The current issue of New Scientist Magazine has an interesting article that compares selfish behaviors with altruistic behaviors and produces a theory of how group-oriented collaboration has a track r… more →
Humane Systems Design (HSD)Jordi wrote 3 days ago: A somewhat structured web surf about organizational change lead me to this site about the book/proje … more →
molecularshyness wrote 4 days ago: Seems like there’ve been a few conversations going on [for a while] about being black and what … more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
John Postill wrote 3 weeks ago: What’s the connection, if any, between moral panics and social dramas? I’m not quite sur … more →
phdchannel wrote 1 month ago: Volume 2 Issue 1 January 2009 The Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences invite all submission … more →
Jordi wrote 1 month ago: I remember how excited I was to read Emirbayer’s 1997 “Manifesto for a Relational Sociol … more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
John Botscharow wrote 2 months ago: In several posts about the custody case in Texas recently involving the illegal seizure of over 400 … more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Ming Yeung wrote 2 months ago: The probe into the field of social theory, starting from the Frankfurt school, especially the concep … more →
alinit wrote 3 months ago: Andre asked to post some links to useful online ANT (actor network theory) sources - so here goes … more →
mim wrote 3 months ago: A week ago I heard social theory big wigs Malcolm Gladwell and Mark Kingwell speak at Convocation Ha … more →