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Living Text of Sociology
3. December 2010 by student. About 600,000 people a year die in America because a drive consumes alcohol and then get in their car and causes an accident.
For almost a year I have been working at the Center on Law and Public Finance, a center based at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge, which is currently dedicated to research on American infrastructure.
Graphic Sociology
In this and a series of forthcoming posts, I will attempt to outline an argument showing that most of the time claims to have derived a substantively important conclusion from constructionist premises are incoherent. By a substantively important conclusion I refer to strong arguments for the “social construction of X” where X is some sort of category or natural kind that is usually thought to have general ontological validity in the larger culture (e.g gender, race, mental illness, etc.).
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Replicated Typo
I went to a good talk almost a year ago at the Interfaces III conference at the University of Kent, and I said I’d write about it, but I never got around to it. The slides have been on my desktop ever since.
The Immanent Frame
Much more than a blog, Frequencies is a treasure trove of deep description and highly creative analysis. The casual observer initially might assume Frequencies to be a motley collection of unrelated reflections on matters ranging from historical figures to chicken sandwiches. Such an assumption could not be more foolhardy, however.
Technosociology
Egyptian-American writer and my friend Mona El Tahawy , who had cut her trip in North Africa short to join the exploding Tahrir protests in her native country, had just sent that out. Short, uncapitalized, clearly written in a hurry.
Walking in Ecuador (the Good)
Okay, we've established that Ecuador has some challenges when it comes to the pedestrian environment.
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