Understanding Society

Paul Brass provides a wealth of ethnographic and historical evidence on the causes of Hindu-Muslim violence in India in  The Production ...

A democracy allows government to reflect the will of the people. Or does it? Here I would like to understand a bit better the dynamics t...

An earlier post considered Dave Elder-Vass’s very interesting treatment of the contemporary digital economy. In Profit and Gift in t...

Brian Epstein is adamant that the social sciences need to think very differently about the nature of the social world. In The Ant Trap: ...

There is a seductive appeal to the idea of a "generative social science". Joshua Epstein is one of the main proponents of the ...

image: Arch of Septimius Severus, Forum (203 CE) The history of Rome has a particular fascination for twenty-first century readers, es...

Social Europe is a vibrant publisher of current progressive thought in Europe. Readers can find data, opinion, and policy analysis on t...

I view transport as a crucial structuring condition in society that is perhaps under-appreciated and under-studied. The extension of the...

It is apparent, on this first round of the presidential elections in France, that we urgently need to understand better the dynamics a...

One of the more intriguing currents of social science research today is the field of complexity theory. Scientists like John Holland ( C...