Category: Politics & Society

Politics isn’t just about elections—it’s about power, ideology, and social movements. Discover how political structures and activism shape society and social change.

Knowledge Is Power - Chernobyl after 40 Years

Why Do We Believe What We Believe? Sociology, Knowledge, and the Crisis of Truth

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Forty years after Chernobyl, the reactor sits under a vast steel sarcophagus constructed to contain what could not be unseen. The facts eventually surfaced – but at what cost, and why did it take so long? Drawing on Mannheim, Fricker, Arendt, and Oreskes, this article asks what the sociology of knowledge reveals about the structural conditions under which truth is managed, suppressed, and contested – from Soviet nuclear cover-ups to contemporary populism.

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The Student Debt Trap

The Debt Trap and the Class Gap: Why Student Loan Warnings Are a Form of Gatekeeping

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This article uses Johanna Noble’s recent column on Plan 2 student loans to ask who is really put off university by talk of a “graduate tax”. Drawing on research on first-in-family and working-class students, it shows how fear of debt, school guidance, and weak vocational routes combine to reproduce classed access to higher education.

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Digital Feudalism

Beyond Weber, Marx, and Orwell: The Rise of Digital Neofeudalism

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Has the modern world outgrown Weber’s iron cage, Marx’s alienation, and Orwell’s surveillance state—only to enter a new form of control? In an era where tech monopolies act as digital landlords, individuals no longer own but rent, their lives dictated by algorithmic oversight and data extraction. Is this progress, or have we simply traded one system of domination for another?

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