Originally posted on A (Budding) Sociologist's Commonplace Book:
This past week, while driving home from a delicious Thanksgiving dinner with friends, I heard a fascinating story from PRI’s “The World” that reminded me of some of the material my social theory students had just covered, specifically Weber’s understanding of rationality and “the disenchantment of…
Originally posted on A (Budding) Sociologist's Commonplace Book:
STS graduate student Shreeharsh Kelkar has an excellent post at Dimensions of Knowledge revisiting the OrgTheory debates about performativity sparked by lengthy posts by Kieran Healy and Ezra Zuckerman. I found Kelkar’s reading of realist/”objective” arguments in sociology (and specifically, Zuckerman’s version of realism) very persuasive.…
Originally posted on 2012socialexperiment:
A great article by Steven Lukes, Professor of Sociology at NYU, discussing C. Wright Mills seminal work “The Power Elite” within the current global climate, where Mills went wrong, and what we can still learn from his 1956 work. Mills conception of concentrated power in a centralized bureaucracy re-enforces much current…
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