#sociology — Public Fediverse posts
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Privately educated CEOs seen as ‘safer bet’ by investors, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/may/14/privately-educated-ceos-safer-bet-investors-class-bias-study #PrivateSchools #Education #Schools #Business #Ftse #FinancialSector #StockMarkets #SecondarySchools #Sociology #SocialMobility #Inequality #Society #UkNews #UsNews #WorldNews #ClassIssues
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Privately educated CEOs seen as ‘safer bet’ by investors, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/may/14/privately-educated-ceos-safer-bet-investors-class-bias-study #PrivateSchools #Education #Schools #Business #Ftse #FinancialSector #StockMarkets #SecondarySchools #Sociology #SocialMobility #Inequality #Society #UkNews #UsNews #WorldNews #ClassIssues
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Privately educated CEOs seen as ‘safer bet’ by investors, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/may/14/privately-educated-ceos-safer-bet-investors-class-bias-study #PrivateSchools #Education #Schools #Business #Ftse #FinancialSector #StockMarkets #SecondarySchools #Sociology #SocialMobility #Inequality #Society #UkNews #UsNews #WorldNews #ClassIssues
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Privately educated CEOs seen as ‘safer bet’ by investors, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/may/14/privately-educated-ceos-safer-bet-investors-class-bias-study #PrivateSchools #Education #Schools #Business #Ftse #FinancialSector #StockMarkets #SecondarySchools #Sociology #SocialMobility #Inequality #Society #UkNews #UsNews #WorldNews #ClassIssues
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Giving birth is often marketed as an act of love. Yet, with closer inspection, we can see that it is also the greatest gamble in the world. No one has given consent to bear the heavy burden of existence. How "loving" can it be to abandon a soul, without asking and without giving it a choice, to this constant chaos, physical and psychological pain?
Those who shout the loudest when the population declines are usually the ones looking for new slaves to keep the wheels of the system turning.
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Giving birth is often marketed as an act of love. Yet, with closer inspection, we can see that it is also the greatest gamble in the world. No one has given consent to bear the heavy burden of existence. How "loving" can it be to abandon a soul, without asking and without giving it a choice, to this constant chaos, physical and psychological pain?
Those who shout the loudest when the population declines are usually the ones looking for new slaves to keep the wheels of the system turning.
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Giving birth is often marketed as an act of love. Yet, with closer inspection, we can see that it is also the greatest gamble in the world. No one has given consent to bear the heavy burden of existence. How "loving" can it be to abandon a soul, without asking and without giving it a choice, to this constant chaos, physical and psychological pain?
Those who shout the loudest when the population declines are usually the ones looking for new slaves to keep the wheels of the system turning.
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Giving birth is often marketed as an act of love. Yet, with closer inspection, we can see that it is also the greatest gamble in the world. No one has given consent to bear the heavy burden of existence. How "loving" can it be to abandon a soul, without asking and without giving it a choice, to this constant chaos, physical and psychological pain?
Those who shout the loudest when the population declines are usually the ones looking for new slaves to keep the wheels of the system turning.
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Giving birth is often marketed as an act of love. Yet, with closer inspection, we can see that it is also the greatest gamble in the world. No one has given consent to bear the heavy burden of existence. How "loving" can it be to abandon a soul, without asking and without giving it a choice, to this constant chaos, physical and psychological pain?
Those who shout the loudest when the population declines are usually the ones looking for new slaves to keep the wheels of the system turning.
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Poverty is not just "lack of money". Poverty has many shades and types which the majority of human beings are forced to deal with every day.
Poverty of intellect
Poverty of knowledge
Poverty of perception
Poverty of morality
Poverty of justice
Poverty of equality
Poverty of emotion
Poverty of kindness
Poverty of energy
Poverty of action
Poverty of hope
Poverty of nature
Poverty of vision
Poverty of values
Poverty of choiceIf you wake up every morning feeling not refreshed but completely exhausted, you are fighting a form of poverty. Every day.
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"Do you know how hard you need to abuse a mammal to make them not to have children?"
