2007–2008
227 posts
2008 169
December 2008
- Philosophy of X?
- Correspondence, abstraction, and realism
- Class in America
- A diagram of class structure
- Causal difference
- The sociology of class
- Power and class in the 21st century
- Maps, narratives, and abstraction
- Comparative life satisfaction
- Contingent historical development
- Objectivity in the social sciences
- Why "philosophy of social science"?
- Historical populations
- A range of causal questions
- Labor protest in China
- Kinds of knowledge claims in the social sciences
November 2008
- Education and careers
- Tempo of change
- Segregation in France
- Narrative history
- G. William Skinner
- Why does unrest spread?
- How do new ideas get used?
- Causing public opinion
- Are there "social kinds"?
- What is "methodological localism"?
- How the calendar matters
October 2008
- Unequal polities
- Is there such a thing as human nature?
- Polling and social knowledge
- Causal mechanisms
- "Influence" concepts
- Labor mobilization
- What do polls tell us?
- Mapping social data
- Mental life
- Greenblatt in the world
- Marx's historical thinking
- What holds a country together?
- Policy, treatment, and mechanism
- What to do?
- Strange parallels
- System tendencies?
September 2008
- Continuity
- Equilibrium reasoning
- Turning points
- What social science can do
- Social surprises
- Power as influence
- Non-coercive power?
- Innovation in social research
- What is social scientific knowledge?
- Change?
August 2008
- Cooperatives within markets
- The difference ontology makes
- Power and social class
- Trust
- Composition of the social
- What is a peasant?
- History, memory, and narrative
- Leaders within complex organizations
- Rawls's schematic sociology
- Components of one's "social identity"
- Bad behavior
July 2008
- China's many revolutions
- Rising income inequality in China
- Action and its causes
- Literary tradition and social identity
- Intellectual leaders
- Safety as a social effect
- Texts, ideas, and "about"
- Public versus hidden faces of organizations
- Discipline, method, hegemony in sociology
- "Moral economy" as a historical social concept
- Heterogeneity of the social
- Engels' sociology of the city
- Global cities -- Saskia Sassen
- What is materialism?
June 2008
- More on continental philosophy of social science
- Arguments for social holism
- Continental philosophy of social science
- Higher education and social mobility
- Explaining rodeos
- Methodological individualism
- What causes college success?
- Tributaries of the philosophy of the social sciences
- Quasi-experimental data?
- Education choices and personal futures
- Cognizing society
- Components of positivism
- Chuck Tilly and China
- Wittgenstein and "understanding society"
- Trust and corruption
- The professions as an object of study
- Is publicity an important source of power?
- Institutions, functions, purposes
- More on what can be explained
May 2008
- Mentalité?
- Thinking as a structured process
- How much of social life can be explained?
- Agendas for Chinese sociology
- Social science history and historical social science
- Microfoundations of social practices
- Piecemeal empirical assessment of social theories
- More on knowing poverty
- Cities
- Logistics as a historical force
- Realism for the social sciences?
April 2008
- Chuck Tilly
- New angles on French history
- Philosophy and society
- Are there patterns of economic development?
- Retreat of the Elephants
- Social change in rural China
- The Perestroika debate in political science
- Is sociology analogous to epidemiology?
- Agency and deliberation
- The world food system
- The reality of society
- Knowing poverty
- What people know
- China's cultural revolution
- Agency, action, and norms
- Are there discrete social mechanisms?
- Marc Bloch's history
March 2008
- New forms of collective behavior?
- Explaining technology failure
- Processes versus structures
- Structures in Marx's thought
- Social change and natural selection?
- Technological inevitability?
- Chaos and coordination in social life
- Prejudice and social framing
- How does regional economic development work?
- Concepts and the world
- Koestler's twentieth century
- Micro cultures?
February 2008
- Paired comparisons
- Is network analysis inconsistent with agent-centered explanation?
- The flea market analogy
- The "dis"-unity of social science
- Politics and science
- What was E P Thompson up to?
- Agent-based modeling as social explanation
- "Folk" sociology
- A normative aspect to power
- Structure, psychology, power
- Large social forces?
- Social progress in India?
- Reasoning about agents
- Power and violence in China
January 2008
- Innovative social science research
- What is global about globalization?
- The power of the authoritarian state
- Social science history and historical social science
- Was Alexis de Tocqueville a social scientist?
- Social construction?
- Interview with Mayer Zald
- Alienation and anomie
- Alienation and subjectivity
- Charting inequality
- Coverage of the social sciences
- Is there such a thing as capitalism?
- Collective behavior and resource mobilization theory
- What does rational choice theory explain?
- How can race be a cause of something like asthma?
- Biography and personality psychology
- Social description as science
- Social "laws" and causal mechanisms
2007 58
December 2007
- Impersonal social causes?
- Power: corporations
- A non-naturalistic approach to social science
- How does philosophy help guide the sciences?
- A "peasant" revolution?
- Social causal explanations
- What is "understanding social life"?
- What is to explain about violent crime?
- What kind of social knowledge does a football coach have?
- Empirical constraints on sociological theories
- Area studies and social science knowledge
- Explaining large social formations: fascism
- What is a "moral intuition"?
- Aggregating social trends
- Explaining fascism
- Social structures as causal factors
- Power: social movements
- Social properties: Persistence, change, and stochastic social processes
- Wittgenstein on the science of psychology
November 2007
- Historical comparisons
- Is it an interesting sociological fact that "urban people are better educated than rural people"?
- Does historical materialism have a place in today's social sciences?
- How not to create a classification system
- The social science disciplines
- What kind of knowledge can philosophy offer?
- What is a social structure?
- How does rational choice theory relate to social facts and individual psychology?
- Why are tastes and aversions beyond rational control?
- Basis for the social science disciplines
- Are social facts reducible to something?
- How does transportation function as a mid-range social cause?
- Varieties of social causation
- A simple sociology
- Are there historical structures?
- The heterogeneous social: institutions
- The heterogeneous social: groups
- Social knowledge: measurement of properties in diverse groups
- Is industrial agriculture sustainable?
- Historians and the philosophy of history
- Variation across a social identity
- Is morality a social factor?
- Who has a "social identity"?
- Generalizations about cluster items
- Sociology as a social science discipline
- Racial inequalities as a social science research topic
- What kind of thing is a religion?
- Is globalization unjust?
- A new philosophy of history?
- Methodological localism
- A world sociology?
- More on "plasticity": hospitals
- Why "false consciousness"?
- Positivism and social science
- What is "power" in the twenty-first century?
- Human behavior and institutions
- New approaches to social research?
- International social research?
- Plasticity of the social