Meanwhile in America…the absurdity of this academic nationalism made me laugh at first, but of course, the politics behind it are really worrying. quote from:
https://t.co/tQT6hbyaCb;

I'm writing a paper on the apparent withering (= lack of disciplinary significance) of grand theories in sociology nowadays. What do you think, why is there no new Luhmann/Bourdieu/Foucault etc coming up?

Justifying the canon of sociological theory: Silver et al. distinguish three modes in which textbooks legitimize the theories they include: functionalist (disciplinary unity), historicist (foundational role), and humanist rhetoric (intrinsic qualities)
https://t.co/SylNWqXpr7

Nothing speaks Bielefeld sociology as loud as this printout taped on the door of the faculty's IT office. Priceless.

Endlich ist es soweit: Wir gründen einen AK für Historische Soziologie in der @KultursozDGS @DGSoziologie. Wer mitmachen möchte, oder einfach Interesse hat an historisch-soziologischer Forschung, kommt vorbei!
Infos zur Anmeldung gibt's hier: https://t.co/kIZWUrSY2t @Soziopolis

Nice paper. (Some of?) the most important statistical ideas in past 50 years
https://t.co/4Jym4RUD6E

#soctwitter, I am reviewing an interesting paper using qual interviews. The authors often count statements etc (eg half stated x) to indicate salience. Yet the sample is not a random one. How am I to think about this (as an absolute non-expert on qual)?

Call for Abstracts | #cfp_Soziologie

Soziologische Phantasie revisited:
Wieviel Innovation braucht und verträgt die soziologische Theorie?

Tagung der @Theoriesektion, Uni Bonn, 30.6./1.7.2022
Org.: @KatharinaBlock & @d_witte1
Deadline: 20.3.2022

https://t.co/TcQtzSVJHa

Interview with Karin Knorr Cetina in @sociologica_ on what drove her interest in financial markets. I like her reflections on the fact that in Germany the sociology of finance didn't emerge in Frankfurt, Munich, or Cologne, but Bielefeld, of all places! https://t.co/Usy24cKrSB