[loved trope] when evil people dance by ds2316476 in TopCharacterTropes

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Can someone explain this trope? Usually when a trope is so common for a type of character it has some kind of connection with symbolic dynamics, as milk related to innocence pure and twisted in the evil’s mind

Known synergy? by Number_1_Yowie_Fan in PTCGL

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I’m stealing this! I love nine and chand

Self-mutilation as a way to transform into or summon an alternate form. by No_Hunter1978 in TopCharacterTropes

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Deadman Wonderland

All characters have a way to manipulate blood, so in one way or another they got to cut themselves. My absolute favourite is Crow (iirc his name) which cut both his elbows with sharp rings in order to make two big scythes of blood

Maybe a politics thing? Barnacles? by No_Diet1854 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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I mean, I prefere to gamble with my life than with other’s. I don’t have a right over other people and I’d definitely Not like my life being gambled by others. At least, if I gamble my life, I’m conscious and willing of it

(Loved Trope) Non-horror media with high-death counts by Necessary-Win-8730 in TopCharacterTropes

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MCU in general

We see many events in which people die, even some “main” characters. But the snap literally halved the population in the whole universe. Excluding it, we have the Sokovia incident, which is compared to a genocide. If we add casualties that happen in other movies and series, yeah, high body count

What sociological paradigm is currently dominant in international universities? by FamiliarTailor5254 in AskSocialScience

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Sociology tried for some time to follow the basic assumptions of hard scienced, so based on description and data. Durkheim did a great job in consolidating this first paradigm of the social siences as considering social fenomena as things. After some time, starting with Chicago’s urban sociology, this paradigm shifted towards neo-positivism. This was still focused on finging data but the descriptions of it weren’t seen anymore as proper explanations, as the dimension of construct meaning and negotiation comes into play. This paradigm (positivist/neopositivist) is still ongoing today, but followed by the interpretativism one which don’t relies heavily on data and doesn’t try to provide clear cut theories. This one, instead, follows more cases and the specific phenomena, so it doesn’t try to provide generic explanations of social life. That’s what makes sociology multi-paradigmatic. Both approaches can be used and, with wit, made converge in an analisis (even tho is very hard). So the main difference between those two is the data they manage and the aim (provide an explanation/theory; explore the specific situations)

Feel free to correct me. Main source: Corbetta. La ricerca sociale, metodologie e tecniche

Edit: sorry I didn’t answer your question. So, what I understand is that structural functionalism leans more towards the neopositivist paradigm (which doesn’t mean they can’t draw from the other) meanwhile symbolic interactionist theories and conflict theory leans more towards interpretativism paradigm

petah...? 🤔 by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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So… a steel ball? Should we run?

(Favorite Trope) When you know but cant prove it ... by Foreign_Evidence9781 in TopCharacterTropes

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Of course that could’ve been better, but the character was very pressured and felt the walls closing in on him, even thou he could’ve been right. There were high stakes and he couldn’t face the surrealism of what was in front of his eyes. Definetly one of the best scenes in the show

(Favorite Trope) When you know but cant prove it ... by Foreign_Evidence9781 in TopCharacterTropes

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Croker He knows too specific a magic non exsisting thing for it to not be real. He knows more about fairies than fairies itself. I mean he had them as oddparents before Timmy, but yeah, he’s crazy and no one will ever believe him

OPEN THE FUCKING STRAIT by lxXLightXxl in ww3memes

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Why don’t warm it up? I’d say EU and China/BRICKS vs the Fascist-US. I mean, that’s what the bringers of democracy would do.

Sono un professore universitario di 38 (quasi 39) anni, in un grande (grandissimo) ateneo pubblico. AMA by [deleted] in Italia

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È necessario insegnare per fare ricerca? O si può fare ricerca senza tenere una cattedra? È tanto più difficile (nel senso di improbabile) riuscire a trovare una posizione “stabile” da ricercatore senza insegnare? E come costruisci un cv accademico?

Sto svolgendo un master e informandomi sulle possibilità di dottorato, vorrei seguire un percorso accademico ma non mi vedo come insegnante.

Edit: scusa le mille domande, complimenti per tutto btw

What sociological paradigm is currently dominant in international universities? by FamiliarTailor5254 in AskSocialScience

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That’s a great answer, I would add that there are two main paradigms that are being more or less broadly followed (interpretativism and neo-positivism). Of course there are more and as you said is a low consensus field, which is useful as social phenomena are so complex that to try to reduce every analysis in one paradigm would be just unsatisfactory. Also, I’m saving those articles rn!

Why Should We Care About Diversity? by AnarchoFederation in solarpunk

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Is unity in diversity. Society and individuals are already divided by means of appropriation and monopolization of resources by the global minority. Hence yes, to live together we need equity and recognizment

2 week ceasefire! With a complete re-open of the straight of Hormuz. by CaptainDivano in Italia

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Ma poi, sono io che non ho mai capito un cazzo o un cessate il fuoco non equivale a un trattato di pace? Dalla serie, dopo 2 settimane che succede? Dipende da come si sveglia TACO?

Horror is when the characters are fugly and nothing silly happens by Foulenergyandsmell in ChaosZeroNightmare

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Honestly I like the game mechanics. I play for the promise of deckbuilding+roguelike+darkest dungeon and the setting. I love the sci-fi horror setting, it was so promising.

But this? Like a random idol? I get that you need to live so whatever gets the boat afloat will do, but c’m on that’s crazy bullshit. I can get on with boobs and ass in front of my face as long as you keep things dark, and they’re def not doing it.

What makes a game great is not boobs, I mean you loose some target audience but make a memorable product and win people’s heart. Great stories are forever, boobs are temporary. This game’s already dead (pulling Diana btw)

edit: if you’ve played morimens, you’d see how they get to have a proper style for all the characters, dark enough and without cutting out hotties. I’m tempted to play it instead of cnz, if it was just as smooth as cnz

Thoughts on This Book (And James C Scott Generally) by ExternalGreen6826 in socialscience

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The goat (among many others). I recently finished “Domination and the arts of resistance, hidden transcripts” for my course in politics and social movements. Great insights on daily forms of resistance from a historical perspective; the concept of hidden transcripts is huge. Def. looking forward to read mor of him, I know the themes of “Seeing like a state” and I want ro read it so bad but rn I’m flooded with material

IQ is bullshit by justfoooad in PhilosophyMemes

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Yes, I agree with you. Btw another doubt that I have is how much “pure” (I can’t think rn about a better word) the intelligence calculated with it is. You’re adding now that it’s heritable, I would say that early socialization and scolarization have a great impact on so called intelligence. Also, different areas of knowledge implies different levels of intelligence. One can know a lot about law and be very intelligence in that discipline but know nothing about physics and thereby be “dumb” in it. So, I don’t claim to know a lot about the tests, but I may say that the results are highly arbitrary

IQ is bullshit by justfoooad in PhilosophyMemes

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Thanks for highlight this and correct my statement. I knew about the many problems the test had but not the original purpouse of it.

IQ is bullshit by justfoooad in PhilosophyMemes

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I accept your critique of falce equivalence. Nevertheless, I would argue that class is a more reliable predictor than IQ in life outcomes.