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Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlin
American Sociologist
American History Matter People Politics Power
Related authors: C. Wright Mills Charles Horton Cooley Deborah Tannen Ivan Illich Matthew Desmond Talcott Parsons Thomas E. Mann William Julius Wilson
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. Todd Gitlin
Life Patriotism Made Nationalism Believe Other Rule Way Distinction Ways Fuzzy Insistence Attachment Between Over Real Which Should Your Deserves
It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives. Todd Gitlin
People Old Care Own Anarchist Dream Take Take Care Lives
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. Todd Gitlin
History Insisted Proper Subject Biography Mills Intersection
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties. Todd Gitlin
Life Politics Me Matter Election Ralph Ralph Nader Say No Difference More Results Could He Between Contemplate Parties Understand Said How Any Anybody Difference Us Electoral Right Two
To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them. Todd Gitlin
You People Win Power Something Anywhere Them Convince
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. Todd Gitlin
Government Vote Book World Made Power Everybody State Ought States Focused Some Case Determining Could Policies Because Around Least Governs American Much United United States
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. Todd Gitlin
Everyday Furniture Given Environment Makes Inertia Were Human Appear
I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society. Todd Gitlin
Think Society About Anyone Strategically Media Thinks
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent. Todd Gitlin
Power Immensity Torrent Sort Limited Enables Manage Us Navigation Media
The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter. Todd Gitlin
Heart Speak Matter Chronic Torrent Absurd Manufacture Media Desire Dissatisfaction
My business is the analytical framework. Todd Gitlin
Business Analytical Framework
Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. Todd Gitlin
Experience Misrepresented Sure Frequently Been Often Anyone Quoted
A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. Todd Gitlin
Change Marks Demographic Leaves Huge Century
Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong. Todd Gitlin
Good Day Strong Value Side Right Side Define Out Fine Fine Day Some Divide Democrats How America Get May Common Common Good Place Figure Right Playground
So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids. Todd Gitlin
Culture People Other Hybrid Itself American American Culture Lends Use

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