Understanding Society

What does grammar tell us about the nature of our representations of the world? Do the linguistic categories that we use fundamentally shap...

An earlier post asked what sorts of social entities exist. Posing the question this way leads us to think of persistent abstract things p...

What sorts of social things exist?  Does the "proletariat" exist as a social entity? There are certainly workers; but is there ...

Insect (df) : a class within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax, and abdomen), three pairs ...

African-American citizens and a host of supporters made some of this country's most important history almost forty-seven years ago in ...

A disposition towards civic engagement and community service seems to be a very fundamental component of social psychology that differs si...

James Scott is one of the really exceptional social scientists of his generation.  His contributions to peasant studies have been transfor...

Image: resistance to Spanish fascism, Abraham Lincoln Brigade The crimes of fascist governments in Spain, Italy, and Germany are among th...

The world press has begun to find ways of documenting the conditions of workers in many of the factories in China devoted to manufacturing...