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#TBT to Winter 2012, “Human Rights and the Global Economy.”
Guest editors Nehal Bhuta, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and Miriam Ticktin assembled contributions covering everything from global poverty obligations and climate change lawfare to the challenge of regulating corporations.
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Guest editors Nehal Bhuta, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and Miriam Ticktin assembled contributions covering everything from global poverty obligations and climate change lawfare to the challenge of regulating corporations.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#TBT to Winter 2012, “Human Rights and the Global Economy.”
Guest editors Nehal Bhuta, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and Miriam Ticktin assembled contributions covering everything from global poverty obligations and climate change lawfare to the challenge of regulating corporations.
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Guest editors Nehal Bhuta, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and Miriam Ticktin assembled contributions covering everything from global poverty obligations and climate change lawfare to the challenge of regulating corporations.
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Sport, including football, is a key site for debates on national identity & racism.
Ben Carrington’s “Representing England: Sport, Politics, and Contested Identities” examines the men's 2020 & women's 2025 UEFA championships to analyze national representation & cultural politics.
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Ben Carrington’s “Representing England: Sport, Politics, and Contested Identities” examines the men's 2020 & women's 2025 UEFA championships to analyze national representation & cultural politics.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Sport, including football, is a key site for debates on national identity & racism.
Ben Carrington’s “Representing England: Sport, Politics, and Contested Identities” examines the men's 2020 & women's 2025 UEFA championships to analyze national representation & cultural politics.
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Ben Carrington’s “Representing England: Sport, Politics, and Contested Identities” examines the men's 2020 & women's 2025 UEFA championships to analyze national representation & cultural politics.
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Contributing to Social Research in Spring 1976 with "The Future Cannot Begin: Temporal Structures in Modern Society," Luhmann argued that the concept of a structured future only emerged with the shift from traditional to bourgeois society.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Contributing to Social Research in Spring 1976 with "The Future Cannot Begin: Temporal Structures in Modern Society," Luhmann argued that the concept of a structured future only emerged with the shift from traditional to bourgeois society.
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Sociologist Niklas Luhmann was #BOTD in 1927 in Lüneburg, Germany. A student of Talcott Parsons, Luhmann eventually left his mentor’s tradition, becoming a renowned systems theorist in his own right. His work explored complexity and self-referential systems in modern society.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Sociologist Niklas Luhmann was #BOTD in 1927 in Lüneburg, Germany. A student of Talcott Parsons, Luhmann eventually left his mentor’s tradition, becoming a renowned systems theorist in his own right. His work explored complexity and self-referential systems in modern society.
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Is AI ethics failing to address the true problem?
Peter Asaro's 2023 "Politicizing Data: AI Ethics as a Social Critique of Algorithms" critiques individual responsibility models.
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Peter Asaro's 2023 "Politicizing Data: AI Ethics as a Social Critique of Algorithms" critiques individual responsibility models.
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December 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Is AI ethics failing to address the true problem?
Peter Asaro's 2023 "Politicizing Data: AI Ethics as a Social Critique of Algorithms" critiques individual responsibility models.
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Peter Asaro's 2023 "Politicizing Data: AI Ethics as a Social Critique of Algorithms" critiques individual responsibility models.
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Here's what was popular with our readers in November:
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December 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Here's what was popular with our readers in November:
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Is “imperialism” too vague for scholars? Why does linguistics need sociologists?
This #TBT we go back to our Winter 1967 issue, which, in addition to exploring the questions above, tackled semantic chaos, one-party regimes, and G. H. Mead.
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This #TBT we go back to our Winter 1967 issue, which, in addition to exploring the questions above, tackled semantic chaos, one-party regimes, and G. H. Mead.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Is “imperialism” too vague for scholars? Why does linguistics need sociologists?
This #TBT we go back to our Winter 1967 issue, which, in addition to exploring the questions above, tackled semantic chaos, one-party regimes, and G. H. Mead.
🔗 www.jstor.org/stable...
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This #TBT we go back to our Winter 1967 issue, which, in addition to exploring the questions above, tackled semantic chaos, one-party regimes, and G. H. Mead.
🔗 www.jstor.org/stable...
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US professional soccer has long prioritized profit over global norms.
