Understanding Society

In honor of the remembrance of the ninetieth anniversary of the Holodomor, it is worth recalling Arthur Koestler's first-hand observatio...

With the retreat of Russian forces from Kherson this month, new evidence of gruesome atrocities against civilians has become visible ( link ...

What is involved in providing a compelling and justified formulation of an abstract theoretical concept in sociological theory? When we en...

image: github analysis of Twitter follower network ( link ) Twitter's paroxysms in the past two weeks have been unsettling. But suddenly...

image: Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny Here we are in November 2022, and the House, Senate, governors, and state houses are all up for grabs. An ...

This week represents the fifteenth anniversary of publication of Understanding Society, with a total of 1,484 posts and 13.3 million page v...

Most critical realists would probably think that their philosophy of social science is flatly opposed to ontological individualism. However,...

What is the subject matter of the philosophy of history? This is an extremely difficult question to answer given the wide range of topics, m...

Note: these are notes for a short talk I gave this month to students at my university on the topic of the importance of maintaining and defe...