"... when it comes to understanding the world social system or the sociosphere, we are not only ignorant but proud of our ignorance."

-- Kenneth E. Boulding, Ph.D., Earth as a Spaceship (1965)

SocioSphere.com, a frequently updated webzine from The MarkFoster.NETwork and The Structurization Institute, focuses on critical analysis of the human social condition. We include an editorials blog (with RSS feed), podcasts (also with RSS feed), discussions, and commentaries on both socially integrative and disintegrative processes.

The publisher and pundit, with academic degrees in sociology and journalism, is a (full) professor of sociology. If you are interested in submitting a feature article, e-mail him with an abstract. Regrettably, we are unable to provide financial compensation. The views expressed by our writers are not necessarily expected to reflect those of the publisher.

Finally, as a brief note on a popular slogan of the Fox News Channel, the function of the news media should not, in the view of this journalist, be a "fair and balanced" presentation of current events, commonly a fallacy of bifurcation which focuses on the positions of supposed liberals and conservatives while excluding those of Marxists, anarchists, and others. Rather, the function of the news media should be to deconstruct spin and present the evidence.