Fabrizio Bernardi is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology II at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid. He is Editor in Chief of European Sociological Review
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- East West Street, crime against humanity and genocide
The heading picture of this entry is from an old school Atlas that I have bought at the Rastro Flea Market on Madrid. I will come back to this picture at the end of this post. Before that I share some thoughts one “East West Street,” a book by Philippe Sands, that I have read recently.The … Read more - Life and Fate and circumstantial luck
I am reading the novel Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman and I am also reading about luck for my research. One form of moral luck (note: moral luck concerns factors factors beyond our control that influence the degree of praise or blame we receive), as elucidated by the philosopher Thomas Nagel (1979), is “circumstantial … Read more - How are sociology and sociologists depicted in movies and series?
Here in Dirty Harry, Inspector Harry Callahan meets his new partner Chico Gonzalez https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=dirty+harry+sociology&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:fccfa8dd,vid:RitnM9n0jTY,st:0 “Sociology? You will go far if you live” In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Captain Ray Holt speaks with Sergeant Terry Jeffords about the most popular guy in his high school, Vincent Mandela. Apparently, it did not work out to well to Mr. Popularity. https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=brooklyn+99+sociology&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:7d1a811a,vid:-CoeTGdazzs,st:0 … Read more