Understanding Society

In his influential article "A definition of physicalism" (1993) Philip Pettit attempts to formulate a consistent and coherent acco...

Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit addressed the micro-macro question in an essay called "Structural Explanation in Social Theory" ( ...

Social entities and structures have properties that exercise causal influence over all of us, and over the continuing development o...

I am currently thinking about the topic of "organizational actors", and Margaret Gilbert's arguments about social actors a...

The idea of generativity in the realm of the social world expresses the notion that social phenomena are generated by the actions and t...

Brian Epstein is adamant that the social sciences need to think very differently about the nature of the social world. In The Ant Trap: ...

One of the distinguishing characteristics of analytical sociology is its insistence on the idea of causal mechanisms as the core component ...

Brian Epstein has attempted to shake up some of our fundamental assumptions about the social world in the past several years by challengi...