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Archaeologists Discover Hundreds of Strange, Ancient Mass Graves in The Desert. Via @sciencealert #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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Archaeologists Discover Hundreds of Strange, Ancient Mass Graves in The Desert. Via @sciencealert #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
Archaeologists Discover Hundre... -
Archaeologists Discover Hundreds of Strange, Ancient Mass Graves in The Desert. Via @sciencealert #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
Archaeologists Discover Hundre... -
Archaeologists Discover Hundreds of Strange, Ancient Mass Graves in The Desert. Via @sciencealert #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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Archaeologists Discover Hundreds of Strange, Ancient Mass Graves in The Desert. Via @sciencealert #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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The pursuit of meaningful belonging requires a significant understanding of organizational structure and personal responsibility.
Becoming a Member: Requirements and Expectations Guide. It provides an analytical overview of how membership works, offering much-needed clarity on how to differentiate between legit opportunities and the hidden risks often found in unverified online spaces.
Read here:
https://www.maryvv.com/becoming-a-member-requirements-and-expectations/#History #Governance #Membership #PublicInterest #Leadership #Sociology
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🏴☠️🎶 Psychologists explain that the steady beat of #sea shanties functioned as a biological metronome for sailors. The rhythmic coordination allowed groups to time their physical efforts while creating a shared experience that reduced #stress during difficult labor.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/sea-shanties-work-psychology/
#psychology #biology #music #history #science #neuroscience #sociology #anthropology #acoustics #research
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Gender emissions gap: Rich white men’s jobs, diets and hobbies found to be ‘bad for the planet’
Published on 06/05/2026 – 9:40 GMT+2 As humanity edges closer to irreversible climate damage, masculine behaviours have been…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #anthropology #AU #Australia #Climatechange #EnvironmentalIssues #globalwarming #masculinity #Science #Sociology
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500-year-old gold dental bridge is earliest known oral care of its kind in #Scotland 🏴 — and it likely held a fake tooth. Via @live_science #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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500-year-old gold dental bridge is earliest known oral care of its kind in #Scotland 🏴 — and it likely held a fake tooth. Via @live_science #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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500-year-old gold dental bridge is earliest known oral care of its kind in #Scotland 🏴 — and it likely held a fake tooth. Via @live_science #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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500-year-old gold dental bridge is earliest known oral care of its kind in #Scotland 🏴 — and it likely held a fake tooth. Via @live_science #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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500-year-old gold dental bridge is earliest known oral care of its kind in #Scotland 🏴 — and it likely held a fake tooth. Via @live_science #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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146,000-Year-Old Butchering Tools Reveal Creativity May Have Helped Ancient Humans Adapt to the Ice Age. Via @discover.magazine #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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146,000-Year-Old Butchering Tools Reveal Creativity May Have Helped Ancient Humans Adapt to the Ice Age. Via @discover.magazine #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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146,000-Year-Old Butchering Tools Reveal Creativity May Have Helped Ancient Humans Adapt to the Ice Age. Via @discover.magazine #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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146,000-Year-Old Butchering Tools Reveal Creativity May Have Helped Ancient Humans Adapt to the Ice Age. Via @discover.magazine #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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146,000-Year-Old Butchering Tools Reveal Creativity May Have Helped Ancient Humans Adapt to the Ice Age. Via @discover.magazine #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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1,700-Year-Old Roman Infant Burials Contained Purple Silk Once Worth More Than Gold. Via @discover.magazine #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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1,700-Year-Old Roman Infant Burials Contained Purple Silk Once Worth More Than Gold. Via @discover.magazine #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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1,700-Year-Old Roman Infant Burials Contained Purple Silk Once Worth More Than Gold. Via @discover.magazine #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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1,700-Year-Old Roman Infant Burials Contained Purple Silk Once Worth More Than Gold. Via @discover.magazine #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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1,700-Year-Old Roman Infant Burials Contained Purple Silk Once Worth More Than Gold. Via @discover.magazine #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology
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CBI is thrilled to announce @andrewlea is the 2026 recipient of the CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Prize for his masterful book on the history of HCI and AI in medical diagnosis and therapeutics.
