• John Stuart Mill on libidinal collapse: some thoughts on socialisation and human purpose

• The socialising role of community

• This machine eats normativity

• The lack of normative guidance in the sharing economy

• The Sociology of Ryan Air, or, when normativity fails to reproduce itself

• On Irritation, Or, How Social Networks Tend To Make Us Slightly More Assholic

• The substitute socialisation of the marine corp

• some thoughts on responsibility

• the distinction between ‘ambivalence’ and ‘mixed feelings’

• The concept of social institution

• Cats vs racoons

• The Paradox of Civility, or, “why is this place filled with such rude assholes?”

• Against ‘norm circles’

• The sociology of the quiet zone: norms and public transport

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

• Being Human and Social Normativity

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

• Why do people believe what they believe? Getting beyond the idea there’s something wrong with people who disagree with us

• Two new podcasts