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Foundations
- Philosophical Frameworks in the Social Sciences
- Philosophy and Society
- Proto Social Inquiry
- Positivism and Social Science
- Sociology as a Social Science Discipline
- Sociological Knowledge
- How Does Philosophy Help Guide the Sciences?
- History of Sociology as Sociology
- Was Alexis de Tocquille a Social Scientist?
- Was Durkheim a Professional Sociologist?
- Agrarian History -- The Weber Edition
- Does Historical Materialism have a Place in Today's Social Sciences?
- What is Materialism?
- Marx's Historical Thinking
- If Marx Had Been Born in Shanghai
- Engels' Sociology of the City
- John Stuart Mill as a Social Science Founder
- The Vienna Circle on Interdisciplinary Science
- Neurath on Sociology
- Neo-Positivist Philosophy of Social Science
- Kuhn's Paradigm Shift
- Marc Bloch and the French Social Sciences
- The German Mandarins
- The German Debate over Method
What is a Social Science?
- New Approaches to Social Research
- Philosophy of X?
- Why "Philosophy of Social Science"?
- Tributaries of the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- Continental Philosophy of Social Science
- Styles of Epistemology in World Sociology
- What Kind of Knowledge can Philosophy Offer?
- Kinds of Knowledge Claims in the Social Sciences
- What is Social Scientific Knowledge?
- Pragmatic Inquiry
- Innovation in Social Research
- Objectivity in the Social Sciences
- Social Description as Science
- Coverage of the Social Sciences
- Demystifying Social Knowledge
- Social Science and Social Problems
- Social Construction?
- The 'Dis"-unity of Social Science
- What Makes a Sociological Theory Compelling?
- Empirical Constraints on Sociological Theories
- Piecemeal Empirical Assessment of Social Theories
- Realism for the Social Sciences
- Correspondence, Abstraction, and Realism
- Maps, Narratives, and Abstraction
- Predictions
- What Do Americans Think?
- Tacit Knowledge
- Merton's Sociology of Science
- The Inexact Science of Economics
Ontology
- The Difference Ontology Makes
- A Better Social Ontology
- What Exists in the Social Realm?
- Social Properties: Persistence, Change, and Stochastic Social Processes
- Heterogeneity of the Social
- The Heterogeneous Social: Groups
- The Heterogeneous Social: Institutions
- Variation as a Social Fundamental
- The Flea Market Analogy
- Plasticity of the Social
- More on Plasticity: Hospitals
- Chaos and Coordination in Social Life
- Composition of the Social
- Localism and Assemblage Theory
- Generalizations about Cluster Items
- Are Social Facts Reducible to Something?
- Microfoundations of Social Practices
- Methodological Localism
- What is "Methodological Localism"?
- Methodological Localism
- Methodological Individualism
- Arguments for Social Holism
- Are Social Networks Fundamental?
- Are There "Social Kinds"?
- Defining and Specifying Social Phenomena
- Relations, processes, and activities
- Conceptual Schemes and Social Ontology
- Racial Inequalities as a Social Science Research Topic
- Explaining Rodeos
Debates about Methodology
- Components of Positivism
- Positivism and Social Science
- A Non-Naturalistic Approach to Social Science
- A Crisis in Sociology?
- Discipline, Method, Hegemony in Sociology
- The Perestroika Debate in Political Science
- Revisiting Popper
- MacIntyre and Taylor on the Human Sciences
- Causal Realism for Sociology
- Politics and Science
- Social Change and Natural Selection?
- Paired Comparisons
- Is Sociology Analogous to Epidemiology?
- Quasi-Experimental Data?
- Alternative Economists
- Current Historical Sociology: George Steinmetz
- What Do Polls Tell Us?
- Public Opinion -- An Example
- Polling and Social Knowledge
The social science disciplines
- Sociology as a Social Science Discipline
- A Simple Sociology
- Basis for the Social Science Disciplines
- The Social Science Disciplines
- Scott's Social Imagination
- A World Sociology?
