@gleemie@JustCodeCulture@politicalscience@histodons@sociology@anthropol (Setting aside the fact that other organizing was almost certainly done,) what other kinds of organizing do you think would have been successful in stopping a Governor (running for president on an anti-woke agenda), who has flagrantly used autocratic tactics at every turn and in every policy that serves his political agenda, from doing what he did? I'd be very interested to know so we can do it next time.
@GhileneH@sociology bien curieux aussi oui, je sens bien la phrase mal compris ou détournée encore, ça ne serait pas la première fois de la part de lahire.
Bourdieu était le premier à déplorer de fausses divisions (issues de l'histoire des disciplines) entre disciplines. J'aurai tendance à penser que bourdieu parlait ici d'autres enjeux (la légitimes des sciences sociales).
Je rajoute ici deux extraits qui me semble pertinents des méditations pascaliennes (Bourdieu n'ignorait pas le biologique) et, plus vieux, des héritiers (sur le fait d'expliquer par le social ce qui peut être expliquer par le social, c'est un peu les enjeux de la socio, et les enjeux à l'époque).
Par ailleurs le livre a l'air intéressant si il tient ses promesses.
A community-based study on the social roots of #youth#suicide and some sociological suggestions for #suicideprevention and #mentalhealth promotion. It is a one-of-a-kind. The book works to illuminate how this community struggled, what it did right, and what lessons we might learn for other communities struggling.
What a pleasure to speak with @FranciscaOrtiz for the 'Knitting Networks' podcast and chat about my research into spatial and social networks.
The podcast provides amazing features of scholars investigating social networks and is a joy to listen to - so many fantastic colleagues talking about their work!
I've created a new key memo in our Obsidian vault. It synthesises many existing notes and describes how our studied data centre site in Germany is related to production networks in Asia-Pacific. In fact, the network view helped me explore and theorize relations.
But it's a real danger that such a view indicates finished research or fixed notions. It's worth reflecting on the performativity of such a tool. Reminds me of Gephi issues. @sociology@sts
Do you manage expected #student work load, care for their #workload, rely on #students to self-manage their #work#load? Or, how do you relate otherwise in your #teaching to the hours students are to engage in studying?
@i_ngli@sociology@sts@anthropology one small thing I began to do about 8 years ago was include an estimate - in brackets - of the time I thought each assignment might take. Students with anxiety esp mentioned how it helped ease worry and their tendency to make projects bigger than was necessary. It was much better, they said, than simply posting a word-count.
Nur mit einigen der Tools habe ich selbst vertiefte Erfahrung, bin also weiter dankbar für Eure Ergänzungen und weitere Erfahrungsberichte. Was wären Eure Empfehlungen?
Brilliant article by Alka Raman demonstrating that it was 'recognition of British spinners' lack of adequate spinning skills [that] motivated the move to mechanization, in order to match the quality of cotton products created & perfected over centuries by anonymous & highly skilled Indian artisans'
Yeah, exactly. It had nothing to do with skill but material availability. Cotton was a luxury item at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, so of course, British home spinners would have no skill with cotton, but they were by no stretch of the imagination unskilled.
@b_sbarta@gkbhambra@histodons@sociology Ah, this probably also answers my question regarding automated fabrics allegedly being worse quality than the ones produced locally with more traditional methods. Thank you!
Transgression is an essential concept for understanding many of today's political dynamics.
POPULISM AS A TRANSGRESSIVE STYLE by Théo Aiolfi (2022).
"As a consequence of its performative turn, the critical literature on populism has dedicated increasing attention to its sociocultural and stylistic features. Among the most prominent concepts underpinning this approach is the notion that populism relies on the “flaunting of the low” or the use of “bad manners.” This article engages in an extensive discussion of the way this concept is used in the literature and showcases its main limitations. In replacement, I then suggest the alternative concept of transgression, understood as the violation of a norm, which has the substantial advantages of being more flexible and versatile as well as less reliant on a normative binary".
DONALD TRUMP AND THE RATIONALIZATION OF TRANSGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR: The role of group prototypicality and identity advancement by Ben Davies, Carola Leicht and Dominic Abrams (2022).
"Overall, the present study identifies the rationalization of transgressive leader behaviors as a novel pathway to their continued support. We also identify identity advancement as a key driver of this effect. These results provide an important extension of deviance credit and indicate that the role of group prototypicality in the context of group serving leaders may need to be reconsidered. These results also have worrying implications for the nature of transgressive leadership and demonstrate how unimpeachable such leadership may become once it is established."
A comparison of refugee attitudes 2015 and today, just published in Nature:
Bansak, Hainmueller & Hangartner: Europeans’ support for #refugees of varying background is stable over time
"support for asylum seekers today is, if anything, slightly higher than six years ago at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis"
which is
"a consequence of the socio-demographic composition ... of Ukrainian refugees"
It continues: "The findings strongly contradict the idea that the increase in general support is limited to Ukrainian refugees. Indeed, in most countries there is a statistically significant increase in the percentage of accepted non-Ukrainian asylum seeker profiles in 2022 versus 2016... the increased support for refugees extends to other, non-Ukrainian groups of asylum seekers and that there is no evidence of substitution effects"
And "In stark contrast to the prediction that other refugee groups would face decreased support, we find that the percentage of accepted Muslim profiles has significantly increased in the majority of countries"