[[{“value”:”Here is a fun post by Arnold Kling on which thinkers have kept name recognition and also influence. Excerpt: Sociology (Erving Goffman, Talcott Parsons, Robert Nisbet, Charles Murray, Matt Granovetter, Robert Trivers, E.O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould) Is there not a good case to be made that we are living in Erving Goffman’s world?
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Here is a fun post by Arnold Kling on which thinkers have kept name recognition and also influence. Excerpt:
Sociology (Erving Goffman, Talcott Parsons, Robert Nisbet, Charles Murray, Matt Granovetter, Robert Trivers, E.O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould)
Is there not a good case to be made that we are living in Erving Goffman’s world? I think he coined the term “impression management,” and certainly with the advent of social media that is now a big part of our lives. But he is a Faller. Probably if you would read him now, you would dismiss him as offering Blinding Glimpses of the Obvious. Parsons and Nisbet are also Fallers.
Murray is still polarizing, but much lesser known than he was in the 20th century. So he is a Faller, but too much of one.
Granovetter is a Riser, no? Social networks are a big deal now, and he is known for his work on those.
I put the sociobiology controversialists in the sociology category, since the public doesn’t care about insects or peacocks. I would say that Gould’s crusade against evolutionary biology failed, so he seems to be somewhat of a Faller. Dawkins and Trivers seem like Risers, but Wilson was much more well known, and controversial, in his prime.
Keynes, Tolkien, and Rand are among the risers (sometimes relatively speaking), so what does that tell us about the current world?
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