Social Sciences
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A good question to interrogate when dealing with claims that something is universal (โuniversal human rightsโ, โuniversal ethicsโ, โuniversal moralsโ, etc) is to see whether they a...
Why studying the mechanics of worldviews is important. Many of you mightโve seen my bio โrestructuring worldviewsโ. What exactly does this mean? Let me explain a little. A person...
Dynamic compound processes of the trefoil are rarely reversible because of they myriad ways they transform YOU; socially, intellectually, emotionally. Inversion of Praxis; the anci...
@thepalmerworm Wheel of Co-creation 2.0 .. Interesting Hubbard's wheel is the ESG symbol Center for Integral Wisdom : https://t.co/COvDWkx1M2 https://t.co/xuvA11xPXi
Gregory Clark just showed that Ronald Fisher accurately predicted how related family member's social status would be with a simple genetic model. This wasn't an exercise relegated...
In PNAS today, Greg Clark documents the inheritance of social status in an impressive dataset on 422,374 people born in England between 1600 to 2022. Clark finds a strong persist...
the perception-industrial complex is not โnew,โ in fact theyโve been telling you exactly what theyโre doing while doing it for decades. from the memory hole, DARPAโs military mem...
Xi Jinping: "The best way to evaluate whether a country's political system is democratic and effective is to observe whether the succession of its leaders is orderly and law-based...
Starting now, we're delighted to welcome @mushfiq_econ of @Yale. Join us on youtube: https://t.co/yp1LqERJnF https://t.co/atIzd7Dk2W
1/ I have taught criminological theory for over 20 years. Every year I teach Cohenโs Folk Devils and Moral Panics. And every single time I see that the concerns of women and girls...
My interpretation of Hayek's argument is that society's informational problem has 4 dimensions: (1) Computation (2) Incentive compatibility (3) Communication cost (4) Articulation...
Thread: This is a poor reading of Hayek. The Use of Knowledge in Society (AER, 1945) does not say what Acemoglu *thinks* it says. Prices are not aggregative devices. They are know...
A thread ๐งต1/n Orientalism is a term coined by Edward Said, a Palestinian-American scholar and activist, to describe the way the West constructs and represents the East as its infer...
1/11 Ali Mazrui [1933โ2014], born in Kenya ๐ฐ๐ช into an Afro-Arab family, was considered the leading Black intellectual of his day, writings 100s articles. In a 1968 article โ๏ธ sho...
The End of Race: We have all heard the statement "we're all one race, the human race". Yet just a century ago the existence of distinct biological races was taken for granted. How...
The Spotlight Effect (a visual thread) https://t.co/c9bAnxsShR
TFR in Kenya has fallen sharply since 1989, from 6.7 then to 3.4 in 2022. But this fall is uneven. Urban women's TFR is 2.8 while for rural women it is 3.9.The difference by nation...
๐ฅ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ต๐น spent most of his career thinking about ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐บ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐. He distinguished between the ideal (democracy) and the real (polyarchy). He also had a lot to say about the value of...
List of Important Curves In Economics : 1-Lorenz Curve 2-Gini Coefficient 3-Kuznets Curveย 4-Laffer Curve 5-Philips Curve See in detail๐
Why does premodern history matter? Here's a slide from day 1 of my World History before 1500 class (unabashedly Braudelian PPT). "Events" are what most people think of when they...
Wrote : 1. The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology 2. The beginning of Hindu culture as world-power (A.D. 300-600) 3. Chinese Religion Through Hindu Eyes 4. Hindu achievements...
You've heard of the 80/20 rule, of course, but allow me to propose a more developed pointless heuristic: the 1/5/15/80 rule. Not very catchy, but potentially information rich.
Migration and Movement: Role of Jats in Rural settlements in Rajasthan" by Prof. Dilbag Singh. He cites Nainsi as the primary source and explains how Jats settled in the sparsely p...
@heir_apparent__ here Gupta lady Bhanugupta is clearly mentioned as kshatriya ( kshatrani ) whereas that fellow ravikirti is said to be EVIDENTLY ๐ a pandit ji ๐ But on reverse log...
