Max Weber famously presented three principles of social ‘stratification’ (‘organization’ would be better): status, class and party. The ongoing saga of Brexit brings to light some interesting features of the last category, which otherwise tends to be neglected or treated… Read More ›
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The School of Life Does Sociology
An interesting series of Sociology videos from The School of Life:
Weber/ Simmel antagonisms: Staged dialogues
Weber/ Simmel antagonisms Staged dialogues University of Edinburgh 10/11 December 2015 A conference organized by the Max Weber Group of the British Sociological Association & Sociology Edinburgh Call for outlines Much has been said about the strong oppositions between Simmel… Read More ›
The Sociology of Living and Dying Optimally: Towards a Transhuman Necropolitics
[This post is inspired by a twitter exchange with Mark Carrigan over this post, which reveals Foucault’s latent neo-liberal sympathies. Emilie Whitaker and I then had an exchange over this exchange, in which she coined ‘transhuman necropolitics’, capturing what I’m… Read More ›
REF and the usefulness of academia
Interesting article by Doris Ruth Eikhof on the Work in Progress blog of the American Sociological Association’s Organizations, Occupations, and Work” section, about Weber, Tolstoj and the usefulness of academia.
Reflections on My British Sociological Association Keynote
8 September 2014: My keynote address is now on-line I delivered the first keynote of the British Sociological Association annual meeting this year. I was especially honoured to learn that I was a popular choice, because what I had to… Read More ›
Upcoming event: Max Weber, Markets and Economic Sociology, Warwick University, 7 May 2014
An event organized by the Max Weber Study Group of the British Sociological Association and the Social Theory Centre at the University of Warwick In the wake of the recent financial crisis, there is an urgent need for social scientists… Read More ›
Sociologists also have fun
A glimpse into the sociology student culture in Germany… Here is how sociology students at the Humboldt University in Berlin advertised their first semester party a few days ago:
TED talk: Sam Richards on empathy
Sam Richards’ definition of sociology is the ‘study of the way in which humans are shaped by things that they don’t see’. He takes the interpretivist argument to the extreme and argues that empathy is at the core of our… Read More ›