social theory

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/1/2023
  

  Amitai Etzioni, Theorist of Communitarianism, Dies at 94

  Communitarianism, an effort to reconcile the principles of individual rights and collective responsibility, was Etzioni's biggest contribution in a wide-ranging career as a public intellectual. 

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• SOURCE: N+1
  12/12/2020
  

  We Live in a Society

  by Gabriel Winant

  Despite lamentations that social media have replaced face-to-face social life, those media platforms are increasingly important as sites of human contact and interaction. Anyone seeking political change must recognize this power and organize social networks to supplant it. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  12/2/2020
  

  The Gadfly of American Plutocracy (Review)

  by Simon Torracinta

  A new biography of the social theorist examines how his approach to understanding a past gilded age can offer lessons for our present one. 

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• SOURCE: Radical History Review
  4/27/2020
  

  Wages for Housework and Social Reproduction: A Microsyllabus

  Arlen Austin, Beth Capper, and Tracey Deutsch present a list of readings about the history of movements to demand wages for the domestic and family work typically performed by women.