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Lucas C. Wheeler

I'm really sick and tired of the "wait it out, the pendulum will swing the other way" types who think the rule of law and societal norms are just going to magically hold. We're looking at a shockingly quick move toward genuine authoritarianism in the United States, with pervasive efforts to crush free speech and dismantle opposition. Do these people think the "pendulum" just "swung the other way" in WWII? Millions of people died on multiple continents to PUSH it the other way. #uspol #sociology

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Quercus ⚫🟣⚪🟡

'Social Inflation'

I want to introduce a concept I'll call "social inflation", defined as 'the gradual thinning of the interpersonal resources of a society'. I imagine that the field of sociology has some language for this, but let's pretend I'm coming up with something new.

Economic inflation is something we are long familiar with, as it is just assumed that everything has to always get more expensive as 'standards of living' (for the wealthy) must perpetually increase (not wages, though). Social inflation, however, is impossible to define quantitatively. Leading up to times of turmoil there is a creeping breakdown of relationships that can snap suddenly, a socio-economic depression, to the point that our civil institutions can no longer function. Globally, we may be entering a socio-economic depression that will drastically reshape our states and institutions.

I believe that social and economic inflation, essentially the drawdown of resources that support our civic institutions, is driven by technological grifting and worker exploitation. #Luddite platforms simultaneously address workers rights and techno-scams. The foundation of #Luddism, to me, is addressing these two intertwining factors, by rejecting the hyper-technological 'growth' used to justify the 'trickle down' approach to economics that exploits workers and destroys the planet. #usPol #SolarPunk #Sociology #PoliticalScience

