April 4, 2014May 7, 2023 by Daniel Little

Entrenched poverty

A quick review of Peter Edelman’s So Rich, So Poor: Why it’s So Hard to End Poverty in America posted on svbtle.com …

http://dlittle30.svbtle.com/entrenched-poverty

Understanding Society is an academic blog by Daniel Little that explores a series of topics in the philosophy of social science and the workings of the social world. Published continuously since 2007, the blog has treated a wide range of topics, from the nature of causal mechanisms to the idea of emergence to the political dynamics of right-wing extremism to the causes of large-scale technological disaster. Readers should consider the blog an example of “open-source philosophy”. It is an experiment in thinking, one idea at a time.

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June 6, 2023
Touraine's method of "sociological interventions" applied to social contentionAlain Touraine's sociological research on the Polish Solidarity movement is important forty years later. Two features of interest: the "granularity" of the approach (extensive study of activist perceptions in six cities); and the method of "sociological intervention" through which researchers teased out the frameworks, grievances, and goals of activists and workers.#socialmovements https://undsoc.org/2023/06/06/touraines-method-of-sociological-intervention-applied-to-contentious-politics/
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June 2, 2023
Photographs from the HolocaustWe can learn much from photography that originated during the Holocaust and Holodomor, and other periods of atrocity. But It is crucial to consider ethical issues about the use of these photographs -- the content and the provenance. This post considers the important photo "Boy in the Warsaw Ghetto" and its origin in SS military units under SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop who oversaw the extermination of the ghetto uprising. #genocide https://undsoc.org/2023/06/02/photographs-from-the-holocaust/
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May 31, 2023
Key premises of analytical sociologyHere is my effort to pull together the main programmatic statements of the analytical sociology framework, as expressed by Hedstrom, Bearman, Demeulenaere, Coleman, Elster, Manzo, and others. Principal concern: there is a prevailing impression within this group that AS approaches are superior to all other approaches in sociology, which seems manifestly unfounded. Consider comparative historical sociology.#philosophy #sociology https://undsoc.org/2023/05/31/key-premises-of-analytical-sociology/
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May 20, 2023
Meso-foundational explanationsAnalytical sociologists give primacy to microfoundational explanations of social facts. I suggest that it is equally legitimate to seek out "meso-foundational" explanations (based on causal mechanisms for a social fact at the meso level), and even "macro-foundational" explanations. The examples imply that there is no “up” and “down” when it comes to explanatory primacy. Microfoundations have no special priority. #philosophy #sociology https://undsoc.org/2023/05/18/meso-foundational-explanations/
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May 14, 2023
An excellent piece by Maria Stephan in Salon on the aggressive authoritarianism being pursued by Governor DeSantis in Florida, and some of the efforts citizens and community-based groups are mounting against him. #authoritarianism https://www.salon.com/2023/05/14/the-battle-against-fascism-in-florida-lessons-on-how-to-beat-back-authoritarianism-from-abroad/

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