Here is an exciting RFP for researchers in psychology, philosophy, and religious studies who are interested in "understanding". Funding Opportunity Fordham University invites proposals for the “New Perspectives on the Philosophy of Understanding” funding initiative. Our aim is to encourage research from both new and established scholars working on projects related to understanding in its …
SSHA Call for Papers
SSHA CALL FOR PAPERS Macrohistorical Dynamics Network 38th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association Chicago, IL 21-24 November 2013 Submission Deadline: 15 February 2013 "Organizing Powers" We invite you to take part in Macrohistorical Dynamics (MHD) panels of the 38th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, November 21-24, 2013 in Chicago. …
Five years of UnderstandingSociety
This week represents the end of the fifth year of the UnderstandingSociety blog. Writing the blog continues to be a source of great intellectual growth for me, not least because it has led me to read and discuss books and articles I wouldn't otherwise have encountered. Readers have often suggested sources I hadn't previously known about, …
Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable Call for Papers
FIFTEENTH ANNUALPHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ROUNDTABLE22-24 MARCH 2013University of California-Santa Cruz >CALL FOR PAPERS We are organizing the fifteenth annual working conference on topics in philosophy of the social sciences. The 2013 Roundtable will continue a tradition of meetings that brings together philosophers and social scientists to discuss a wide range of philosophical issues raised …
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Mayer Zald
I am sorry to share the news with readers that Mayer Zald passed away today in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mayer was a brilliant sociologist, a founding contributor to the fields of organizational sociology and social movement theory, and a fertile and stimulating voice in conversation with scholars old and young until the final week of …
Readers’ list of innovative social science writing
Image: graph of relationships among the social sciences, Eigenfactor.org To the readers of UnderstandingSociety, I am writing directly to you to ask your thoughts about innovative work in the social sciences today. What books or new areas of inquiry in the social sciences are you particularly excited about right now? The context -- One of the …
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SSHA 2011
As always, the Social Science History Association meeting in Boston is brimming with great sessions across a wide range of topic areas. There is evidence of lots of new thinking about the intersections of the social science disciplines and various fields of historical research. Here is the SSHA's description of its mission: The Social Science History …
Four years of UnderstandingSociety
Today marks the fourth anniversary of UnderstandingSociety. This is the 613th posting since I began in November 2007 and the 135th in the past year. I continue to find this medium a good way of pushing forward my own learning and thinking about a swirl of topics around the central thrust, making sense of the …
Three years of UnderstandingSociety
Today marks the end of the third year of publication of UnderstandingSociety. This is the 481st posting, with prior posts covering a range of themes from "social ontology" to "foundations of the social sciences" to "globalization and economic development." In beginning this effort in 2007 I had envisioned something different from the kinds of blogs …
Three years of UnderstandingSociety
Today marks the end of the third year of publication of UnderstandingSociety. This is the 481st posting, with prior posts covering a range of themes from "social ontology" to "foundations of the social sciences" to "globalization and economic development." In beginning this effort in 2007 I had envisioned something different from the kinds of blogs that …