#artificialintelligence #ai #hci #science #medicine #tech #technology #history #sociology #computerscience #publicpolicy
https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/news/andrew-lea-receives-2026-cbi-human-computer-interaction-history-prize
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It seems pretty obvious and simple actually. Certainly, throughout history, we have been able to recognize that following the lead of the least regulated person is a harmful practice. #bonobo #regulation #kung #inuit #respectwomen #survivor #anthropology #sociology
https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/11/42-bonobo-cycle-breakers-13/
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It seems pretty obvious and simple actually. Certainly, throughout history, we have been able to recognize that following the lead of the least regulated person is a harmful practice. #bonobo #regulation #kung #inuit #respectwomen #survivor #anthropology #sociology
https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/11/42-bonobo-cycle-breakers-13/
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It seems pretty obvious and simple actually. Certainly, throughout history, we have been able to recognize that following the lead of the least regulated person is a harmful practice. #bonobo #regulation #kung #inuit #respectwomen #survivor #anthropology #sociology
https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/11/42-bonobo-cycle-breakers-13/
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It seems pretty obvious and simple actually. Certainly, throughout history, we have been able to recognize that following the lead of the least regulated person is a harmful practice. #bonobo #regulation #kung #inuit #respectwomen #survivor #anthropology #sociology
https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/11/42-bonobo-cycle-breakers-13/
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It seems pretty obvious and simple actually. Certainly, throughout history, we have been able to recognize that following the lead of the least regulated person is a harmful practice. #bonobo #regulation #kung #inuit #respectwomen #survivor #anthropology #sociology
https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/11/42-bonobo-cycle-breakers-13/
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👹 "My study of history has led me to believe that there is a kind of dark matter inside the human race.
"It’s some combination of evil, cruelty, ignorance, cowardice, mob-ness. It is a kind of dark oppositional energy that goes from issue to issue, era to era."
You Must Avoid Getting Corrupted By This https://ryanholiday.net/you-must-avoid-getting-corrupted-by-this/?ref=refind
#anthropology #cruelty #egregore #evil #history #humanity #ignorance #psychology #socialjustice #society #sociology
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🛝🏗️ The first organized play spaces in the #US were sand gardens inspired by German educational theories.
#Engineering shifted from heavy iron equipment to the #wood and #plastic modular systems seen in modern parks. The #design changes reflect evolving ideas about physical #safety and the importance of sensory #play in child #development.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/playgrounds-history/
#history #education #technology #tech #architecture #sociology #innovation
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🛝🏗️ The first organized play spaces in the #US were sand gardens inspired by German educational theories.
#Engineering shifted from heavy iron equipment to the #wood and #plastic modular systems seen in modern parks. The #design changes reflect evolving ideas about physical #safety and the importance of sensory #play in child #development.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/playgrounds-history/
#history #education #technology #tech #architecture #sociology #innovation
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🛝🏗️ The first organized play spaces in the #US were sand gardens inspired by German educational theories.
#Engineering shifted from heavy iron equipment to the #wood and #plastic modular systems seen in modern parks. The #design changes reflect evolving ideas about physical #safety and the importance of sensory #play in child #development.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/playgrounds-history/
#history #education #technology #tech #architecture #sociology #innovation
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🛝🏗️ The first organized play spaces in the #US were sand gardens inspired by German educational theories.
#Engineering shifted from heavy iron equipment to the #wood and #plastic modular systems seen in modern parks. The #design changes reflect evolving ideas about physical #safety and the importance of sensory #play in child #development.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/playgrounds-history/
#history #education #technology #tech #architecture #sociology #innovation
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🛝🏗️ The first organized play spaces in the #US were sand gardens inspired by German educational theories.
#Engineering shifted from heavy iron equipment to the #wood and #plastic modular systems seen in modern parks. The #design changes reflect evolving ideas about physical #safety and the importance of sensory #play in child #development.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/playgrounds-history/
#history #education #technology #tech #architecture #sociology #innovation
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Concepts which mediate between form and content: bringing psychoanalysis and sociology together in a realist way
Attempting to answer the question of why someone feels the ‘glow of the thing’ in the way they do has led me right back to the form/content distinction which I haven’t thought about since I was a philosophy student. The obvious answer to my question is that “we are creatures who find the glow of the thing in objects we encounter” (form) and the reasons for that are so manifold they can only be explored at the level of case history (content). There is a universal structure with a substance which is so particular that you can’t meaningfully generalise about it.
