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Showing posts with label sociology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sociology. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Who Rules the World? A Portrait of the Global Leadership Class — John Gerring, Erzen Oncel, Kevin Morrison, and Daniel Pemstein

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Empirical study of global elites. Download PDF at link. Notice that the title assumes a social structure based on class and class...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Barkley Rosser — Who Is Really A Socialist? [Updated]

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Barkley Rosser either makes a bad mistake in starting with Marx's definition of "socialism" as state-ownership of the means o...
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Sunday, July 29, 2018

Oleg Komlik — The Sociology of Quantification: Seeing like Numbers

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Short and important. Economic Sociology and Political Economy The Sociology of Quantification: Seeing like Numbers Oleg Komlik | founde...
Friday, June 1, 2018

Robert Paul Wolff — The Deep State

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Robert Paul Wolff is largely correct here, but "the deep state" cannot be equated with bureaucracy as a political factor ensurin...
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Sunday, October 8, 2017

Daniel Little — Social consciousness and critical realism

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Critical realism proposes an approach to the social world that pays particular attention to objective and material features of the social r...
Monday, July 17, 2017

BIEN — History of UBI: From Hunter-Gatherers to the 21st Century

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Backgrounder. Links to an Investopedia paper. Seems to reinforce the conclusion that sharing requires a more advanced level of collective...
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Monday, July 10, 2017

Andrew Gelman — Why they aren’t behavioral economists: Three sociologists give their take on “mental accounting”

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The other thing—and this is important—is that the perspectives coming from these three academic disciplines are not competing; they’re comp...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Peter Turchin — Who Are the Elites?

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“Elites” (and “elite overproduction”) are key concepts in the structural-demographic theory (SDT). In this blog post I’d like to explain th...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

Jon Hellevig — The Scientific Essence of Economy – Capitalism and Socialism versus a Democratic Competitive Market Economy

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Must-read if you are into foundations of economic and political theory. Useful even if you are not, since Jon Hellevig debunks a lot of t...
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Friday, August 19, 2016

William Hawes — Growing Up Insane

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Why do democracies select insane people — psychopaths and sociopaths — to lead them. This is yet another paradox of liberalism. In biolo...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Tyler Cowen — What the hell is going on?

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Donald Trump may get the nuclear suitcase, a cranky “park bench” socialist took Hillary Clinton to the wire, many countries are becoming le...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Katehon — Theories of Globalization

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Brief summary of the field. Backgrounder. Katehon Theories of Globalization
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Russ — Religion is All Good and Well….

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This is a nice short post on abstraction and reification of ideas. Most of what we deal with today in the " Antropocene  epoch" i...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

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According to parasite stress theory, we should see higher levels of collectivism in situations of higher pathogen stress, but not in respon...
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Monday, April 20, 2015

Daniel Little — History of sociology

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Sociology is a discipline with a short history and a very dense and complex tree of topics and methods. So writing its history — even limit...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Frank W. Elwell — Immanuel Wallerstein's World-Systems Theory

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25 slide presentation of Immanuel Wallerstein's World-Systems Theory by Frank W. Elwell,  author of  Macrosociology: Four Modern Theori...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Daniel Little — Social structures as entities

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Institutions and rules. Understanding Society Social structures as entities Daniel Little | Chancellor of the University of Michigan-Dearb...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Daniel Little — Fissioning community

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What is a community, and what forces exist to either preserve the strands of community or to erode those strands?   To start, a communit...
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Thursday, January 1, 2015

Daniel Little — John Levi Martin on theory

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Sociological theory. Why is sociological theory important. I consider economics to be a subfield of sociology, as did Marx as a precurs...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Tim Johnson — Scientific facts and democratic values

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The logic of justification comes down to criteria. Are there absolute criteria? How would one know for sure that one knows that criteria a...