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Batman vs Superman: How Superheroes Bastardise Heroism
As modern life begins to reflect on the War on Terror, the Batman vs Superman movie depicts contemporary civilization’s war on ignorance. What is ignorance? this movie asks us. Corruption? Capitalism? Democracy itself?! Social ignorance, philosophers write, concerns the dichotomy between postmodern hypocrisy about justice and human creativity about science. This movie is the perfect […]
German Patriotism Wins Against Irish Patriotism: That’s the Joke!
It’s okay to still find this idea that Irish sovereignty no longer exists funny. Why? We still hate the Jews. Globalisation is too crazy not to: when we remember British colonialism we think of German fascism. We prefer homogeneity to multiculturalism because we are bred to think multiculturalism is homogeneous. The Irish so-called home rule […]
How Class Consciousness Makes us Forget Consciousness
Class consciousness makes us forget consciousness. This is a simple idea that is rendered contentious by the fact that it is seen to be complicated. There are two separate ways in which this idea is rendered contentious. The first is right-wing ideology and the second is the left-wing ideology. In right-wing cultures politically mediated reference […]
What is Sexism, really?!
Sexism refers to the social issue of discrimmination against a sex for reasons of sex. Gender inequality refers to social inequalities that are represented by a sex. Feminism holds the view that women in general are treated unfairly in society and that this discrimmination should be amended. The issue of gender inequality is often used […]
How Shallow Is
Is there no more to a person than their income? It seems that a person’s economic value is all that they are judged by, no matter which regime they find themselves in. It is always the same, because humans need an excuse to pass judgement. Justifications aren’t necessary as long as deviations are not defined […]
Critical Analysis: The Ritual Process by Victor Turner
The following is an analytical response to The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner. I chose this publication as my subject because it is so often cited in sociological circles and seems to be in some aspects foundational to social theory. In this important work, Turner visited the Ndembu people of Zambia and […]
Monuments of Hatred: Northern Ireland and its Murals
I recently went on a visit to Belfast, a big city of Northern Ireland, which is in, what I suppose is considered to be a UK province. My studies in sociology have reminded me of gated communities and the role that history plays in the identity of a city. Much can be learned from the […]
Projecting the Void 