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Category Archives: Sociology
Freedom (III): Illuminating Ghostly Conclusions
Posted in Freedom, Obscured motives, Rights and Obligations, Sociology
This Land Is Whose Land
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Most illegal immigrants are hard-working and, for that, low paid. Poised against this and the constant watchfulness is an informal benefits package paid by but beyond the reach of most Americans.
Freedom (II): Passed by Unrecognized
Understanding and ignorance both shape our choices. The latter may limit freedom with or without an encroachment of our rights, in that we approach the choosing point with its long-term possibilities distorted or otherwise misunderstood and pass freedom by without recognizing it.
Posted in Democracy, Freedom, Globe, Justice, Obscured motives, Psychology, Rights and Obligations, Sociology, United States
Marriage at the Crossroads
We Americans are a diverse people. Some find it is inconceivable that a man or woman be allowed to marry a member of his or her own gender, while others cannot fathom the taking upon oneself of such allowing or disallowing. Clearly we are guided by different notions of what marriage is and thus of what love itself.
