Social Class. Yes, No, and Maybe
Sunday, November 25th, 2007 Posted in Social Invention, Social Class | No Comments »We approach social class from the theory side. Concepts along with their formulators and advocates are active parts of the reality they attend. It is called praxis, making the word real. Sometimes the new ...
Corralling Charisma & Introducing the Neuz
Friday, October 19th, 2007 Posted in Social Invention, Reductionism, Charisma, Neuz | No Comments »Weber's charismatic threatens the sociological project with reductionism. It suggests that a social fact may have its source within another level of analysis, that the plural experience may be explained by a biologically based psychology and sociology reduced to an ...
Blind Spot Spotted–Finally Visible in the Social Order of Sports
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 Posted in Concepts, Social Invention | No Comments »Blind spot: something that should be obvious is invisible. In language you define too narrowly and so omit and make invisible a fact that is glaringly present. George C. Homans, a famous Harvard sociologist, in his book "The Human Group" chuckled ...