Archive for the ‘Sociology’ Category
Thursday, October 15th, 2026
As noted previously
[I]n sociological theories institutions are generally reckoned to be significant features of a society, and there seems to be some primitive notion that underlies the use of the term, but as is often the case the precise definitions offered cover a range of related possibilities. The Stanford Encyclopedia ...
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Friday, October 9th, 2026
Reading Gross & Levitt, Higher Superstition, concerning ‘The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science.’
Science is one of the characteristics and triumphs of the West, so it is an irresistible target for those who find the moral burden of their own civilisation unbearable. Science is therefore attacked as being ...
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2026
A discussion with a group of friends turned – never mind how – to the subject of same-sex marriage (SSM.) I made the traditionalist claim that marriage is an institution whose purpose and function is to regulate sexual behaviour, to provide support for children and child-bearing women, and to support ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2026
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In discussion, we have wondered about the lunacies that are afflicting us, and I have been asked what I make of them. I begin by noting that the nonsense we observe is characterized by its uniformly destructive nature. I have previously noted that in order to determine whether the agents ...
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Sunday, June 28th, 2026
What are these ‘indigenous ways of knowing’ (henceforth, IWK)? Let’s ignore the term ‘indigenous’ for the moment: we will see that it has its own problems. An unsystematic review of many of the official and semi-official resources available online is extremely confusing, since there seems to be no consistent distinction ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
There is a fundamental sociological interest in the infrastructure or social conditions that facilitate the distribution of information in a society. Unfortunately, treatments of the ‘Flow of Information’ in the context of sociological or organizational theory typically refer to the ‘information channels’ that play that role with minimal if any ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2026
An important aspect of communication relates to the transfer of information, but the treatment of information as a sociological phenomenon cannot be limited to its associations with communication alone: of equal importance are questions of creation, access, accumulation, transformation, function, social effect, etc. To address such issues, we will need ...
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Saturday, September 19th, 2015
A class of ensembles can be defined for which the EX includes the acceptance of a norm formation. Amongst the subclasses of this we shall seek to define a class of ‘institutions’ that is suitable to play the theoretical role assigned to institutions in HLSTs (but without assuming that those ...
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Sunday, September 13th, 2015
Research indicates that certain kinds of collections of agents below the level of species are sociologically significant. ‘Class’, ‘group’, and ‘organization’, for example, are all terms used to name such collections – each of them with a slightly different intention and occupying a slightly different role in some sociological theory. ...
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Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
A Conceptual Model of Multiple Dimensions of Identity by Susan R. Jones, Marylu K. McEwen, Journal of College Student Development, V 41, No. 4, July/August 2000
A conceptual model of multiple dimensions of identity depicts a core sense of self or one’s personal identity. Intersecting circles surrounding the core identity represent significant identity dimensions ...
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