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Why bother with Durkheim? Using (classical) social science to understand the...

Reflections on a PhD Course at the Resilience Research School, Thursday 30th January A guest post form Simon West, from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, at Stockholm University.  This Thursday we began...

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Classics of Social Science 1: Karl Marx the first ecological sociologist?

Guest post by Simon West: Reflections on Week Two of the Resilience Research School PhD course, ‘Why Bother with Durkheim? Using (classical) social science to understand the social dynamics of...

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Classics of Social Science 3: Max Weber – Interpreter of (human) nature

Guest post by Simon West: Karl Marx had modes of production, Emile Durkheim had collective consciousness; Max Weber wanted … nothing of this sort.  He believed it was foolish to assign supra-individual...

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