Sociology

That part of humans that subsists between their skulls.

Big history Cliodynamics, deep history, big-picture history 2018-12-18 – 2023-11-06
Misrule, punks and ravers Peasantpunk, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget, metis farming, the feast of fools in suburbia, crusty rituals for the churchless, oxytocin fixes, mock chivalric orders, squads 2018-03-26 – 2023-09-26
Doing it yourself Peasantpunk, artisanal poverty, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms 2018-03-26 – 2023-08-08
Science; Institution design for “Scientist, falsify thyself”. Peer review, academic incentives, credentials, evidence and funding… 2020-05-17 – 2023-08-07
Research discovery Has someone answered that question I have not worked out how to ask yet? 2019-01-22 – 2023-06-06
Cheap talk Sapir-Whorf politeness, virtue signalling etc 2020-02-01 – 2023-04-11
When to argue ad hominem Skin in the game, vested interests, overt and covert prejudices, lived experience, Dunning-Kruger outgroup effects, genealogy of knowledge, aetiology, donatism, genealogy of knowledge 2020-02-01 – 2023-01-28
Models of inequity Sharpening the fuzzy process of bias, discrimination and inequity 2017-08-13 – 2023-01-19
Innovation Side order of progress studies now I guess 2014-07-27 – 2022-09-24
Microstressors Asymmetric interactions in aggregate, microinequity, microaggressions 2020-02-01 – 2022-07-28
Diversity in teams Multiculturalism, pluralism and eccentricity at small scale 2020-05-27 – 2022-07-28
Subculture dynamics Coalitions, scenes, fandoms, subcultures, normies, hipsters, sects, and tribes at scale 2018-12-18 – 2022-07-26
Being stroppy For malcontents too perverse to be contrarian like everyone else 2022-03-04 – 2022-07-06
Gender identity Political and/or empirical engagement therewith 2017-08-13 – 2022-06-25
Invasive arguments Inflammatory topics, toxplasmic incidents. Weeds in public discourse 2021-12-20 – 2022-06-25
Memetics Taste dynamics, opinion dynamics, sincerely-held-belief dynamics etc 2020-01-30 – 2022-05-14
Myths Aspirationally self-fulfilling narratives, Schelling points in the social construction of reality, stone soups and Tinkerbell effects 2022-02-20 – 2022-04-07
Diversity in society Pluralism, multiculturalism, tolerance, ghettoisation, xenophobic panic 2017-02-19 – 2022-02-13
Bounded rationality Plus miscellaneous rationality postulates restricting von Neumann-Morgenstern 2012-01-13 – 2022-01-15
Social psychology Which of those NPR-friendly studies actually replicated? 2017-02-20 – 2022-01-14
Group size Scaling dynamics and network effects in social coordination 2011-12-09 – 2022-01-02
Governance of the commons On the mysterious fact that most people get on with most of their neighbours most of the time 2014-10-29 – 2021-09-02
Science History, sociology and philosophy thereof 2017-07-08 – 2021-07-21