Well, I just returned from Las Vegas where I attended the 2011 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. I thought for this set of du[a]ling quotes I would share two of my favorite comments I heard during the conference. Here they are:
"Questions are good things. Comments are welcome."
- Diane Pike, beginning her opening discussion at the ASA Section on Teaching Learning Pre-Conference Workshop "The Best Teachers We Can Be: Learning Scholarly Teaching."
"We all have limitations, that is why we are here. ... Economists have more limitations."
- Remark by a session presider, discussing "limitation" slides in presentations.
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Du[a]ling Quotes #4 - Two perspectives on Race and Inequality
“What is commonly called ‘race relations’ does not consist of relationships among men who are genetically different” (54).
-from Ethnic Stratification, Shibutani and Kwan, 1965.
“Communities such as Beltway ... remind us how class and inequality are at the center of many of the complex problems we often subsume under the category of race” (161).
-from Working Class Heroes by Kefalas, 2003.
-from Ethnic Stratification, Shibutani and Kwan, 1965.
“Communities such as Beltway ... remind us how class and inequality are at the center of many of the complex problems we often subsume under the category of race” (161).
-from Working Class Heroes by Kefalas, 2003.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Du[a]ling Quotes #3 - Justifying Inequality
“Social inequality is thus an unconsciously filled evolved device by which societies insure that the most important positions are conscientiously filled by the most qualified persons” (243).
- Davis and Moore in “Some Principles of Stratification,” 1945
- Davis and Moore in “Some Principles of Stratification,” 1945
“Deviations from economic equality must be shown to be beneficial, placing the burden of proof on those who advocate inequality” (32).
- Lester Thurow in Generating Inequality, 1975.
- Lester Thurow in Generating Inequality, 1975.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Du[a]ling Quotes #2 - Cities in Competition
“Cities, like entrepreneurs, can lose out to their competition, go bankrupt, or simply be left behind in the race for economic advantage” (127). Harvey in The Urbanization of Capital, 1985.
“Cities, regions, and states do not compete to please people, they compete to please capital – and the two activities are fundamentally different” (42). Logan and Molotch in Urban Fortunes, 1987
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