Tom Lehrer, master of many trades, sings here about sociology and mathematics, a mixture that is not always a solution: (HT Vaughn Tan)
Tag: sociology
Reflections on Sociology as a science (*)
John Levi Martin [pictured here], sociologist at the University of Chicago offers his “Reflections on Sociology as a science“: I am often asked to give my opinion as to whether and how sociology should be a science, provoking the following reflections on science as an enterprise. Basically, I have to say that science has let me […]
Mutiny, research about
A University of Washington press release heralds Steve Pfaff‘s research on mutinies: Risking one’s neck for better grog: Mutinies reveal tipping points for collective unrest …Another seemingly odd reason for rebellion occurred in 1793 aboard the Minerva as it returned from the East Indies. Captain Whitby insisted the men exercise by fiddle-dancing, be quiet when […]
Wacquant, furious-fisted sociologist
Loic Wacquant, perhaps the only French sociologist who spent at least three years in the Woodlawn Gym in Chicago, Illinois, boxing with both amateurs and professionals, emerged from the experience strong, spry and of a mind to punch out some books and papers. Wacquant is now a researcher at the Centre de Sociologie Européenne in […]