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    Exploring Sociological Theory

    Exploring Sociological Theory

    Exploring Sociological Theory

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    Length:
    35 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    I read some classics in sociological theory, trying to release them from the dusty shelves.

    For more, see my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/AlecMcGail/
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    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 35 episodes

    Title

    (Fromm) The Illusion of Individuality

    The last chapter of Fromm's analysis of individuality of modern man. Fromm addresses th...

    29 minutes
    		Oct 13, 2022

    (Tarde) Laws of Sociology

    This is epic. Love his trichotomy, and the discussion he concludes with. I.e. the emerg...

    20 minutes
    		Dec 05, 2021

    (Simmel) Fashion

    at times thought-provoking, contradictory, and offensive wish I could've read the rest ...

    29 minutes
    		Nov 12, 2021

    (Bhaskar) Emergent Properties of Social Systems

    His sentences are long, his words true. Seems I need to read more Roy Bhaskar. --- S...

    25 minutes
    		Nov 04, 2021

    (Comte) The three stages of knowing

    Printed in 1842, Comte's universal law of mental development, and why it provides such ...

    29 minutes
    		Oct 13, 2021

    (Giddens) The Adequacy of Explanatory Accounts

    From New Rules of Sociological Method, this section addresses the connection between ar...

    18 minutes
    		Oct 07, 2021

    (Luhmann) Implications of Systems Theory for Epistemology

    Can you predict this will lead to sociology in particular? I didn't... Super dense, pac...

    29 minutes
    		Jul 20, 2021

    (Douglas) Institutions Remember and Forget

    Great analysis, moving from the mnemonic structures which keep ancestry in the Nuer and...

    31 minutes
    		Jul 19, 2021

    (Simmel) The Negative Character of Collective Behavior

    An interesting little essay, directly adjacent in The Sociology of Georg Simmel to his ...

    11 minutes
    		Jul 04, 2021

    (Garfinkel) What is ethnomethodology?

    Garfinkel has a wordy, rather technical-sounding description of the study of the taken-...

    27 minutes
    		Jul 03, 2021