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  • Notes for a Sociology of Thinking 1.1

  • Cognitive Micro-Foundations for Theories of Social Change

  • Causal Agency and Cognitive Micro-Foundations

  • The Realist Critique of Materialism

  • LAST CHANCE – BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2014

  • BISR Postgraduate Conference – Inside/Outside/In-Between: Perspectives on Space, Power and Subjectivities – 9th-11th May 2014

  • A dialogue between phenomenology and realism in pedagogical and educational research

  • Detaching ‘agency’ and ‘choice’ from voluntarism

  • “Do you know what I mean?”: Internal Conversation, Human Relationships and External Speech

  • Theorising Heterogeneity for Sociology

  • The Phenomenology of Inertia

  • Holy Crap! Intersections of the Popular and the Sacred in Youth Cultures

  • The Sociology of Soldiers Reuniting With Their Dogs (no, really)

  • BSA Early Career Theorists’ Symposium

  • Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? An animated conversation with Noam Chomsky

  • Robert Skidelsky, John Rawls and Political Philosophy

  • Commonality and Difference

  • “You obviously didn’t understand that book at all!”: social realism, strong misreading and the neo-pragmatist sensibility

  • What is Capitalist Realism?

  • Cultural evolutionary tipping points in the storage and transmission of information

  • The Politics of Zombies

  • Social Morphogenesis: Variety, Reflexivity and Agency

  • Microfoundationalism in Sociology

  • The Practice of Abstraction

  • Why Things Matter to People

  • Why Sociologists and Technologists Should Talk

  • BSA Annual Conference 2014: Changing Society – Call for papers

  • Money, Power and Opportunity in the Late Modern City, or, isn’t it a shame J G Ballard isn’t around to see this?

  • The Retreat from Being and Flight into Having

  • “When I first read Foucault’s account of the panopticon. I thought it was brilliant but overheated. Now, it actually seems like somebody’s plan”

  • Would Benjamin have dismissed Žižek as a hack?

  • BSA Annual Conference 2014: Changing Society

  • The Incredible Disappearing Agent

  • CfP: Theory Stream for BSA Annual Conference 2014

  • Beyond ‘Fateful Moments’ and ‘Turning Points’: Conceptualizing Biographical Events and Their Relationship To Social Change

  • The Weirdly Humanistic Anti-Humanism of Richard Rorty

  • “I’m a cyborg? I thought I was just wearing glasses”: technology, agency and ontology

  • Network analytic approaches to the production and propagation of literary and artistic value

  • Biography, Path-Dependence and Social Events

  • Does Žižek take himself as seriously as other people do? Idolatry, activism and the academic left

  • The Sociology of Daydreaming

  • Critical Realism and American Sociology

  • What the other social sciences can learn from economics

  • Being Human, Personal Identity and Biography

  • Relationality, Reflexivity and Power

  • Being Human and Second-Order Emotions

  • Becoming Who We Are: Social Relations and Personal Morphogenesis

  • ‘Theory’ is what happens when common starting-points can no longer be taken for granted

  • Howard Becker, Blogging and Phenomenology

  • Being Human and What Matters To Us

  • Normativity, Social Science and Secularism: Reply to @rightscholar

  • Being Human and Transvaluation (part 1)

  • What’s the point of ontology? Outline of an approach to the sociology of social theory

  • “Oh ‘INTP’. So that’s what I am”: Identity and Alterity in a Digital Age

  • Being Human, Emotionality and Everyday Life

  • Being Human and Social Normativity

  • Being Human: Natural, practical and social affectivity

  • Conceptualising biographical events

  • BSA Realism Study Group Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Realist Thought- 6th Sept

  • “What was Visual Sociology?”: specialisation and fragmentation within disciplines

  • Emotions as commentaries on human concerns

  • Human Beings, Social Agents and Social Actors

  • ‘The Priority of Practice’: Human Embodiment and Learning From Nature

  • Workshop – Alterity, Intersubjectivity, Ethics, 30 September 2013

  • The Practice of Spectating

  • The constitution of social movements: biography, relations and collectives

  • BSA Realism Study Group Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Realist Thought- 6th Sept

  • Howard Becker’s 23 Thoughts About Youth

  • The Genesis of Value

  • The Reflexive Imperative and Habit(us)

  • “Oh there are other people just like me? I’m not so weird after all”: the internet, social change and social integration

  • The Reflexive Imperative, Social Change and Cybernetics

  • The Reflexive Imperative and Communicative Reflexivity

  • BSA Realism Study Group Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Realist Thought- 6th Sept

  • The Reflexive Imperative and Autonomous Reflexivity

  • Guest Post: @TGJBrock Reflects on International Association of Critical Realism 2013

  • The Reflexive Imperative and Fractured Reflexivity

  • BSA Realism Study Group Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Realist Thought- 6th Sept

  • BSA Realism Study Group Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Realist Thought- 6th Sept

  • The Reflexive Imperative and Meta-Reflexivity

  • “So what is it I’m trying to say exactly?”: Iteration and Articulation

  • Beyond ‘fateful moments’ and ‘turning points’: a realist approach to biographical research

  • ‘Shaking Up’ the Social Sciences

  • The Reflexive Imperative, Social Change and the Financial Crisis

  • The Reflexive Imperative and Shaping a Life

  • The Reflexive Imperative and Relational Reflexivity

  • Contemporary Issues in Realist Thought – September 6th @BritSoci Meeting Rooms

  • The Reflexive Imperative and Internal Conversation

  • What’s a Collective? The Ontology of Groups, Crowds and Crews

  • The Politics of Circulation, Human Agency and Building Your Own Information Environment

  • The Reflexive Imperative and Social Change

  • The Reflexive Imperative and its Relationship to the Morphogenetic Approach

  • Frédéric Vandenberghe on Margaret Archer’s “Morphogenetic Quartet”

  • The relationship between debate/discussion/dialogue and self-identity

  • “Why are there no great British social theorists?”

  • Unpicking habitus and reflexivity: a case study of the stressed academic

  • “I’m having an argument with myself”: memory, identity and agency

  • The Psychopathology of Jacques Lacan or, Why Can’t Theorists Just Say What They Mean!??

  • Noam Chomsky Calls Postmodern Critiques of Science Over-Inflated “Polysyllabic Truisms”

  • The Sociology of Intellectual Faddishness or, Why it’s unfair to blame everything on Foucault

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