Understanding Society

In my book A New Social Ontology of Government (2020) I tried to provide an analytical inventory of the sources of "dysfunctions"...

One of the consequential puzzles of the Second World War was the sudden, catastrophic collapse of the French army following German invasion ...

It is intriguing to observe how pervasive organizational and regulatory failures are in our collective lives. Once you are sensitized to...

A recurring theme in recent months in Understanding Society is organizational dysfunction and the organizational causes of technology ...

Many examples of technical disasters have been provided in Understanding Society , along with efforts to understand the systemic dysfunc...

I am currently writing a book on the topic of the "social ontology of government". My goal is to provide a short treatment ...

The recent crashes of two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft raise questions about the safety certification process through which this modified ai...

According to David Halberstam in his outstanding history of the war in Vietnam, The Best and the Brightest , a prime cause of disastrous...

Several earlier posts have made the point that important technology failures often include organizational faults in their causal backgro...