Chris Bolsmann’s “Men’s Professional Soccer in the United States” traces how investor interests, rule changes for American tastes, and immigration have shaped the proverbial sport of tomorrow.
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Chris Bolsmann’s “Men’s Professional Soccer in the United States” traces how investor interests, rule changes for American tastes, and immigration have shaped the proverbial sport of tomorrow.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
US professional soccer has long prioritized profit over global norms.
Chris Bolsmann’s “Men’s Professional Soccer in the United States” traces how investor interests, rule changes for American tastes, and immigration have shaped the proverbial sport of tomorrow.
🔗 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
Chris Bolsmann’s “Men’s Professional Soccer in the United States” traces how investor interests, rule changes for American tastes, and immigration have shaped the proverbial sport of tomorrow.
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Why do we give? This #GivingTuesday explore the roots of altruism, the balance of private & public aid, and global giving traditions.
Read “Giving: Caring for the Needs of Strangers” for a deep dive into the philosophy, psychology, and politics of generosity.
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Read “Giving: Caring for the Needs of Strangers” for a deep dive into the philosophy, psychology, and politics of generosity.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Why do we give? This #GivingTuesday explore the roots of altruism, the balance of private & public aid, and global giving traditions.
Read “Giving: Caring for the Needs of Strangers” for a deep dive into the philosophy, psychology, and politics of generosity.
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Read “Giving: Caring for the Needs of Strangers” for a deep dive into the philosophy, psychology, and politics of generosity.
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This #CyberMonday, dive deep into the world shaping your future with our two-part issue: “Algorithms” and “Persons Without Qualities: Algorithms, AI, and the Reshaping of Ourselves” from 2019.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This #CyberMonday, dive deep into the world shaping your future with our two-part issue: “Algorithms” and “Persons Without Qualities: Algorithms, AI, and the Reshaping of Ourselves” from 2019.
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This week’s essential #SundayRead, Alan Montefiore’s “Hospitality: Its Functions and Limitations” from our 2022 issue “Hospitality,” questions how we navigate our obligations to ourselves and to all humanity.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This week’s essential #SundayRead, Alan Montefiore’s “Hospitality: Its Functions and Limitations” from our 2022 issue “Hospitality,” questions how we navigate our obligations to ourselves and to all humanity.
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Happy Thanksgiving from the team at Social Research! 🦃 We're thankful for all the scholars advancing knowledge and fostering understanding, and wishing everyone a day of reflection and gratitude.
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from the team at Social Research! 🦃 We're thankful for all the scholars advancing knowledge and fostering understanding, and wishing everyone a day of reflection and gratitude.
Sociologist Alberto Melucci was #BOTD in 1943 in Rimini, Italy. His work focused on contemporary social movements, exploring their symbolic and cultural dimensions and role in postindustrial society.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sociologist Alberto Melucci was #BOTD in 1943 in Rimini, Italy. His work focused on contemporary social movements, exploring their symbolic and cultural dimensions and role in postindustrial society.
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Sociologist Lewis A. Coser was #BOTD in 1913 in Berlin, Germany. His dissertation, “The Functions of Social Conflict,” became a classic in social theory and was one of the bestselling sociology books of the 20th century.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Sociologist Lewis A. Coser was #BOTD in 1913 in Berlin, Germany. His dissertation, “The Functions of Social Conflict,” became a classic in social theory and was one of the bestselling sociology books of the 20th century.
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American historian Charles A. Beard was #BOTD in 1874 in Knightstown, Indiana. His work explored economic determinism in the founding of the United States and challenged traditional views of the Constitution.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
American historian Charles A. Beard was #BOTD in 1874 in Knightstown, Indiana. His work explored economic determinism in the founding of the United States and challenged traditional views of the Constitution.
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The global narrative on Gulf football is often Eurocentric and reductive.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The global narrative on Gulf football is often Eurocentric and reductive.
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#TodayinHistory marks the disappearance of the infamous unidentified man who in 1971 hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight under the alias D. B. Cooper. His unknown fate and the unsolved crime have led to decades of mystery and conspiracy theories.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#TodayinHistory marks the disappearance of the infamous unidentified man who in 1971 hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight under the alias D. B. Cooper. His unknown fate and the unsolved crime have led to decades of mystery and conspiracy theories.
