Following my reading through the text book Difference Matters I get to chapter 4 on Race Matters. The author does a good job of describing and defining the issues, interweaving her own experience to illustrate without using it for emotional blackmail. Much more persuasive in an academic environment. But I still find myself questioning, but … Continue reading Race Matters — but should it?
Category: Social Issues
Gender and the Patriarchy
Chapter 3 in Difference Matters is all about gender. It covers a lot of territory, but starts by trying to distinguish gender from sex. What is your sex? What is your gender? Do you think of them as two different ways to say the same thing about yourself Although many people use the terms interchangeably, gender … Continue reading Gender and the Patriarchy
Questions of Power
One of the things about my communications degree that has troubled me in my previous classes is the constant talk about communication and power, communication as power. It seems to rob the field of the sense of altruism that I and some of my fellow students wish and feel it should have. Well, Chapter 2 … Continue reading Questions of Power
Difference Matters
I am trying another of my text books for my upcoming course tonight. This one reads better. It also seems to be hitting some themes that I recall from my previous class of organizational communication. Let's start with the below example: Due to socialization, children will accept social identity categories as real and natural. Yet, they … Continue reading Difference Matters
Where We Stand — which stable did you enter?
A new year is fast approaching, and with it, a new semester of my Master's program. Since I don't have time to read like I want to during the class, I try to get my textbooks ahead of time and read what I can before class, to help me immerse in the material better during … Continue reading Where We Stand — which stable did you enter?
Contrasting quotes — Good intentions awry
Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings. --Nelson Mandela There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want, merely because you think it would be good for him. --Robert A. Heinlein … Continue reading Contrasting quotes — Good intentions awry
A gaze into the (energy) future
As I write this post, in advance, on Christmas Eve, for publication on the day after Christmas, it will be interesting to see if anything has changed to negate the timeliness of the comments I am making about what I am thinking. I wrote a blog some time ago about the dropping gasoline prices, and … Continue reading A gaze into the (energy) future
It takes training to do a scam right…
Google, Google, what went wrong? How did you let this e-mail slip not only through the spam filter, but get listed in my important e-mail? Tsk Tsk. It didn't even have a subject: h13madi@laposte.net 7:22 AM (9 hours ago) to I'm Houmdi I work for the Bank, kindly mail me back for details regarding an … Continue reading It takes training to do a scam right…
More observations on organizational communication
There is more to chapter 2 of Strategic Organizational Communication: In a Global Economy by Charles Conrad and Marshall Scott Poole than I hit in yesterday's blog. The second part seems to center on organizational communication and diversity. The authors talk about organizations hiring homogenous groups of employees to manage and reduce uncertainty. This isn't a … Continue reading More observations on organizational communication
Fun helping others
Okay, so this isn't the big social issue about helping others, helping others in need, being the good Samaritan, the good neighbor. Just a little plug for my online game, and the fact that it is set up in certain areas to encourage working together, as teams, and helping each other out. And sometimes when … Continue reading Fun helping others
At The Rainbow 