The Construction of Society & Cultural Norms
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The religious tendency of navigating a complicated world according to Emile Durkheim
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How Not to Get Caught in a Fad
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Do things depreciate over time or gain value over time? The balance between tradition and progress shouldn’t be one-sided. Growth and change should be informed by roots and history.
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Secular, Spiritual, and Still Quite Religious
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A concept from Emile Durkheim on why our secular world might be more sociologically religious than we think.
Read MoreIs Society Good or Bad?
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Two unsatisfactory approaches to society are (1) blind acceptance of how things are and (2) overt verdicts on society’s moral status as a whole.
Neither pays attention to the process of how norms came to be nor the variety of outcomes they produce. The better approach is to notice what society creates and what it might be at the expense of.
Read MoreChoosing My Divorce & Learning to Fish
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Lessons on labor and the futile attempt to rewire society’s economics toward good, meaningful work.
Read MoreWhat it Means to be Part of Society
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The functions of society, social facts, and the collective life according to Emile Durkheim.
Read MoreSmall Answers to the World's Problems
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A Two-Week Immersion With Central America & Dismal Lessons Learned — I can’t save the world. What, then, should I do? Globalism, economics, politics, imperialism, colonization; in experiencing the discrepancy of core and periphery societies, what ought we do with one of world history's biggest problems?
Read MoreHow to Think About Technology
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Marshall McLuhan, Faustian Bargains, and the cultural, sociological, and anthropological implications of what might be better called “media.”
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