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10 April
06:02

Andrew V-k

Что должно произойти, чтобы весь современный мир перешёл на новое летоисчисление?

Sociology

History

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21 March
00:36

Nabeel Arshad

What shape is earth exactly?

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20 February
07:19

Anonymous question

Role stereotyping Is it a gud topic for survey?? Give your suggestions about this plz.....(sociologist) ?

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15 February
10:48

Aditi Singh

What is your opinion about 'Cultural Lag' ?

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13 February
13:45

Aditi Singh

Can you name the first Industrial city?

Yes I believe that it was Detroit,Michigan was the 1st industrial city when the automobile age began. All the big...

6 February
22:15

zach lynch

What type of game is fortnite?

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6 February
01:46

Osbourne Edwards

When is the game?

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22 January
12:41

Olga Zeveleva

What problems will the UK's new Minister for Loneliness be tasked with solving?

Researcher at the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research, Swansea University, UK. Twitter: @Deborah08765276

The new Minister for Loneliness has a complex task on her hands. Drawing on the recommendations of the Jo Cox...

22 January
01:26

Chloe Mearn

Sci?

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16 January
00:38

Olga Zeveleva

What is the history of the movement in favor of legalizing marijuana in the USA?

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16 January
00:15

Olga Zeveleva

How has Trump changed US immigration policies, and how will these changes affect society?

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December
2017

Olga Zeveleva

Is blockchain the modern-day web version of "bureaucracy", described by Max Weber as specialised, impersonal codifications of relationships between people?

Research Fellow, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Twitter: @GarrickHileman

It sounds very similar. I think there is more restrictive potential in blockchain than in traditional bureaucracies,...

December
2017

Olga Zeveleva

Will blockchain transform social relations, citizen-government relations, public-private relations, and what is it doing to us as a society?

Research Fellow, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Twitter: @GarrickHileman

This is not discussed enough and is very important. There are many ways in which technology is transforming society:...

December
2017

Marta Terehova

How do you enjoy your life?

Juul pods (mint), and sending America’s. Yea so typically I start off a day on by waking up taking a very very good...

October
2017

Olga Zeveleva

Should I vote in elections?

There is a novel by Jose Saramago, it's called “Vision”, in it in a country like Portugal all of a sudden people...

October
2017

Olga Zeveleva

How can an ordinary person actively fight against capitalism?

This will be very modest advice, I don’t pretend to have a big answer. The first thing (although it’s not that...

October
2017

Olga Zeveleva

When is the world revolution going to start?

I am a pessimist here, in the sense that I am a pessimist communist, but still a communist. If I were to try and...

October
2017

Olga Zeveleva

Is gender identity or class identity more important in the world today?

I am pretty much a pessimist here. For example, all these politically correct movements - of course I support their...

October
2017

Olga Zeveleva

Working classes are oppressed and poor today, just like before. Why aren't they rebelling?

What can you offer them? You know? First, if you look at the past, okay - there are exceptions, but many...

October
2017

Olga Zeveleva

Why aren't young people rebelling like they did in 1968?

I think we should not just blame the young people. This is the fundamental problem. We can play this game, how the...

August
2017

Anonymous question

Why do people always lie?

Because we are considered polite only when we say what we are expected to say or when we stay silent. Parents have...

July
2017

Arsenii Khitrov

Do anti-immigration attitudes correlate with knowledge of or exposure to certain "facts" about immigration, or do they stem from a set value system people hold?

То ли метафизически свободная сущность, то ли максимизатор полезности.

The offered options are neither mutually exclusive, nor collectively exhaustive. Even more importantly, there is no...

May
2017

Olga Zeveleva

What is globalism and how did it emerge?

International Relations

Research Fellow in History and Politics at Queens' College, Cambridge. Author of the book "The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States" (Princeton University Press, 2017)

During and after the Second World War, public intellectuals in Britain and the United States diagnosed the world of...

April
2017

Olga Zeveleva

What do integration tests for migrants aim to achieve, and how useful have they proven to be?

migration studies enthusiast

Integration tests for migrants initially started as language tests. Many countries across the world that have a...

April
2017

Katya Zeveleva

What potentially separatist territories should we watch these days?

PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Global Politics, Dahlem Research School, Freie Universität Berlin. Researching separatism in Russia and China, ethno-nationalism and violent conflicts in Central Asia, and external support for separatism.

First and foremost, let us define separatism. This word is commonly used in order to refer to regions and movements...

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