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Want to help your students create new futures from these difficult times? Need creative ideas on how organizations can tackle inequality and exploitation? Join Adria Scharf, Joyce Rothschild, Katie Sobering, Victor Tan Chen, Katherine Chen (me!), & other researchers of democratic organizations on 8am PDT Sun., Aug. 7 at the American Sociological Association! We’ll discuss how to teach aboutContinue reading "How to create new futures during these difficult times"| Markets, Power, and Culture
Check out my guest Q&A at the CaMP Anthropology blog, where I interview Michael Prentice about his findings and research process. An organizational researcher, Prentice has just published his o…| Markets, Power, and Culture
Reminder: Sign up for mail notifications from the blog! Enter your email in the box at the bottom of the home page. Wynton Marsalis once said that jazz is not a nihilistic music. It can be sad, happy, or chaotic. Cool and calm at times; unbounded at other times. Spiritual or intellectual, sometimes both. But neverContinue reading "On Clifford Brown"| Markets, Power, and Culture
Reminder: Sign up for mail notifications from the blog! Enter your email in the box at the bottom of the home page. I recently made the argument that many sociologists obsess over canon because it is essentially ancestor worship. People derive status, prestige, and identity from affiliation with specific well known scholars (“I am a Weberian!Continue reading "Sociology Canon as Ancestor Worship, Part Deux: Comments on Silver, Guzman, Parker and Dopking (2022)"| Markets, Power, and Culture
Reminder: Sign up for mail notifications from the blog! Enter your email in the box at the bottom of the home page. One of the most interesting recent articles, for me, is Magness’ “The anti‑discriminatory tradition in Virginia school public choice theory.” Magness’ goal is to survey how Virginia school “public choice” economists thought about race.Continue reading "Racism as a “Constitutional Problem,” Further Comments on Magness (2020)"| Markets, Power, and Culture
ddd Reminder: Sign up for mail notifications from the blog! Enter your email in the box at the bottom of the home page. The topic of conservative-libertarian fusionism has popped up again. On the Tom Woods podcast, there was an episode called “Conservatives and Libertarians, Allies or Not?” Conservative writer and editor Dan McCarthy says yes,Continue reading "Freeports, not Fusion: Comments on the Debate over Conservative-Libertarian Fusionism"| Markets, Power, and Culture
Reminder: Sign up for mail notifications from the blog! Enter your email in the box at the bottom of the home page. For the last three years or so, I have taken over as the graduate social theory instructor. I have my students fill out a worksheet every week. They have to identify the main themesContinue reading "Sociology Canon as Ancestor Worship"| Markets, Power, and Culture
Reminder: Sign up for mail notifications from the blog! Enter your email in the box at the bottom of the home page. Francis Fukuyama made a famous claim in his book, The End of History and the Last Man. Since people stopped believing in Soviet style communism, liberal capitalist democracy was the only game in town.Continue reading "Marx, Putin, and the End of History We Actually Got"| Markets, Power, and Culture
From Every year, professors get into a tizzy about tenure. There is some young scholar who breaks the news that despite an excellent record, their university didn’t promote them. It’s d…| Markets, Power, and Culture
