by sustainablesociety | Dec 8, 2019 | Politics
This is the third of a mini series discussing why we differ about our political views. The first addressed a biological component, the second a personality traits component and the third is the creation of a life story. People construct life narratives. Dan McAdams is...
by sustainablesociety | Dec 7, 2019 | Politics
In part 1 of this short series, I dipped a toe into the three part explanation used by Haidt in his book, ‘The Righteous Mind’. However I would emphasis again both the need to contextualise this theory and that biology is not destiny. We need a bigger...
by sustainablesociety | Dec 6, 2019 | Climate Change, Politics, Social Science
“Humans, I have contended elsewhere, are simultaneously the products of biological, psychological and social mechanisms whilst retaining their agency. Acknowledgement must be made also of the sometimes mundane and sometimes dramatic interruptions of contingency....
by sustainablesociety | Nov 7, 2019 | Politics
I recently wrote about the continuing relevance of social class. At the start of the 2019 General Election campaign, I was gifted two comments from Tory MPs. Both indicated their disdain for the working class and nicely illustrated the vocal and attitude based class...
by sustainablesociety | Oct 22, 2019 | Politics
I sometimes wonder if I’m living in the right country. I wake up, and it seems that as soon as I connect to the ‘world’ via any media – be that radio, TV, or even Twitter and Facebook – I am confronted by some pretty uncomfortable and...
by sustainablesociety | Oct 22, 2019 | Politics
This is last, part 5, of a 5 part series. George Lakoff’s ‘Strict Father‘ In ‘Don’t think of an Elephant‘ and ‘The Political Mind’, Lakoff attempts to describe the link between our values, what they are based in, and our political views. To do that...
