Understanding Society

Ivan Ermakoff's 2008 book Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications  is dense, rigorous, and important. It treats two h...

Charles Perrow takes a particularly negative view of the possibility of safe management of high-risk technologies in Normal Accidents: ...

Quite a bit of the GDP of the United States goes into a broad category we can call "entertainment" -- television, video stream...

Why is Charles Perrow a pessimist about government regulation? Perrow is a leading researcher in the sociology of organizations, and h...

One of the more memorable parts of Capital is Marx's description of the “so-called primitive accumulation of capital” — the hist...

Key to understanding the "ontology of government" is the empirical and theoretical challenge of understanding how organizatio...

How does government work? We often understand this question as one involving the institutions and actors within the Federal governmen...

Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) have been broadly implemented by hospitals and health systems around the country as a way of inc...