Reading list:

Sociological research is often criticised for providing "excuses" for people doing bad things, preventing them from being rightfully blamed and punished. This special issue looks at social scientific debates about such "exculpatory" consequences:

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/esta/24/3

#SocialTheory #Sociology #STS #Commodon #MediaStudies #Anthropology @sociology

Finishing my Friday with this excellent read: “Fractal approaches to scaling transformations to sustainability”

I deeply appreciate when someone has done the thinking and writing that pulls together a bunch of threads I’m interested in. I’m very excited now to use this as a starting point for engaged #research projects. The big picture framing I’ve been using is “societal transitions for planetary wellbeing”… and I love how this fractal metaphor is helping me connect small, feasible initiatives and actions with much larger purposes and objectives.

#academic #sustainability #socialChange #systemsChange #systems #PoliticalEcology #SocialChange #InterBeing #socialTheory #ActionResearch

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-023-01873-w

An interview with Hartmut Rosa: "Social Theory Today"
(Revista de Sociología)

"Now everyone expects the future to become worse...."

Open access: https://iamr.uchile.cl/index.php/RDS/article/view/71441

#Hartmutrosa #Socialtheory #Sociology

Martina Löw explains another key term for the #sfb1265 in our audio #glossary "ABC of Refiguring Spaces":
F for Figure!👇🎧🔠
https://sfb1265.de/glossar/#figure
#spatialresearch #wisskomm #sociology #socialtheory

Happy birthday Juergen #Habermas (b. 1929). 🥂 🎂

#philosophy #FrankfurtSchool #SocialTheory 🎓

for the #SocialWorkers that I am teaching #SocialTheory it's been easier to connect with feminist theory. unfortunately when presented with specific cases to reflect on the theories we've been studying they come up with conservative initiatives. State structure is pretty embedded in our colleagues. it's gonna take a lot of effort to train independent social workers in #Mexico.

#teaching #socialsciences

this month I'll start teaching #SocialTheory to a group of #SocialWorkers. I'm going to focus on #marxism, #CriticalTheory, #feminism and #complexitytheory. Social workers in #mexico are not used to this kind of theories. Let's see what happens in the next days.

My book 'The Invisible Order' seems to be in discount!

Everything you always wanted to know about #SocialTheory (but were afraid to ask).

I don't know how long this campaign will last, but I would grab it quickly!

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-16481-1

Again, I continue to promote my #SocialTheory and #Sociology book 'The Invisible Order' (2022).

Prof. Mark Blyth also kindly wrote an endorsement for my book.

According to Blyth, the unconscious aspect must be taken into account when considering the social order.
-> Creating order requires more than conscious choices.

If you're thinking what his 'non-realist' means, continue to read the thread!

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-16481-1

Questions/interested in the book 👉 MSG

I continue to promote my #SocialTheory and #Sociology book 'The Invisible Order' (2022).

Prof. Patrik Aspers was kind enough to write an endorsement for the book.

According to Aspers, we take the prevailing social order for granted, even in social sciences. Thus, we cannot see how institutions work.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-16481-1

Questions/interested in the book 👉 MSG

I haven't promoted my #SocialTheory and #Sociology book 'The Invisible Order' (2022) here yet, but here it comes.

I begin by bringing out the abstract, where I addresses the problem of institutionalised order in modern capitalist societies with highly developed division of labour.

From more historical point of view, my attempt is to combine the so-called 'integration' and 'conflict' theory perspectives - an attempt that I haven't seen done anywhere before.

Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

Norbert Elias
Betty Friedan
Erving Goffman
Amitai Etzioni
Jacques Derrida
Harold Garfinkel
Anselm Strauss (though actually more Barney Glaser)
Karl Mannheim
Alfred Schütz
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Judy Wajcman
Shulamith Firestone
Judith Butler
Jack Halberstam
Emanuel Schegloff

There are many, many more that I wanted to include but couldn’t confirm if they were/are #Jewish or not.

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#Sociology #SocialTheory #Feminism #Mazeldon

Selection of #Jewish scholars who influenced my own academic thinking (and who were only mentioned in passing if at all as being Jewish in introductory classes). Who’s your favorite? Who do you dislike? (Glut of men = sociology courses in the ‘90s)

In no particular order:

Émile Durkheim
Karl Marx (family converted to Xian before his birth)
Georg Simmel (same)
Robert K. Merton
György Lukács
Edmund Husserl
Ludwig Wittgenstein (assimilated)
Zygmunt Bauman

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#sociology #SocialTheory #Mazeldon

Colorizing #sociology #veblen #socialtheory
https://socprofb.wordpress.com/2023/03/23/colorizing-sociology-thorstein-veblen-and-the-theory-of-the-leisure-class-1899/

Sociologists: our team are hiring!

💥 📢 JOB: Lecturer in Sociology (Social Theory), University of Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧

Permanent, full time post, working in a collegiate and intellectually vibrant team on a beautiful campus.

Very short time to apply (not sure why?)
#Sociology #SocialTheory #ECRchat #academia #academics #vacancy #academicjob #dreamjob #research

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CYF910/lecturer-in-sociology-social-theory?uuid=6df45f88-c2db-11ed-b6cb-027e9b1da9c1&campaign=jbe20230315&source=jbe

Just asked two literature reviews of a #SocialTheory field from #openAI. The first time it listed:

- Structural theory;
- Critical theory;
- Postmodernism; and
- Cultural theory.

2nd:

- Structuralism;
- Symbolic interactionism;
- Functionalism; and
- Postmodernism.

In a nutshell.

No idea why the list changed in between the tests.

How accurate are these? What is missing? Should we be able to do these kinds of classifications of social theory in the first place?

#Sociology

THE INVISIBLE ORDER is out!

My #SocialTheory book addresses the problem of institutionalised order in modern capitalist societies with highly developed division of labour.

Questions👉MSG.

Details👉https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-16481-1

Great feeling to unbox one’s latest book! #philosophy #criticaltheory #sociology #decolonization #academia #academicmastodon #newbook #socialtheory #politicaltheory #politicalscience #psychoanalysis #psychology

Oh wise #AcademicMastodon, I need your help. Compiling a new module and I am looking for recommendations for women social theorists who are NOT white but also NOT American (thinking along the lines of a female Franz Fanon). I have a handful of obvious ideas, but would like to dip into new wells...

#BlackMastodon #BlackInSTEM
#PostcolonialTheory
#SocialTheory
#SocialMovements
#DecolonisingCurriculum

THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF THEORY

This paper argues that common definitions of 'theory' are too restrictive. To redress this, the paper elaborates a typology that clarifies multiple meanings of theory and allows for several kinds of scientific knowledge

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joms.12587

#Theory #SocialTheory #Sociology #commodon #STS