Understanding Society: More on cephalopod minds

Understanding 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 )....

Understanding Society: What is social scientific knowledge?

Understanding Society: What is social scientific knowledge?: The social and behavioral sciences endeavor to describe, explain, and interpret the range of the social and behavioral facts that surround u...

Understanding Society: French sociology

Understanding 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 soc...

Understanding Society: DeLanda on historical ontology

Understanding 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....

Understanding Society: Processual sociology

Understanding 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...

Understanding Society: Nine years of Understanding Society

Understanding Society: Nine years of Understanding Society

Understanding Society: What is the role of character in action?

Understanding Society: What is the role of character in action?: I've been seriously interested in the question of character since being invited to contribute to a volume on the subject a few year...

Science and the Society: Diana Crane - Testing the 'Invisible College' Hypo...

Science and the Society: Diana Crane - Testing the 'Invisible College' Hypo...: The term 'invisible colleges' was developed in sociology by Diana Crane based on Derek J. de Solla Price's work on citation netw...

Understanding Society: Merton's sociological imagination

Understanding Society: Merton's sociological imagination: Robert Merton began life as Meyer Schkolnick, son of impoverished Eastern European Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia, and he became one of ...

Understanding Society: Merton's sociological imagination

Understanding Society: Merton's sociological imagination: Robert Merton began life as Meyer Schkolnick, son of impoverished Eastern European Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia, and he became one of ...

Understanding Society: What is a social structure?

Understanding Society: What is a social structure?: Are there such things as "social structures"? In what do they consist? What sorts of social powers do they exercise? This...

Understanding Society: SSHA 2016

Understanding Society: SSHA 2016: Image: Palmer House lobby The 41st annual meeting of the Social Science History Association is underway in Chicago this weekend. I&#...