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Marc Moelders

Hey organizational scholars, do as the Beatles did, visit Hamburg:
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icos2022s Webseite!ProgramOrganizing Plurality INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY (ICOS) (Hamburg, March 27/28, 2025) Program Conference venue: Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg Campus: Holstenhofweg 85, 22041 Hamburg Building: Auditorium building (Aula Gebäude) A1 Directions: https://www.hsu-hh.de/en/university/directions Thursday, 27.03.2025 Auditorium building A1 12:00 Auditorium (Aula) Building A1 Lobby: Arrival & Coffee Plenary Session: Auditorium (Aula) 12:45 Cristina Besio & Marco Jöstingmeier: Introduction - Organizing Plurality in a Complex Society Thomas Kern, Insa Pruisken & Sarah Tell (Bremen): The Pluralities of Pluralism: The Transformation of the Field of Religious Organizations in the U.S. 13:30 Break Aula 1 Aula Aula 2 Room 403 (H1) 13:45 Violet Petit-Steeghs (Rotterdam), Katrine Iversen Glintborg (Aarhus), Silvia Buch Mejsner (Copenhagen) & Viola Burau (Aarhus): How organisations govern through multi-level, cross-sectoral boundary work Jana-Maria Albrecht (Berlin), Robert Jungmann (Trier) & Arnold Windeler (Berlin): Plural organisational roles and overlapping technological paths. A structuration perspective on the field of Germany’s energy transition Christian Frankel (Copenhagen) & Kjeld Schmidt (Copenhagen/Siegen): The organization of digitalization Marc Jungtäubl & Mascha Will-Zocholl (Wiesbaden): Digital Governance in the field of medical organizations Signe Vikkelsø & Morten Knudsen (Copenhagen): The Constitution of Organizational Misconduct: An Analysis of Danske Bank and the World's Largest Money Laundering Scandal Alexander Paulsson (Lund): Carbon Banking: The Climate Crisis and Investment in the Money-Form Ingo Bode (Kassel) & Sigrid Betzelt (Berlin): Inconsistent Governance and Accountability Overload. The Case of Childcare Organizations in Germany Nadine Arnold (Lucerne) & Fabien Foureault (Paris): Governing and integrating a socio-environmental field 14:45 Break 15:00 Nathalie Iloga Balep (Hamburg) & Christian Huber (Copenhagen): All lights on red – Pragmatist approaches in the negotiation of performance measurement indicators for prisons Kayla Phuong Hoang Irvine/Edinburgh): Breaking Barriers Beyond Bars: Navigating Discrimination Inside University for FormerlyIncarcerated and System-Impacted Students Kerstin Thummes (Greifswald): Separation and closure as pportunity or obstacle? A meta-organization’s struggle to engage sustainability and smart farming Laura Scheler (Passau): Organizing and digitizing ecological environments. A systems theory study on the case of dairy cow Konstantin Hondros (Hamburg), Sigrid Quack (DuisburgEssen) & Katharina Zangerle (Vienna): Expanding culture, not economy. A longitudinal study of justifying music sampling at court Christian Morgner (Sheffield): Temporary Organisations as Governance Spaces: Cultural Plurality in Global Festivals Höhn, Christopher (Hamburg) & Jennifer Widmer (Lucerne): Guardians of the Common Good: Formal Organizations as Civil Society Actors in Today’s Climate Governance in a World Run by the Rules of States Jennifer L. Bailey (Trondheim): From Whaling to Whale Conservation: The Transformation of the IWC 16:00 Break 16:15 Hanna Grauert (Konstanz): How to Recruit and Value Diversity: Balancing Between Symbolic Diversity Goals and Bureaucratic Principles in Practice Mareike Heller (Munich): “Non-German Language of Origin”: How an Unstable Classification Persists in the Postmigrant Education Administration Kathia Serrano Velarde (Heidelberg): Unsustainable organization? Examining StateSponsored Energy Transition Initiatives Marius G. Vigen (Trondheim): Organizing Urban Development: Idiocultural reluctance in the Urban Planning Office Jelena Brankovic (Berlin): Plurality of infrastructures and the making of world-scale organizational fields Gunhild Tøndel, Jan Tøssebro & Odd Morten Mjøen (Trondheim): Measures as machines: The making of the quantitative quality model in Norwegian municipal healthcare policy and management Stefanie Raible (Linz): Organizational praxis mediated by socio-technical futures: On the recursive interrelation of narratives, organizations, and society Cornelia Fedtke (Hamburg): Is nuclear energy green? The plurality of sustainability narratives in the social media debate 17:15 Hotel Check-In (if needed) 18:30 19:15 21:15 Transfer to boat tour (Wandsbek Markt subway/bus station) Boat tour in Hamburg Harbor (with snacks and drinks) Transfer back to Wandsbek Markt Friday, 28.03.2025 Auditorium building A1 8:30 Building A1 Lobby: Coffee Plenary session: Aula 9:00 Carly Knight (New York) & Adam Goldstein (Princeton): Ambiguous Actorhood: Twenty-First Century Firms and The Evasion of Responsibility Lars Thøger Christensen (Copenhagen): Responsible Sustainability Communication? Inquiring into the Dynamics of Socially Binding Consequences 10:00 Break Aula 1 Aula Aula 2 Room 105 (H1) 0:15 Lukas Lapschieß & Phillip Degens (Hamburg): Becoming sociocratic: Struggles in the semi-professionalization process of a remotefirst collectivist organization Holger Højlund, Klaus Brøns Laursen & Jens Ulrich (Aarhus): Who is the host? Citizen’s involvement in green transition in a rural region of Denmark Judith Nyfeler (St. Gallen) & Raimund Hasse (Lucerne): The boon and bane of being inert. The case of craft digitalization Stefan Gründler & Christian Ebner (Braunschweig): Digital twins @ work – A discussion of vocational and organizational challenges and opportunities Charlie F. Thompson (Trondheim): The Public Governance of Regulatory Organizations: A Comparative Study of Gambling Regulatory Agencies Hanne Knudsen (Copenhagen): Philanthropic giving to public education as a means to self-potentialization of private corporations Dominika Gryf & Weronika Rosa (Warsaw): The role of universities as organizations in combating sexual violence against students – results of a nationwide study of Polish universities’ anti-sexual violence systems Margit Neisig (Roskilde): Including SMEs in the Twin Transition 11:15 Break 11:30 Kathrin Lutz & Marc Mölders (Mainz): Making sustainable solutions travel: On organizational persuasion work in a differentiated society Kurt Rachlitz, Michael rotheHammer & Jennifer Bailey (Trondheim): How Do Grand Challenges Travel Between Organizations? A Case Study on the Protection of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems Benjamin Doubali (Mainz): Data Space Oddity: Re-Combining Expectations in Industrial Digitalization Barbara Zyzak (Trondheim) & Deborah Agostino (Milan): Digital accountability in governance platforms: the evidence from Norwegian seamless digital services Martin Koch (Bielefeld): Introducing international groups: “a private, informal meeting of those who really matter in the world” Viveca Sjösted (Uppsala): The more the messier? How multiple representatives in a meta-organization coordinate their work Surbhi Dayal (Indore): From Marginalization to Empowerment - A Path to Plurality in Organizational Structure in Primary Education AbdulGafar Olawale Fahm (Ilorin/Bayreuth): Navigating Digital Plurality: Ethical and Organizational Challenges in Islamic Education among Nigerian Muslim Communities 12:30 Lunch (Auditorium (Aula) A1 Lobby) 13:30 Alice Neusiedler (Copenhagen): Participation as open organizing for alternatives – four forms for conceptualizing participation beyond access Thorsten Peetz (Bamberg): The shadow of competition in the digital organization of human mating Sigrunn Tvedten (Kongsberg): Emerging fields in the local organizing for inclusive childhood. A case of organizing local public school and welfare services in Norway Felix Genth, Dorina Kurta & Jaromir Junne (Hamburg): Shifting boundaries between "pure" and "dirty work" in social care: digitalization projects as an opportunity to renegotiate professional identities Iris Bartelt (Bielefeld): Navigating Deadlock in Global Labour Governance: Examining Mechanisms and Responses to Crisis and Contestation in the International Labour Organization Ole Jacob Thomassen (Kongsberg): Semiscientific Research Fields and Challenges for Governance Research Hana Fehrenbach (Freiburg): Artificial intelligence cross-sector partnerships transnationally: flourishing human-centered ecosystems? Michal Sedlačko (Bremen) & Katarína Staroňová (Bratislava): Reconciling plural, heterogeneous and conflicting expectations in ‘doing impartial policy advice’: The politics and non-politics of analytical advisory units in the Slovak public administration 14:30 Break 14:45 Leopold Ringel (Bielefeld): Organizing Evaluative Expertise Emil A. Røyrvik (Trondheim): Valorisation of value: Art and culture as instruments of value extraction or potential source for changing mindsets and modes of valuation? Klaus Dammann (Bielefeld): Nesting of Protest Movements in Non-MovementOrganizations. How Does this Contribute to Pluralistic Processing of Interests? Jonas Jutz (Friedrichshafen): Organising the Popular? Organisation, Political Inclusion, and the Challenges of Populism Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen (Copenhagen), Paul Stenner (Milton Keynes) & Dorthe Pedersen (Copenhagen): The form, function and history of saying ‘no’ in the public sector Jun Chu & René John (Berlin): The theoretical possibilities and practical limits of governmental administration 15:45 Break Plenary session: Auditorium (Aula) 16:00 Aksel Tjora (Trondheim): Local Social Rhythm as Organisational Infrastructure Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Nils Brunsson (Uppsala) & Raimund Hasse (Luzern): From competition to conflict 17:00 Closing: Auditorium (Aula)
#sociology#soziologie#organization
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Jonathan Emmesedi

