Understanding Society

images: Two residents of  Königsberg  (now Kaliningrad) Vast numbers of words have been written about the atrocities of the twentieth centur...

Janina Bauman, along with her sister Sophie and her mother Alina, miraculously survived the slaughter of the Jews of Warsaw and the crushing...

Izabela Wagner, author of Bauman: A Biography , is Professor of Sociology at Collegium Civitas (Poland) and fellow at Institute Convergence ...

A recent post featured the evolution of the thought of Zygmunt Bauman. There I mentioned a comparison with his Warsaw contemporary, Leszek K...

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was an influential voice in the world of sociological theorizing. In the second part of his career -- following h...

Did the Iliad have an author? Since this is probably the best known text from the ancient Greek world,  one might find the question a puzzl...

Greetings, all, Google has informed all publishers on Blogspot (the host site for Understanding Society ) that it will no longer be supporti...

Big science is largely dominant in many areas of science -- for example, high-energy physics, medical research, the human genome project, an...

The question of how to understand the Holocaust has troubled historians since the first knowledge of the war of extermination against the Je...