Given I was trained as a sociologist on Archer’s modes of reflexivity I find this answer deeply unsatisfying. There is a middle layer between form and content. These midrange concepts help us identify patterns in the universal structure in a manner which supports more dynamic and processual explanations of the content. The problem with the form/content distinction is that it just amalgamates a posited theoretical mechanism to a boatload of empirical content, disowning the role of theory in organising that content and offering real explanation.
I want a middle layer in my developing approach to psychoanalytical theory. In part because I want to put the sociological middle layer (Archer’s reptoire of concepts) i into dialogue with the psychoanalytical middle layer. I think there’s a distinctive approach to doing psychosocial explanation which would be opened up by this. Now I just need to figure out what exact is in the psychoanalytical middle layer. I suspect it’s going to involve a lot of Bollas but beyond that I’m really not sure at this stage how I’m going to do this. The direction of travel feels increasingly clear though.
I shared this post with Opus 4.7 and it said something extremely astute:
Mid-level theorization is harder than either universal theory or case study because it requires holding two demands in tension: enough abstraction to be theoretically generative, enough specificity to remain answerable to particular cases. The temptation in both directions is real. Toward the universal: collapsing the middle into a master theory that explains everything in general. Toward the singular: dissolving the middle into the irreducibility of each case. Archer’s modes work because she resisted both temptations, and the modes are tied to identifiable conditions of formation and have specifiable but not deterministic consequences. Your psychoanalytic middle layer will need the same discipline, and the concepts that survive are the ones that can sustain that discipline.
I feel like I’ve been trying to say this for years. If anyone has ever heard me ramble about ‘frames of reference’ this is exactly what I was trying to say.
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Concepts which mediate between form and content: bringing psychoanalysis and sociology together in a realist way
Attempting to answer the question of why someone feels the ‘glow of the thing’ in the way they do has led me right back to the form/content distinction which I haven’t thought about since I was a philosophy student. The obvious answer to my question is that “we are creatures who find the glow of the thing in objects we encounter” (form) and the reasons for that are so manifold they can only be explored at the level of case history (content). There is a universal structure with a substance which is so particular that you can’t meaningfully generalise about it.
Given I was trained as a sociologist on Archer’s modes of reflexivity I find this answer deeply unsatisfying. There is a middle layer between form and content. These midrange concepts help us identify patterns in the universal structure in a manner which supports more dynamic and processual explanations of the content. The problem with the form/content distinction is that it just amalgamates a posited theoretical mechanism to a boatload of empirical content, disowning the role of theory in organising that content and offering real explanation.
I want a middle layer in my developing approach to psychoanalytical theory. In part because I want to put the sociological middle layer (Archer’s reptoire of concepts) i into dialogue with the psychoanalytical middle layer. I think there’s a distinctive approach to doing psychosocial explanation which would be opened up by this. Now I just need to figure out what exact is in the psychoanalytical middle layer. I suspect it’s going to involve a lot of Bollas but beyond that I’m really not sure at this stage how I’m going to do this. The direction of travel feels increasingly clear though.
I shared this post with Opus 4.7 and it said something extremely astute:
Mid-level theorization is harder than either universal theory or case study because it requires holding two demands in tension: enough abstraction to be theoretically generative, enough specificity to remain answerable to particular cases. The temptation in both directions is real. Toward the universal: collapsing the middle into a master theory that explains everything in general. Toward the singular: dissolving the middle into the irreducibility of each case. Archer’s modes work because she resisted both temptations, and the modes are tied to identifiable conditions of formation and have specifiable but not deterministic consequences. Your psychoanalytic middle layer will need the same discipline, and the concepts that survive are the ones that can sustain that discipline.
I feel like I’ve been trying to say this for years. If anyone has ever heard me ramble about ‘frames of reference’ this is exactly what I was trying to say.