- Area Studies and Social Science Knowledge
- Social Change in Rural China
- Agendas for Chinese Sociology
- Sociologie de Paris?
- French Sociology as a Distinctive Tradition
- The Disciplines of Economics
Social Explanation
- What Social Science Can Do
- How Much of Social Life Can Be Explained?
- More on What Can Be Explained
- Social Surprises
- Turning Points
- Impersonal Social Causes?
- Agent-Based Modeling as Social Explanation
- Equilibrium Reasoning
- Continuity
- System Tendencies
- Hobbes an Institutionalist?
- Explaining Fascism
- Explaining Large Social Formations: Fascism
Agency and Action
- Reasoning About Agents
- Is Morality a Social Factor?
- Agency, Action, and Norms
- Social Agency and Rational Choice
- Agency and Deliberation
- Action and Its Causes
- What is a Norm?
- Habits, Plans, and Improvisation
- Mental Life
- Why are Tastes and Aversions Beyond Rational Control?
- Rational Choice Theory and Individual Psychology
- What is "Understanding Social Life"?
- Everyday Social Interactions
- Polanyi on the Market
- Is There Such a Thing as Human Nature?
- What is to Explain about Violent Crime?
- Biography and Personality Psychology
- What Does Rational Choice Theory Explain?
- Network Analysis and Agent-Centered Explanation?
- Education Choice and Personal Futures
- Bad Behavior
- Trust
- Change?
- What to Do?
- Unintended Consequences
- Norms and Deliberative Rationality
- Analyzing Peasant Consciousness
- Comparative Life Satisfaction
- Disaffected Youth
- Social Entrepreneurs
- Technical Practices
- Acting, Deliberating, Performing
- Being Clumsy
Collective Action and Social Movements
- Power: Social Movements
- Acting as a Group
- Cooperation
- Assurance Game
- Civic Engagement and Formative Institutions
- Why Does Unrest Spread?
- Microstructure of Strife
- Social Control of Crowds
- Conflict as an Empirical-Practical Study
- Collective Behavior and Resource Mobilization Theory
- New Forms of Collective Behavior?
- Transnational Protest Movements
- Marx's Theory of Political Behavior
- Labor Mobilization
- Protests in China
- Labor Protest in China
- Internet Activism in China
- Unequal Polities
- Subsistence Ethic as a Causal Factor
- American Urban Unrest
- March on Washington, August 1963
- Thailand's Redshirts and Civil Unrest
- Mobilizing a Movement -- Thailand
- How Good is Deliberative Democracy?
Identity and Culture
- Who has a "Social Identity"?
- Mentalité?
- Components of One's Social Identity
- Variation Across a Social Identity
- Literary Tradition and Social Identity
- Micro Cultures?
- Why "False Consciousness"?
- What Kind of Thing is a Religion?
- Alienation and Subjectivity
- Alienation and Anomie
- "Moral Economy" as a Historical Social Concept
- What Was E P Thompson Up To?
- A "Peasant" Revolution?
- What is a Peasant?
- Rawls's Schematic Sociology
- What Holds a Country Together?
- Cultural Authenticity and the Market
Social Cognition
Causal Mechanisms
- Social Causal Explanations
- A Range of Causal Questions
- Varieties of Social Causation
- Causal Mechanisms
- Singular and Generic Causal Assertions
- Social "Laws" and Causal Mechanisms
- Are There Discrete Social Mechanisms?
- Causal Difference
- Transportation as a mid-range social cause?
- Social Structures as Causal Factors
- Aggregating Social Trends
- How Can Race be a Cause of Something Like Asthma?
- How Does Regional Economic Development Work?
- What Causes College Success?
- Safety as a Social Effect
- Policy, Treatment, and Mechanism
- How the Calendar Matters?
- Causing Public Opinion
- How do New Ideas Get Used?
