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Cylon Sociology

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Daniel Solove, Devan Desai and David Hoffman have begun posting what looks to be quite an interesting hour-long interview with David Eick and Ronald Moore, the creators of the “re-imagined” Battlestar Galactica, on legal systems, torture, politics and economy, and – for lack of a better term – Cylon sociology at Concurring Opinions. Our interview [...]

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African-American Founders of Social Theory?

Friday, February 15, 2008

Is anyone aware of a survey article on the contributions of African-Americans to classical social theory comparable in scope to Lynn McDonald’s “Classical Social Theory With the Women Founders Included” [pdf]? I, and my second year social theory students, would be greatly obliged should anyone have any ideas.

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Theory and Methods in Select Sociology Programs in Ontario

Thursday, February 7, 2008

An aside from an email exchange with Neil McLaughlin from a few weeks back dealing with some of the issues raised in this post. Recently, the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University, where I teach the second year required course in “The Development of Social Theory,” has decided to split the second and third year [...]

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Rich Get Richer

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

From the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives: New Year’s party still going for top CEOs  TORONTO – By the time most Canadians roll up their sleeves to begin a new year of work, Canada’s best paid 100 CEOs will already be having a good year: They’ll pocket the national average wage of $38,998 by 10:33 [...]

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“A major challenge… a serious challenge”

Thursday, September 27, 2007

In yet another post on the ongoing battle between Adam Kotsko and the world over the influence and meaning of Slavoj Zizek, Adam writes: For all the “fame” Zizek has attained, the extent of his actual impact is difficult to assess. He makes a good point in this regard when responding to one of several [...]

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Courses

Sunday, June 10, 2007

There is a possibility that I will be teaching a second year core course in social theory (obviously in a sociology department). The course is called “The Development of Social Theory” and the description speaks of covering material from “the Enlightenment” to “Max Weber.” The course, therefore, is more than the traditional “Marx, Weber, Durkheim” [...]

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‘American’ Sociology

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

For those who – quite understandably – can’t be bothered to read the Canadian Journal of Sociology, the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, and the official newsletter of the Canadian Sociology Association, Society, may not know that the disciplinary boundaries of Canadian sociology, as well as the meaning of practicing sociology qua sociologist, has [...]

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Baudrillard is Dead

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Jean Baudrillard passed away today at age 77. International Herald Tribune, Nouvel Observateur, New York Times. Discussion, perhaps, at Long Sunday.

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The Politics of Idiocy

Monday, February 12, 2007

Some from Mark Featherstone’s “The End of History: Utopian Realism and the Politics of Idiocy” (best title on an article so far this year) in the current issue (March 2007, 7(1)) of the Journal of Classical Sociology. Admittedly, it isn’t entirely clear why Featherstone published the article here, but the journal has published solid work, [...]

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Expectations

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Yesterday, in this comment, in reference to my lack of desire to publish for fear of imposing second-rate scholarship on the rest of the world in a culture which demands constant publication, I suggested that my lack of desire could be reasonably accounted for on relatively reasonable grounds: graduate students aren’t paid to publish research. [...]

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