Posted in Social Theory, tagged discourse ethics, Habermas on October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Jürgen Habermas Interview
A few days ago, in my doctoral seminar, we started talking about the noose hanging incident at Teachers College. The discussion rapidly turned to issues of morality - and specifically, toward concepts of justice and solidarity. One of my classmates argued for a morality based in an empathy and solidarity with those who [...]
Posted in Actor-Network Theory, Social Theory, Sociology, Systems Theory on August 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I spent much of last night and early this morning reading through an interesting article by Guenther Teubner, of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. Teubner’s a professor of private law and legal sociology, and he’s written extensively on topics in contract law, corporate regulation, and international law. But he’s also developed a perspective on legal evolution and [...]
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Education, HIV/AIDS, Institutional theory, International and Comparative Education, Organizations, Science and Technology, Social Theory, Sociology, Systems Theory on August 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I went to a number of sessions over the last two days of the conference, but I’ll only mention a few.
1. The very last session I attended at the conference was on Cultural Sociology and Disciplinary Change, chaired by a very droll and funny Jeffrey Alexander presiding over a standing-room only crowd who came [...]
Posted in Asian Studies, Conferences, Cultural Politics, Education, HIV/AIDS, Institutional theory, New York City, Politics of Identity, Social Theory, Sociology on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Thought I’d take running notes on how the American Sociological Association conference is proceeding - for me, that is. I could wait and do a single wrap-up once the whole thing packs up and leaves town, but I probably just won’t remember anything. So, it’s just as well to jot things down as they take [...]
Posted in HIV/AIDS, Social Theory on August 7, 2007 | No Comments »
‘Normalization’ is usually used as a pejorative within the academy; it’s often taken to mean a stifling of heterogeneity and multiplicity, a smoothing out of difference. This can only take place, so the line of thinking goes, through the exercise of power: perhaps overt, but more likely covert and insidious, through the dissemination and spread [...]
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