Research

Publications

For links to my Publications, click HERE (or just back there).

Working Papers

For links to my Working Papers, click HERE (or just back there).

 

 

A Research Glossary

My research falls into three broad, and interconnected, areas: the sociology of nature, dialogue and dialogics, and social inequality. Click below to explore them and their interconnections. (The links are currently under construction.)

sociology of nature
   agriculture
      cultivation of knowledge
      farmer’s problem
   the body
      ecological body
      invironment
   contradictions of nature
      moral holism
      moral separatism
      social reflection of knowledge
      social selection of knowledge 
   consumption
      social organization of convenience
      treadmill of consumption
      virtual environmentalism
   ecological dialogue
   environmental concern
      democratic basis
      natural conscience
      virtual environmentalism
   ghosts of place
      community
      place    
   invironment   
   natural conscience
      contradictions of nature
      natural me
      natural other
      resonance
   place
      front door/back door
      ghosts of place
      rural-urban continuum as a system of identity
   rural masculinity
      dialogic masculinity
      masculine rural
      rural masculine
   sociology of knowledge
      contradictions of nature
      cultivation of knowledge
      naming of knowledge
      natural conscience
      social relations of knowledge
   resonance
   virtual environmentalism 

dialogue and dialogics
   agency
      dialogic providence
      diction
      response ability
      unfinalizability
   creativity and change
      dialogic providence
      dialogue of solidarities
      social movements
      top and bottom of change
      unfinalizability
      virtual environmentalism
   cultivation of knowledge
      dialogic providence
      naming of knowledge
      response ability
      phenomenology of economy
      social relations of knowledge
   dialogue
      commitment to dialogue      
      democracy      
      dependence on monologue      
      response ability
      unfinalizability
   dialogic pragmatism
   dialogics
      dialogic providence
      dialogue of state and market
      dialogue of solidarities
      dialogue of technology
      ecological dialogue
   dialogue of solidarities
      solidarity of interests
      solidarity of sentiments
   ecological dialogue
      material-ideal dialogue
      response ability
   monologue
      democracy
      depedence on dialogue
      natural conscience
      recognizing monologue
   social movements
      cultivation of knowledge
      dialogue of solidarities
      recognizing monologue
      top and bottom of change
   sustainability
      agriculture
      response ability

inequality
   community
      dialogue of solidarities
      place
   class
      front door/back door
      moral ambivalence of class
      natural conscience
   democracy
      democractic basis of environmental concern
      isodemocracy
      participation
   economic sociology
      dialogue of state and market
      farmer’s problem
      phenomenology of economy
      social organization of convenience
      treadmill of consumption
   identity
      cultivation of knowledge
      dialogic masculinity
      dialogue of solidarities
      ghosts of place
      natural conscience
   isodemocracy
   masculinity
      dialogic masculinity
      rural masculinity
   participation
      participatory research
      response ability
   problem of interest
      natural conscience
      dialogue of solidarities   
   top and bottom of change

New Projects

I am also at work on a number of other projects in each of these three areas. Some of these are new endeavors, and others are topics I've been talking and thinking about for years, but have yet to publish.

the Arkansas traveler’s paradox (dialogue and dialogics)

the consumption line (sociology of nature, inequality)

a dialogic theory of power (dialogue and dialogics)

dictability (dialogue and dialogics)

family success in agricultural diversity (sociology of nature, dialogue and dialogics, inequality)

heritas (sociology of nature, dialogue and dialogics, inequality)

musical sociology (dialogue and dialogics)

participatory research, organizing it effectively (dialogue and dialogics, inequality)

the post-choice economy (sociology of nature, inequality)

rare local food (sociology of nature, inequality)

social impacts of grazing (sociology of nature, inequality)

the case for sociological art (dialogue and dialogics)

 

 

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