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BH beri tanda jempol untuk Sex and the City

9 Jun 2008 – 11:14 am

Baca
9 Jun 2008: Gejolak Jiwa Wanita
Ulasan
Seperti yang saya jangkakan, Berita Harian bukan akhbar untuk masyarakat. Sebaliknya, ia memasyarakatkan unsur-unsur kurang sihat yang kebanyakannya jelas diambil dari pengaruh barat. Bukan sahaja ia menyampaikan, malah, dalam tulisannya ia juga cuba merasionalkan (rationalise) unsur-unsur demikian supaya lebih mudah ‘ditelan’ oleh masyarakat.
(Oh, kononnya filem ini “mencungkil masalah rumah [...]

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Translation, please.

13 Jan 2008 – 11:56 pm

C. W. Mills wrote in “The Sociological Imagination”:
In large part, contemporary humanity’s self-conscious view of itself as at least an outsider, if not a permanent stranger, rests upon an absorbed realization of social relativity and of the transformative power of history.
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Er. What?
At another part:
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the [...]

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