Abolition democracy

, 166

Abuse

, 33

Abyss of difference

, 52–56

Abyssal thinking

, 189–190

Academic capitalism

, 238

Accountability

, 6, 169–170

Action

, 178

theory

, 255

Adorno, Th. W.

, 7–8, 12, 66–72, 74–76, 87, 100–101, 129–130, 158, 212–213, 217–220, 252–253, 258–263

critique of identity

, 258–260

Agalma-ideologeme

, 135–137

Aggression

, 67, 78

Alcohol

, 231–233

Alcoholism

, 33

Alienated/anomic/disenchanted selves

, 11–12

Alienation

, 10–11, 184

Allegory

, 210–214

ALM hypothesis

, 102

Amazing Grace

, 181–182

American College Health Association (ACHA)

, 236

American Colonization Society (ACS)

, 196

American Creed

, 21–22, 70

American Dream

, 4–5, 93, 95, 101–102

Americas’ borderlands

, 36–39

Americo-Liberians

, 196–197

Anti-Blackness

, 158–160

Antiintraception

, 67

Antiqueerness

, 159–160

Anxiety

, 82, 176, 236

Apostrophe

, 136

Appalachia

, 4, 49, 52, 159–160

lost decade

, 51

Appalachian south, socialization in

, 159–166

Appalachians

, 50

Appropriation

, 192

Art of abolition

, 166–170

accountability and transformation

, 169–170

cross-state carceral censorship

, 166–169

Assigned female at birth (AFAB)

, 159–160

Authoritarian family

, 71–73

and democracy

, 73

Authoritarian personality

, 4, 64–66, 71

confronting

, 70–71

planetary changes and

, 80–86

short-circuiting

, 86

Authoritarian society

and democracy

, 80

and nature

, 74–80

Authoritarianism in white middle-class suburbia

, 76–79

Authoritarians

, 82

Authoritarians-in-training

, 71–73

Automation

, 93–94, 101, 104

Baptism process

, 180

Barbarism

, 129–130

reflections

, 130–132

Beliefs

, 32

Biblical apologetics

, 211–212

Biological warfare

, 201–202

Black People Against Police Torture (BPAPT)

, 170

Body shaming

, 163

Borderlands

, 31, 37

Bullshit jobs

, 105

Butler campaign

, 131

Capital accumulation

, 10, 20

Capitalism

, 258

Capitalist Unconscious (2015)

, 38

Caribs

, 192

Character structure

, 4–5

Cisheteropatriarchy

, 158–159

Climate change

, 6, 84

Coercion

, 193

Cognitive dissonance

, 24

Cognitive openness

, 254

College culture

, 229

Colonial terrorism in Australia

, 199–200

Colonialism model

, 50, 188–189, 192

Colonization

, 6, 158–159

Color-blind racism

, 78–79

Comfort

, 238–240

Commitment

, 234

Communications

, 255–256

Competition

, 100

Compulsory heterosexuality

, 151, 153, 164

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)

, 5

Conservative white males

, 84

Constitutional logic of capital

, 41–42

Consumerism

, 34

Continuous domination

, 188–189

Contradictions

, 16, 218–219

Control

, 19

Conventionalism

, 67

Conversion therapy

, 165

Cost benefit analysis

, 100–101

Creative destruction

, 125

Creativity

, 6

Crisis of labor

, 93–94

Critical model

, 7–8

Critical social theory

, 12

Critical socioanalysis

, 3–4, 30, 32

Americas’ borderlands

, 36–39

religion, master discourses, and early childhood

, 33–36

socioanalytic interventions in self, society, and planet

, 40–43

theory

, 39–40

Critical theory

, 21–22, 41–42, 67, 158–159, 252

Criticism immanent to subjectivity

, 220–223

Cross-state carceral censorship

, 166–169

Cultural processes

, 217–218

Culture

, 227, 256

of poverty discourse

, 50

Cunning of capital

, 18

Cynicism

, 67

Dateability

, 161–163

Death

, 56, 58, 176–177, 179

Defensive selves

, 11–12

Democracy

, 65

authoritarian family and

, 73

authoritarian society and

, 80

poisoning

, 66–71

Democratic practices

, 4

Democratic theory

, 80

Department of Defense (DOD)

, 119–120

Depression

, 38–39, 236

Destructiveness

, 67

Differentiation

, 20

Discourse

, 215–219

Disposition

, 121

Dispossession

, 190

Distress

, 227–228

Division of labor

, 10

Double contingency

, 255

Durkheim, E.

