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• Domestic Experience and Taking *Yourself* For Granted

  
  Figleaf's Real Adult Sex - Confessions of a libertine prude / grumblings of a prudish libertine — Authority: 133
  Just following up on my earlier post, Domestic Experience and Being Taken for Granted: It’s Not a Gender Thing, It’s Situational , the other, obvious thing is that it’s all my side of the story.* Because if I would say the floor is not a closet my partner would say the dining room table (where I work) is not ...
  21 hours ago

• The/An Importance of Metaphysics

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 421
  The Science Fiction of Philosophy This conversation over at Dead Voles has been winding, snake-back, but in this bend in the road some interesting things were being discussed. Carl gives his rendition of what he believes my position on the importance of philosophical argument, something with which I agree in ...
  5 days ago

• TV and Vernacular Social Critique

  
  Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog — Authority: 107
  I find the Sirkian system argument a productive one for thinking about films relation to their social milieu. Even if one does not subscribe to a Category E reading, the versions of those readings suggest the complexity that interpretation can bring to the table. But one critical tendency gives me pause: the narrowed ...
  1 week ago

• My Commenters Are Smarter Than Me – Football, Capitalism and Branding Edition

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 136
  After my previous post on sport and stigma regarding L’Affaire Henry, commenter Pat wrote the following (bumped from the comments): “Football is a global business with huge vested interests.What we are looking at in France’s case,via vi Henry, is a commodity brand who generates massive revenue streams,via ...
  2 weeks ago

• Suck factor: the glory of violence, the horror of sexuality

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 614
  There are three mainstays in today’s Hollywood:  sex, violence and special effects. Special effects in movies, when well done, are fun.  They help us escape from our lives to enjoy tales of superheroes, mutants or alternate realities.  We travel to faraway or mythical lands and see dragons, dwarfs and trolls, ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Real Lesson of That Dumb Chapter in Superfeakonomics

  
  Figleaf's Real Adult Sex - Confessions of a libertine prude / grumblings of a prudish libertine — Authority: 133
  Another way to look at Levitt and Dubner on prostitution in their clunky sequel to Freakonomics : when you’re totally mired in the bogus First Rule of Desire in particular and the dominant “no-sex” class paradigm in general you’re going to miss the most important piece of information in your hard ...
  3 weeks ago

• Remembering Claude Lévi-Strauss

  
  Word on the Street — Authority: 403
  By now you may have heard that French anthropologist and sociologist Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away on October 30th. Often called "the father of modern anthropology", Lévi-Strauss was an important structuralism theorist. His theories are presented in Structural Anthropology , both volumes of which are available in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Global Sociology Blogroll – Theory Viewed From Mexico

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 136
  This looks like a new socblog (found via Twitter), so, I hope the author, Luis Antonio Guerrero Cantera, sticks with it and get prolific because there aren’t enough soc theory blogs around! θεωρειν. Apuntes sobre teoría sociológica y antropológica via kwout As always, update your RSS feeds ...
  4 weeks ago

• Claude Levi Strauss Dies at 100

  
  The Freire Project - The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy — Authority: 130
  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/europe/04levistrauss.html?emc=eta1   Joe and I were so informed by Claudes work, what a intellectual heritage he has left us. Bookmark/Search this post with: Reddit Facebook Google Yahoo
  5 weeks ago

• Claude Levi-Strauss (1908 – 2009)

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 136
  One of the greatest intellectuals and social scientists, ever, irreplaceable: L’ethnologue Claude Lévi-Strauss est mort – LeMonde.fr via kwout
  5 weeks ago

• Homo economicus 2.0

  
  ANTHEM — Authority: 107
  In the June 2004 issue of the Economic Sociology Newsletter [PDF] the following exchange took place between the interviewee (Søren Jagd) and Laurent Thévenot (“The French Convention School and the Coordination of Economic Action,” p.  13): Question: Michel Callon argues that the model of economic man could ...
  5 weeks ago

• Gilbert Ryle’s Category Mistake – Illustrated by Abstruse Goose

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 136
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• Redesigning Capitalism

  
  Irresponsibility — Authority: 107
  Posted by Irresponsibility A Salem News column on value got me thinking about the problem with capitalism. Proponents argue, rightly, that people are more motivated in a system where individual effort results in tangible individual reward. In that respect capitalism is clear-eyed: human beings are basically ...
  5 weeks ago

• Zygmunt Bauman on Global Social Democratic Governance

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 136
  I have never made a secret of my admiration for Zygmunt Bauman. He is one of my favorite contemporary theorists. So, I am glad to see him write for the Social Europe Journal, pushing for more social democracy at the level of global institutions. Taking stock of the fact that, in Europe, labor / socialist parties have ...
  5 weeks ago

• Triathlon and Social Capital

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 136
  Over at Economic Sociology, Brooke Harrington has a great guest post by Galyn Burke–Brown on triathlon as the high power sport that promotes high-power connections in the business world. Read the whole thing, it is really great. Guest Post: The Economic Sociology of Triathlons » Economic Sociology via ...
  6 weeks ago

• Hey, Remember What Structural-Functionalism Say About Social Stratification and Inequalities?

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 136
  According to this time-honored theory that is often wrong and yet we still have to teach, inequalities and greater wealth at the top of the social distribution are reflection of the sacrifices some individuals make to get educated and take more functionally significant positions in society. So, Dean Baker asks the ...
  6 weeks ago

• Applied Rational Choice Theory: How To Choose a Religion

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 136
  This is hilarious, actually. And yes, it is satirical… or is it?
  6 weeks ago

• Book Review – Punishing The Poor

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 136
  I cannot emphasize enough what an important book Loïc Wacquant ’s Punishing The Poor – The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity is. Except, I have already done that by posting various quotes that I thought were important and made essential points as I was reading the book. The main argument made by ...
  6 weeks ago

• Oh, So Now, Everybody’s A Sociologist of Zombies (Or Is It Zombie Sociologist?)

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 136
  Denis Colombi read my previous post on the sociology of Zombies and decided to take a crack at it using French sociological approaches. So, of course, the obligatory Bourdieusian zombie sociology: Une heure de peine…: Il fallait bien que quelqu’un le fasse… via kwout For those of you who are ...
  6 weeks ago

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