But your intuition about what the middle class is—like who
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Nicole Sweeney 00:00:00 What puts the science in social science? The things you probably think of as science, like biology or physics or chemistry, can seem a world apart from sociology and the concepts we’ve introduced so far. But sociology is a type of science, it’s just not one that uses beakers or microscopes. Rather
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Nicole Sweene 00:00:00 What’s up with society, exactly? I mean, is it a smoothly functioning whole, with different parts that fit together to keep it ticking? Or is it a jumble of different competing groups constantly at each other’s throats struggling for control? Or maybe it’s, you know, a bunch of people who are just
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Nicole Sweene 00:00:00 Hello, I’m Nicole Sweeney and I have a question for you—have you ever wondered how the world works? I’m not talking about atoms and molecules or wave functions and chemical reactions; I mean the world of people. For example, have you ever wondered who goes to college, and why? What is it
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