, 10, 17, 152, 228, 240, 243–244

Dying

, 57–58

Early childhood

, 33–36

Ecological thought

, 129–130

Ecology without environmentalism

, 129–130

Economic anxiety

, 84–86

Economic inequality

, 6

Economic systems

, 188–189

Economism

, 258

Education

, 93, 231

Educational attainment

, 102

Employment

, 93

English settlers

, 202–203

Entrepreneurial/neoliberal selves

, 11–12

Environment

, 128

Environmental degradation

, 6

Ephemerality

, 233

Ethiopian colonial terrorism

, 195–196

Ethnographic research

, 235

Euro-American colonial powers and collaborators

, 188

European colonial terrorism

, 191–193

Evangelical Christianity

, 178

alienation

, 184

Amazing Grace

, 181–182

death

, 179

family to folks

, 181

lived experience

, 176

natality

, 177

Exigency

, 218

F-scale

, 67

False religions

, 34

Fascism

, 65

Fear

, 176

Federal Reserve

, 83

Financialization of American economy and state policies

, 50–51

First-order observations

, 262

Fragmentation

, 16–18

Fun

, 227–228, 235

alcohol and parties

, 231–233

grades

, 229–231

sex

, 233–235

Fundamentalism

, 34

Gender nonbinary

, 148–150

Geneva

, 14

Genocidal terror on indigenous Australians

, 197–203

Genuine conservatives

, 69

Global Community Center

, 154

Global North

, 190

Global South

, 190

Global studies, deficiency of

, 189–190

Globalization

, 12–13, 20–23, 46, 49, 52, 158

Good Death

, 177

Governing rationality

, 100

Grades

, 229–231

Harvard College Alcohol Study

, 233

Hate-filled rhetoric

, 163

Hedonism

, 7, 235

Hegel, G. W. F.

, 17–18, 123–124, 209–210, 212–213, 219–220, 222–223, 253–254, 259–260

Heralding autonomy

, 235

“Heritage, Not Hate!” slogan

, 160–161

Historical idealism

, 50

Homophobia

, 6, 163

Hook-up

, 233–234

Human capital

, 4–5

accumulation

, 103

automation, transformations of labor, and

, 101–104

connecting personal histories to planetary problems

, 107–108

hierarchies of social respect and meaningless jobs

, 104–107

life as pursuit of

, 96–99

and neoliberal ethics

, 99–101

personal introduction and research motivations

, 93–94

planetary sociology

, 92–93

social context

, 94–95

Human rights

, 189

Hypercompetition

, 242

Hysteric’s discourse

, 37–38

Identity

, 54–56, 148–149, 256–257

structure

, 3

Immanent critique of subject

, 220–223

Immediate certainty of truth

, 210–214

Indian savagery

, 192–193

Indigenocide

, 201

Indigenous Africans, destruction of

, 195–196

Indigenous dispossession and elimination

, 160–161

Indigenous knowledge

colonialism, racial terrorism, and continuous domination

, 188–189

deficiency of global studies

, 189–190

Ethiopian colonial terrorism and destruction of indigenous Africans

, 195–196

European colonial terrorism and victimizations of indigenous peoples

, 191–193

genocidal terror on indigenous Australians

, 197–203

waves of terror on Africans

, 193–195

Indigenous peoples

, 188

Individual transformation

, 6

Industrial mutation

, 125

Inflated grades

, 231

Informationalization

, 3–4, 42

Inner-differentiation

, 256–257

Institutions

, 10, 15, 256

Instrumental rationality

, 100–101

Internal connections

, 252

International abolitionism

, 166

Interpersonal transformation

, 6

Intersectionality

, 158–159

Intersubjectivity of discursive speech

, 215

IW8 organization

, 162–163

James Webb Space Telescope

, 14

Kleptocrats

, 133

Knowledge

, 3–4

Labor

, 178

Lacan, J.