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Can political order truly exist if ethical values are inherently irreconcilable?
This week’s essential #SundayRead questions legitimate authority in Peter Murphy’s “Moralities, Rule Choice, and the Universal Legislator” from our Winter 1983 issue.
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This week’s essential #SundayRead questions legitimate authority in Peter Murphy’s “Moralities, Rule Choice, and the Universal Legislator” from our Winter 1983 issue.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Can political order truly exist if ethical values are inherently irreconcilable?
This week’s essential #SundayRead questions legitimate authority in Peter Murphy’s “Moralities, Rule Choice, and the Universal Legislator” from our Winter 1983 issue.
🔗 www.jstor.org/stable...
This week’s essential #SundayRead questions legitimate authority in Peter Murphy’s “Moralities, Rule Choice, and the Universal Legislator” from our Winter 1983 issue.
🔗 www.jstor.org/stable...
Sociologist Dennis H. Wrong was #BOTD in 1923 in Toronto, Canada. His research dug into social class divisions, challenged the notion that people are completely molded by society, and investigated the point where conformity stops.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Sociologist Dennis H. Wrong was #BOTD in 1923 in Toronto, Canada. His research dug into social class divisions, challenged the notion that people are completely molded by society, and investigated the point where conformity stops.
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What made 20th-century science so revolutionary?
For this #TBT, we revisit our Fall 1984 issue, "Modern Masters of Science." It details the pivotal work of scholars and theorists like Bohr, Pauling, Szilard, Wegener, and Schrödinger in physics, molecular biology, genetics, and earth science.
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For this #TBT, we revisit our Fall 1984 issue, "Modern Masters of Science." It details the pivotal work of scholars and theorists like Bohr, Pauling, Szilard, Wegener, and Schrödinger in physics, molecular biology, genetics, and earth science.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What made 20th-century science so revolutionary?
For this #TBT, we revisit our Fall 1984 issue, "Modern Masters of Science." It details the pivotal work of scholars and theorists like Bohr, Pauling, Szilard, Wegener, and Schrödinger in physics, molecular biology, genetics, and earth science.
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For this #TBT, we revisit our Fall 1984 issue, "Modern Masters of Science." It details the pivotal work of scholars and theorists like Bohr, Pauling, Szilard, Wegener, and Schrödinger in physics, molecular biology, genetics, and earth science.
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The late sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman was #BOTD in 1925 in Poznań, Poland. His work explored liquid modernity, consumerism, and the Holocaust. Bauman's analysis of contemporary life is a testament to endurance.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The late sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman was #BOTD in 1925 in Poznań, Poland. His work explored liquid modernity, consumerism, and the Holocaust. Bauman's analysis of contemporary life is a testament to endurance.
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⚽ ⚽ Congratulations to Sean Jacobs, the guest editor, and all the authors ⚽ ⚽
Here is what's in it:
And read it is full here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
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Here is what's in it:
And read it is full here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
⚽ ⚽ Congratulations to Sean Jacobs, the guest editor, and all the authors ⚽ ⚽
Here is what's in it:
And read it is full here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
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Here is what's in it:
And read it is full here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
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Our long-awaited Fall 2025 issue, "Football Politics," is finally out! And just in time for the final round of the qualifying matches for #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #WeAre26.
It is available to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social
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It is available to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Our long-awaited Fall 2025 issue, "Football Politics," is finally out! And just in time for the final round of the qualifying matches for #FIFAWorldCup #WorldCup #WeAre26.
It is available to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social
🔗 muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
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It is available to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social
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What did the fall of the Iron Curtain mean for social thought & politics? How did nations like Poland & Hungary navigate their transition from state socialism? For this #SundayRead, we explore the tumultuous shift of East Europe from communism to democracy.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What did the fall of the Iron Curtain mean for social thought & politics? How did nations like Poland & Hungary navigate their transition from state socialism? For this #SundayRead, we explore the tumultuous shift of East Europe from communism to democracy.
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#TodayInHistory Nov. 15, 1969: Around 2 million people marched down to Washington, DC, for the Vietnam War Moratorium, the largest antiwar protest in US history at its time.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#TodayInHistory Nov. 15, 1969: Around 2 million people marched down to Washington, DC, for the Vietnam War Moratorium, the largest antiwar protest in US history at its time.
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