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• Social Structures as Entities

  

  Image: first organizational chart (link)One mark of modernity is the fact that we swim in a sea of structures -- states, markets, militaries, employment systems... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2015 SOCIETY

• Fissioning Community

  

  What is a community, and what forces exist to either preserve the strands of community or to erode those strands?To start, a community is a population within a... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2015 SOCIETY

• Expectations and Performance

  

  There is a growing accumulation of evidence suggesting that individuals' performance in a wide range of activities is powerfully and insidiously affected by... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 SOCIETY

• Self-selection and "liberal" Professions

  Neil Gross stirred up a quite a storm a few years ago when he released a body of research findings on the political complexion of university professors. Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2015 SOCIETY

• Social Science History Association Call for Proposals

  

  SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY ASSOCIATION CALL FOR PAPERSMacrohistorical Dynamics Network40th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History AssociationBaltimore MD 12-1... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2015 SOCIETY

• The Mode of Production as Society's Structure

  

  Figure: Althusser's conception of the CMP (RP Resch, Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory) Sociologists study social structure and the effects tha... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2015 SOCIETY

• Was the Civil Rights Movement a Revolution?

  

  photo: African-American newsman attacked by mob in Little Rock, 1957 (link)I think of the results of the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s in the... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 SOCIETY

• Elitism?

  

  There are a variety of ways of valorizing individuals and institutions in our society. We can value contribution and productivity; effectiveness; talent and... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 SOCIETY

• Philosophy of Social Science and the Graduate Student

  

  Is there any reason to think that a course in philosophy of social science can be helpful for a graduate student in sociology or political science (or education... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2015 SOCIETY

• Hip Hop, the Boardroom, and the Street

  What are some of the factors that influences the ideas, values, and models of life of young inner-city African-American men today? Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2015 SOCIETY

• What is a European?

  

  One of the great achievements of the establishment of the European Union was the beginnings of a broader transnational identity from Spain to Finland — or so... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2015 SOCIETY

• A More Inclusive University

  

  The challenge of creating a truly inclusive university is a difficult one. Inclusiveness is more than diversity. It is an institution and culture in which peopl... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 SOCIETY

• John Levi Martin on Theory

  

  I've found the work of John Levi Martin to be particularly original when it comes to rethinking some of the basis assumptions of sociological theory. (Here are ... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2014 SOCIETY

• Underinvesting in the Public Good

  

  There are quite a few investments in social programs that would have spectacular return on investment, but that in fact remain unfunded or underfunded. Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2014 SOCIETY

• George and Bennett on Case Study Methodology

  

  Establishing causal relationships within the fabric of the social world is more challenging than in the biological or physical-chemical domains. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2014 SOCIETY

• Historicizing Social Action

  

  It is self evident that people are influenced by the historical circumstances in which they are raised and live. People are historicized as actors. The hard... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2014 SOCIETY

• New Tools for College Success

  

  Today is the second White House College Opportunity Day of Action in Washington DC. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have spearheaded this effort t... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2014 SOCIETY

• Shaping of Inner-city African-American Experience

  

  It is recognized by ethnographers that place and history mean a great deal in the everyday experience that people have in their neighborhoods — villages,... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2014 SOCIETY

• Geddes on Methods

  

  Earlier posts have examined some recent thinking about social science methods (link, link). Here I will examine another recent contributor to this field, Barbar... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2014 SOCIETY

• How Professionals Think

  

  photo: Morris Engel, Dock Workers 1947 (link)The topic of how actors arrive at their choices and behavior has come up a number of times here. Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2014 SOCIETY