, 3–4, 30, 33–34, 40

Lacanian Subject (1995)

, 33

Language

, 215–216

Large Hadron Collider at CERN

, 14

Left subjectivation

, 136

Left-wing authoritarianism

, 69

Liberian Frontier Force (LFF)

, 196–197

Lived experiences

, 176–177

Logic of capital

, 124

Luhmannian “cognitive utopia”

, 261–263

Luhmannian strand of systems theory

, 7–8

Marital infidelity

, 33

Market

, 237

Marx, K.

, 10, 18, 108–109, 152, 188, 221–222, 243–244, 253

Master discourses

, 33–36

Maturity

, 158

Meaningless jobs

, 104–107

Mediation

, 7, 219, 223

Melucci, A.

, 45–46, 49–54, 56–59, 80–81

Mental health

, 227–228

Misogyny

, 6

Modernity

, 20

Modernization

, 20

Moods

, 176

Multiple logics of capital

, 124

Narratives

, 218

Natality

, 177

Negative dialectics

, 261

Neo-Kantian paradigm of knowledge

, 212–213

Neoliberal ethics

, 99–101

Neoliberal ethos

, 99

Neoliberal personality

, 11–12

Neoliberalism

, 82–83, 100, 103, 231, 237, 241

Neoliberalist philosophy

, 241–242

New Deal

, 50–51

Newtonian physics

, 14, 19

Niklas Luhmann

, 252

Nonauthoritarians

, 82

Nonroutine cognitive tasks

, 102

Nonroutine manual tasks

, 102

Normativity

, 7, 219, 223

Northern state terrorism

, 190

Objectivity

, 121, 158–159

Online College Social Life Survey (OCSLS)

, 234

Ontology

, 7, 209–210, 219, 223

Organic solidarity

, 152

Organizations

, 10, 15

Oromia colonization

, 196

Oromo

, 190

Outdifferentiation

, 257

Own death

, 176–177

Parties

, 231–233

Patriarchy

, 161–163

Peripheral organizations

, 257

Permanent record

, 30

Personal socialization

, 47–58

Abyss of difference

, 52–56

analysis

, 49

Appalachia, time, and globalization

, 49–52

death and time

, 56–58

Philosophy of social science

, 13–15

Physical birth

, 178

Planetary anxiety

, 84–86

Planetary sociology (see also Sociology)

