Sam Han | Eportfolio

Second, these individuals did not simply have an individual problem. They had a family problem. This is a hard thing to say and I am of course aware that this, too, is a generalisation. But many of these people are from families that are profoundly dysfunctional, operating on completely different terms from the rest of […]

At the 7:00 mark of this video, Mike Huckabee, the former governor and current Bible-toting dinosaur apologist, picked up a bass and joined the band Nada under Tim Pawlenty’s tent. While standing in front of a crowd of Republican voters, at a family-friendly carnival that kids were dragged to, Mike Huckabee and Nada covered Johnny […]

The problem is that the tacit control and sense of the common good based upon personal relationships upon which social order finally depends has started to break down in British inner cities, which are often fragmented into different racio-religious and cultural ghettoes. (Though it is notable that the Muslim communities behaved particularly well during the […]

via slate.com “So Karl Marx, it seems, was partly right in arguing that globalization, financial intermediation run amok, and redistribution of income and wealth from labor to capital could lead capitalism to self-destruct (though his view that socialism would be better has proved wrong). Firms are cutting jobs because there is not enough final demand. […]

Current Exhibition Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter August 12, 2011 through October 14, 2012. Visit the website This installation of Portraiture Now will feature seven artists, each of whom will show several works. The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program are collaborating on an exhibition that will be the […]

via resetdoc.org Sociologist Alain Touraine on scapegoating immigrants in Europe. Posted via email from sam han’s posterous