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Weber and Simmel’s philosophical and political stances : a dialogue in three acts (2017)
Journal Article
Frade, C., & Pyyhtinen, O. (2017). Weber and Simmel’s philosophical and political stances : a dialogue in three acts. Journal of Classical Sociology, 17(2), 87-100. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17693437

This article is an imagined dialogue between Weber and Simmel which makes a modest use of some of the resources of theatrical play in order to provide an overall portrait of both thinkers and to bring their thought to bear on our present. The dialogu... Read More about Weber and Simmel’s philosophical and political stances : a dialogue in three acts.

Theatrical dialogue in teaching the classics (2017)
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Darmon, I., & Frade, C. (2017). Theatrical dialogue in teaching the classics. Journal of Classical Sociology, 17(2), 77-86. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17693435

This article addresses some fundamental affinities between theatre and teaching and is based on emerging work in a long-term experiment which we began in the conference ‘Weber/Simmel Antagonisms: Staged Dialogues’, held at the University of Edinburgh... Read More about Theatrical dialogue in teaching the classics.

Social theory and the politics of big data and method (2016)
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Frade, C. (2016). Social theory and the politics of big data and method. Sociology, 50(5), 863-877. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038515614186

This article is an intervention in the debate on big data. It seeks to show, firstly, that behind the wager to make sociology more relevant to the digital there lies a coherent if essentially unstated vision and a whole stance which are more a sympto... Read More about Social theory and the politics of big data and method.

Time and method: After survival, for a renewed praxis of social theory (2013)
Journal Article
Frade, C. (2013). Time and method: After survival, for a renewed praxis of social theory

This paper is an intervention in the debate on Big Data or the digital. Recognising the importance of engaging with what has become known as Big Data, I seek to re-situate the Big Data issue in a different perspective and to disrupt the debate around... Read More about Time and method: After survival, for a renewed praxis of social theory.

An altogether new prince five centuries on: Bringing Machiavelli to bear on our present (2013)
Journal Article
Frade, C. (2013). An altogether new prince five centuries on: Bringing Machiavelli to bear on our present. Found object, 5(1), 35-60

Our situation demands a new encounter with Machiavelli, and this confrontation involves a simultaneous engagement with Machiavelli’s thought and our time. However, contrary to prevalent approaches, it is neither a merely textual or scholastic exegesi... Read More about An altogether new prince five centuries on: Bringing Machiavelli to bear on our present.

Beneath and beyond the fragments: The charms of simmel’s philosophical path for contemporary subjectivities (2012)
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Darmon, I., & Frade, C. (2012). Beneath and beyond the fragments: The charms of simmel’s philosophical path for contemporary subjectivities. Theory, Culture and Society, 29(7/8), 197-217. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411435572

Our purpose in this article is to explore the reasons for the continued attractiveness of Simmel's thought today and to probe the contemporary affinities to his philosophical stance towards the world. Simmel anchored the ‘philosophical attitude' in t... Read More about Beneath and beyond the fragments: The charms of simmel’s philosophical path for contemporary subjectivities.

The sociological imagination and its promise fifty years later: Is there a future for the social sciences as a free form of enquiry? (2009)
Journal Article
Frade, C. (2009). The sociological imagination and its promise fifty years later: Is there a future for the social sciences as a free form of enquiry?. Cosmos and history, 5(2), 9-39

This paper offers a restatement of Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination and tries to judge whether its promise can be credibly renewed today by addressing the question about the present and future possibilities of the social sciences as free fo... Read More about The sociological imagination and its promise fifty years later: Is there a future for the social sciences as a free form of enquiry?.

The regulations of honour: an attempt at a Weberian and anthropological enquiry through the prism of a Spanish trading group (2006)
Journal Article
Frade, C. (2006). The regulations of honour: an attempt at a Weberian and anthropological enquiry through the prism of a Spanish trading group. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975606000063

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This paper is concerned with a rather neglected issue in sociological analysis: honour as a value and regulating principle of social life. The attempt is made to study honour from a perspective which pays attention to both the carriers of... Read More about The regulations of honour: an attempt at a Weberian and anthropological enquiry through the prism of a Spanish trading group.