Category: Academic Writing
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Marx and Durkheim: Exploring Their Conceptions of ‘Human’ and Analyzing Contemporary Capitalist Social Formation
Karl Marx (1818-83), German philosopher and Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), French sociologist are among the classical thinkers of sociology. Both of them, being the product of their own times, were influenced by the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution. While Marx is called the father of the conflict school of thought, Durkheim’s work forms the basis for…
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AI in Academics: A Support System in the 21st Century
Curious about how AI in academics works? how AI can make academic writing easier?Dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on scholarly work in the 21st century. Learn how AI tools, like ChatGPT and Scholarcy, can help with research, brainstorming, writing, and even collaboration. It’s like having a virtual assistant for your…
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Book Review: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production
Karl Marx (1818-83) was a German philosopher whose work had contributed to various fields such as economics, politics, sociology and history. Affected by the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution, his main focus was on ‘Class Conflict,’ especially between bourgeois and proletarians in capitalistic societies. The main aim of his work was to denote how capitalism…
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Interview with Professor Ernesto Castañeda: Meet the Professor
Bio: Ernesto Castañeda is the Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, Founding Director of the Immigration Lab, and Graduate Program Director of the MA in Sociology, Research, and Practice. He conducts research on migration, urban issues, health disparities, marginalized populations, and social movements. He compares immigrant integration and ethnic political mobilization…
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Book (Essay): The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin was a german frankfurt school marxist who wrote The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction in 1936 after he fled Germany in 1932, when Hitler took power. Benjamin wrote this work when Fascism and Nazism were on rise and the world was moving forward in the strong influence of mass production…
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Invisible Histories- A review on articles , “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and “Predicaments of Secular Histories”
History, we may simply claim, is a flawed discipline since it is very prejudiced. It is a set of multiple narratives, unlike other disciplines, there are no paradigms or fixed notions in a discipline like this, since, more or less, from what I could gather, it has been written in a certain way and different…
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Meet the Professor: Insightful Interview Series
Raise a finger if you have heard of the academic journal ‘Science’. Raise a finger if you have cited ‘Science’ in your work. Raise a finger if you have read an article in ‘Science’ out of curiosity. Raise a finger if you are a regular reader of the journal. Raise a finger if you have…