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The sociologist James Coleman notes that people must draw upon a fund of social capital—shared past experiences as well as individual achievements and endowments—to help navigate a loose network. Other sociologists of network mobility emphasize that a person who presents himself or herself to a new employer or work group has to be attractive as well as available; risk involves more than simply opportunity.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
Specialisation of Philosophy
Key takeaways:
- The way that we do political philosophy now is a symptom of a particular kind of institutionalized specialization, such that we even have to ask the kinds of questions that we're asking.
- Previous generations of people wouldn't have had to ask this question, this ideal, non ideal theory thing, because they didn't live in a context in which that kind of distinction even made sense. Like what philosophy was for was understood to be something different.
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The way that we do political philosophy now is a symptom of a particular kind of institutionalized specialization, such that we even have to ask the kinds of questions that we're asking. And previous generations of people wouldn't have had to ask this question, this ideal, non ideal theory thing, because they didn't live in a context in which that kind of distinction Even made sense. Like what philosophy was for was understood to be something different.
31 | Raymond Geuss — Realism in Political Theory
What's Left of Philosophy
The current, neoliberal form of capitalism is systematically depleting our collective and individual capacities to regenerate human beings and to sustain social bonds. At first sight this regime appears to be breaking down capitalism’s constitutive gender division between productive and reproductive labor. Proclaiming the new ideal of the “two-earner family,” neoliberalism recruits women massively into wage labor across the globe. But this ideal is a fraud; and the labor regime it is supposed to legitimate is anything but liberatory for women. What is presented as emancipation is in fact a system of intensified exploitation and expropriation.
Feminism for the 99%
Cinzia Arruzza; Tithi Bhattacharya; Nancy Fraser
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