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Four Ways to Make Social Change Work Better: The Transition Movement and the...
‘Transition actually looked like a good tool for the job. They were picking it up by whatever handle they grasped. They were swinging it as earnestly as they could.’ – Jon Mooallem, NY Times The...
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Why aren’t we all Egalitarians?
It appears there are not as many Egalitarians in the UK as New Labour might like to think. Research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, commissioned by the Fabian Society, seems to show that people in...
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Can Education reform cope with competing visions of fairness?
There has been some discussion recently about social mobility and parental school choice. This arose, in part, from a UK report on how to improve ‘fair access to the professions’. The problem with...
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The decline and fall of declining and falling
Edward Gibbon made a famous claim in chapter 3 of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that “If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the...
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Fortify your group with religious belief! Homing in on the God Gene
“Groups fortified by religious belief would have prevailed over those that lacked it, and genes that prompted the mind toward ritual would eventually have become universal.” An article in the New York...
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Why can’t environmentalists just all get along?
Dr Clare Saunders, from Southampton University, was awarded the first British Journal of Sociology prize for her 2008 ethnographic work on environmental organisations in London. You can hear a podcast...
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Mutualism: Flavour of the month
As predicted this time last year, mutualism is the new favourite political idea. It has been so ignored by policy makers over many decades that it has temporarily lost its left/right label and the...
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Excommunicating Women priests
Just about to write something about the recent restatement of the Catholic Church’s opposition to the ordination of women – I realised, effectively, I already had. Add only this: it’s not actually very...
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The medium is the bias
Image via Wikipedia We don’t carry cultural biases around in our heads so much as encounter them in our environments. Humans require the flexibility to be able to engage with different cultural biases...
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Co-ops are Big: Egalitarian business models take off
How do you feel about the fact that the United Nations is sponsoring 2012 as the year of the co-operative? Shareable: Co-ops are Big: Charles Gould on the Int’l Year of the Co-op –...
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Co-ops are Big: Egalitarian business models take off
How do you feel about the fact that the United Nations is sponsoring 2012 as the year of the co-operative? Shareable: Co-ops are Big: Charles Gould on the Int’l Year of the Co-op – http://pulse.me/s/66nFt
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