The solution is to create drug abuser prisons. You only go here if you get to the level of those homeless zombies on the streets, or willfully if you see yourself heading down that road. These are like regular prisons except they lack the "punishment" aspect of normal prisons and are are strictly about rehabilitation. The idea is you forcibly lock them inside for a few years, however long it takes for them to get clean, both physically and psychologically (better methods of testing this will need to be developed but we have enough of an idea to start). They are locked in a cell that is furnis ..read more

Help! I feel like this text is making me dumber. The more I read the less I understand. It's like my brain can't comprehend her words? I get the second half of the text but I'm having trouble understanding the first half with Foucault and Deleuze, and Marx. I'm attempting to study decolonization and development in the Social Sciences and wanted to include Spivak's work. Does anyone have discussion points or the summary/gist of this? Thanks! submitted by /u/blessed-bhie [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Theory Wednesday topics include: * Social science in academia * Famous debates * Questions about methods and data sources * Philosophy of social science * and so on. Do you wonder about choosing a dissertation topic? Finding think tank work? Want to learn about natural language processing? Have a question about the academic applications of Marxian theories or social network analysis? The history of a theory? This is the place! Like our other feature threads (Monday Reading and Research and Friday Free-For-All), this thread will be lightly moderated as long as it stays broadly on topics tangen ..read more

Karl Marx was the son of a wealthy lawyer while Vladimir Lenin himself was a lawyer. Friedrich Engels was born into a family that owned factories, and he himself joined the family business. Pol Pot and Ho Chi Minh traveled to France to receive their education. Ho Chi Minh was the son of a Confucian scholar, while Pol Pot was born to a wealthy prosperous farmer along with Fidel Castro and Mao Zedong. Che Guevara was a physician who was born to a civil engineer submitted by /u/Moonfire9 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

The European charter of fundamental freedoms apparently has a provision in article 49 that claims "the severity of a punishment shall be proportionate to the crime" is it actually possible to measure proportionality of a sanction ? Canadian law as an example has the supreme court judges that can rule if a sentence is disproportionate or not (including mandatory minimums) submitted by /u/deadsoldats [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Portland, NYC, LA, Chriaq, etc. seem to basically be warzones where safety is basically non existent. Why is this? submitted by /u/SeveralIron3049 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Can anyone point me to studies on the use of journalistic outlets for PR purposes? I'm interested in trends across time, especially since 1990, but case studies are also welcome. I anticipate some studies would cover the promotion of articles by companies for economic purposes and others would examine governmental entities promoting articles for political/population management purposes. I'm also interested in the promotion of articles by individuals for reputation management. Advertising is not the topic. The topic of exploration is paid content that appears in article form whether or not the ..read more

MONDAY RESEARCH AND READING: Monday Reading and Research will focus on exactly that: the history you have been reading this week and the research you've been working on. It's also the prime thread for requesting books or articles on a particular subject. As with all our weekly features (Theory Wednesdays and Friday Free-For-Alls are the others), this thread will be lightly moderated. ​ So, encountered an recently that changed article recently that changed how you thought about nationalism? Or pricing? Or anxiety? Cross-cultural communication? Did you have to read a horrendous piece of mumbo-j ..read more

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