Yesterday in class we generated the following list of
preliminary, potential topics for your final research papers. This list is by no means complete; therefore, new ideas should be added as replies below. Please submit new entries over the next few weeks as your topics and theses develop!
-- social norms, taboos, cultural changes/manipulations w/o consideration of bettering social norms
-- gender equality, female double-standard(s), patriarchy v. matriarchy
-- marriage traditions, LGBT marriage
-- appropriation of master text(s), censorship of information
-- social conditioning, meaning making, value systems, morals, ethics, etc.
-- 99% v. 1%, people v. the profit machine, corporate greed v. scientific data
-- video game violence
-- social affections, acceptance of emotion
-- protest en masse, the power of the boycott, civil disobedience, the General Strike
-- the atypical political protest of OWS
-- politics that don't look like politics
-- violence vs. nonviolence
-- police brutality (esp. involving protesters)
-- lack of hierarchy/leadership in OWS (esp. as exemplified by the General Assembly)
-- Arab Spring, European Summer
-- the use and importance of social media in cultural resistance
-- counterculture/assimilation into mass culture, culture "trading"
-- downturn in economy, corporate and bank bailouts,
-- TAZs (temporary autonomous zones), pirate utopias, and space
-- (dis)inclusion of marginalized voices (esp. via POCCUPY)
-- food supply corporatization, monoagriculture, organic/co-op push
-- greenscaping, alternative energy, electric vehicles
Video Game Violence - Corporate Greed vs Scientific Data (i.e. People over Profits)- Culture changes and manipulations without the consideration of bettering social norms.
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