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Tag Archives: social sciences
Statisticism: the erroneous notion that computing is doing research
Notes on Social Measurement: Historical and Critical is a major and insightful book by a distinguished American sociologist Otis Dudley Duncan (1921-2004) published in 1984. Duncan has introduced many statistical techniques to sociology, and studied mainly intergenerational occupational mobility. In a paper “Otis Dudley Duncan, quantitative sociologist … Continue reading
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Tagged methodology, social sciences, sociology, sociology of knowledge, statistics
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Orthodoxy and Monoeconomics
“The principal enemy is orthodoxy: to use the same recipe, administer the same therapy, to resolve the most various types of problems; never to admit complexity and try to reduce it as much as possible, while ignoring that things are … Continue reading
Albert Einstein on the power of ideas and imagination in science
What do economic sociology and political economy, or social and political sciences in general, have to do with Albert Einstein?.. you might probably ask. Well, they do — and hopefully at the end of this post you will agree with me. I … Continue reading
The Audacity of Science
These days, as the new academic year begins, please allow me to wish you not to be deterred from inadequacy in your intellectual (or professional) journey; let inadequacy, accompanied by audacity, guide you forward. — Oleg Komlik. “Science is inadequate, … Continue reading
Don’t mess with political scientists! Not to mention political economists!! ;-)
🙂 This is an actual problem from physics textbook: Halliday, David, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker. 2010. Fundamentals of Physics (Ninth Edition). Wiley (p. 84)
“Falsified statistics”, membership celebration, thanks and an important reminder
“The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself” famously said Winston Churchill. I am glad to share with you today that according to our statistics the global academic community of Economic Sociology and Political Economy reached 30,000 members … Continue reading
What is academic freedom?
“The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue — questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom, of all scientific inquiry.“ … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, academic freedom, law, social sciences, United States
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Who is an economist? Here is Keynes’ answer
In 1924 John Maynard Keynes wrote an obituary essay for a prominent economist Alfred Marshall, one of the founders of the English neoclassical economics and Keynes’ former tutor and academic patron. In this fascinating piece of work Keynes astoundingly mulls over Marshall’s scholarship and intellectual life. Joseph Schumpeter, in his eulogy of … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, economic history, economics, John Maynard Keynes, social sciences
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International Political Economy scholars miss THE question of the 21st century: the rise of a global labor class living in poverty
In the recent years, more and more International Political Economy (IPE) scholars are dissatisfied with the current state of this field of research and desire to identify the ‘Big Questions’ of the 21st century. In this (open access) article, Benjamin … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, capital, capitalism, class, development, global political economy, globalization, labor, Marxism, social sciences
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Ulrich Beck has died. His powerful concept of ‘Risk Society’ is relevant as never before
Renowned sociologist and social thinker Ulrich Beck has died. Ulrich Beck (Munich University and LSE) has become one of the world’s most famous intellectuals and most quoted social scientists in recent decades. Beck’s book Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (1986/1992) is … Continue reading
Posted in Oleg Komlik
Tagged class, environment, globalization, modernity, risk society, social sciences, sociology of risk, Ulrich Beck
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“People are living books. The real library of life is community.” Thank you all!
While 2014 is coming to an end and 2015 is knocking on our doors, I want to thank every one of you for being here and for making this community what it really is. Thank you for joining, for every … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Sociology, knowledge, Political economy, public sociology, social sciences
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Theodor Adorno on philosophy, academia, and market
Theodor Adorno: “Out of piety, laziness, and calculation, philosophy continues to muddle through in an ever narrower academic framework, and even there, it is increasingly being replaced with organized tautology. Whoever entrusts themselves to credentialed profundity, fall victim just as a … Continue reading
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Tagged academia, Frankfurt school, marketization, public sociology, social sciences
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Science is at your feet: Political Science and Sociology’s Most Cited Papers from Each Decade since the 1950s
Using the Web of Science database, Jim Moody (Sociology, Duke University) and Charles Breton (Political Science, University of British Columbia) took the most-cited papers in their respective disciplines, and produced a Top 10 list for each decade going back to … Continue reading
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Economists admit: “Humans are fundamentally a social species with interaction patterns that shape their behaviors”. Eureka!!
Economists admit: “Humans are fundamentally a social species with interaction patterns that shape their behaviors.” What has caused this startling discovery?! A genuine ambition “to build better models”! First of all, I would like to applaud, seriously, The Journal of … Continue reading
Zygmunt Bauman: “Sociologizing makes sense only in as far as it helps humanity.”
Zygmunt Bauman: “…Sociologizing makes sense only in as far as it helps humanity.” in: Beilharz, Peter. 2001. The Bauman Reader. Oxford: Blackwell. (p. 335)
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Tagged academia, Economic Sociology, public sociology, social sciences, sociology
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