Barry Wright

A Lesson in Science and History by Barry Wright

August 5 2022 , Written by Barry Wright

I. Intelligence and the Vietnam and Iraq Wars Sociology is a science and this is a topic that I have performed scientific research on since the 1970s. Why did the United States get involved in Vietnam? Well there are several reasons which are discussed...

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Science and Values by Barry Wright

August 5 2022 , Written by Barry Wright

In some instances scientific research does not harbor any values supporting a particular ideology. Determining the number of moons of Jupiter or the existence of planets in nearby star systems might serve as examples. However in other cases science and...

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Ideology and the Study: Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks by Barry Wright

August 5 2022 , Written by Barry Wright

The industrial society which makes technology and science its own is organized for the ever-more-effective domination of man and nature, for the ever-more-effective utilization of its resources. It becomes irrational when the success of these efforts...

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Sociology and Survival by Barry Wright

August 5 2022 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #sociology

I wrote this in 1999 because I was being asked to explain the ideas behind what I was doing when I was in graduate school during the 1970s and 1980s. This is a condensed and modernized version of my PhD dissertation at the University of Chicago. I received...

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Phenomenology of Health Care in the United States

August 27 2011 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

I. As I have pointed out endlessly in essays like Health Care, Race and Treachery, the United States has undoubtedly the most unsatisfactory record among any technological country in providing health care for its citizens. At times, opposition to reform...

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Parasitic Oscillation from the Right

July 26 2011 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

The vicissitudes of the language have their parallel in the vicissitudes of political behavior. In the sale of equipment for relaxing entertainment in bomb shelters, in the television show of competing candidates for national leadership, the juncture...

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The Sanity Defense

January 10 2011 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

Events that are beyond human decisions do happen; social arrangements do change without benefit of explicit decision. But in so far as such decisions are made--and in so far as they could be but are not made--the problem of who is involved in making them--or...

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Tea Parties You May Have Missed

September 17 2010 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

In September 2005, roughly a week after Hurricane Katrina ripped into the Gulf Coast, a group of New Orleans police officers discovered the burned shell of a car sitting on an earthen levee overlooking the bloated Mississippi River. Inside the scorched...

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Complex, Very Complex

September 4 2010 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

It seems that Democrats in Congress are feeling a bit insecure because the voting polls are predicting Republican gains in both the Senate and House of Representatives in the November 2010 election. If the people who voted in 2008 for the Democrats would...

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Iraqi Finis

September 1 2010 , Written by Barry Wright Published on #Essays

In Main Currents of Sociological Thought , French Sociologist Raymond Aron devotes a significant portion of Volume 1 to the observations Alexis de Tocqueville made during his visit to the United States around the center of the 19th Century. His interpretation...