Understanding Society

I spent a rewarding afternoon at the Institute for Rural Studies at Central China Normal University in Wuhan this week ( link ). The Inst...

There is a kind of knowledge in an advanced mechanical society that doesn't get much attention from philosophers of science and sociolog...

Is the American electorate "polarized" with regard to sets of political issues? McCarty, Rosenthal, and Poole accept the common vi...

The vice presidential pick for the Republican ticket is an extreme voice on the question of whether individuals have obligations to other...

One of the books on the Chinese Revolution that I particularly respect is Odoric Wou's 1994 Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolutio...

What is involved in assembling the history of a complicated period like the US civil rights movement?  This is a difficult question for a...

I am sorry to share the news with readers that Mayer Zald passed away today in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Mayer was a brilliant sociologist, a...

[Dave Elder-Vass accepted my invitation to write a response to my discussion of his recent book, The Reality of Social Construction ( li...

Martha Nussbaum is one of the most exceptional voices in philosophy and public policy we have today, and she has contributed to a wide ra...

Professor Luciano Segreto lectured in Michigan this week on the subject of a comparison between US and European capitalisms.  Segreto is ...