#SocialTheory is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 8 people shared 18 posts with it — around 1 a day. Activity is up 400% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 28 with 2 posts.
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Stuart Hall, An Intellectual for Times of Reaction
In troubling times, we should return to Stuart Hall, a remarkable political thinker and cultural analyst.
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Rethinking Community in Myanmar | University of Hawai‘i Press - Manifold
In this first anthropological study of Muslim and Hindu lives in urban Myanmar today, Judith Beyer develops the concept of “we-formation” to demonstrate that individuals are always more than members o...
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The dialectic of educational enlightenment: Questioning ‘what works’
In today’s educational climate, the phrase ‘what works’ has become something of a mantra. It refers to the use of rigorous, often quantitative, research methods – particularly ran…
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Social emergence and unpredictability
I analyse arguments for social emergentism based on the notion of unpredictability. After examining and ultimately rejecting weak emergentism as relev…
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South–South Theoretical Dialogues: The Tanzanian Experience (1974–76) in Milton Santos’ Spatial Theory
The Brazilian geographer Milton Santos is known for his sophisticated theorisation of geographical space. Less well known, however, is the role that Milton Santos’ experience at the University of Dar...
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Community as a category of empire: ‘The work of community’ among Burmese Indians in Myanmar
In this article I argue that ‘community' is a category that is inextricably bound up with the historical development of the British empire. It was in this context that modern social theory took roo...
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Hardt and Negri’s Empire Got Everything Wrong
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire became a campus sensation because it offered a master theory for globalization at a moment when old Marxist categories seemed exhausted. But the capitalist int...
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Reasoning with Concepts: Conceptual Spaces as a Framework
A unified treatment of different types of reasoning with concepts, such as category-based induction, nonmonotonic reasoning, analogies, and generics.Psycho
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Book Review: Why Should We Still Read Max Weber?
Michael Symonds, Why Should We Still Read Max Weber? (Routledge, 2027) Reviewed by Harry Blatterer
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Anger, Rage, Resentment as Drivers of Political Identity • Universität Passau
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The age of no resistance: Palliation, friction reduction, and the structural erosion of social integration - Björn Wikström, 2026
This article advances a structural sociological diagnosis of contemporary late-modern societies as organized around the systematic reduction of friction. Across...
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Emotions as Lines: A Process Sociology - The American Sociologist
This article develops a sociological account of emotions as lines: dynamic processes that unfold over time, undergo interruptions, intensifications, and transformations, and become entangled with othe...
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Emotions as Lines: A Process Sociology - The American Sociologist
This article develops a sociological account of emotions as lines: dynamic processes that unfold over time, undergo interruptions, intensifications, and transformations, and become entangled with othe...
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