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The Fakebook Generation - The New York Times

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Written by Alice Mathias

THE time-chugging Web site Facebook.com first appeared during my freshman year as the exclusive domain of college students. This spring, Facebook opened its pearly gates, enabling myself and other members of the class of ’07 to graduate from our college networks into those of the real world.

In no time at all, the Web site has convinced its rapidly assembling adult population that it is a forum for genuine personal and professional connections. Its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has even declared his quest to chart a “social graph” of human relationships the way that cartographers once charted the world.

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Kumpulan Peraturan Perundangan tentang Tindak Pidana Korupsi

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Written by Ordinary Man

Berikut ini daftar lengkap naskah peraturan; undang-undang, peraturan pemerintah, inpres yang berkaitan dengan tindak pidana korupsi yang ada di website ICW (http://www.antikorupsi.org/). Anda bisa mendownloadnya langsung dari link-link di bawah ini. Link-link di bawah ini mengantarkan anda langsung ke link download di website ICW. Atau jika anda ingin berkunjung langsung ke halaman download peraturan perundangan di ICW, silahkan klik di sini.

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Why Are People Ashamed of Being Naked?

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Written by Ransom Riggs

Genesis tells us about the moment humans first "realized" they were naked, quickly followed by the moment they were first ashamed of being naked — but it doesn't explain why humans were ashamed. Animals are naked (albeit furry), and for tens of thousands of years, so were human beings. So what changed — and if we wanted to, could we change back, and unlearn our shame? Recently, some British researchers attempted to find out.

Their theory is that the shame of being naked was codified in (most) human societies as a way of protecting mating pairs. (Perhaps it's no coincidence that humans are among the few mammals that mate for life — and they're also ashamed of being naked.) The thinking goes that humans' natural gregariousness and need to interact outside the family group, coupled with nakedness, created too many temptations to stray from the mating pair.

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Book Review: The "Why's" of Crime and Criminality

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Written by Anthony Walsh, Ph.D

Both Matthew Robinson's Why Crime? and Robert Agnew's Why do Criminals Offend? begin by asking the same question and both attempt to answer it by offering us a new theory. These books are the latest additions to a growing number of monographs published in the last decade taking an integrative biosocial view of criminology (see, for instance, Fishbein, 2001; Rowe, 2002;Walsh, 2002; Walsh & Ellis, 2003). What is heartening to those of us who have taken this position for most of our careers is that Robinson's previous book, Justice Blind (2002), marks him as a bona fide liberal, and Agnew's sociopolitical ideology appears to be left of center also. It is heartening because many social scientists hold the belief that anything but strict environmental interpretations of criminal behavior are racist, sexist, classist, or at least illiberal. If those holding such views would remove their blinders and take the time to learn something about behavior genetics, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology, as Robinson and Agnew clearly have (Robinson more so than Agnew), they may be surprised how far to the left they can be dragged by biosocial perspectives.

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Cultural Studies dan Jejak-Jejak Pertarungan

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Written by Murdianto

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Chris Barker memulai pertanyaan menarik untuk memulai pembicaraan tentang Studi Budaya dengan cara sangat menghentak. Gagasannya untuk menggeser pertanyaan yang lazim dalam studi kebudayaan modern dengan pertanyaan ‘apa definisi kebudayaan’ di geser secara radikal oleh Barker menjadi ‘ atas kepentingan apa definsi itu di buat, bagaimana ia di gunakan, dan sebagai apa seorang mendefiniskan kebudayaan.

Penggeseran pertanyaan oleh Barker ini di landasi oleh ‘kerisihannya’ melihat ilmuwan borjuis Inggris, Mattew Arnorld (1960; 6), yang mendefinisikan kebudayaan sebagai milik segelintir kelompok yang mampu menghasilkan ‘sesuatu yang terbaik yang pernah di pikirkan tentang dunia’ Dan definisi semacam ini, kemudian menjadi pandangan umum dari Diksi (pilihan kata) ‘terbaik’ oleh Arnold ini, tentu tidak di dapatkan begitu saja. Karena ‘yang terbaik’, ‘setengah baik’ dan ‘cukup baik’ atau ‘buruk’ adalah soal penilaian dan seleksi.

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