Most of them aren’t old enough to vote yet, but Generation Z shows signs of being as liberal as millennials on a number of political and social topics, and they’re more liberal when it comes to their belief about the role of government, according to a new report from Pew. Pew defines Gen Z as those born from 1997 to 2012. They’ll be ages 7 to 22 in 2019,and recent Pew surveys of teenagers and adul
Microsoft has pledged $500 million to address homelessness and build affordable housing units in the Seattle and Puget Sound area, a region that has grown prosperous as the tech industry has swelled but is increasingly plagued by an affordable housing crisis. Half the money will be allocated to supporting low-income housing in King County, which includes Seattle and surrounding areas such as Redmo
Widespread Loneliness Is Killing People And We Need to Start Taking This Seriously Researchers are warning that loneliness and social isolation is becoming a greater public health threat than the widely discussed problem of obesity. More and more people in the US are living alone, with declining marriage rates and fewer children - and psychologists are warning that the spread of loneliness is incr
Why taxing robots is not a good ideaBill Gates’s proposal is revealing about the challenge automation poses BILL GATES is an unlikely Luddite, however much Microsoft may have provoked people to take a hammer to their computers. Yet in a recent interview with Quartz, an online publication, he expressed scepticism about society’s ability to manage rapid automation. To forestall a social crisis, he m
脱成長派は優し気な仮面を被ったトランピアンである――上野千鶴子氏の「移民論」と日本特殊性論の左派的転用 北田暁大 社会学、メディア史 政治 #新自由主義#脱成長#移民論 以下では上野千鶴子氏の「移民悲観論」について相当に厳しい調子で批判を展開する。読者のなかには、「それほど強く批判する必要はない」「上野氏の業績を否定するのか」といった印象を持つ方が一定数いらっしゃると思う。たしかに、我ながらいささか感情的に書き殴っているという自覚は持っている。 私自身は、上野氏に学問的にも人間的にも大きな恩義を感じているし、日本のフェミニズムを切り開いた上野氏の業績に畏敬の念を抱いている。しかしここ数年、しばしば見かける上野氏の、おそらくは無自覚の「新自由主義」的な議論に危うさを感じ、学恩を受けた一人として、その議論の問題について対談やSNSなどさまざまな場で、同時代の社会学者として疑問を投げかけてきた。
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