by Anna Brix Thomsen | Apr 4, 2012 | Uncategorized |
In the article Reconceptualizing Human Capital, Nancy Folbre and Paula England present “capabilities” as a concept to describe the basic requirements humans need to function effectively in the world. They use this as a platform to critique the neoclassical notion of...
by Anna Brix Thomsen | Dec 13, 2011 | Current Events |
[amazon_enhanced asin=”1897455119″ container=”div” container_class=”bookbox” price=”All” background_color=”FFFFFF” link_color=”000000″ text_color=”0000FF” /]North Korea is a secret...
by Anna Brix Thomsen | Oct 27, 2011 | Current Events |
The other day, I was standing in the local supermarket, here in Copenhagen, Denmark, ready to buy a watermelon as a Nigerian woman asked me about the coloring of the melon in question, as mine was striped where the one she had found was full colored dark green. She...
by Anna Brix Thomsen | Nov 11, 2010 | Teaching Sociology |
Academic communities and higher learning facilities like universities are the places where great knowledge is born and passed on with the purpose of ‘enlightening’ our societies for the better.It is where the great thinkers of our world has been shaped and formed into...
