Lukk on using LLMs to make GoFundMe funding decisions

Steps toward artificial social intelligence

Alvin Gouldner and the Crisis of Contemporary Sociology

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

How an epithet became a category which became a memory

C. Wright Mills, the promise of "the sociological imagination," and the question of judgment

Ongoing Reflection on the Ethics of Social Capitalism

Win or lose, we can all win friends and influence people

Enter the Thunderdome

Social Capitalist Ethics and the Paradoxes of Participatory Platform Planning

I have been pondering a way to get back into writing short, theoretically rich yet easily consumed essays. And, it hasn’t been easy. I think I said most of what I wanted to say about teaching…

Me and Codex have entered the chat

Me and Codex have entered the chat

Why we fight

Experiments in Classical Sociology IV

Or, how to avoid becoming a sucker

Cultural trauma refers to how past experiences of harm can fundamentally transform a community’s shared identity, potentially generating feelings of solidarity ...

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

Mapping Social Change: A Unified Framework for Temporal Clustering

On post-post-industrial nostalgia

And that's why they cared about cities

Collective representations, discovery mechanisms, and scaling social life

I’ve been using LLMs as coding aids for some time, and they have definitely enhanced my abilities, both through speeding up things I could have otherwise done, and also allowing me to try out analyses...

How modern societies channel the romantic impulse, from Baudelaire to Bon Jovi.

Why there can be no more traditionalists, only Trads

Why there can be no more traditionalists, only Trads

Chatstorm: harness the sociality of mind!

Chatstorm: harness the sociality of mind!

Bourdieu vs. Garfinkel

Comment on Heath, Parsons, and Social Construction

A parable about liberalism and the search for existential meaning

Give functional explanation a chance!

A Market-Failure Approach to Platform Ethics. The first in a series of posts on why social media is a staged competition for influence, and how to decide what counts as fair play.

Sociology meets AI

Why has so much contemporary social theory come to feel so empty? This essay argues that part of the answer lies in sociology’s implicit embrace of aspects of Kantian formalism. As an alternative, I e...

Why Our Method of Argument Matters for Social Theory

Follow me into the hidden abode of production

Follow me into the hidden abode of production

The creativity of conflict, from PTA meetings to online pile-ons

The creativity of conflict, from PTA meetings to online pile-ons