Blogs about: Personal Morphogenesis
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"What kinds of creatures do we think we are?": Human Sciences in the 'Age of Biology'
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"So what's your PhD about?"
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wrote 3 weeks ago: It’s an attempt to develop an explanatory framework through which personal changes over the li … more →
voices and conversations; 'real' and 'pathological'
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wrote 2 months ago: Reblogged from Ruminations on Madness: I have an upcoming presentation at the Society for Psychologi … more →
Moving beyond abstracted dichotomies in sociological treatments of decision making
wrote 2 months ago: Back when I planned to do a PhD in political philosophy, I was extremely interested in Michael Sande … more →
The four characteristics of internal conversation
wrote 2 months ago: The four features of internal conversation: privacy, ellipsis, personalization and context dependenc … more →
What does it mean to change as a person?
wrote 3 months ago: “it is quite a common experience for us to feel remorse without being able fully to articulate what … more →
Becoming Who We Are - a realist approach to studying personal change
wrote 4 months ago: In this presentation I draw on critical realist theories of the person to offer an account of how pe … more →
Why it's a mistake to surrender learning to psychology...
wrote 8 months ago: Archer’s (2004) dispute with Collier concerning the relation between practical and theoretical knowl … more →
Realism and Human Experience
wrote 8 months ago: consciousness is always to be conscious of something. Even if its referent is to an internal bodily … more →
Social Change and Reflexive Guidance
wrote 9 months ago: If a subject relies on interlocutors to sustain and confirm reflexive deliberations, it leaves them … more →
The Caterpillar's Question: Cultural Resources and Identity
wrote 9 months ago: After the initial section of my first round of PhD interviews (discussion of different deliberative … more →
Reflexivity and 'drift'
wrote 9 months ago: Some can remain at the mercy of their first-order pushes and pulls, drifting from job to job, place … more →
Internal conversations and natural language use / question for qualitative researchers
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wrote 9 months ago: Much of my thesis centers around the notion of internal conversation. Leaving aside broader theoreti … more →
Morphogenetic personalism
wrote 9 months ago: Morphogenetic personalism aims to understand the four-dimensionality to human existence (conceptuali … more →
What is an organisation?
wrote 9 months ago: Consider the Sociology Department of Warwick University. What is it? The department is not just the … more →
Emotions and Reflexivity
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wrote 9 months ago: Archer’s account has recently been subject to criticism for allegedly marginalising the role o … more →
Youth Prospects in Late Capitalism
wrote 10 months ago: The changing circumstances faced in education and the labour market are often used to argue for a ra … more →
How to make sense of longitudinal qualitative data
wrote 10 months ago: These are the practical steps involved in the approach I’m taking to making sense of longitudi … more →
Tradition, Common Sense and The Emotional Burden of Reflexivity
wrote 10 months ago: One of the key concepts I’m trying to elaborate in my PhD is what I term the emotional burden … more →
