There is a certain kind of communitarian mapping of social theory (in sociology and elsewhere) which starts in different places (what is authority, how does difference work, cultural epistemology, etc, etc) but usually winds up with something like a lament for moral realism...
Inheritance explains more than 60% of wealth inequality nationwide Any serious attempt to address inequality should start there. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/o...
Many exemptions are very hard, perhaps impossibly hard, to defend on either practical or moral grounds.
Do sociologists care about human universals? I think weâre a bit vague about this, perhaps intentionally. Does field theory or front stage/backstage work in any society in any time in human history?
New preprint w/ @emroberto.bsky.socialosf.io/preprints/so...
My essay, '22, & Arendt so on point. French salon society, she says, "did not doubt that homosexuals were âcriminalsâ or that Jews were âtraitorsâ; they only revised their attitude toward crime and treason." Trump & co. have long beneďŹted from similarly revisionist attitudes toward crime and treason
How can truth be used to fight disinformation without reproducing the ârevealââoriented or secret-constituting epistemology of the closet, as Eve Sedgwick descr...
this is because the high-profile political reporters are often highly educated elites with vaguely center-left views that they feel embarrassed about and think they can atone for
Similar to the way "evangelical" is becoming more of a cultural/political signifier than a religious one
Itâs striking how often at the DNC the emphasis is on opportunity for a good life rather than a good life itself. Meritocracy runs deeps in both parties.
Trump is directly communicating with Netanyahu to prevent an Israeli-Hamas ceasefire because he thinks it will help Kamala, PBS News reports.