Introduction

I've started this blog in hope of gaining an understanding of the world through writing.  This blog will concern all most all topics, but mostly it will have a connection to my background as a sociologist. I'm concerned with why people do the things they do. I'm also concerned with how we see society, How we put labels on phenomenons and how we tend to disregard what we don't want to see. 


It will also bear markings of myself as a historical sociologist. I think no fenomenon is truly new. It always draws on earlier times. And basically society has been around for too long for anything ever to be truly new. This is why I dislike the concept of modernisation and globalisation. I agree it's gone further than ever before. But I don't think that migration and multicuturalism has never been seen before. Yes, internet is new. But I see it as a continuation of earlier developments like Gutenberg's printing and the invention of the telephone. Most things are a continuation of what's happened before.


Now first, what is a society? In my view (as there is no universal consensus to draw from), is that a society is 
- a state
- a family
- a town/village etc
So a society is mostly a community. A gathering of people that you have a connection to. Like Michael Mann, I see many variantions of societies, and I think they intersect.

- Sincerely, me 

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