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Connect cyber with reality
Rebecca GillAugust 19, 2011

French sociologist Emile Durkheim came up with the concept of ‘anomie,’ a situation where individuals...

Living together demands civility
August 19, 2011The Canberra Times

The answer to increasingly hostile and aggressive public debate is a return to civility. Last...

Brits recoil from teaching respect for authority at home or school
Peter SaundersAugust 15, 2011The Australian

WHEN I was a student, I took a course in the sociology of deviance. After...

Stick it to ‘em
Peter KurtiAugust 12, 2011

Fuelled by nights of drinking and looting, two teenage girls tweeted enthusiastically about the London...

Media force for democracy
August 12, 2011

Only a few weeks ago, a motley crew of jumpy Ministers and gloating Greens demanded...

Evil handbag-waving Thatcher has nothing to do with it
Brendan O'NeillAugust 12, 2011

The British chattering classes can’t make up their minds about what triggered the furious urban...

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