Cayce Jamil
@mutualsociology.bsky.social
Investigates neglected social theory and primarily interested in applied sociology.
https://allmylinks.com/mutualsociology
https://allmylinks.com/mutualsociology
Henri de Saint-Simon turns 265 today.
October 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Henri de Saint-Simon turns 265 today.
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.
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.
October 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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.
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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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
tinyurl.com/st55f868
October 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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
tinyurl.com/st55f868
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.
September 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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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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...
It’s my love letter to the GOAT of philosophy—take a seat and have a chat with him here 👇
lareviewofbooks.org/article/when...
September 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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...
It’s my love letter to the GOAT of philosophy—take a seat and have a chat with him here 👇
lareviewofbooks.org/article/when...
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.
September 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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.
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.
September 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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New #sociology paper on Mauss, total social facts, and bridging bio-psycho-social accounts
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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
September 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New #sociology paper on Mauss, total social facts, and bridging bio-psycho-social accounts
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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.
Collectively, and not just in the US, we are headed down a very dark path.
September 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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.
Collectively, and not just in the US, we are headed down a very dark path.
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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
Anarchy in Alifuru: The History of Stateless Societies in the Maluku Islands by Bima Satria Putra
www.minorcompositions.info?p=1596
August 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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
Anarchy in Alifuru: The History of Stateless Societies in the Maluku Islands by Bima Satria Putra
www.minorcompositions.info?p=1596
Proudhon’s Critique of Nationalism in His Federalism Vision by Lingkai Kong (2025)
www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/10...
www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/10...
www.mdpi.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Proudhon’s Critique of Nationalism in His Federalism Vision by Lingkai Kong (2025)
www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/10...
www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/10...
Apparently in the late 19th century, some Jewish anarchists held Yonkiper beler (“Yom Kippur Balls”) antireligious festivities.
September 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Apparently in the late 19th century, some Jewish anarchists held Yonkiper beler (“Yom Kippur Balls”) antireligious festivities.
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You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
September 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
Short recent article on the influence of Charles Fourier on the surrealist movement following WWII, particularly through André Breton, who is generally seen as the leader of the movement.
A PASSIONATE ATTRACTION for Charles Fourier. TOWARDS A NEW SURREALISM 1942–1969 by Fabrice Flahutez (2024)
A PASSIONATE ATTRACTION for Charles Fourier. TOWARDS A NEW SURREALISM 1942–1969 by Fabrice Flahutez (2024)
hal.science
August 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Short recent article on the influence of Charles Fourier on the surrealist movement following WWII, particularly through André Breton, who is generally seen as the leader of the movement.
A PASSIONATE ATTRACTION for Charles Fourier. TOWARDS A NEW SURREALISM 1942–1969 by Fabrice Flahutez (2024)
A PASSIONATE ATTRACTION for Charles Fourier. TOWARDS A NEW SURREALISM 1942–1969 by Fabrice Flahutez (2024)
New full English translation of Proudhon's "The Principle of Federation" by Lingkai Kong - t.co/pRR97CgTLB
https://philarchive.org/archive/PROTPO-27
t.co
August 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
New full English translation of Proudhon's "The Principle of Federation" by Lingkai Kong - t.co/pRR97CgTLB
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New publication: 'Beyond Elias and Tilly: Historical Sociology, Crime and Organised Violence', with the free access here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Beyond Elias and Tilly: Historical Sociology, Crime and Organised Violence
PDF | War and other forms of organised violence have largely been a marginal topic in the mainstream sociology. The relative exception to this is... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
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August 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
New publication: 'Beyond Elias and Tilly: Historical Sociology, Crime and Organised Violence', with the free access here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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"Souls are blended into things; things are blended into souls. Lives are blended together, and so it is that the persons and things that are mixed each emerge from their own spheres and blend with each other: this is precisely what contract and exchange are."
—Mauss
—Mauss
August 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"Souls are blended into things; things are blended into souls. Lives are blended together, and so it is that the persons and things that are mixed each emerge from their own spheres and blend with each other: this is precisely what contract and exchange are."
—Mauss
—Mauss
An amusing 2011 interview with Edward Tiryakian. He discusses how we was introduced to sociology through Garfinkel, studied under Parsons (& even reflects on once using the urinal next to him), got caught in the Sorokin-Parsons drama, & discusses a variety of figures in American & French sociology.
Tiryakian Remembering Parsons and Sorokin
cdclv.unlv.edu
August 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
An amusing 2011 interview with Edward Tiryakian. He discusses how we was introduced to sociology through Garfinkel, studied under Parsons (& even reflects on once using the urinal next to him), got caught in the Sorokin-Parsons drama, & discusses a variety of figures in American & French sociology.
