Floor Basten

Independent scholar, cat addict, tattoo lover

Woedende wetenschap

woedende wetenschap

“Today we have anthropology students who are indignant about many problems affecting the future of homo sapiens, but they are studying problems about which they have no ‘feelings’. Some think this is the only appropriate stance for a science. Yet the things that students are energetic about they do not study. I think we are … Lees meer

Sociologists Are Go!!

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Last week I attended the “Changing Society” conference in Leeds, organized by the British Sociological Association. There have been conferences that I left with hazy or more pronounced feelings of depression, but this wasn’t one of them. This one had an atmosphere of vague soul searching with some outbursts in passionate and powerful argumentations about … Lees meer