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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 3d

Notably, Proudhon held a similar conception of the relationship between theology, philosophy, & science. Instead of science superseding the others, he argued that science must essentially complete them. Unsurprisingly, Proudhon was held in high regard within “subjectivist sociology” & the Narodniks.

Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 3d

This 1874 work was an important one for classical Russian “subjectivist sociology”, whose most unique feature was that it was essentially a middle ground between positivist sociology and Marxist sociology and was directly connected to the Narodnik socialist movement in Russia.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 3d

However, for being subtitled “against the positivists”, there isn’t as much dialogue about positivism as you’d expect. The majority of the book is him outlining the main currents of philosophical thought in the West since the Enlightenment to show how they culminated in Comte’s positivism.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 3d

For Solovyov, sociological positivism, which he argued as the logical outcome of all Western philosophy, was ultimately the culmination of the split between the Orthodoxy and Catholicism, and then the rise of Protestantism. The West gradually placed reason above faith, emotion, intuition, etc.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s a good one and probably the best critique of sociological positivism around.

Rather than theology and philosophy culminating in a sharply differentiated social science, Solovyov emphasized the holistic connection between them and how all three needed to be kept in dialogue.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 10d

The sociologist Pierre Ansart argued that both Marxism and Anarchism had shared roots in Saint-Simonism. It’s commonly argued that the central thesis of Saint-Simon is the replacement of government with administration.

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 13d

We published the open access article 'Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War' by Siniša Malešević and Lea David in our forum on Israel-Palestine on May 11.
tinyurl.com/st55f868

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 18d

Yes it does!

Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 19d

The people that made the argument that basically all social interaction follows a smooth flow would claim that they were following Goffman’s functionalism. However, like you point out, and which Collins also emphasizes, there is also an underlying conflict theory in Goffman’s functionalist approach.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 19d

When you are predominantly studying task groups in lab environments, I think it can give the impression that all social life follows a “smooth flow”. However it doesn’t take much awareness of everyday reality to realize that micro interaction is also rife with “rough flows”, if you can call it that.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 19d

I used to know some people who argued that all social interaction ultimately sought to find a “smooth flow”. At the time, I bought the argument. Now, I’m convinced that this view loses sight of the contradictory nature of social life, namely that people often have conflicting social bonds.

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Alex Lefebvre @lefebvrealex.bsky.social · 20d

In case you missed it, my review of @emilyherring.bsky.social's terrific bio of Henri Bergson is #1 at the Los Angeles Review of Books right now.

It’s my love letter to the GOAT of philosophy—take a seat and have a chat with him here 👇

lareviewofbooks.org/article/when...

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 21d

Sorry to hear that. Most grants that are getting cut are near the end of their funding. It’s pretty imperative at the moment to try to avoid no cost extensions since it seems like most grants are being cut at this stage (I work in a grants department.)

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 23d

Revisiting that article, it does kind of scream a Gurvitchean influence, particularly since Gurvitch argued that Marxists had completely distorted Marx’s doctrines & stressed the need to dedogmatize Marx. He also emphasized all the new works that were becoming available by Marx in the 20th century.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 23d

For context, Berthier stated that they met at Radio Libertaire, and that he asked Rubel, a so-called “Marxologist”, if he still thought Marx was a “theorist of anarchism”, which was the topic of a paper Rubel published in 1973.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 23d

René Berthier commented to me that he once met the late Rubel and asked him a question about Marx. Rubel stated “None of that matters. What matters now is Proudhon.” He went onto to tell Berthier that he was working on a book on Proudhon that took all his time, but it was apparently never published.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 23d

Learned recently that both the Marxist theorists Henri Lefebvre and Maximilien Rubel completed their doctoral theses under Georges Gurvitch. It’s noteworthy to me since Gurvtich had such an unorthodox interpretation of Marx, essentially claiming that he was a Proudhonized Saint-Simonian.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 26d

Probably where I depart the most is that I don’t have an issue with a “citizen state”, as Proudhon called it. Having lost its place as the dominating institution among all others, it thereby loses the ability to decree law to others, but could still serve to adjudicate legal disputes.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 26d

You’re not wrong. I suppose liberal anarchism is ancapy to
me in general, which is not meant as an insult. Personally, I’m more interested in social law, namely that law is an emergent part of all social life, which I suppose is more compatible with a socialistic interpretation of anarchism.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · 27d

Some of that reminded me of Gurvitch’s concept of “the dialectic of the state”, namely that the state can be a tool to overcome human domination, although it also engenders domination.

However, some of the talk of competitive militias, courts, & police in the article was a little too ancapy for me.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · Sep 12

Too bad Beesly and Marx never wrote anything together. I would be fascinated to see how sociology would have played out with a Positivist-Marxist synthesis approved by Marx.

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · Sep 10

New #sociology paper on Mauss, total social facts, and bridging bio-psycho-social accounts

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Human totality and the total social fact

In this paper, we reconsider Marcel Mauss’s concept of the ‘total social fact’ (TSF) and its potential to redefine the sociological analysis of various phenomena. The prevailing interpretation of T...

www.tandfonline.com

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · Sep 11

I think this is such an important book at this moment in time. It describes our current situation better than any other that I'm aware of.

Collectively, and not just in the US, we are headed down a very dark path.

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Cayce Jamil @mutualsociology.bsky.social · Sep 9

Long ago, I used to sip tea and listen to Oum Kalthoum with my grandmother. I miss those days. Thanks for posting.

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minor compositions @minorcompositions.bsky.social · Aug 20

Now available for advance ordering and/or free download…
Anarchy in Alifuru: The History of Stateless Societies in the Maluku Islands by Bima Satria Putra
www.minorcompositions.info?p=1596

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