Reviews for HowToMoodle Administrator Reference Manual 1.8

The average rating for HowToMoodle Administrator Reference Manual 1.8 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-12-28 00:00:00 Kelly S Hinds Most of us spend more time in our lives working than we spend sleeping, eating or with family. So it is interesting how our choice of careers affects our identity and our way of interacting with society. In "The Sociology of Occupations and Professions", Pavalko explores the sociological implications of our choices of occupations and careers. While this book is an academic work and suffers from many of the drawbacks of academia, such as dry writing and unimaginative progression of the narrative, this book does answer some interesting questions about our choice of profession and how that impacts our place in society. For example, how does a person's choice of profession affect that person's place in society? How does it affect that person's probability of becoming prematurely ill or committing suicide? How does an occupation differ from a profession? How do the professional codes of such professions as law and medicine affect the way that practitioners live their lives outside of work? It is fascinating how professions affect far more than how a person earns a living. In this work, Pavalko explores the non-material effects of one's choice of profession. Unfortunately, I felt as though Pavalko took one's choice of profession as far too independent of a variable when he analyzed its effects. For example, while one's choice of profession may impact the probability that someone will commit suicide, it is also probably more likely that the probability of an individual to commit suicide is affected far more by other variables, such as one's religious convictions and one's mental health. Similar studies of the happiness of the participants of various professions could also be more enlightening of the author included other variables in his analysis. However, it is encouraging to see that sociologists see the choice of profession to be more than merely a material preoccupation. Although this book is written too much as an academic treatise, I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in sociology or the impact of career on society.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-07-29 00:00:00 Jeffrey Bush I’ve read 'politics as a vocation' and 'science as a vocation' so far. I picked this up on a recommendation as a philosopher who does it better than RW Emerson. (Read this and you can’t help but acknowledge that German Idealism is vastly superior to American transcendalism was the recommendation). The similarities and differences with Emerson are mildly striking. First, they are both lectures, most of emerson's writing evolved as speeches, and while I don't know if that’s true for Weber, these two essays make it seem plausible. While the tone is very different, the emphasis on positive action and personal responsibility seems to be at the forefront for both philosophers. I found both of the essays to be very good, though I did breeze over the middle section of both of them where he compares differing aspects of politics and science in different countries. Someone studying the rise of nazism or the failure of america intellectualism might be very interested in it, but I'm not really. However there are some truly astounding sections, and his early dissection of political motivation seems very astute. The 2nd and 3rd pages of Politics are full of great lines, Like “the mores sanctified through the unimaginable ancient recognition and habitual orientation to conform” and “obedience is determined by highly robust motives of fear and hope”. 79 In general I found his asides to be highlights. I like that his life philosophy (for lack of a better term) is only viewable in their tangential relationship to the points in the essay; he never engages with them directly. For instance on page 117, he is talking about vain power politicians and says of them, “[they] are a product of shoddy and superficially blasé attitude towards the meaning of human conduct; and it has no relation whatsoever to the knowledge of tragedy with which all action, but especially political action, is truly interwoven.” This line is buried in the excellent concluding 15 pages of Politics, which stretches back to the discussion of “sterile excitation… . “ is a ‘romanticism of the intellectually interesting’ running into emptiness devoid of all feeling of objective responsibility.” on page 115, which is a pithy summary of some of problems with academic thought . That’s amazing, as his discussion of Tolstoy and the meaning of death on page 140. With regards to contrasts with Emerson, this passage is the most interesting. What I have found so compelling about Emerson is his exploration of our ties to the natural world, our fundamental alienation forcing us to seek redemption within ourselves. Almost a Buddhist philosophy. Weber gets into something similar here, and I haven’t had the time to parse this section (138-44) adequately.