Understanding Society

Source: The Wire It is becoming increasingly clear that the criminal justice system is an important component of the system of race in...

The Eurasia Project on Population and Family History represents an innovative and important genre of comparative historical research. L...

The annual meeting of the American Sociological Association is taking place in San Francisco this week, and it is a tsunami of ideas, metho...

Methodology has to do with the strategies and heuristics through which we attempt to understand a complicated empirical reality ( link )...

Sociologists are often interested in making sense of processes of change that radiate along the axes of the great tectonics of social l...

As social science researchers, we would all like to have an excellent methodology for carrying out the tasks we confront in our scien...

source: Nancy Leveson,  Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety Why do complex technologies so often fail, and fa...

If we are going to take social mechanisms seriously, we need to be able to say more about what they are. Earlier posts have opened the poss...