William Julius Wilson is an academic machine, now a University Professor (an elite, interdisciplinary title allowing one to work in any school of the university, currently held by only 19 faculty members) at Harvard.
In this article written by a former student, Sudhir Venkatesh, Wilson's new book seems to present an argument for socialization as it relates to urban poverty that is both post-racial (nice) and meshes well with the Reimer vs. Chazan debate about differences between socialization and education in Jewish settings and my own beliefs about how halachah works in today's society.
In a nutshell: Each of us actually makes relatively few decisions in our lives. Rather, most of our existence is carved out by socializing factors, ones that are neither our own fault (Mr. Republican) nor the system's fault, per se (Mr. Democrat). These things happen to us and there is practically no blame to be held by anyone for the fact that they do so. Altering socialization is quite, quite difficult.
Egocentrism
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- I'll post rants here, and musings; articles and thoughts about articles. I'll keep it quite complex and yet astoundingly simple: whatever it is I am interested in at any given moment.
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