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When I was a student in the 1980s and 1990s, it was conventional to characterise the social sciences, especially sociology, anthropology and political science, as divided into two wings, those emphasising ‘consensus’ and those emphasising ‘conflict’.  This framing goes back to the 1960s, and was well established as I was becoming an academic.  The primeContinue reading “Rebalancing Consensus and Conflict”