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November 8, 2022Sociology Colloquium, 11/16/2022
Sociology and the Threat to American Democracy Dr. Samuel Cohn, Texas A&M University American democracy is facing potential triple threats: threats to the very existence of democracy itself, threats of the disenfranchisement of a large percentage of the population and the threats of a major legitimation crisis. Some of those threats are avoidable. Others are […]
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April 1, 2021Sociology Colloquium, 4/7/2021
All Societies Die: How to Keep Hope Alive Dr. Samuel Cohn, Texas A&M University No society has ever lived longer than 1000 years. Most societies do not make it that long. If we date the current Euro-American World System from its inception in the late fourteenth century – our current world system is 650 years […]