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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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