Understanding Society

The European Network for Philosophy of Social Science will hold its next meeting as a joint conference with the North American counter...

Social theory is a well-defined field that is centered on a group of core thinkers that we might refer to as "luminaries". These a...

This week marks the seventh anniversary of Understanding Society . That's 954 posts, almost a million words, and about a hundred post...

People engage in their social worlds on the basis of a dense set of abilities and cognitive frameworks that permit them to make sense ...

It has been observed in earlier posts that there is still a lot we do not understand about China's Cultural Revolution ( post , post...

One particularly appealing aspect of agent-based models is the role they can play in demonstrating the inner workings of a major class of...

Organizations do things that we care about. They are generally at least partially designed in order to bring about certain kinds of outc...

media: lecture by Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky on chaos and reduction Several recent posts have focused on the topic of simulati...

Modeling always requires abstraction and simplification. We need to arrive at a system for representing the components of a system, the l...

There is a very lively body of work emerging in the intersection between computational mathematics and various fields of the social scienc...