social theory 
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SOURCE: N+1
12/12/2020
We Live in a Society
by Gabriel Winant
Despite lamentations that social media have replaced face-to-face social life, those media platforms are increasingly important as sites of human contact and interaction. Anyone seeking political change must recognize this power and organize social networks to supplant it.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
12/2/2020
The Gadfly of American Plutocracy (Review)
by Simon Torracinta
A new biography of the social theorist examines how his approach to understanding a past gilded age can offer lessons for our present one.
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SOURCE: Radical History Review
4/27/2020
Wages for Housework and Social Reproduction: A Microsyllabus
Arlen Austin, Beth Capper, and Tracey Deutsch present a list of readings about the history of movements to demand wages for the domestic and family work typically performed by women.
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