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...