That's Interesting! Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Ph... - The Diigo Meta page

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Public Stiky Notes

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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  You cannot be a complete contrarian, you need to be a moderate iconoclast.
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Weber, a true genius, shows that class can be the product of money, snobbery or political connections, which are independent of each other.
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Very, very important distinction.... Which can be applied to as many theories and ideas as you can name
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Brilliant example, which will make a lot of sense for those who have read Suicide...
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Can you believe, there was a time when the American public did not believe in the power of the almighty psyche to explain it all, for all time and all people
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  This is another way to say that some phenomena or theories can be explained relationally...
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  This is an important disctinction, which we do not hear very often and deserves to be discussed over and over again
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  This is an important distinction. In essence it tells us that the dominant tendency today is to explain everything in terms of particulars, of here and now and to deny the extension of these ideas to great/broad swaths of reality
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Interesting generalization vs. localization
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Excellent example of a statement that deal witht the issue of instability of apparent stability. Here, however, the issue is still to be settled. American society was, indeed, extremely stable and very resistant to communist and socialist agitation, despite the great leeway these movements had in America.
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  These are the best two examples of this article....
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Notable, very important to remember.... Merton is a scholar you should definitely read... In fact, we will try to read his work in this class later in the semester...
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Although this sounds cynical, it only indicates that this exercise can be used for abusing the idea of violating the generally held ideas of the multitudes.
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Again, the point here is not that this is what you should do, but that this is what some people can do... And it is awfully easy to do as well...
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  In other words, radical sociology relies on the idea that even when things seem to work the should, they are in fact failing to serve us, due to their hidden, repressive agendas.
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  The overaching lesson of this section that we shoud not use any one-dimensional, absolute measure for judging the worth of a social phenonmena, but that we should use a trade-offs perspective...
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Excellent example
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Now, isn't this interesting...
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Or, another way to put it, revolutions are more likely to occur when a social class that was formely repressed is ready to get its final reward.
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Stay away from this, but not when you want to get tenure...
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  A phenomenology of sociology is a sociology of the interesting, now this is truly profound
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Davis' take on Kuhn is not only funny but also magisterial... There is no suposed "group" consensus, all scientists are in search for the one and only, their own, explanation
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Absolutely stunning statement... There is a difference between interesting and absurd, between being daring and being foolish

Page Comments

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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Latent function is an essential tool for understanding society and for generating interesting theories
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Attention, the statements made in this piece about the level of "interest" to be bestowed to various theories is independent of the validity of verifiability of those same theories.
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Very astute comment about the power of qualitative vs quantitative statements to attract attention
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Now, this is interesting in and by itself.
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Isn't this funny!
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  It is not just random statements that make interesting theoretical assertions, but only counterfactual, counterintuitive assertions.
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  Bottom line, interesting or non-interesting is relevant only in relationship to a specific audience...
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  Dr. Sorin Adam Matei on 2009-01-20
  QER

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