Saturday, January 1, 2011

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Resolutions sociological

Now is the time for resolutions. Mostly, they are quickly forgotten, this is normal in the absence of support, the individual will is weak. So much to take collective resolutions. Hey, why sociologists do not they collectively take a few good resolutions?

Resolution No. 1: do no quotes no quotes. Because it takes a lot of problems anyway. Hein, Ali? Although apparently not that much, and should perhaps be taken as a resolution not to over expose those who do, because it also causes problems. Hein, Peter?

Pierre Dubois was right to attack those who violate the most elementary rules of intellectual honesty and claimed, in addition, a blank check to do so. I can recall this quote from an economist, a Jevons: "A despotic calm is the triumph of the error. In the republic of the sciences, sedition and even anarchy are favorable in the long term than greatest happiness for the greatest number. "

Resolution No. 2: Flowing directly from the Resolution No. 1: social scientists should use 2011 to settle once and for all the problem with some current. Because this is what emerges most clearly from the discussion Dubar - Cibois. "Obviously we disagree on this point with the current maffesolien and its allies, but I have not noticed there is a conflict between other current" it wrote. There are disagreements and struggles in different currents and different approaches - for example it is ensured that Bourdieu and Latour can not feel - but at least everyone can sit around a table to match a minimum of sociology as an empirical science, a science investigation. This agreement can be made with the post-modernists. So it might be good to eat it.

Resolution No. 3: Think carefully before released a provocative thesis in the media. That's what we should teach the book's publication Hugues Lagrange Denial cultures. There could not have healthy discussion of this book, even among sociologists, because the question of media coverage has come to overlap with all others. Lagrange could repel critics by accusing them of refusing on principle results, and critics were forced to compromise between the book itself, and media reception of it. Result: an intractable debate. This does not mean that we must refrain from any intervention in the media, but it is probably necessary to think about how we do it.

Resolution No. 4: Complete the join the ranks of geeks encouraging the use of software from the command line gives you the impression of being reincarnated Alan Turing, persecution and less. Kind of R or LaTeX or others that probably exist and I do not know. Why? Because the geek has become one of the most popular and most positive of all. So why not enjoy it.

Resolution No. 5: more interested in what goes on in high school. Because reform is not over, because the program SES Terminal will be published in February, because he will have to pay attention to what is there - we were promised that such social class removed first to reappear. And because the question "Is that what I do would make sense for a college student?" is a good question to ask whether it makes interesting sociology. Certainly not the only one: in general, ask if you are doing would make sense for someone who is not a sociologist is probably a good thing.

I book all those resolutions for debate and discussion of who will. And Happy New Year to all.

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