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How can we create #innovative and #just #collective #resources for #democracy and #solidarity among #knowledge #workers in the 21st century?
I have been thinking about and researching this question over the past decade in Toronto. Sharing an article, I have written in 2018 which unpacks this question that remains relevant in this decade. The op-ed also rethinks journalism and #politics of knowledge in the 21st #century.
๐ https://www.agos.com.tr/en/article/the-fly-on-the-wall-21777
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๐ E.H. Carr noted in 1939, the dawn of the World War II, that "political science is the science not only of what is, but of what ought to be." And so is journalism, especially in a time of global populism, authoritarian governance and post-truth. Ignoring this reality can diminish the much-needed function of journalism as an advocate for accountability in the public space.
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A new reflexivity on, and interest in, public sociology and politics of knowledge production are sorely needed in journalism and science, engineering and medicine field practices and curricula in the 21st century.
#publicsociology #history #ideologycritique #systemspolitics #socialtheory #politicaltheory
*Reference citation
Duggan, Lisa. The Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy. Beacon Press: Boston, MA, USA; 2003.
Synthesis: decoupling advances via loss of proximity, abolition of reciprocity, removal of voice. Re-embedding means designing institutions that restore all three โ so accountability is structural, not optional.
Read Essay:
https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-moral-economy-tradition-intellectual
#MoralEconomy #Polanyi #Thompson #Granovetter #SocialTheory #Governance #Legitimacy #Embeddedness
#PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology #InstitutionalDesign
#Accountability
A Supplementary Essay to The Great Decoupling, A guided map of moral economyโThompson, Polanyi, Scott, Granovetter & Akbar โ showing how proximity, reciprocity, and voice sustain legitimacy.
Key idea: markets always rely on norms and social mechanisms. Thompson shows crowd expectations; Polanyi shows why self-regulating markets destabilize social/ecological foundations and trigger countermovements.
Read Essay:
https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-moral-economy-tradition-intellectual
#MoralEconomy #Polanyi #Thompson #Granovetter #SocialTheory #Governance #Legitimacy #Embeddedness
#PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology #InstitutionalDesign
#Accountability
A Supplementary Essay to The Great Decoupling, A guided map of moral economyโThompson, Polanyi, Scott, Granovetter & Akbar โ showing how proximity, reciprocity, and voice sustain legitimacy.
New essay: โThe Moral Economy Tradition.โ Moral economy isnโt nostalgia โ itโs a structural claim: systems stay legitimate when responsibility is embedded. We trace Thompson โ Polanyi โ Scott โ Granovetter โ Akbar, then offer a diagnostic for modern โdecoupling.โ
Read Essay:
https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-moral-economy-tradition-intellectual
#MoralEconomy #Polanyi #Thompson #Granovetter #SocialTheory #Governance #Legitimacy #Embeddedness #PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology #InstitutionalDesign #Accountability
The sociological distinction between subcultures and countercultures provides a vital framework for understanding modern cultural evolution. ๐๏ธ๐
I am pleased to share an insightful new article by Dennis Joiner: "Subculture and Counterculture Explained: How Small Groups Shape Society and Identity."
Full article here:
๐ https://www.djoinerbooks.com/subculture-and-counterculture/
#Sociology #CulturalEvolution #DennisJoiner #SocialTheory #PublicInterest #HumanAgency
Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, social theorist, political journalist, historian, a key figure of the labor movement, and a critic of capitalism and religion.
#KarlMarx
#Philosophy
#EconomicTheory
#SocialTheory
#History
#PoliticalJournalism
#LaborHistory
#19thCentury
A new episode of the Key Concepts series is now live! In this episode, I explore my favourite concept, the imaginary, and explain how it has been developed across the social sciences ๐๐ฝ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vndj82-yzF8
#sociologyconcepts #anthropology #humangeography #socialtheory #imaginary #imagination
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