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"Conditions of Possibility for Deep Social Change" by @terevaden.net and me is out!
We highlight some of the preconditions for social change in relation to what is generally considered to be acceptable, desirable, (im)possible and normal.
Fossiiliperustainen yhteiskuntajärjestyksemme on optimoitu talouskasvun tavoittelulle ja ihmisten hallitsemiseen, eikä se sellaisenaan pysty ratkaisemaan ekologista kriisiä ja resurssien ylikulutusta. Nykydemokratiat ovat resurssi-intensiivisiä järjestelmiä, mikä saa meidät kysymään miten ne voivat selviytyä kasvutalouden horjumisesta?
Avointa keskustelua.
Vapaa pääsy, tervetuloa!
Järjestäjinä
@olliherranen
@tereensio
Pieta Savinotko
Facebook-eventti: https://www.facebook.com/events/1649874319715650
Sociologist Mikko Virtanen wrote a very kind review of my book "The Invisible Order. A Relational Approach to Social Institution.":
"In universities, while scarcity is managed and resources distributed, a commitment to genuine scientific enquiry persists, as exemplified by Herranen's work."
This review is now freely available and can be found, for example, on Mikko's ResearchGate page.
If you are interested in the book, please feel free to contact me!
In a recent post, the President of the American Sociological Association, Joya Misra, explained what #sociology is.
In addition to explaining the social stuff, we seem to be upsetting some people. Clearly we're doing something right.
The boards that oversee the education of students enrolled in Florida’s public colleges and universities are trying to restrict enrollment in sociology courses on those campuses.
I recently published a short piece on my employer's blog about #ClimateDenialism and the public debate surrounding it.
The piece highlights some of the characteristics of the phenomenon in Finland. Despite these peculiarities, the reception of the blog text follows a pattern that is internationally recognisable in different contexts.
With the kind permission of the publisher, the proofs of my article on the relationship between #AppliedEthics and #Sociology are now publicly available.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380026985_Sociology
Today, it's a Foundation Day in Finland.
I have received funding for a social theoretical project.
This is extraordinary because the conditions for funding basic research in the social sciences have become very difficult.
@omarlizardo has written about this.
For me, it was made possible by the private Emil Aaltonen Foundation.
I have just received funding for a social theoretical project 'Social system theories in the era of polycrisis - explanatory power and applicability' (2025-2028).
We're taking a new theoretical and methodological approach to the grand theories and testing them against some aspects of the so-called polycrisis.
We argue that the abandonment of system theories in the social sciences was premature.
What's your view on grand/system theories?
What is the relationship between #Sociology and #AppliedEthics?
I open up this question in the 'Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics in the Social Sciences', and pretty much my own conception of sociology.
The difficulty of drawing a distinction between ‘normative’ and ‘scientific’ sociology is highlighted in this chapter.
Ask more (or the PDF) if you're interested!
https://www.elgaronline.com/display/book/9781800881693/ch32.xml
From the perspective of applied ethics, sociology studies the relationship between the general condition and varieties of social order and the social norms and standards that are also applied to everyday practical moral questions. Thus, a necessary condition for understanding and answering these questions is an understanding of the general problem of social order and its relation to social norms. Accordingly, sociology can be reconstructed as a science of norms in aims of understanding the normative preconditions for the general phenomenon of social order (how things ‘are’). What, again, could be called deviation from social order lies behind sociology as a normative science: this field delves into social contradictions, conflicts, and heterogeneity, thereby also calling on its practitioners to participate in society (how things ‘ought to be’). The difficulty of drawing a distinction between ‘normative’ and ‘scientific’ sociology is highlighted through these perspectives in this chapter.
The paperback version of my book 'The Invisible Order' is out. The price seems to be the same as for the hardcover version.
I wonder why anyone would want to buy a paperback version at the same insane price.
If you are interested in the book, please contact me.
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