, 3, 14, 46, 65–66, 92–93

framework

, 4–5

paradigm

, 3–4

philosophy of social science

, 13–15

as program and paradigm

, 22–24

social construction through

, 125–126

social theory and sociology

, 16–18

sociology and proliferating planetary crises

, 18–22

Planetary-boundaries

, 84

Pleasure

, 235

Pluralism

, 16–18

Policontexturality

, 254

Political ecology

agalma-ideologeme

, 135–137

preponderant things

, 127–130

reconciling with history and biography

, 133–135

reflections of barbarism

, 130–132

tropics for social logics

, 132–133

Political economy

, 122

Positionality

, 158–159

Postmodernism

, 33–34

Power

, 67

Prejudice

, 68–69, 78

Primary death

, 176–177

Projectivity

, 67

Protestantism

, 182–183

Pseudoconservatives

, 69

Pseudodemocratism

, 69

Pseudoprogressives

, 69

Psuedoliberals

, 69

Psuedosocialists

, 69

Psychoanalysis

, 40–41

Psychoses

, 30

Punishment

, 158

Quantum mechanics

, 14

Race

, 192

Racial slavery and segregation

, 192–193

Racial terrorism

, 188–189

Racism

, 6, 78–79, 192

Rape

, 202

Rationalization

, 10, 20

Realization of social

, 216

Relativity theory

, 14

Religion

, 6, 33, 36

Reparations

, 170

Right-wing extremism

, 4

Routine cognitive tasks

, 102

Routine manual tasks

, 102

Ruralities

, 131–132

Salvation

, 178

Second-order cybernetics, conception of

, 254

Second-order observations

, 262

Secondary death

, 176–177

Selective hegemonies

, 51

Self

, 55–56, 237, 241

Self-certainty

, 11–12

Self-delusion

, 30

Self-descriptions

, 21–22, 262–263

Self-immanent critique

, 262–263

Self-observation

, 262

Self-reflexivity

, 151, 154

Sentiments

, 32

Settlers

, 202

colonialism

, 159–160

Sex

, 67, 233, 235

education

, 162–163

Sexual assault

, 239

Sexual identity

, 150–151

Sexual redemption

, 150–151

Sexuality

, 162–163

Situated identities

, 148–149

Slavery

, 192

Slow violence

, 129–130

Social being

, 210

ontological presuppositions

, 210

Social change

direction

, 10–11

patterns

, 10

Social construction

through military ethic of service

, 117–119

through planetary sociology

, 125–126

socioeconomic construction through new theoretical combinations

, 124–125

with sociological imagination

, 119–122

through tensions of entrepreneurship

, 123–124

Social contract

, 213–214

Social domination

, 103

Social entrepreneurship

, 123–124

Social isolation and oppression

, 153–154

Social justice

, 205

Social life

, 17–18

Social logics, tropics for

, 132–133

Social oppression

, 5–6

Social order

, 15, 152

Social othering

, 5–6

Social psychology

, 243

Social reality

, 217–218

Social respect hierarchies

, 104–107

Social stability

, 10

Social structure

, 3–5

Social systems

, 254–256

Social theorists

, 16

Social theory

, 16, 18, 133, 151, 153, 209–210, 216

Sociality

, 213–214

Socialization

in Appalachian south

, 159–166

“Heritage, Not Hate!” slogan

, 160–161

limits of law

, 164–166

patriarchy and dateability

, 161–163

of sociology

, 132–133

trajectory of

, 154–155

Societal transformation

, 6

Society

, 13, 32, 152

Socioanalysis (see also Critical socioanalysis)

, 130–132

Socioanalytic interventions in self, society, and planet

, 40–43

Sociological path as three-part process

, 120

Sociologists

, 16

Sociology

, 11, 15–16, 18, 23, 46, 64

of absence

, 58–59

conditions

, 23–24

and proliferating planetary crises

, 18–22

Spaniards

, 192

Speech

, 30

Spiritual violence

, 105–106

Standpoint theory

, 158–159

Status anxiety

, 85–86

Stereotypy

, 67

Student debt

, 242

Subjectivity

, 210–214

Submission

, 67

Substantive democracy

, 68

Subsyndromes

, 68

Suffering

, 227

emergence

, 236–237

Sullivan-Clinton campaign

, 128–129

Superstition

, 67

System-environment

, 254–255, 258

Systems theory

, 252, 254

Technology

, 242

TennesSee Valley Authority (TVA)

, 53

Terra nullius doctrine

, 199–200

Theoretical physics

, 13–15

Theoretical science

, 14

Theoretical sociology

, 13–15

Theory of despair

, 228

fun

, 228–235

Theory of othering

, 153–154

Time

, 45–46, 49, 52, 56, 58

Totalitarianism

, 65, 178

Toughness

, 67

Toxic masculinity

, 163

Transformation

, 169–170

of labor

, 101–104

Transformative processes

, 10

Truth

, 215–219

Undergraduates

, 237

Uninhabitation

, 131

United States

, 196–197

United States Defense of Marriage Act

, 152

Universities

, 229

University cynicism

, 133

Unlearning truths

, 121

Victimizations of indigenous peoples

, 191–193

Violence

, 6, 69, 190

Violent crimes on indigenous Liberians

, 196–197

Wanting

, 84

War on Poverty

, 50–51

Weber, M.

, 6, 10, 22, 96, 100–101, 106, 152, 182–183

Work

, 95, 178