Understanding Society

The 1986 meltdown of reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was the greatest nuclear disaster the world has yet seen. Le...

Andrew Hopkins has written a number of fascinating case studies of industrial accidents, usually in the field of petrochemicals. These b...

One of the benefits of attending international conferences is meeting interesting scholars from different countries and traditions. I ha...

The idea that there is a stark separation between many of our ideas of the social world, on the one hand, and the realities of the socia...

I've just had the singular opportunity of participating in the habilitation examination of Gianluca Manzo at the Sorbonne, based ...

Image: detail from Family Portrait 2 1965  (Creative Commons license, Richard Rappaport) Herbert Simon made paradigm-changing con...

I am currently thinking about the topic of "organizational actors", and Margaret Gilbert's arguments about social actors a...