Understanding Society

  Military coup, Poland, December 1981 Poland is an important example of the paths taken by the citizens of satellite states within the form...

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

The Kerner Commission released its report in 1968, following months of intensive study of the series of major race riots and rebellions ...

Source: Pfautz and Salwen ( link ) An earlier post addressed the question of the dynamics through which a stable community consisting o...

Most of the story we remember of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s centers around the philosophy of non-violence espoused ...

Understanding history is partly about understanding some of the dry facts of social sequence and cause and effect in the making of variou...

A period of demonstration and protest in the Chinese village of Wukan has caught the attention of world media in the past several weeks ( l...