Sebastian Raza

teaches social theory @CamSociology, thinking about crises and how these transform us (for the better or for the worse), writing at times

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

New paper on theorizing with phenomenology in sociology and anthropology

https://t.co/u8u9tI4Cqd

[St Catharine's College @Catz_Cambridge]

A warm welcome to our three newest Fellows who are due to be officially inducted into the Catz fellowship at a ceremony on Monday: Dr Sebastian Raza (@sebrazam), Prof. Anne Willis OBE FBTS & Prof. Douglas Moggach. Find out more: https://t.co/aIa1SWgcKn @CamSociology @MRC_TU

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

@MattWalshBlog Every daily wire presenter is just a Ben Shapiro in a different form for a distinctive audience. The most unoriginal and least interesting form of social commentary. It is time to be honest about this.

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

What I found interesting in Rosen's book is the implicit dialogue between Charles Taylor and Hans Blumenberg on modernity and secularization that runs through his book . We mention this towards the end of our introduction of the special issue.
https://t.co/uyQfGfhopD

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

The Journal of the Philosophy of History published a symposium on Michael Rosen's 'The Shadow of God', co-edited by Marijn Nohlmanns, Kai-Uwe Hoffman, and myself. It has interesting contributions by Richard Bourke, Daniel Chernilo, Corinne Schubert.

https://t.co/m6JBAanM0Y

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

It features a piece by Rosen where he specifies what he means by secularization, which is a central idea that remains implicit in the book.
https://t.co/ShKgTR9Yam

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

It is very exciting to see the debate gaining traction. Looking forward to the submissions for the special issue in BSA’s Sociology. CfP in the blog post!

[LSE Sociology @LSEsociology]

Should sociology remain descriptive, or is engaging with normative questions essential to understanding social life? Our latest blog series interrogates the boundary between description and evaluation.

https://t.co/ErBDB6V3iy

[LSE Sociology @LSEsociology]

Should sociology remain descriptive, or is engaging with normative questions essential to understanding social life? Our latest blog series interrogates the boundary between description and evaluation.

https://t.co/ErBDB6V3iy

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

This is a call to reopen the question of normativity in sociology – as a condition of our practice and theories. Sociology operates between critique and commitment, yet our normative entanglements are typically black-boxed or taken as self-explanatory.

[BSA Theory @BSATheory]

📣Call for Papers: Sociology (@sociologyjnl) Special Issue

The Normative Turn in Sociology. Opening the Black Box

Deadline for submission of full papers: 22 Jan 2026

Guest Editors: Elisabeth Becker-Topkara, Daniel Chernilo, Sebastian Raza, & Galen Watts
https://t.co/4vXdTdtHTB

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

A new paper (with G Watts) arguing that descriptive and evaluative components are intertwined in empirical sociological accounts, and that the distinction between the good and the right can clarify the variety of normative reasoning in sociology.

https://t.co/qm8BpGeOBG

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

Very interesting event with the great @jdvasqueza

https://t.co/x95DzcYrw7

[Robert Dorschel @Robert_Dorschel]

Wow, I am incredibly honoured to receive the AoIR 2024 dissertation award!

This is an amazing recognition from an inspiring community of scholars @AoIR_org

Special thanks to the award committee and all the people who supported me along the way

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

Registration for the event is still open!

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

@Nicolas_Dip @CEHColmex @librocrepusculo @RomainRobinet1 @CideHistoria Muy de acuerdo Nico! La reseña es uno de los pocos medios en los que parece que entablamos algo como un diálogo.

[The BSA @britsoci]

Engage with one the work of the most influential sociological thinkers of our time – book now for ‘The Legacy of Margaret Archer’, a @BSATheory one-day symposium on 3 August at the University of Warwick https://t.co/C7nqg8Wly2

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

@ProfSteveFuller @sama Have you read his parody of detective stories written with Adolfo Bioy Casares? Absolutely brilliant!

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

Great piece by Jorge Daniel Vásquez!

[Populism Specialist Group @populismPSA]

"We need to remember the populist origins of all democracy – the pre-institutionalised, inherently revolutionary quality of all democracy".

Check out this great interview with Wendy Brown in which she discusses populism and other topics in @TCSjournalSAGE!

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

In this case, I think it is through the dialogue with populist scholars such as @lucianacadahia.

[Sebastian Raza @sebrazam]

In the last interview we had with Wendy Brown, I was particularly interested in how she keeps reassessing her views on politics (particularly, prefigurative politics and populism) through engaged dialogue with thinkers from different locations and in the light of events.