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  1. Mar 2023
    1. unskilled,

      I personally feel it's blatantly classist to pretend that these are "unskilled" jobs as every job requires some form of skill and training and people actively work to be dismissive of the experiences of the working poor. In what ways does knowing how to properly and safely handle food, knowing how to landscape, and knowing how to construct things not a skill?

  2. Jan 2023
    1. But many people from cultures where marriages are arranged, which includes a number of highly populated and modern countries, often prefer the approach because it reduces stress and increases stability

      I also can't help but to wonder how the social acceptability of not being married is in places where arranged marriages are common. While it's definitely stigmatized in places where choosing a marital partner is common, there is to some level acceptance of it

    2. Case studies like this offer a way for sociologists to collect data that may not be obtained by any other method.

      Sometime case studies are the best possible option for learning about certain conditions because creating the scenario on its own is incredibly unethical and at times would be nearly impossible to replicate.

    3. The different approaches to research based on positivism or anti-positivism

      This positivism and anti-positivism debate reminds me of psychology and how things often center around the concept of how so much of the field is dedicated to proving or disproving Freud.