https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/tags/sociology/Recent content in Sociology on MarginaliaHugoen-usWed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/intergenerational-extraction-in-liberal-democracies/Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/intergenerational-extraction-in-liberal-democracies/This report explores the thesis that liberal democracy can become systematically biased toward present voters and against younger and future cohorts, functioning as intergenerational extraction.https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/liberalism-as-political-domestication/Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/liberalism-as-political-domestication/An analysis of the thesis that liberal orders weaken inherited forms of coordination and replace them with legal-rational administration, credentialed expertise, and therapeutic governance, producing domestication rather than simple emancipation.https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/liberalism-social-disembedding-and-managed-dependency/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/liberalism-social-disembedding-and-managed-dependency/This report explores the thesis that actually existing liberalism, especially when fused to advanced capitalism, tends to dissolve pre-liberal or nonmarket social bonds, reconstructing social coordination through commodified, bureaucratic, therapeutic, credentialed, and managerial mechanisms that create new dependencies.