Archive - Indications

Human augmentation and artificial intelligence

Recurring dilemmas of the computer age

Mar 18 •

December 2023

The Methodological Meaning of Phenomenology

Shifting From the Eidetic to the Empirical

Dec 1, 2023 •

June 2023

Social science as political knowledge

A brief reflection on the role of social science in a democratic society prompted by Jeffrey Friedman's last book

Jun 22, 2023 •

Recent interviews on the Sovereign Fund of Kosova

While I use this venue mainly for academic and intellectual musings, I would like to share two recent interviews I gave recently on my work related to…

Jun 8, 2023 •

May 2023

Social Theory and Technology: Unraveling Intellectual Development and Interrogating the Relationship

A reflection on the status of technology in social theory and political economy

May 31, 2023 •

December 2022

How phenomenology redefines the notion of “reasoning” in sociology

A critique of sociological practice theory

Dec 13, 2022 •

The problem of technology transfer in the Third World and in socialist states

A comment on Robert Linhart’s political economy of technology transfer

Dec 8, 2022 •

Notes on phenomenology and egological analysis

Exploring Schutz’s sociological egology

Dec 6, 2022 •

July 2021

Engaging Bourdieu and phenomenology in global sociology

Bourdieu selectively adopted some of Edmund Husserl’s insights, but his total sociologization of habitus and subjectivity results in a position that…

Jul 22, 2021 •

Is de-democratization the future of Central and Eastern Europe? (2017)

Given the region’s history, it is tempting to describe these troubling trends as the symptom of incomplete postcommunist democratization and the return…

Jul 22, 2021 •

Why don’t they pay their bills? Cultures of non-cooperation and distrust (2012)

historical sociology is at its best not only when it can explain events in the past, but when it can elucidate long-term structures that continue to…

Jul 15, 2021 •

Social Theory, Political Economy, Phenomenology

Welcome to Indications by Besnik Pula, Ph.D.

Jul 15, 2021 •

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