Understanding Society

Earlier posts have examined some recent thinking about social science methods ( link , link ). Here I will examine another recent contrib...

photo: Morris Engel, Dock Workers 1947 ( link ) The topic of how actors arrive at their choices and behavior has come up a number of ti...

The European Network for Philosophy of Social Science will hold its next meeting as a joint conference with the North American counter...

Social theory is a well-defined field that is centered on a group of core thinkers that we might refer to as "luminaries". These a...

This week marks the seventh anniversary of Understanding Society . That's 954 posts, almost a million words, and about a hundred post...

People engage in their social worlds on the basis of a dense set of abilities and cognitive frameworks that permit them to make sense ...

It has been observed in earlier posts that there is still a lot we do not understand about China's Cultural Revolution ( post , post...

One particularly appealing aspect of agent-based models is the role they can play in demonstrating the inner workings of a major class of...

Organizations do things that we care about. They are generally at least partially designed in order to bring about certain kinds of outc...

media: lecture by Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky on chaos and reduction Several recent posts have focused on the topic of simulati...