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Yearly Archives: 2009
Capitalist Sociology, Technology, and Collaboration
The goal of capitalist economics is finding ways to increase the profitability of capital. A socialist or humanist economics, in contrast, has improving the quality of human life as it's main goal. Similarly, a capitalist sociology is focused on research that facilitates capital accumulation and profits. There's a lot to recomend in James Manyika, Kara Sprague and Lareina Yee's recent piece, "Using technology to improve workforce collaboration," but in the end, it's limited by it's capitalist focus.
Even in the most superficial sense, for example, the writer's class biases are obvious. Their definition of a 'knowledge worker' for example, seems very focused on the middle to upper professional classes, rather than on, say, nurse, police officers or firefighters (to cite...
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The Pogues & Kirsty McColl – Fairytale Of New York (Xmas Song)