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Social construction and racism

Following my previous article, on unconscious bias, can we say that social constructionism, is itself socially constructed? If the claims social construction makes for itself are true, then the answer must be ‘yes’. Foisted on its own petard, indeed?   Nigel Pocock   What of this darling of so many […]

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Other forms of narcissism

A recent headline in The Conversation notes that more and more people are citing “narcissism’ as a legitimate cause for separation or divorce. But couldn’t this be a form of narcissism, itself? An obsession with the very same self- serving attitude that they are accusing the other of?   Nigel […]

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The importance of trust

This article came about after reading a surprising source―an item by two young (early thirties) female investigative journalists on an investigative assignment to a nudist colony.   Nigel Pocock   At the end of their piece, the authors comment on a characteristic of the group that they clearly had not […]