Fuck Nuance (2015)

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About nine months ago, my colleague Steve Vaisey told me he was interested in organizing a session at the American Sociological Association Meetings about the idea of “nuance” in sociological theory, and in particular about how there seemed to be a lot of demand for the stuff. He asked me if I’d be interested in submitting a paper called something like “Against Nuance”. Having inadvertently bound myself to that mast like some accident-prone Ulysses, I presented the paper last week in Chicago.

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