Category Archives: Culture

The Age of Biological or Social Contamination?

Posted on May 15, 2023 by Seth Abrutyn

For nearly three years, most of the world has been experiencing the ebb and flow of a pandemic. I’ve written previously about sociology and disease, the panic and grief social distancing caused, and, more recently, the reasons for the US’s … Continue reading →

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Cultural Sociology I: Meaning Making and the Psychological Industrial-Complex

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Seth Abrutyn

In a previous post, I made the argument that sociology needs to go beyond just incorporating culture into a sociology of suicide. It needs a cultural theory altogether. But, what would that look like? What would be its framework? One … Continue reading →

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A Cultural Theory of Suicide?

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Seth Abrutyn

Sociology has famously studied suicide using Durkheim’s classic structural framework. For the uninitiated or for those needing a refresher, what that means – or at least the common interpretation of what that means – is that (a) the structure of … Continue reading →

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Cultural Trauma and Total Social Facts

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Seth Abrutyn

Since Durkheim, sociology has had the habit of looking at psychological phenomena and attempting to co-opt it in the name of social facts and forces. A promising phenomena, one with some relevance for the current COVID pan-pocalypse we are all … Continue reading →

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