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• Pragmatist Arguments for Democracy

  

  Jack Knight and Jim Johnson engage in a particular kind of political theory in their recent The Priority of Democracy: Political Consequences of Pragmatism. Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2012 HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Deliberation for Activists

  

  What is involved in deliberating within an activist group? This isn't quite as simple a question as it might appear. Deliberation has to do with a discussion... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Assemblage Theory

  

  Deleuze's theory (metaphor?) of assemblage as a way of thinking about the social world is an intriguing one. Fundamentally the idea is that there does not... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2012 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY

• How is "work" Socially Constituted?

  

  How does "work" take shape in an advanced manufacturing and service economy? Is the division of labor a natural outcome of technology, or is it the result of a... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2012 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, SOCIETY

• Five Years of UnderstandingSociety

  

  This week represents the end of the fifth year of the UnderstandingSociety blog. Writing the blog continues to be a source of great intellectual growth for me,... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2012 SOCIETY

• Learning from History: Non-Violence and Civil Rights

  

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  Posted on 06 November 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Intellectual History as History?

  

  How do fields like the history of art or the history of philosophy relate to history simpliciter? Are there similar problems and methods in the history of... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2012 HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY

• Methodological Individualism Today

  Is it possible to draw a few conclusions on the topic of methodological individualism after dozens of years of debate? (Lars Udehn's Methodological... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2012 CURRENT, DEBATE, PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Philosophy of Economics

  intersects with several different areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of science, ethics, and social philosophy. (Dan Hausman is the leading expert... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2012 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY

• Character and History

  

  How do features of character play into the fabric of history? The first has to do with psychology, motives, and agency; the second has to do with large events... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2012 SOCIETY

• How to Think About Work

  

  Work defines a large portion of life in any society, traditional or modern. How should we think about the social and economic forces that create "work"? Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2012 SOCIETY

• The Talent Supply Chain

  

  I had an interesting discussion with a senior executive of Kelly Services that provided some very striking new perspectives on the world of work. Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2012 SOCIETY

• Who Was Leon Trotsky?

  

  Leon Trotsky was something of a hero for a part of the anti-Stalinist left from the 1930s through at least the 1970s. Sidney Hook and John Dewey offered... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2012 HISTORY, SOCIETY

• Voter Registration, Mississippi, 1960

  

  One of the most important and hard-fought dimensions of the Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s was the issue of voting rights. The Jim Crow South... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2012 HISTORY, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable Call for Papers

  FIFTEENTH ANNUAL PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ROUNDTABLE 22-24 MARCH 2013 University of California-Santa Cruz CALL FOR PAPERS We are organizing the fifteenth... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2012 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY

• Contingent Pathways in Eurasian History

  

  Economic historians and historians of Asia have been deeply involved in a debate with long roots: Why did modern economic development occur first and most... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2012 SOCIETY

• Water and Public Policy Research in Vietnam

  

  We don't get a lot of exposure to social science and policy research from Vietnam, so it was very interesting for me recently to run across two recent books by... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2012 SOCIETY

• Domain of Agent-based Modeling Methods

  Agent-based modeling is an intriguing new set of tools for computational social science. The techniques permit us to project forward the system-level effects... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2012 PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY

• Strategic Action Fields

  

  Sometimes a rethinking of ontology and social categories results in an important step forward in social theory. This appears to be the case in some recent... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2012 SOCIETY

• Actor-centered Sociology and Agent-based Models

  

  Actor-centered sociology (ACS) begins in the intuition that social processes begin in the interactions of socially constructed individuals, and it takes... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2012 SOCIETY