Personal Morphogenesis 
My PhD in 60 seconds (video to follow soon!)
Hi, my name is Mark Carrigan and I’m a final year PhD student in Sociology at the University of Warwick. My research is an attempt to answer a question that’s fascinated me since I was at school: what makes people… Read More ›
Becoming Who We Are
So this is a draft version of a presentation I’m giving at the International Association of Critical Realism conference in Norway on Tuesday. For various reasons, I’m really nervous about it – going on here because one person has already… Read More ›
Domain Analysis (draft #2)
This is a second attempt to visually represent the ontology I’m working within in my PhD research. One of my key aims is to try and offer an emergent account of psychobiography, able to capture the complex multidimensional causality which… Read More ›
The self to itself
In his Emotion in Social Life Derek Layder (2004: 13) argues that there are three main objects which individuals seek to control through the exercise of their agency: “the self as object of its own control, other people and the individual’s… Read More ›
Solitude and Interiority
The historians taught us long ago that the King was never left alone. But, in fact, until the end of the seventeeth century, nobody was ever left alone. The density of social life made isolation virtually impossible, and people who… Read More ›
