Category Archives: Academia

The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (1998)

Posted on March 21, 2022 by Luke Ford

Here are some excerpts from this book sociologist Randall Collins: * The long-term tendency of an active intellectual community is to raise the level of abstraction and reflexivity. * Individuals who participate in IRs [interaction rituals] are filled with emotional … Continue reading →

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Jews in the American Historical Profession (8-4-21)

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Luke Ford

Peter Novick writes in his 1988 book: * Selig Perlman, a professor of economics at Wisconsin, is said to have regularly summoned Jewish graduate students in history to his office and warned them, in a deep Yiddish accent, that “History … Continue reading →

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‘School athletics at the center of attention devalues intellectual students’

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Luke Ford

Sociologist Randall Collins writes: Anyone who has been to high school in the United States knows there is a prestige system, with the jocks and cheerleaders at the top, and the nerds at the bottom. The term “nerd” has no … Continue reading →

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The Study of Judaism: Authenticity, Identity, Scholarship

Posted on July 11, 2021 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2014 book by Aaron W. Hughes: * In 2007 I published a slim and what I hoped would be a provocative volume entitled Situating Islam: The Past and Future of an Academic Discipline. This … Continue reading →

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Life After Academia With Historian Lisa Munro (6-28-21)

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Luke Ford

00:00 Historian Lisa Munro, https://www.lisamunro.net/blog-1/2018/7/1/failures-of-imagination-post-phd-edition 01:00 Leaving Academia: Loss Grief and Healing, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140408 04:30 Lisa is an adoptee, https://twitter.com/llmunro 08:30 Lisa was 38 before she knew her biological parents 22:00 Education promotes conformism 27:00 Education as indoctrination 28:20 Education fads … Continue reading →

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