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Business Optimists Rediscover Society!

Jordi wrote 3 days ago: A somewhat structured web surf about organizational change lead me to this site about the book/proje … more →

Tags: Humor, Business, Sociology

in that hip-hop way

molecularshyness wrote 4 days ago: Seems like there’ve been a few conversations going on [for a while] about being black and what … more →

Tags: My Life, pop culture, Race, bill cosby, Black&White, defining black

Politics inside or outside the magic circle?

Jordi wrote 1 week ago: The magic circle seems a key concept in virtual worlds and gaming.  For origin of the term from Huz … more →

Tags: Gaming, Organization Theory, Research, technology, virtual worlds, institutional theory, Second-Life, SL, Sociology

New in paperback: Media and Nation Building (J. Postill)1 comment

John Postill wrote 2 weeks ago: I am very pleased to announce that my ethnography of media and nation building among the Iban of Sar … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Audience Research, ethnicity and nationalism, Ethnography, Media and Nation Building, media anthropology, Media Studies, Media Theory, orality and literacy

BiA, BiA

molecularshyness wrote 3 weeks ago: I think that our stories are just as universal as anybody else’s. It’s been a struggle t … more →

Tags: My Life, pop culture, Race, TV, Black in America, Black&White, CNN, racism, Soledad O'Brien

Strategy as Practice in Lancaster and Amsterdam

Peter Erdélyi wrote 3 weeks ago: Presenting at EGOS 2008. Between 10 and 12 July 2008 I attended the 24th EGOS Colloquium in Amsterda … more →

Tags: Entrepreneurship, Strategy, e-commerce, SME's, research process, qualitative research, Economic Sociology, Actor Network Theory, strategy-as-practice

Moral panics and social dramas3 comments

John Postill wrote 3 weeks ago: What’s the connection, if any, between moral panics and social dramas? I’m not quite sur … more →

Tags: Africa, Anthropology, Ethnography, Field theory, Journalism Studies, Manchester School, media anthropology, Media Studies, Media Theory

CFP: The Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences

phdchannel wrote 1 month ago: Volume 2 Issue 1 January 2009 The Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences invite all submission … more →

Tags: Conferences, Call for Papers, social sciences, Gender, Psychological Sciences, Psychoanalysis, critical theory

The emergence of a new research paradigm: Relationalism?

Jordi wrote 1 month ago: I remember how excited I was to read Emirbayer’s 1997 “Manifesto for a Relational Sociol … more →

Tags: Books, organization studies, Organization Theory, Sociology, Network theory, relationalism

what color am i?2 comments

molecularshyness wrote 1 month ago: Ever since I was a kid I classified myself as black, even though I was generally socialized in a whi … more →

Tags: My Life, Politics, Race, obama, being mixed, defining black

Monday-morning quarterbacking, a couple Mondays too late.

Dmitry wrote 1 month ago: Mike Meginnis is a bit too eager to blame everything on a malevolent ruling class. If you say things … more →

Tags: Internet Drama

Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Theory

John Curran wrote 1 month ago: I’ve set up a photo pool on Flickr as a public archive of Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Ling … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Diagrams, anthropological theory, Anthropology Diagrams, Linguistic Anthropology

The Failure of Bureaucracy: Case In Point

John Botscharow wrote 2 months ago: In several posts about the custody case in Texas recently involving the illegal seizure of over 400 … more →

Tags: Politics, Bureaucracy, US Politics, California, child abuse

the devils own4 comments

gautam wrote 2 months ago: I finished another page of my book; but before that.. 2008 seems to be a year of gender bias … more →

Tags: gender equality, Sexual Violence, Women empowerment

the devils own5 comments

gautam wrote 2 months ago: I finished another page of my book; but before that.. 2008 seems to be a year of gender bias … more →

Tags: Government, gender equality, Feminism, Sexual Violence, Women empowerment, Law

N Pepperell Has Some Things To Say About The Emergence Of Modernity. [UPDATED]15 comments

praxisblog wrote 2 months ago: Okay. I’ve been spending really quite a lot of time recently talking with N Pepperell (of the Rou … more →

Tags: Blogroll, History, Politics, Science, Vitiated by Ignorance

Social Theory

Ming Yeung wrote 2 months ago: The probe into the field of social theory, starting from the Frankfurt school, especially the concep … more →

Tags: Project Progress, Self - Evaluation, critical theory, Habermas, Ricoeur

ANT - we're all one

alinit wrote 3 months ago: Andre asked to post some links to useful online ANT (actor network theory) sources - so here goes … more →

Tags: General, Innovation, web evolution, Actor Network Theory, ant, Callon, control to drift, Information Systems, information systems theory

Gladwell on Social Change: "Somebody Ought to Do Something"1 comment

mim wrote 3 months ago: A week ago I heard social theory big wigs Malcolm Gladwell and Mark Kingwell speak at Convocation Ha … more →

Tags: Environment, event, Reviews, Trends, Enviro, Social, cultural studies, The Next Big Thing, somebody ought to do something


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