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Perspectives on what stays hidden in organisations, and what happens when it becomes visible.
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2026-05-07
How stereotypes shape what we recognize as violence — in intimate partner violence and at work. A sociological essay on coercive control, the ideal victim, the Nordic paradox, DARVO, and the normalization that lets violence stay in plain sight.
Academic citations include: Bates et al. (2019); Stark (2007); Hamberger et al. (2017); Harsey & Freyd (2020); Sardinha et al. (2022); Gracia & Merlo (2016); Maloney et al. (2023); Foran & O'Leary (2008); Cortina (2008); Einarsen et al. (2020); ILO C190 (2019); van der Kolk (2014); Tangney & Dearing (2002); Scheff (1988); Taylor et al. (2022).
2026-05-05
A sociological essay on shame as a societal control system, the asymmetry of power, gendered violence, the Nordic Paradox, class mobility, and what speaking aloud changes. Pillar essay for the Power, Gender and Violence theme cluster.
Academic citations include: Scheff (1988, 2000); Cooley (1902); Goffman (1963); Elias (1978); Lewis (1971); Tangney & Dearing (2002); Bourdieu (1977, 2001); Brison (2002); Cortina et al. (2017); Brown (2006, 2012); Gracia & Merlo (2016); Pöyliö & Erola (2015); Erola, Kilpi-Jakonen & Ruggera (2020); Simmons, Wiklund & Levie (2014); Landier (2005); Masten (2014); WHO (2021); FRA (2014); THL (2025).
2026-04-26
How to use empathy as a professional strength without burning out — what an empath notices in groups that others do not, and why naming feelings switches off emotional contagion. Distinguishes cognitive empathy, affective empathy, and emotional contagion, and explains the sensing–naming–acting cycle.
Academic citations include: Hatfield, Cacioppo & Rapson (1993); Decety & Jackson (2004); Singer & Lamm (2009); Klimecki & Singer (2012); Singer & Klimecki (2014); Lieberman et al. (2007); Torre & Lieberman (2018); Barsade et al. (2018); Hofmeyer et al. (2019); Aron & Aron (1997); Acevedo et al. (2014).
2026-04-20
How vibe coding and agentic development disrupt one of working life's last gatekeeping structures — and what surfaces underneath when status, gender, and technical authority shift at the same time. Covers status loss, internalized misogyny, the queen-bee phenomenon, and manosphere-style radicalization.
Academic citations include: Karpathy (2025); Heilman (2012); Eagly & Karau (2002); Derks, Van Laar & Ellemers (2016); Ellemers et al. (2004); Ging (2019); Marwick & Caplan (2018); Cikara & Fiske (2012); Kruglanski et al. (2014); Szymanski et al. (2009); Jost & Banaji (1994).
2026-04-15
Rosenthal's Pygmalion experiment extends far beyond education. The article connects self-fulfilling prophecy, social dominance theory, mindfulness research, and the double empathy problem to explain what happens when someone does not follow the implicit social agreement.
Academic citations include: Rosenthal & Jacobson (1968); Jussim & Harber (2005); Goffman (1959); Keltner et al. (2003); Sidanius & Pratto (1999); Desbordes et al. (2012); Hölzel et al. (2011); Lutz et al. (2008); Milton (2012); Rivera (2012).
2026-04-14
Three decades of research show that bias training does not produce lasting behavioural or organisational change. The problem is structural, not individual. Argues for shifting resources from individual-level training to structural-level interventions, and addresses the collective shared schemas that live beneath both.
Academic citations include: Brehm (psychological reactance); Dobbin & Kalev (diversity training effectiveness); Forscher et al. (implicit bias measurement, meta-analysis); Bohnet (behavioural design); plus structural-discretion literature.
2026-04-14
Hidden dynamics in helping work, examined through ideal-victim schemas, countertransference, social cognition, social-defence systems, and the structural role of the outsider. Explains why helping professions systematically select who gets helped.
Academic citations include: Christie (ideal victim); Heimann (countertransference); Hochschild (emotional labour); Fiske & Taylor (schemas); Menzies Lyth (social defence systems); Maslach (burnout).
2026-04-14
Hidden organisational dynamics examined through four perspectives: social acceptability, educational science, psychology, and organisational culture. Connects appraisal theory, emotion regulation, and psychodynamic observation.
Academic citations include: Goffman (1959); Morrison & Milliken (2000); Gross (1998); Edmondson (1999, 2018); Kapur (2008); Lazarus (1991); Freud (1936); Schein (2010); Argyris & Schön (1974); Vaughan (1996); Jackall (1988).