Category Archives: Emotion

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 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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PANIC/GRIEF, or the Pain of Social Distance

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Seth Abrutyn

Do you feel it? The pain of being stuck inside, apart from the people you love? Apart from the routine movements that fill the rounds of daily life that are blindly taken for granted? The patterns of interaction or exchange … Continue reading →

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