Materialism
Structures and Processes
- What is a Social Structure?
- The Reality of Society
- Processes versus Structures
- Large Social Forces?
- Are There Historical Structures?
- What is Global about Globalization?
- Logistics as a Social Force
- Cities
- Global Cities -- Saskia Sassen
- Regional Interconnectedness
- Is a Rail Network a Social Structure?
Institutions
- Institutions, Functions, Purposes
- The New Institutionalism
- Institutions, Procedures, and Norms
- Leaders Within Complex Organizations
- Explaining Technology Failure
- The Professions as an Object of Study
- Wittgenstein and "Understanding Society"
- Are There Patterns of Economic Development?
- Higher Education and Social Mobility
- Cooperatives Within Markets
- Scientific Misconduct as a Principal-Agent Problem
- Patient Safety in Canada and France
- Works Councils and US Labor Relations
Power and Class
- Power and Class in the 21st Century
- Power and Social Class
- Power Elites after Fifty Years
- Why the Corporation?
- Structure, Psychology, Power
- A Normative Aspect to Power
- Is Publicity an Important Source of Power?
- Public Versus Hidden Faces of Organizations
- Trust and Corruption
- Power as Influence
- Non-Coercive Power?
- Influence concepts
- The Sociology of Class
- Class in America
- A Diagram of Class Structure
- Segregation in France
- Inequalities in France
- Social Mobility?
- Koestler's Twentieth Century
- Who Invented the Totalitarian State?
- Labor Abuses in China
Historical explanation
- A New Philosophy of History?
- Historians and the Philosophy of History
- Applied Philosophy of History
- Metaphors for History
- Historical Comparisons
- Narrative History
- Technological Inevitability?
- Tempo of Change
- Contingent Historical Development
- Marc Bloch's History
- Retreat of the Elephants
- New Angles on French History
- Social Science History and Historical Social Science
- China's Cultural Revolution
- China's Many Revolutions
- History, Memory, and Narrative
- Strange Parallels
- Greenblatt in the World
- Historical Populations
- Technology and Culture
- Economic History Analyzed
- Great Structures?
- France as a "Nation"
- Modernism and Social Life
- Marx and the Taipings
- eighteen forty-eight
- Darnton's History
- The Franco-Prussian War
- Objectivity and Bias in Complex Happenings
- Generalizations in History
- The Longue Duree
- China's Agricultural History
- Many Small Causes
- Modest Predictions in History
- What Cities Have in Common
- Ontology of the French Revolution
- Schama's Revolution
- Scale in History: Micro, Meso, Macro
- The Historian's Task
- History of the Present
- A Cognitivist Philosophy of History
- Comparative History
- Koestler's Nightmares
- Sewell on History
- The Brenner Debate Revisited
- Fascist Movements
China
- History, Memory, and Narrative
- China's Many Revolutions
- A peasant revolution?
- Theories of the Chinese Revolution
- China's Cultural Revolution
- Wartime China
- Social Change in Rural China
- Power and Violence in China
- Retreat of the Elephants
- Rising Income Inequality in China
- What is a Peasant?
- G. William Skinner
- Labor Protest in China
- China's Agricultural History
- China's Inequalities
- Internet Activism in China
- Technology Innovation in Chinese Agriculture
- Repression in China
- Protests in China
- Labor Abuses in China
Southeast Asia
- The Power of the Authoritarian State
- Moral Economy as a Historical Social Concept
- Strange Parallels
- Unequal Polities
- Thailand's Redshirts and Civil Unrest
- Mobilizing a Movement: Thailand
- Subsistence Ethic as a Causal Factor
- A Spatial Twitter Feed for SE Asia
- Understanding Southeast Asia
- News from Kachin State, Burma
- Opaque Burma
- Running a Dictatorship
- What is a Diasporic Community?
- What is the Burmese Junta Doing?
- Alleviating Rural Poverty
- High Modernism and Expert Knowledge