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Upcoming Events![]() Title: Symbolic Interactionism, Ethnography, & Critical Realism: A Conversation on Cautious Naturalism Date and Time: Friday, December 2, from 12 – 1:30 pm EST Learn about Prof. Fine's empirical work as a cultural sociologist and social psychologist of small groups, “cautious naturalism”, and critical realism. More Info ![]() Location: University of California, Berkeley Sociology Department Date and Time: Thursday, January 12, from 1:00 – 5:30 pm PST Is sociology inherently critical? What place do ethics, values, and politics play in sociology? What do different critical perspectives contribute to sociology? More Info ![]() Location: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Date: March 24 – 26, 2017 The conference will bring together sociologists, philosophers, anthropologists, theologians, and psychologists interested in questions of value, ethics, positive sociology, and flourishing in the social sciences and humanities. ![]() Location: Montreal, Canada Date: August 8 – 10, 2017 This conference will bring together social scientists interested in critically engaging and envisioning what a post-positivist social science looks like. We have an excellent list of plenary speakers lined up and are now inviting submissions for presentations and panels. ScholarSpotlightSeries![]() Reconstructive Social Theory: Habermas, Bhaskar, & CailleThis guest blog post is by Professor Frederic Vandenberghe of Sociology in the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Frederic is a leading expert in the field of critical realism. His work operates at the intersection of philosophy and sociology with a special interest in hermeneutics, phenomenology, and critical realism. ![]() Environmental History, World-Ecology, and Critical RealismIn this post, Alvin Camba (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the John Hopkins University) writes about Roy Bhaskar's engagement with and challenge of positivism and how it coincides with a variety of common themes in environmental literature, including the co-construction of the social and natural worlds. Also in the News |
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