Inglehart, Maaßen, Le Pen: two links I liked & one that makes me sad

Inglehart, Maaßen, Le Pen: two links I liked & one that makes me sad 1

I’m sad to hear that Ronald Inglehart has died. Hero worshipping is worse than useless, and great man/woman theories are just very bad sociology of knowledge. Having said that, Inglehart had an impact on the field of comparative political sociology that is hard to overestimate. He was enormously productive, and his work is cited far…

I’m not normally into ethnography & critical theory, but this PhD student’s account of her journey aboard a vast container ship is well worth your time (which you would spend scrolling through Evergreen memes anyway)

The Slow Boat to China (The Disorder Of Things)

The following post is the first in a series of oceanic dispatches from Disorder member Charmaine Chua. She is currently on a 46-day journey on board a 100,000 ton Evergreen container ship starting …