When British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caused an uproar in 1987 by telling an interviewer, “There is no such thing as society,” she was referring to the big amorphous concept, not the specific word. All these years later, though, with “society” vanishing...
This blog article is Buch, Neville (2025; a plan for a book). Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics? Part 3: Understanding Historiography: defeating the culture-history warfare over the false binary in ‘religion’ and ‘secularity’, Dr Neville Buch ABN:...
A response by social media participant had initiated some preliminary research gathering. The response was to a post I had put up: “Both the culture and religion are in a strange, binary, process of synthesis—a tension, but...
"Who, after all, runs America? No one runs it altogether, but in so far as any group does, the power elite." C. Wright Mills (1959). The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press. p. 31. Mills' The Power Elite thesis (1956) has sustain the...
The following are sociological and historical analysis from Dr Buch, a progressive scholar. For critical attention to these progressive statements during the DNC, go to the PBS Fact-Checking websites. The Best of Politics, Globally, Not Just from...
The first essay in the series on the emerging field of Cognition History (and Cognition Sociology). The essay begins with introducing key concepts of Micro and Macro scoping, and principal concepts of Thin and Thick. Other key concepts are introduced for their role of...
NDB. The Level Playing Field Saturday, 3 August 2024 ONLINE APPLICATION TO WHOM IT CONCERNS Dear Friend, Attached is the draft essay, “The Concept of the Level Playing Field.” I am the sole author and disclaim all...
Review Essay: Matthew Hunter, Charles Taylor’s Sublime Shortcomings: The great philosopher’s book about poetry is provocative but disappointing, The Chronicle of Higher Education, MAY 22, 2024. Charles Taylor (2024). Cosmic...
The academia.edu copy is here: https://www.academia.edu/117813171/Plurality_in_and_of_Thought_Functional_Ideals_of_Silence_and_Dismissal The Public PDF copy is here: Plurality in and of Thought. Functional Ideals of Silence and Dismissal ...