Human Folly about “sociology”

Engineer diplomat (benjaminrosshoffman.com):
a proposal that interesting group conversations don’t happen in most groups because intense questioning is perceived by others as a social attack. “The conversation, to be polite, sociable, and charming, is kept superficial.” #sociology #psychology
on 02017-03-11
Exponential growth devours and corrupts (m.signalvnoise.com):
#DHH doesn’t like exponential growth. #sociology #startups
on 02017-03-07
Geeks mops sociopaths (meaningness.com):
Amateur #sociology on why subcultures eventually died through inundation with poseurs until about 2000.
on 02016-08-11
Coding white trash in academia (auntiebellum.org):
on #class in #USA #sociology and #academia: what it’s like to be from a lower-class white family and be an academic anyway
on 02016-08-08
(jstor.org):
“Jewish Argument as Sociability”, Deborah Schiffrin, 1984. #sociology #paper
on 02016-07-12
On the design of escaped Realities (ribbonfarm.com):
“all fictions — and fictions may be all we have — are retreats from reality rather than approaches to it” #games #predictions #sociology #philosophy
on 02015-08-05