I finished this book earlier today.

I'd recommend it as a way into the minds, and, more importantly, the hearts of a significant slice of Trump voters.

Arlie Russell Hochschild deserves credit for solid sociological field work. Rather than just dropping in for a week, she spent time really getting to know a corner of Appalachia, immersing herself in the Pikesville community and carrying out more than eighty interviews. At times I found the book a tough read, because Hochshild is exploring senses of loss and hurt amongst people some of whom I found difficult to sympathize with. That difficulty on the part of people like me is, of course, actually part of the larger story.

Stolen Pride | The New Press

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The New PressStolen PrideFor all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we’ve ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel “stolen”?
#USPolitics#USCulture#StolenPride
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Hannah Howe

Friday 22 March 1963

Half the world’s population - 1,500 million people - are desperately hungry this morning. Three out of every twenty are starving. Show-business personalities are backing the Freedom From Hunger campaign. They include Sheila Hancock, disc jockey Brian Matthew, Acker Bilk and pianist Mrs Mills. They have set a target to raise £2,500,000 for the campaign.

Flowers for Mother’s Day
#SocialHistory#History#Sociology
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Ben Waber

Next was a fantastic talk by James Mellody on consensus building in remote collaborations at @citp. Mellody presents a deep qualitative study of three NASA scientific groups and how colocation patterns influenced group dynamics and decision making processes, revealing difficult tradeoffs. Highly recommend youtube.com/watch?v=7PteQIfg61 (4/9) #sociology

YouTubeCITP Seminar James Mellody - Consensus Building in Remote CollaborationsBy CITP Princeton
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Jeffrey Yost

CBI for Computing, Information & Culture is thrilled to announce UPenn History & Soc. of Science ABD Sam Franz is CBI's new Tomash Fellow, for his dissertation project "Calculating Knowledge: Computing, Capitalism, and the Modern University, 1945–1990." #tech #computing #history #sociology

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cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/sam-franz

College of Science and EngineeringSam Franz named as the 2025-2026 CBI Tomash FellowMINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (03/21/2025) — We are thrilled to announce that University of Pennsylvania ABD in the History and Sociology of Science Sam Franz is the incoming Erwin and Adelle Tomash Fellow for next academic year. Prior to entering the Penn HSS Doctoral Program, Franz earned his BA with honors from the University of Michigan where he majored in both History and German. He has published in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, as well as in our own Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture.Franz has received grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Association for Computing Machinery, Linda Hall Library, and others. He has presented his work at a host of impressive venues from Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan to the Society of the History of Technology and the History of Science Society.Sam Franz researches the history of capitalism and computing in the twentieth-century United States. His dissertation project, tentatively titled "Calculating Knowledge: Computing, Capitalism, and the Modern University, 1945–1990," explores knowledge production's increasing centrality in US capitalism by tracing the institutionalization of computing infrastructure and education in US universities. In the second half of the twentieth century, advocates of computing education and infrastructure—including federal officials, academics, university administrators, and corporate managers—saw such technologies as both demanding and serving broader transformations in the US economy. Seemingly local or technical debates about the role of computing on university campuses concealed contentious claims about the emerging postindustrial workplace and enacted them concretely. By analyzing aspirational and real transformations in universities and the workplaces for which their students were destined, Sam's research makes the past and present stakes of the problematic notion of "knowledge economies" tangible. The Tomash Fellowship is possible through the past generous support of CBI’s founders nearly a half century ago, Erwin and Adelle Tomash. A Tomash Fellowship has been awarded each year since the start of the CBI Tomash Fellowship in 1980.Jeffrey R. Yost
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