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PART 1
Folbre: Greed, Lust, and Gender
- According to Folbre, when did patriarchal family based economies come about? What eventually weakened it?
- Whata s the difference between selfish and self-interest?
- What is the gender component to this distinction?
- What are the vices of selfishness?
- According to Folbre, what are the problems associated with the neo-classical models assumptions that people know what their preferences are?
- Why does Folbre argue that Capitalist societies have never been pure market societies? What have these societies relied upon and why?
- How did early socialists feminists such as Owen view conventional norms of appropriate economic and sexual interest?
John Locke: Property
- How did possessions come about? Who possessed?
- What is the basis of private or individual property for Locke?
- According to Locke what are the conditions for acquiring property or how are we bounded to the property?
- What gives something value?
- What had the Native Americans not done?
- What invention allows for acquiring more than one needed? How did this invention allow for this?
PART 52
watch: “A Century of the Self”
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- What is the start of the all consuming self?
- According to A Century of the Self:Edward Bernays coined the phrase public relations, what is Public Relations?
- How does Bernays get women to smoke?
- What were products linked to and why? And how were people trained to desire? Please give examples
- How did Bernays use PR frame the Guatemalan Coup?
- How do Bernays and Lipmans concept of managing the masses takes the ideas of democracy and turn it into a Paliative?
- What is maladjusted? What did Martin Luther King Jr. and Arthur Miller have to say about being maladjusted?
- Compare Marcuses analysis of where sickness comes from with that of Anna and Sigmund Freud?
- What is a focus group? How did Betty Crocker get women to buy readymade cake mix?
- Please discuss what happened at the The Convent of the Immaculate Heart in Los Angeles?