Understanding Society

In November I wrote a blog post asking the question, "What organization and what commanders have directed the campaign of atrocity, mu...

Sherwood Eddy was an American Protestant activist and missionary in the early twentieth century. (Here is a brief biography and bibliography...

An earlier post mentioned the topic of folk psychology and its relation to cognitive science. Scholars like Paul Churchland question wheth...

It is evident that we approach the social world, and specific social settings, with a body of "framework" assumptions about what i...

Roy Bhaskar is best known for his ideas about social ontology. However, he also had a substantial interest in "the epistemology of soci...

The persistent fact of racial disparities in the use of deadly force by police officers in US cities is an intolerable injustice. The Washin...

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...