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DO MIYAMOTO MUSASHI’S ZEN SAMURAI TECHNIQUES APPLY TO EVERYTHING?
Miyamoto Musashi was the most famous sword fighter in the history of Japan. His Book of Five Rings has been taken as advice for how to win in business, especially in America during the Japan-obsessed...
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MARILYN MONROE’S NETWORKS PULLED HER APART
Marilyn Monroe had a famous career: famously good, famously bad, pretty much simultaneously. Once launched, everything she did made her famous; and everything she did caused her grief.Why? Look at it...
View ArticleDOWNFALL OF NCAA WOULD IMPROVE AMERICAN EDUCATION
The 2019 California law allowing college athletes to retain agents and receive payment for use of their name and image opens the flood-gates to professionalization of college sports. So they say.Most...
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DOCTORS AT WAR: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL COST
Mark de Rond’s book Doctors at War (Cornell Univ. Press, 2017) is one the most painful books you’ll ever read. De Rond, a organizational ethnographer at Cambridge University, was embedded in a field...
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SOCIOLOGY OF MASKS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING
Throughout human history, people have generated almost all of their solidarity face-to-face, by physical co-presence. This has been disrupted by a world-wide natural experiment: making people stay...
View ArticleWILLIAM JAMES WHOLE-BODY PSYCHOLOGY, WITH A THEORY OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
We have a truncated view of what William James is about. Bits and pieces are famous: The James-Lange theory that you feel afraid because you run away, not vice versa. A few famous lines: “the...
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ASSAULT ON THE CAPITOL: 2021, 1917, 1792
The iconic image of January 6 is a protestor sitting with his feet up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk, and another in the Senate Chair. These are reminiscent of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1928 film, October, a...
View ArticleDOES MASCULINITY EXPLAIN VIOLENCE?
Males predominate in every form of violence, from the micro-level up through wars and other macro-violence. Is it because of a biological universal--the testosterone theory of violence? Or an...
View ArticleRANDALL COLLINS INTERVIEW: HOW I WRITE; IS EDUCATION NECESSARY;...
Interview by Lukasz Remisiewicz, University of Gdansk, Poland I: Creativity is one of your sociological interests. So I would like to ask about the 'backstage' of your work. How do you structure your...
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COLLAPSE OF THE TUTORIAL-PROXY STATE: AFGHANISTAN 2021, PHILIPPINES 1942,...
The fall of Afghanistan within a week was met with surprise and recrimination. Yet this kind of collapse is not unprecedented. It fits the well-known pattern of a tipping point; in the sociology of...
View ArticleFIVE KINDS OF FRIENDS
The word “friends” has at least five different meanings: AlliesBackstage intimatesFun friendsMutual interests friendsSociable acquaintances Whether social media “friends” are one of these five, or a...
View ArticleWHY STATES DIFFER ON REFUGEES AND IMMIGRATION
There are five main processes that states juggle when setting policies on immigration, including economic immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers. [1] Capital accumulation vs. protectionism. Modern...
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DEAF OR BLIND: BEETHOVEN, HANDEL
Beethoven started going deaf in his late 20s. Already famous by age 25 for his piano sonatas, at 31 he was traumatized by losing his hearing. But he kept on composing: the Moonlight Sonata during the...
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PREDICTABLES OF THE UKRAINE WAR
Written before Putin’s invasion, the progress of the Ukraine war bears out generalizations made in Explosive Conflict: Time-Dynamics of Violence. [1] Three-to-six month rise and fall in public crisis...
View ArticleMulti-causal Bottom Line
Multiple causality versus simple-mindedness: Glib talk is the stuff of front-stage politics(but not of back-stage politiking). Of advertisements and journalism(but not of editorial meetings). Those...
View ArticleSEXUAL REVOLUTIONS AND THE FUTURE OF THE FAMILY
The family is the oldest human institution, even a pre-human institution existing among the great apes. Along with the deliberate control of fire, which Goudsblom saw as the beginning of...
View ArticleTHREE POLICE TACTICS LED TO MEMPHIS KILLING OF TYRE NICHOLS
The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by a group of Memphis police officers on January 7, 2023 shows the same patterns as other police atrocities. Three police tactics and procedures seen in Memphis...
View ArticleCREDENTIAL INFLATION MAKES COLLEGE DEGREE NOT WORTH THE COST
Belief in the value of college education was sacrosanct throughout most of the 20th century. In the early 2000s, the question began to be raised whether the payoff in terms of a better-paying job was...
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INSIDER RESEARCH IN MAFIA, STREET GANGS, TERRORISTS AND NEO-FASCISTS
Researchers on violent criminal organizations have grown more intrepid over the years. Until the 1980s, most information came from interviews in prison, reminiscences of ex-members, or by hanging out...
View ArticleAI-ROBOT CAPITALISTS WILL DESTROY THE HUMAN ECONOMY
Let us assume Artificial Intelligence will make progress. It will solve all its technical problems. It will become a perfectly rational super-human thinker and decision-maker. Some of these AI will be...
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