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Author: Paul Campos

Money for nothing

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On February 21, 2012
Via Paul Caron comes this article (free registration required), detailing the grotesque and amusing spectacle in Austin, where former dean of the law school Larry Sager got fired recently for paying himself $500,000 not to quit his job. (This is unfair. It would be more...
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In re Santorum

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On February 13, 2012
I confess to having paid almost no attention to the GOP "race," in part because my two favorite prognosticators of such things have been saying for quite some time that there was no longer as a practical matter any question about the outcome. This, however,...

Stigma and Silence

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On February 2, 2012

In his book Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, the sociologist Erving Goffman makes a distinction between virtual social identity and actual social identity. A person’s virtual social.

Ideology and legitimation

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On January 30, 2012
"Ideology" can mean a number of things. I'm using it here in the sense of the received consciousness of a particular social order, which legitimates that order and helps reproduce it. The lawyer and sociologist David Riesman aptly described how ideological modes of thought produce...
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