What can you do with Sociology/Psychology/Cultural Studies/Social Anthropology post-grad qualification

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Apart from pat self on back?

I am thinking of retraining but no idea about jobs. Those are the things I'm considering studying - what REAL ACTUAL JOBS might I get with a postgrad MA/PHD in them?

I mean ones that pay money. Any money. But must be money.

Thanks dearies.

Manufacturers do intentionally form prodeucts with a view to their being succeeded by future products -- planned obsolescence

Alternatively, you might just agree and think the trainers are really cool and want them. Is quite possible that you have not been duped in that transaction?

You can indeed manufacture desire - and that is where advertising comes in. When there are a multitude of different brands on the market, often in product terms they are pretty much the same, therefore they need their own brand image and associations to set them apart from all the others.

But you still need a pair of trainers - it's just up to you to choose which one you desire the most.

I desire converse trainers. I am v. easily led highly suggestible consumerist maven. Also they look good.

The beauty industry is a big manufacturer of need. Unfortunately I think the pharmaceutical industry probably is too.

Oh beauty industry is desire, no?

Think you are bang on about pharmaceuticals though.

I'm not sure. I don't think many people feel an active desire for anti-ageing cream for example (except perhaps at the top end) - it's rather more like a need.

Article here about how the US pharmaceutical industry spends nearly twice as much on marketing its products as on research and development.

Threadworm - It's called a mixed economy. btw do I use the word capitalism a lot? I don't think it was me who mentioned it first on this thread.

I don't know lenin. I'm an INFP. It says we aren't good at detail.

Lenin - The State have a majority stake in RBS and a minority stake in Lloyds HBOS the remainder banks remain in private ownership.

Lenin - No. No other banks have been bailed out in this country. That's it. That's the extent of it as I stated in my last post.

My take on it is that it has been completely overblown. I've personally lost lots of money in share values (but feel confident that they will recover - apart from the ones that went enitirely bust) and DP lost his job but I wouldn't describe it as being brought to our knees. In fact, most people with variable rate mortgages are quids in aren't they? Yes, I think a painful but brief market correction, overblown by the press.

really Swedes? Does this mean the house market is not going to crash dramatically?

Sorry about your dh's job.

'No. No other banks have been bailed out in this country. That's it. That's the extent of it as I stated in my last post.' - what about Northern Rock? And Halifax, which could only be saved by Gordon getting Lloyds to buy it at gunpoint?

Ruty - I'm confident house prices will recover but unless you are trading downwards and cashing in, it doesn't really matter does it? If you are ascending the market a 40% drop is much better news than a mere 10% drop.

Lenin - At the moment I do 10 hours a week pro bono work for some poor souls for whom capitalism clearly isn't working very hard. I also do 10 hours a week for people who are thriving in our capitalist system and they weren't all born with silver spoons in their mouths. I favour capitalism with a generous welfare state. It's a system that has been shown to work well. I am the daughter of immigrants and am the first generation to be born in Britain.

PW - You are engaged in double accounting. Northern Rock was bailed out temporarily prior to its wholesale nationalisation. The shareholders (me included) appear to have been entirely wiped out but that is sub judcice as its legality is yet to be determined by the courts. In other words the governement took it over but they didn't pay anything to do so. And Halifax is included on my list - it is now part of Lloyds HBOS. There was no gun to anyone's head, just pure greed from market synergies on the part of Eric Daniels.

I read in the news today that several building societies (mutuals) are in deep trouble.