Understanding Society

I have mentioned Saskia Sassen in previous postings, as one of the world's leading theorists of the global city. Here is an interesting...

Karl Marx was a materialist thinker. But what does this amount to? What is materialism as a way of thinking about historical and social re...

I encourage interested readers to take a look at the very thoughtful and extensive comment provided by Nick from accursedshare on my earli...

The topic of methodological individualism (MI) came up in a recent posting , and I underlined the connection between MI and some version of ...

Making sense of the human world has always been a part of the continental tradition in philosophy. History, justice, and meaning are subject...

There is an appalling level of inequality in American society; and even more troubling, the multiple dimensions of inequality seem to reinfo...

Suppose we have visited quite a few rodeos in Arizona and Texas and have observed a couple of things: there are more injuries in rodeos than...

Methodological individualism (MI) is a doctrine in the philosophy of the social sciences about the relationship between "society" ...

This sounds like a simple question. It sounds as if it is asking for us to discover a set of factors that influence the level of performanc...

The philosophy of the social sciences is largely focused on questions about the nature of our knowledge, representation, and explanation of ...