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Category Archives: Sociology
Gabriella Turnaturi and the Sociology of Uncertainty
Italian sociologist Gabriella Turnaturi (b. 1944) at the University of Bologna writes about emotion, imagination, uncertainty, memory, and intimacy. Where many of her contemporaries studied institutions, class structures, bureaucracies, and rational choice, Turnaturi turns toward the fragile and unpredictable parts … Continue reading
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The Civil Sphere and Its Limits: Assessing Jeffrey Alexander’s Framework for Democratic Culture
Sociologist Jeffrey Alexander’s civil sphere theory is an ambitious attempt to explain how democratic societies generate solidarity, experience crisis, and attempt repair. It captures something real that most competing frameworks miss. It also has clear limits that deserve direct statement … Continue reading
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Jeffrey C. Alexander – The Last Grand Theorist
Jeffrey Charles Alexander was born on May 30, 1947, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and came of age during the social upheavals of the 1960s. He graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1969 with a degree in Social Studies, an interdisciplinary program … Continue reading
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Randall Collins – Situations All the Way Down
Randall Collins was born on July 29, 1941, into a family tied to American diplomatic and military service. His earliest memories include crossing the Atlantic on a troop ship in 1946 to join his father in postwar Germany. Later postings … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs In Stanford’s Sociology Department
Stanford Sociology is a rapidly rising top-tier department that leverages its Silicon Valley location and the university’s massive tech/engineering ecosystem. It is strong in inequality, culture, race/ethnicity/immigration, organizations, education, and especially computational sociology, digital media, and science/technology/society (STS) intersections. The … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In Princeton’s Sociology Department
Grok says: Princeton Sociology is the smallest and most selective top-tier department in the country (typically 4–8 new PhDs per year). It emphasizes refined cultural sociology, economic sociology, political sociology, comparative-historical work, and inequality studies, all delivered with understated Ivy … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs In UC Berkeley’s Sociology Department
Grok says: UC Berkeley Sociology is a historic powerhouse in social movements, political sociology, comparative-historical work, inequality, race/ethnicity/immigration, culture, and critical theory. It combines rigorous empirical methods with an explicit public-university mission of “critical inquiry… contributing to a better world” … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs In Harvard’s Sociology Department
Grok says: Harvard Sociology has enormous symbolic capital, deep ties to the Kennedy School, a mix of rigorous quantitative causal inference and high-profile cultural/qualitative work, and explicit research clusters in Inequality, Culture, Race/Ethnicity/Immigration, Comparative Sociology, Education, Health & Population, Crime … Continue reading
Ten Convenient Beliefs For Sociologists Now
Sociology’s subject matter, the social structures, institutions, and collective forces that shape human behavior, requires its own autonomous discipline with its own methods and theoretical frameworks rather than being a research domain that could be productively integrated with economics, psychology, … Continue reading
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American Sociology and the Logic of the Impossible Science
American sociologists do not compete for prestige by saying they want power. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their claims as advancing scientific rigor, pursuing social justice, defending academic freedom, producing public sociology, or serving the common good … Continue reading
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