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The academic blogosphere, scholarly craft and the end of ‘pluralistic ignorance’
One of many useful discussions in Howard Becker’s Writing for Social Scientists concerns ‘pluralistic ignorance”. He argues that this social psychological effect manifests itself in academia in...
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Can we visually represent theory?
Is it possible to visually represent theory? This is the core question addressed by a potential project which I began discussing with a couple of people today. My starting point for the question is...
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Self-awareness and reflexive technologies
What is it to be self-aware? Why is it a good thing? One of the strengths of the relational realist conception of reflexivity is that it doesn’t conceptualise this capacity in terms of self-awareness....
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The Sociology of Everythingism
There was a Guardian article last summer which really caught my imagination. It introduced the term ‘everythingist’ to explain a recurrent inability to commit because there are so many other things to...
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Reflections on five years spent studying asexuality
It occurred to me earlier that it’s been five years since I started my research on asexuality. After a year, I wrote this article reflecting on my experiences. When I read it back, I’m struck by how...
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Stuff I want to find out
How do norms emerge ‘online’ and is this different from how they emerge ‘offline’? What does this tell us about the ‘online’/’offline’ distinction? Is “all science becoming data science” and, if so,...
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Some notes on naturalism
Much of Charles Taylor’s work has, in effect, been variations upon a theme. This was an overriding concern to argue against the understanding of “human life and action” implicit in an influential...
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What are research methods for?
From Paradigm wars: Some thoughts on a personal and public trajectory by Ann Oakley: It is because doctors, teachers, social workers and others are so prone to launch interventions without knowing...
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The unavoidability of sociological theory
There’s an important way in which sociological theory is unavoidable. I mean this in the sense in which Alexander describes the problems of action and order as non-optional: “every theory takes some...
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Actor centred sociology
In the last couple of years, I’ve occasionally wondered whether I’m a methodological individualist. The term carries intensely negative connotations within the areas of sociology in which I spend my...
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