{"id":399,"date":"2012-04-05T04:45:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T11:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.dds.nl\/?p=399"},"modified":"2012-04-05T04:46:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T11:46:26","slug":"399","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/399\/","title":{"rendered":"On unsolved sociological questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harvard&#8217;s Ethan Fosse <a href=\"http:\/\/ethanfosse.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/top-5-unsolved-sociological-questions.html\">blogs about his top five unsolved sociological questions<\/a>. Regardless of whether I agree that these particular ones are the &#8220;top five&#8221; (although I think all of them are interesting and relevant), I fully agree that making such lists is important. The lack of consensus about our main problems is one of the issues preventing progress in sociology, and open discussion about what we find important should bring us closer to such a consensus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having said that, I don&#8217;t really agree that Ehan&#8217;s number three ( Why do so many cultural and social phenomena &#8230; follow power-law distributions) should be in the top five, because it is not so clear that this is even true (e.g., see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/335\/6069\/665.short\">here<\/a>). Also, I miss questions about social structure in the sense of social networks (obviously because I happen to study them :)). For example, to what extend is the social structure of modern societies changing under the influences of mass immigration and technological progress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard&#8217;s Ethan Fosse blogs about his top five unsolved sociological questions. Regardless of whether I agree that these particular ones are the &#8220;top five&#8221; (although I think all of them are interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}