Understanding Society

Stephen Greenblatt is a literary critic and historian whose insights into philosophy and the contemporary world are genuinely and consisten...

The idea of generativity in the realm of the social world expresses the notion that social phenomena are generated by the actions and t...

According to David Halberstam in his outstanding history of the war in Vietnam, The Best and the Brightest , a prime cause of disastrous...

When we think of the issues of health and safety that exist in a modern complex economy, it is impossible to imagine that these social good...

How can industries involving processes that create large risks of harm for individuals or populations be modified so they are more capab...

Let's think again about the semantics of causal ascriptions. Suppose that we want to know what  caused a building crane to collapse ...

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan hosted an intensive day-long training on some of the basics of...

image: diagram of molten salt reactor Organizational and regulatory features are sometimes part of the causal background of important ...

Groups make decisions through processes of discussion aimed at framing a given problem, outlining the group's objectives, and arrivi...

Is it possible to elucidate complex social outcomes using computational tools? Can we overcome some of the issues for social explanatio...