“Two forms of modern thought, which are closely allied, though not necessarily confounded in the same men, positivism and socialism, really spring from Saint-Simonism…. [I]t prepared the way both for socialist rhetoric and sociological studies.” —Sébastien Charléty
August 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
“Two forms of modern thought, which are closely allied, though not necessarily confounded in the same men, positivism and socialism, really spring from Saint-Simonism…. [I]t prepared the way both for socialist rhetoric and sociological studies.” —Sébastien Charléty
Right. Is there a single pre-Durkheimian French social theorist taken seriously today? A whole century of thinkers have been relegated to the dustbin of history, despite their pivotal positioning as heirs to the failed French Revolution and as the originators of the concept of ‘social science’.
Been thinking a little more on this and stumbled across @mutualsociology.bsky.social's comment on Twitter and I think this is so right on 1) why we see such derision for 'french theory' and 2) the 'something in it'. It is French anti-statism that is unpalatable against German/Russian socialism.
August 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Right. Is there a single pre-Durkheimian French social theorist taken seriously today? A whole century of thinkers have been relegated to the dustbin of history, despite their pivotal positioning as heirs to the failed French Revolution and as the originators of the concept of ‘social science’.
TIL that only 15% of works published in the US between 1923 and 1963 renewed their initial copyright that lasted for 28 years, which means that 85% of the works from those years are now in the public domain.
Starting in 1964, copyrights automatically renewed after the initial 28 years.
Starting in 1964, copyrights automatically renewed after the initial 28 years.
August 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
TIL that only 15% of works published in the US between 1923 and 1963 renewed their initial copyright that lasted for 28 years, which means that 85% of the works from those years are now in the public domain.
Starting in 1964, copyrights automatically renewed after the initial 28 years.
Starting in 1964, copyrights automatically renewed after the initial 28 years.
Academic publishing in a nutshell.
It’s apparently a fair trade to most academics to give their work to companies who charge astronomical prices for it in exchange for individual prestige. There is a kind of feudalistic vibe to it.
It’s apparently a fair trade to most academics to give their work to companies who charge astronomical prices for it in exchange for individual prestige. There is a kind of feudalistic vibe to it.
August 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Academic publishing in a nutshell.
It’s apparently a fair trade to most academics to give their work to companies who charge astronomical prices for it in exchange for individual prestige. There is a kind of feudalistic vibe to it.
It’s apparently a fair trade to most academics to give their work to companies who charge astronomical prices for it in exchange for individual prestige. There is a kind of feudalistic vibe to it.
I’m only on the Foreword of this book and I can already tell that I’m going to love it.
One of the things I hate about contemporary social science is the endless accumulation of empirical evidence with almost no regard for attempting to synthesize it by constructing grand theoretical frameworks.
One of the things I hate about contemporary social science is the endless accumulation of empirical evidence with almost no regard for attempting to synthesize it by constructing grand theoretical frameworks.
August 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I’m only on the Foreword of this book and I can already tell that I’m going to love it.
One of the things I hate about contemporary social science is the endless accumulation of empirical evidence with almost no regard for attempting to synthesize it by constructing grand theoretical frameworks.
One of the things I hate about contemporary social science is the endless accumulation of empirical evidence with almost no regard for attempting to synthesize it by constructing grand theoretical frameworks.
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I can finally share a complete, if rough draft translation of Pierre Leroux's "Equality," together with a draft of the first few sections of its sequel, "Humanity." They are linked from the Pierre Leroux / Doctrine of Humanity project page.
www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/pierre-lerou...
www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/pierre-lerou...
Pierre Leroux and the Doctrine of Humanity - The Libertarian Labyrinth
Pierre Leroux was, in his day, among the most important French socialist thinkers and he remains one of the under-documented influences on the anarchist movement. This page will contain links to Frenc...
www.libertarian-labyrinth.org
August 7, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I can finally share a complete, if rough draft translation of Pierre Leroux's "Equality," together with a draft of the first few sections of its sequel, "Humanity." They are linked from the Pierre Leroux / Doctrine of Humanity project page.
www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/pierre-lerou...
www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/pierre-lerou...
Another paradoxical aspect in contemporary sociology is the denial of the concept of progress, yet the implicit assumption of progress within the field. Returns to classical theory are widely seen as contradictory to this progress. Foundational thinkers like Saint-Simon are thrown into the wind.
August 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Another paradoxical aspect in contemporary sociology is the denial of the concept of progress, yet the implicit assumption of progress within the field. Returns to classical theory are widely seen as contradictory to this progress. Foundational thinkers like Saint-Simon are thrown into the wind.