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it seems there's no way out of sociology

IT SEEMS THERE’S NO WAY out of sociology; nevertheless sociology cannot provide us with internal reasons for its ever-rising prestige. Surely we want to be able to say that the sociology of culture is valuable because it’s true or insightful. However, a culture that blithely accepts a sociological …

—p.4 n+1 Issue 16: Double Bind Too Much Sociology (1) by n+1
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a cry for more sociology

Arguing that an epiphenomenon of an unjust society exists to rationalize that society’s injustice: it’s a silencing maneuver that cultural sociologists have perfected, making them unbeatable on their own terms. The ordinary person, genuflecting before his unfreedom, cries “uncle”—which the sociolog…

—p.4 Too Much Sociology (1) by n+1
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critical sociology as concerned liberalism

The danger is that the critical insights of what was called “critical sociology” have been repurposed as the status-quo thinking of “concerned liberalism”—the very thing that it set out to subvert. Thinking of everything as a scripted game show hasn’t led to change. Instead, sociological thinking h…

—p.3 Too Much Sociology (1) by n+1
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the gap between ideal and nonideal theory

Given the gap that exists between ideal and nonideal theory and the conditions under which each is elaborated, it would seem that the more demanding the ideal, the more distant that ideal is from societies as we know them, the heavier the burden to articulate a theory of the transition from where w…

—p.168 Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3 The Politics of Reticent Socialism (157) by Lea Ypi
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cooptability should be seen as a necessary condition

Is my dialectical program just neoliberalism by stealth? Does this darkly Hegelian road come to a dead-end? It is widely believed that basic income presents a clear and present danger of cooptation. This is true; it is entirely possible to imagine it being coopted. The same is true for a jobs guara…

—p.155 Does Basic Income Assume a Can Opener? (137) by David Calnitsky