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A new interview with Wendy Brown: "I have never been a single issue thinker or a single theory thinker. I’m what you might call theoretically polyamorous.": journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

"We need to remember the populist origins of all democracy – the pre-institutionalised, inherently revolutionary quality of all democracy". Check out this great interview with Wendy Brown in which she discusses populism and other topics in Theory, Culture & Society!

Great piece by Jorge Daniel Vásquez!

Engage with one the work of the most influential sociological thinkers of our time – book now for ‘The Legacy of Margaret Archer’, a BSA Theory one-day symposium on 3 August at the University of Warwick tinyurl.com/47dfvs6t

Registration for the event is still open!

Wow, I am incredibly honoured to receive the AoIR 2024 dissertation award! This is an amazing recognition from an inspiring community of scholars AoIR ➡️ 🐘 @[email protected] Special thanks to the award committee and all the people who supported me along the way

Very interesting event with the great Jorge Daniel Vásquez eventbrite.com/e/narratives-o…

A new paper (with G Watts) arguing that descriptive and evaluative components are intertwined in empirical sociological accounts, and that the distinction between the good and the right can clarify the variety of normative reasoning in sociology. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

This is a call to reopen the question of normativity in sociology – as a condition of our practice and theories. Sociology operates between critique and commitment, yet our normative entanglements are typically black-boxed or taken as self-explanatory.

Should sociology remain descriptive, or is engaging with normative questions essential to understanding social life? Our latest blog series interrogates the boundary between description and evaluation. buff.ly/qSj17fv

It is very exciting to see the debate gaining traction. Looking forward to the submissions for the special issue in BSA’s Sociology. CfP in the blog post!

A warm welcome to our three newest Fellows who are due to be officially inducted into the Catz fellowship at a ceremony on Monday: Dr Sebastian Raza (Sebastian Raza), Prof. Anne Willis OBE FBTS & Prof. Douglas Moggach. Find out more: caths.cam.ac.uk/new-fellows-20… Cambridge Sociology MRC Toxicology Unit