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Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman
Polish Sociologist
Born: Nov 19, 1925
Died: Jan 9, 2017
Life People Society Will World You
Related authors: Emile Durkheim Georg Simmel Ivan Illich Jean Baudrillard Marshall McLuhan Matthew Desmond Pierre Bourdieu Talcott Parsons
We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation. Zygmunt Bauman
Life You Communication Yourself People World Humiliation Crime Live Else Dignified Everyone Everyone Else About Proper Over Gets Just Decent Being Door Information Next Next Door Compare Comparison Universal Presented
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of. Zygmunt Bauman
Service Freedom Lost Sight Something Individual Come Task Help Sociology
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis. Zygmunt Bauman
Terrorism Genocide World Fear Flu Collective Live Frail Civilisation Disaster Orderly Which Ice Skating Thin
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production. Zygmunt Bauman
Happiness Life Increased Increases Other Recipes Dignified Ways Finding Consumption Than Human Human Happiness Meaningful Production Satisfaction Gratifying Enjoyment
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done. Zygmunt Bauman
Politics Power Nutshell Ability Get Done Decide Which Things Need
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better. Zygmunt Bauman
Better Made Think Books Be Different Could Write Because Passionate Different Should Why Things
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside. Zygmunt Bauman
You Class Horrifying Outside Excluded Concept Really Lower Lower Class Awful
We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion. Zygmunt Bauman
Silence You Out About Exclusion Talking Equals Stop Belong
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Zygmunt Bauman
Love Love Is Power Possession Fusion Concerned Disenchantment As Far As Far Apocalypse Four
Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another. Zygmunt Bauman
Capitalism Creative Dignity Destruction Way Destroyed One-Way Through Host New Another Improved Form Proceeds Which Capacity Us Created Organisms Livelihood
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds. Zygmunt Bauman
Capitalism Own Imagination Way Critics Fact Crucial Economists Well Undertaking Suspect Behind Proceeds Which Derives Including Assets

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