- "Colonization does not, after all, affect people only economically. More fundamentally, it affects a people’s understanding of their universe, their place within that universe, the kinds of values they must embrace and actions they must make to remain safe and whole within that universe. In short, colonization alters both the individual’s and the group’s sense of identity. Loss of identity is a major dimension of alienation, and when severe enough it can lead to individual and group death. When an individual’s sense of self is… distorted by the impact of contradictory points of view, colonization and its terrible effects will not be assuaged by mere retention of land rights and economic self-sufficiency." — Paula Gunn Allen
- On social protests: …the fact that people complain about their government may not mean that they are not supporting their government. Social protests, in a dialectic manner, endorse regime legitimacy by requesting the state to address popular grievances. — In Yanqi Tong, Morality, Benevolence, and Responsibility: Regime Legitimacy in China from Past to the Present
- McDonaldization is the term invented by George Ritzer to describe a sociological phenomenom that is happening in our society. You may think it started with Ray Kroc in the 1950's when he bought his first hamburger restaurant, but it's origins were actually much earlier than that. In fact, Henry Ford was the first McDonaldization pioneer with his vision of an assembly line for improving the production of automobiles. His revolutionary idea dramatically changed how many automobiles could be produced and was very efficient. -- In essence, McDonaldization is the process of rationalization, albiet taken to extreme levels. Rationalization is a sociological term that simply means the substitution of logically consistent rules for traditional (or illogical) rules. One of the fundamental aspects of McDonaldization is that almost any task can (and should) be rationalized. mcdonaldization.com
- Hating school: "Hating school has several causes. It's an outcome of a society in which kids constitute a pre-labor force being prepared for the real labor force..." | Source: Agger, Ben. 2013. Texting Toward Utopia: Kids, Writing, and Resistance. "Chapter 10: I Hate School'." - The Sociological Cinema FB
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