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December 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Contributing to Social Research in Spring 1976 with "The Future Cannot Begin: Temporal Structures in Modern Society," Luhmann argued that the concept of a structured future only emerged with the shift from traditional to bourgeois society.

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December 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It calls for a deeper social critique of algorithms, advocating theories grounded in systemic power dynamics & social values for future regulation.

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December 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📍 Fabio Parasecoli, “Food, Identity, and Cultural Reproduction in Immigrant Communities” (Summer 2014)
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December 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
📍 Michael Walzer, “The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success)” (Winter 2002, reprinted Spring 2024)
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December 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
📍 Lawrence D. Bobo and Victor Thompson, “Unfair by Design: The War on Drugs, Race, and the Legitimacy of the Criminal Justice System” (Summer 2006, reprinted Spring 2024)
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December 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
📍 Albena Azmanova, “Free Speech or Safe Speech: The Neoliberal University's False Dilemma” (Summer 2025)
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December 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
📍 Nick Haslam and Melanie J. McGrath, “The Creeping Concept of Trauma” (Fall 2020, reprinted Spring 2024)
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December 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
(Yes, there was a time when SR's issues were not thematic 🫣)

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December 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Understand the displacement of human processing and the algorithms of violence and gain essential insights into dataism, the data-based self, and why machines can't replace our moral judgment.

Don't just use algorithms—understand them.

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December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
From the ethics of AI and its societal impact to how algorithms correct biases or erode human judgment in medicine, these issues shift the algorithm discussion from tech talk to critical social inquiry.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This week’s essential #SundayRead, Alan Montefiore’s “Hospitality: Its Functions and Limitations” from our 2022 issue “Hospitality,” questions how we navigate our obligations to ourselves and to all humanity.

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November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Contributing to the debate in Winter 1985 with “The Symbolic Challenge of Contemporary Movements,” Melucci stressed that movements must keep a distance from institutions. This space makes power visible and negotiable, crucial for a real “postindustrial“ democracy.

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The Symbolic Challenge of Contemporary Movements on JSTOR
ALBERTO MELUCCI, The Symbolic Challenge of Contemporary Movements, Social Research, Vol. 52, No. 4, Social Movements (WINTER 1985), pp. 789-816
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November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
For “Social Research” Coser wrote the article “The Militant Collective: Jesuits and Leninists” in 1973 and guest-edited the 1978 issue “The Production of Culture.”

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November 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM