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<a name="_Hlk69118321"></a><a name="_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt">The Institute for Analytical Sociology Seminar</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-fareast-language:SV"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="Pa8" align="center" style="margin-bottom:1.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span class="A8"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Venue:
KO301, Campus Norrköping & Online on Zoom </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span class="A8"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(see Zoom link in the end
of the email)</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span class="A6"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="Pa8" align="center" style="margin-bottom:1.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thursday, October 19
@<b> <u>14:30CET</u></b></span><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="Pa8" align="center" style="margin-bottom:1.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span lang="EN-US">__________________________________________________</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt">Words and Distinctions for the Common Good<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SV">Gabriel Abend<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:SV">University of Lucerne<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">Abstract:<br>
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E2E2E;background:white">Social scientists do research on a variety of topics—gender, capitalism, populism, and race and
ethnicity, among others. They make descriptive and explanatory claims about empathy, intelligence, neoliberalism, and power. They advise policymakers on diversity, digitalization, work, and religion. And yet, they can’t agree on what these things are and how
to identify them. </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E2E2E;background:white">I
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E2E2E;background:white">argue that these disagreements have been doubly misconceived. First, they conflate two questions:
how a social science community should use its most important words, and what distinctions it should accept and work with. Second, there’s no fact of the matter about either. Instead, they’re practical reason questions for a community, which aim at epistemically
and morally good outcomes. </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E2E2E;background:white">I</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E2E2E;background:white">
call on social science communities to work together on their words, distinctions, and classifications. They must make collective decisions about the uses of words, the acceptability of distinctions, and the criteria for assessing both. These decisions aren’t
up to individual scholars; the community gets the last word. According to </span>
</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E2E2E;background:white">my account</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E2E2E;background:white">,
the common good, justice, and equality should play a significant role in the logic of scientific research.</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk133579769"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk69118321"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#2E2E2E;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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