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• The Atomic Bomb

  

  Richard Rhodes' history of the development of the atomic bomb, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is now thirty years old. The book is crucial reading for anyone wh... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2017 SOCIETY

• Discovering the Nucleus

  

  In the past year or so I've been reading a handful of fascinating biographies and histories involving the evolution of early twentieth-century physics, paying... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2017 SOCIETY

• How Organizations Adapt

  

  Organizations do things; they depend upon the coordinated efforts of numerous individuals; and they exist in environments that affect their ongoing success or... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2017 SOCIETY

• Divided ...

  

  Why is part of the American electoral system so susceptible to right-wing populist appeals, often highlighting themes of racism and intergroup hostility? Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2017 SOCIETY

• Designing and Managing Large Technologies

  

  What is involved in designing, implementing, coordinating, and managing the deployment of a large new technology system in a real social, political, and... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2017 SOCIETY

• Ideologies, Policies, and Social Complexity

  

  The approach to social and historical research that I favor is one that pays attention to the heterogeneity and contingency of social processes. Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2017 SOCIETY

• SSHA 2017 Call for Papers

  

  SSHA CALL FOR PAPERSMacrohistorical Dynamics Network42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science History AssociationMontréal, Québec Canada
 2-5 November... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2017 SOCIETY

• Trumpism

  

  What kind of political movement does Donald Trump represent? How did we get here? And what will be needed to defeat this divisive and anti-democratic political... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2017 SOCIETY

• Survey Research on the Extreme Right in Europe

  

  Earlier posts have addressed the issue of the rise of extreme-right parties and ideologies in many parts of the world, including Western Europe and the United... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2017 SOCIETY

• Signals Intelligence and the Management of Military Competition

  

  In the past few years many observers have been alarmed by the high-tech realities of cyber-security, cyber-spying, and cyber-warfare. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2017 SOCIETY

• Path Dependency in Formation of Academic Disciplines

  

  The topic of the historicity of academic disciplines has come up numerous times in this forum. It is a conviction of mine that disciplines demonstrate a great... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2017 SOCIETY

• Making of a Black Panther

  

  images: Rahman as keynote speaker at "Black Men in Unions" Institute, UM-Dearborn, 2012; Rahman with Huey Newton at Detroit Metro Airport, 1970In an earlier pos... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2017 SOCIETY

• Making of a Black Intellectual

  

  Becoming an intellectual in any society is a chancy thing, and this is especially true for young people coming from backgrounds of disadvantage and... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2017 SOCIETY

• Grand Hotel Abyss

  

  Georg Lukács in 1962 used the colorful image of a fictional "Grand Hotel Abyss" to express his disappointment in the theorists of the Frankfurt School. Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2016 SOCIETY

• Critical Points in History and Social Media

  

  Recent posts have grappled with the interesting topic of phase transitions in physics (link, link, link). One reason for being interested in this topic is its... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2016 SOCIETY

• Menon and Callender on the Physics of Phase Transitions

  

  In an earlier post I considered the topic of phase transitions as a possible source of emergent phenomena (link). I argued there that phase transitions are... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2016 SOCIETY

• More on Cephalopod Minds

  

  When I first posted on cephalopod intelligence a year or so ago, I assumed it would be a one-off diversion into the deep blue sea (link). Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2016 SOCIETY

• French Sociology

  

  Is sociology as a discipline different in France than in Germany or Britain? Or do common facts about the social world entail that sociology is everywhere the... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2016 SOCIETY

• Processual Sociology

  

  Andrew Abbott is one of the thinkers within sociology who is not dependent upon a school of thought -- not structuralism, not positivism, not ethnomethodology,... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2016 SOCIETY

• DeLanda on Historical Ontology

  

  A primary reason for thinking that assemblage theory is important is the fact that it offers new ways of thinking about social ontology. Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 SOCIETY