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Category: Blog
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Shift the Thinking in Urban Sociology
We need to change current thinking in urban sociology. We do a comprehensive strategy: Urban Coalition (Brisbane), and MICE. Radical enough to shift the agenda, liberal enough to allow everyone a decent place in the social environment, and conservative enough to preserve the legacy of good value. Featured Image: Socio-Anthropological Methods …
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Is History Sold Cheaply?
https://www.facebook.com/simon.cole.241457/videos/799258339556758?idorvanity=250449248402425 That is so funny, Simon Cole, 😆 (see video at link) and on a serious note, appalling 😡…It is in these days of poor cognition — “good enough” is not good enough in project management. It does not take much thought to create a far better revealing “curtain” for a raised…
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David S. Brown on Richard Hofstadter: Personalism in Personable Context is Correct
Social environment inevitably intrudes upon historical analysis, however, and so we must appreciate not simply the author’s work, but also the public and personal circumstances that sustain and gave meaning to his efforts. “Before you study the history,” one commentator advised, “study the historian…The historian, being an individual, is also a product of history, and…
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Education Horizons 2021-2022. Government Acting Badly.
All Payments to Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 At the end of 2022 Dr Buch was placed in an impossible position in terms of gaining employment or a contract for which he was aimfully qualified. This paper analysing the story. The conclusions are questions that the Queensland Government was asking in the period…
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What is my Thought, What is Your Question: An Academia and Educational Paper
A phenomenological-existential investigation of the question of why populations stagnated into “more of the same” ‘bullshit’, as in Harry Frankfurt (2014). Frankfurt determines that bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn’t care whether what they say is true…
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John Searle Obituary, from “The Guardian” with a few comments from the Work of Dr Buch
John Searle obituary American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do Jane O’Grady, The Guardian Sun 5 Oct 2025 22.29 AEDT The American philosopher John Searle, who has died aged 93, first made his name in philosophy of language, then in philosophy of…
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Vale Marion Maddox 1965 – 2025: MICE Condolences
Marion Maddox (passed 16 September 2025) was a Professor in the Discipline of Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University where she taught Australian politics and religious studies until her retirement in 2021. Prior to her tenure at Macquarie University, she held positions at Victoria University Wellington for seven years, the University of…
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FOR SALE* Introducing a Major Curriculum for History and Sociology Thinking in Australia: Populism and Elitism
*CONDITIONS APPLY. This Cognition Histories-Sociology curriculum is at the price of a 4-week paid contract to introduce and teach the curriculum, which has four PowerPoint Lesson Plans and is inclusive of History, Sociology, Philosophy, and Educationalist Theory. Introducing a Major Curriculum for History and Sociology Thinking in Australia: Populism and Elitism First Lesson…
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Political Anthropology as Method (Arpad Szakolczai and Australian thinkers)
“Political Anthropology is a way of doing academic/scholarly/research work in order to understand political reality…Humans can never transcend such a participatory perspective.” Barry Cooper, Professor of Politics, University of Calgary, Canada. Political Anthropology as Method Front Matter There is hope if we engage the socio-political anthropological thinking: Environmental Hope.…
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The Best Assessment on Higher Education, Globally Perceived (to date)
Ellie Bothwell, rankings editor, has given the best assessment on Higher Education, globally perceived, at least in the historical moment we have. From Ellie Bothwell, This week in higher education, The Times Higher Education Supplement (THE), daily email, 28 August 2025: It is a troubling sign of the times, and the crisis…