HOME | CATEGORY HOME | Art | Austria | Christmas | Churchill | Classics | Climate | Climbing | COVID | Culture | English language | English literature | EU | France | Free speech | French literature | German language | German literature | Germany | Goethe | Gotthard | Heine | Heloise Höchner | Misc | Nature | Philosophy | Pound | Religion | Romania | Romansh | Rousseau | Rückert | Schubart | Schubert | Science | Senn | Sociology | Switzerland | UK | UK monarchy | Ukraine | US | Website | WW1 | WW2 26 articles in category 'Sociology'. White horses Benedictions or banes? Richard Law UTC 2026-10-13 08:04 Words: 2,368; reading time: 10 minutes The Mum he never had Concentric circles of social control Richard Law UTC 2026-10-03 11:04 Words: 764; reading time: 3 minutes The Global Backlash Lashing out in word and deed. Richard Law UTC 2025-10-13 08:22 Words: 947; reading time: 4 minutes Social media on the couch And its users. 'Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.' Richard Law UTC 2020-02-20 10:25 Words: 2,918; reading time: 13 minutes Democratic discontent The Centre for the Future of Democracy is worried. They will be when the tumbrils get there. Richard Law UTC 2020-01-30 14:22 Words: 1,596; reading time: 7 minutes The Base and the Superstructure Why you can never control social media. It is what it is. Richard Law UTC 2018-01-14 14:37 Words: 5,557; reading time: 25 minutes Updated on 2018-01-14 Gratitude: the cement of civilisation Thank you, ancestors, for all you have done for us. Richard Law UTC 2017-08-08 15:40 Words: 575; reading time: 2 minutes Quote and image of the month for December 2016 Quote: Berger and Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality. Image: Lorenzo Lotto, Annunciazione. UTC 2016-12-01 01:02 Words: 381; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for September Late learning | Immigrants, always resented | Snowflake of the Month | Design update | Feed a cold, starve a fever | One mystery fewer | Restoration and reconstruction | Missing links | The medium is the message, Tim | Quelle finesse! UTC 2016-09-01 02:01 Words: 2,120; reading time: 9 minutes Devaluing the family Let's not upset the childlessly carefree with all these nasty value judgements. Richard Law UTC 2016-07-10 11:14 Words: 2,099; reading time: 9 minutes Updated on 2016-10-04 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism One reason among many for the decline and fall of the Habsburg Empire. [9 pages] Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:40 Words: 11,188; reading time: 50 minutes On your own The three pillars of the Protestant revolution: salvation by faith alone, through Christ alone and through scripture alone. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:41 Words: 755; reading time: 3 minutes The calling Do your best with what you are given: the importance of the 'calling'. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:42 Words: 682; reading time: 3 minutes The elect Are you one of the elect? Prove it, particularly to yourself. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:43 Words: 938; reading time: 4 minutes The heavenly balance sheet The cycle of redeemable sin compared with the fixed plan of virtuous action. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:44 Words: 615; reading time: 2 minutes Rewards on earth and in Heaven Irresistable grace will bring the rewards of Earthly life. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:45 Words: 934; reading time: 4 minutes For the greater glory of God: Carl Schubert The servant of the Catholic God leads an upright and pious life albeit without lasting utility. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:46 Words: 2,265; reading time: 10 minutes For the greater glory of God: Benjamin Franklin The servant of the Calvinist God follows a programme of self-improvement. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:47 Words: 2,026; reading time: 9 minutes The trivial round, the common task The beneficial effect of work in pursuit of the 'calling'. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:48 Words: 723; reading time: 3 minutes Work: unpleasing to God Work if you have to, but not too hard. It might even be better to live on your own in a cave for a few years. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-01 07:49 Words: 1,057; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for April Aide-memoire | #BringBackOurMen | Heartwarming | Dressing gown | Boaty McBoatface | John Whittingdale, chick magnet | The devastating power of hashtags | The terrorists are winning | Butch Spaniards on the rampage | A helpful tip for savers | Headline of the year candidate | The helping hand UTC 2016-04-01 02:01 Words: 2,509; reading time: 11 minutes Not like us Our continental friends, God bless them! Richard Law UTC 2016-01-25 07:35 Words: 2,821; reading time: 12 minutes Updated on 2016-05-07 Brief Encounter II Fings ain't wot they used to be: Not every man is Trevor Howard. Girls should listen to the accumulated wisdom of the ages. Richard Law UTC 2016-01-18 10:08 Words: 457; reading time: 2 minutes Lunatic calendars A cheerful month-long Ramadan fast in Svalbard (a.k.a. Spitzbergen) in summer. Is it supper time yet? Richard Law UTC 2016-01-17 13:01 Words: 857; reading time: 3 minutes Shaken, stirred and rusted Objects of technological desire do not die, they just rust away and become ever more pointless. Richard Law UTC 2015-11-28 07:20 Words: 871; reading time: 3 minutes Updated on 2016-02-10 Mars will now say a few words The God of War speaks on the impending Armistice Day, 11.11.2015 Richard Law UTC 2015-11-03 10:37 Words: 575; reading time: 2 minutes
