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  • The Work Dogma and Contraction of the Existential Imagination

  • The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

  • Re-orienting Sociological Thought: May 11th at @CardiffSOCSI

  • The Fracturing of Free Time

  • The intensification of work and the death of imagination

  • Reducing structural problems to lifestyle issues 

  • Sociology and fiction: a round up of the @thesocreview project so far

  • The Fatalism of the Multitude

  • The Fictional Conference

  • Two free workshops at the Centre for Social Ontology @SocioWarwick

  • Zygmunt Bauman’s Chronopolitics

  • Isomorphic Inequalities

  • Bauman’s weirdly illiquid conception of liquidity, or, what happens when you confuse ontology and epistemology

  • Rich nations as entropy hubs 

  • On Redundancy 

  • An Archerian reading of Bourdieu: the reflexive imperative as the normalisation of hysteresis

  • Relational Traces

  • The Sociological Review Annual Sociology Lecture

  • Two free workshops at the Centre for Social Ontology

  • Reorienting Sociological Thought, May 11th @CardiffSOCSI

  • the purpose of the morphogenetic approach and the role of social ontology

  • Two free workshops at the Centre for Social Ontology @SocioWarwick

  • Using fiction as a resource for social theorising

  • CfP: Future Making

  • Two upcoming events @socialontology @sociowarwick

  • Contempt for the social sciences and the new positivism

  • 17 podcasts about realist social theory

  • Call for Papers: Cunning Knowledge and Media Technologi

  • Call for Papers: A workshop on Competition(s)

  • Towards Digital Social Ontology

  • theorising socio-materiality: strong and weak processes

  • FutureVision?! Which life do we want?

  • Making The Familiar Strange: A Festival of Critical Social Thought

  • Critical Realism 2016 reminder

  • the sociology of executive coaching

  • against a consensual theory of conventions

  • an interview with Christian Smith about the need for sociology to do ontology

  • life planning as navigational guide rather than existential blueprint

  • Call for chapters: digital existence 

  • Roberto Unger on Flaws in the Human Condition

  • Complexity and Collective Behaviour

  • social theorising is more important than social theory

  • The Ontology of Corporate Grievance

  • International Conference for Critical Realism 2016 in Cardiff: registration open

  • Page’s Law as a counter-point to acceleration theory

  • the burden of chrono-reflexivity at work

  • the challenge of life planning in a digital age

  • bruno latour’s philosophical sociology

  • the problem of ‘community’

  • “in an ideal world, American sociology would look like British sociology before it became Americanised”

  • the riddle of society 

  • the need for digital social ontology 

  • some thoughts on responsibility

  • CfP: Social Theory in Information Systems

  • technological drivers of institutional isomorphism

  • critical realism as the natural ontological attitude of physicians?

  • the irreducibility of interpretation in socio-technical systems

  • judith butler lecturing on the performativity of assembly

  • the opaque subject and the elusive activity

  • how much time do workers spend worrying?

  • towards a sociology of human flourishing

  • an introduction to social acceleration in 18 minutes

  • Michel Foucault – The Culture of the Self

  • Call for Papers: The contemporary relevance of the work of Pierre Bourdieu

  • an introduction to social ontology

  • what makes human beings distinctive amongst animals?

  • are you conducting research on reflexivity?

  • a question about cultural globalisation

  • why dehumanisation matters 

  • cfp: the dehumanisation of contemporary societies

  • the 2016 international association of critical realism conference 

  • what terms would you like to see included in a glossary of social ontology?

  • social media and constraints upon personal morphogensis 

  • digital micro-politics and digital macro-politics 

  • giddens on digital tech

  • the politics of denying causal power to objects 

  • the one where erving goffman works as a pit boss in vegas

  • the sociology of ‘blotting out’ experience 

  • the need for the social sciences to reclaim their intellectual authority 

  • a working group to create a realist sociology of flourishing

  • Centre for Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Seminars

  • The Collective Subject as Enemy: The Public between Legal Fiction and Political Potentiality

  • critical realism book launch, 8th december 

  • structure, culture and agency: selected papers of margaret archer

  • the centre for social ontology book series

  • deadline tomorrow! the question of the human in social theory & social research

  • digital capitalism and the form of social science it encourages

  • a week left to register: the question of the human in social theory & social research

  • the boss in your head: an unrecognised form of reflexivity?

  • time use event in oxford

  • towards a meta-critique of data science 

  • the esoteric appeal of tony giddens

  • how to shift sociological product: lessons from the career of tony giddens

  • liberating yourself from leisure activities

  • dear academic hive mind: help me produce a comprehensive list of critiques of margaret archer’s work

  • the 2015/16 @sociowarwick seminar series

  • workshop and symposium: the question of the human in social theory and social research

  • the question of the human in social theory and social research

  • the acceleration of consumption 

  • workshop and symposium: the question of the human in social theory and social research

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