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Concepts which mediate between form and content: bringing psychoanalysis and sociology together in a realist way
Attempting to answer the question of why someone feels the ‘glow of the thing’ in the way they do has led me right back to the form/content distinction which I haven’t thought about since I was a philosophy student. The obvious answer to my question is that “we are creatures who find the glow of the thing in objects we encounter” (form) and the reasons for that are so manifold they can only be explored at the level of case history (content). There is a universal structure with a substance which is so particular that you can’t meaningfully generalise about it.
Given I was trained as a sociologist on Archer’s modes of reflexivity I find this answer deeply unsatisfying. There is a middle layer between form and content. These midrange concepts help us identify patterns in the universal structure in a manner which supports more dynamic and processual explanations of the content. The problem with the form/content distinction is that it just amalgamates a posited theoretical mechanism to a boatload of empirical content, disowning the role of theory in organising that content and offering real explanation.
I want a middle layer in my developing approach to psychoanalytical theory. In part because I want to put the sociological middle layer (Archer’s reptoire of concepts) i into dialogue with the psychoanalytical middle layer. I think there’s a distinctive approach to doing psychosocial explanation which would be opened up by this. Now I just need to figure out what exact is in the psychoanalytical middle layer. I suspect it’s going to involve a lot of Bollas but beyond that I’m really not sure at this stage how I’m going to do this. The direction of travel feels increasingly clear though.
I shared this post with Opus 4.7 and it said something extremely astute:
Mid-level theorization is harder than either universal theory or case study because it requires holding two demands in tension: enough abstraction to be theoretically generative, enough specificity to remain answerable to particular cases. The temptation in both directions is real. Toward the universal: collapsing the middle into a master theory that explains everything in general. Toward the singular: dissolving the middle into the irreducibility of each case. Archer’s modes work because she resisted both temptations, and the modes are tied to identifiable conditions of formation and have specifiable but not deterministic consequences. Your psychoanalytic middle layer will need the same discipline, and the concepts that survive are the ones that can sustain that discipline.
I feel like I’ve been trying to say this for years. If anyone has ever heard me ramble about ‘frames of reference’ this is exactly what I was trying to say.
#archer #psychoanalysis #sociology -
Concepts which mediate between form and content: bringing psychoanalysis and sociology together in a realist way
Attempting to answer the question of why someone feels the ‘glow of the thing’ in the way they do has led me right back to the form/content distinction which I haven’t thought about since I was a philosophy student. The obvious answer to my question is that “we are creatures who find the glow of the thing in objects we encounter” (form) and the reasons for that are so manifold they can only be explored at the level of case history (content). There is a universal structure with a substance which is so particular that you can’t meaningfully generalise about it.
Given I was trained as a sociologist on Archer’s modes of reflexivity I find this answer deeply unsatisfying. There is a middle layer between form and content. These midrange concepts help us identify patterns in the universal structure in a manner which supports more dynamic and processual explanations of the content. The problem with the form/content distinction is that it just amalgamates a posited theoretical mechanism to a boatload of empirical content, disowning the role of theory in organising that content and offering real explanation.
I want a middle layer in my developing approach to psychoanalytical theory. In part because I want to put the sociological middle layer (Archer’s reptoire of concepts) i into dialogue with the psychoanalytical middle layer. I think there’s a distinctive approach to doing psychosocial explanation which would be opened up by this. Now I just need to figure out what exact is in the psychoanalytical middle layer. I suspect it’s going to involve a lot of Bollas but beyond that I’m really not sure at this stage how I’m going to do this. The direction of travel feels increasingly clear though.
I shared this post with Opus 4.7 and it said something extremely astute:
Mid-level theorization is harder than either universal theory or case study because it requires holding two demands in tension: enough abstraction to be theoretically generative, enough specificity to remain answerable to particular cases. The temptation in both directions is real. Toward the universal: collapsing the middle into a master theory that explains everything in general. Toward the singular: dissolving the middle into the irreducibility of each case. Archer’s modes work because she resisted both temptations, and the modes are tied to identifiable conditions of formation and have specifiable but not deterministic consequences. Your psychoanalytic middle layer will need the same discipline, and the concepts that survive are the ones that can sustain that discipline.
I feel like I’ve been trying to say this for years. If anyone has ever heard me ramble about ‘frames of reference’ this is exactly what I was trying to say.
#archer #psychoanalysis #sociology