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The poetics of the gaze in capitalist modernity
The illusion of the gaze is homologous with the politics of the public sphere just as, strictly speaking, the logic of pop culture carries with it the discourse of the gendered body. Does not the...
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Realist evaluation, mechanisms and theoretical minimalism
At IACR earlier today I heard two interesting talks about Realist Evaluation. I had previously had a vague idea about what this involved, largely through encountering citations from Pawson in other...
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Christian Smith on the Sacred Project of American Sociology
I’m a big fan of Christian Smith’s work. Largely, though not solely, for this book. But his new one sounds slightly odd. While it appeals to me on the level of the sociology of sociology, it’s hard not...
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Social Theory as Optometry
The notion of philosophical under labouring has been integral to the development of critical realism. It is, as Roy Bhaskar puts it, what critical realist philosophy most characteristically does. The...
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Struggling to put words to an idea
This post on things that universities should teach students is a lovely read in its own right. However the final point really stood out to me: That if they haven’t, at some point, found themselves...
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Harmut Rosa engages with the work of Margaret Archer
This is very good – it’s so refreshing to see a critical engagement with Archer’s work of this quality:
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Social Acceleration and Musical Innovation
I just came across a lovely point in Harmut Rosa’s book about the relationship between social change and musical innovation. Certain forms of music come to be seen as emblematic of the age but, as that...
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What would happen if an evil scientist wiped the memories of everyone within...
In a recent paper Tero Piiroinen suggests that “if we all just suddenly lost our memories and other relevant neural dispositions—if no one was able to remember his or her own name, let alone relatives,...
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Daniel Little reviews Social Morphogenesis volume 1 and volume 2
The philosopher Daniel Little has written about volume 1 and volume 2 of the Social Morphogenesis book series on his Understanding Society blog: “Margaret Archer’s contribution to critical realism has...
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An introduction to analytical sociology
This is an excellent critical introduction to analytical sociology: Analytical Sociology and The Rest of Sociology by Daniel Little
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