Blogs about: Sociological Imagination
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The IMF Reloaded...Remixed
Tony Curzon Price has a thoughtful piece at Open Democracy in which he examines what he calls The G20’s sins of commission. I’m interested in a whole bunch of angles that Price explores, b… more →
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Using rock music as a case study to examine the ways in which Australian identity, culture and public life have changed since World War II
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tylerlcameron wrote 1 week ago: Using rock music as a case study we are able to examine the ways in which Australian identity, cultu … more →
If you are in the NYC area this Friday and Saturday...
csothbeg144 wrote 1 month ago: Yay! CUNY is hosting the C. Wright Mills ‘Taking it Big’ conference… very exciting … more →
Ormsbee's Intro
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Todd wrote 4 months ago: My name is Todd Ormsbee, and I’m a sociologist teaching in the American Studies program at San … more →
After Class: A Study of the Student-Teacher Sexual Relationship
gmkmd wrote 4 months ago: Remember that old Van Halen song “Hot for Teacher”? Do you remember that junior high, high school, a … more →
President's Plane Causes Some to Panic
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itneditor wrote 7 months ago: AP image of the President's plane Sociologists argue shared social experiences influence patterns of … more →
Musings - sociological imagination
andthatnighttheskywasblue wrote 7 months ago: April 21, 2009 As if waiting for the morning, I waited for a sign of life. Still on the cold pavemen … more →
The IMF Reloaded...Remixed
aaron wrote 7 months ago: Tony Curzon Price has a thoughtful piece at Open Democracy in which he examines what he calls The G2 … more →
A shot of sociology
John wrote 9 months ago: A post on the Contexts blogs includes a discussion of teaching introductory courses as a form of pub … more →
Google, Embeddedness, and De-facto Censorship
aaron wrote 11 months ago: Chris Soghoian describes how he bumped up against Google’s questionable ad-sense trademark enf … more →
From Networked Public Sphere to Networked Polis?
aaron wrote 1 year ago: My trusty RSS feeds have turned up two interesting recent posts on the subject of the Obama campaign … more →
Why are people so happy in Denmark?
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aaron wrote 1 year ago: A second large international survey has found that Danes are the world’s happiest people. … more →
The Sociology of Ownership
aaron wrote 1 year ago: Copyright law guru William Patry takes a look at Robert Merton’s thoughts on the ownership of … more →
Zygmunt Bauman: Theorist of Postmodernity's Ethical Turn
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Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 1 year ago: For Zygmunt Bauman, “sociologizing makes sense only in as far as it helps humanity” and … more →
The Sociological Imagination
Maureen Flynn-Burhoe wrote 1 year ago: In his influential book, The Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills (1959) warned that the tendenc … more →
What cumulative advantage means for debates about the networked public sphere
aaron wrote 1 year ago: Everybody and their cousin’s got a link to Duncan Watt’s recent NYTimes Magazine piece o … more →
What does Slavoj Zizek mean by positive dogmatics? Does it matter in the Democratic Primaries?
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aaron wrote 1 year ago: I just saw Slavoj Zizek give a talk at a Legal Left event at the Harvard Law School. Happily, he tur … more →
Information networks, the Oxford English Dictionary and the idea of universal knowledge
aaron wrote 1 year ago: I have to preface this post with a confession: I once signed up to receive monthly newsletter emails … more →
performativity, networks, and the problem of power
aaron wrote 1 year ago: I just got back from hearing Kieran Healy’s presentation of his latest research at the Harvard … more →
studying web-based collaborative communities
aaron wrote 1 year ago: I’m working on some preliminary research for a study of DailyKos and some of the other politic … more →
