There are two very important reports published today. The first comes from a ESRC research project; Understanding Society is a world leading study of the socio-economic circumstances and attitudes of 100,000 individuals in 40,000 British households and this initial report runs to a not inconsequential...
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The late Paul Hirst's version of the Third Way (contra the version proffered by Giddens and taken up by Clinton and Blair) seems to have come back on the 'left's agenda' at least. It seems that there was a conference held in London in October last year to re-examine the work of Hirst on associationalism....
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The Tarnac 10 Group (of Paris) have recently published their manifesto; The Coming Insurrection A recent article in Sign & Sight takes the manifesto to be a right-wing elitist anti-modern tract. There is a summary of other reactions here. Good Wikipedia page too.
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Sad news that David Frisby has died from cancer. Frisby - for many years Professor of Sociology at Glasgow University - is probably the person most responsible for 'the rediscovery of Georg Simmel' as one of the leading classical sociologists of the 19th century. There is an obituary in The Guardian...
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For some fourteen years it would seem that the boy's name of Jack was the most popular amongst parents in the UK. But now in the past year it seems that the popularity of the name Jack has ben overtaken by that of Mohammed. The Importance of being Mohammed In fact the name Mohammed is 16th most popular,...
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In Popmatters there is a review of Anna Jane Grossman's new book Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By. The book is said to detail an entire life-world of 20th century objects, services, and practices that have passed away. Her entries include easy-to-open packaging, girdles,...
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