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Reconstructive Social Theory: Agency, Culture, and Social Change

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] This is a guest blog post by Professor Frederic Vandenberghe of Sociology in the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.… Read More »Reconstructive Social Theory: Agency, Culture, and Social Change

Method in Comparative Political Social Science: Converging on Critical Realism?

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] This is a guest blog post by Simeon J. Newman who is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Michigan with interests in political, historical and urban sociology, social… Read More »Method in Comparative Political Social Science: Converging on Critical Realism?

Causal Powers in the Social Sciences panel at International Association of Critical Realism 2016 – Presentation by Timothy Rutzou

Towards a Process-Oriented Ontology by Timothy Rutzou In the final presentation of the panel “Causal Powers in the Social Sciences” from IACR 2016, Timothy Rutzou discusses the problem of temporality, process, and change when it comes to our understanding of… Read More »Causal Powers in the Social Sciences panel at International Association of Critical Realism 2016 – Presentation by Timothy Rutzou

Causal Powers in the Social Sciences panel at International Association of Critical Realism 2016 – Presentation by Philip Gorski

During the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) Annual Conference held in Cardiff, UK from July 19-23rd, 2016, Dave Elder-Vass, Philip Gorski and Timothy Rutzou participated in a panel “Causal Powers in the Social Sciences”. This panel stemmed from the… Read More »Causal Powers in the Social Sciences panel at International Association of Critical Realism 2016 – Presentation by Philip Gorski

Causal Powers in the Social Sciences panel at International Association of Critical Realism 2016 – Presentation by Dave Elder-Vass

During the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) Annual Conference held in Cardiff, UK from July 19-23rd, 2016, Dave Elder-Vass, Philip Gorski and Timothy Rutzou participated in a panel “Causal Powers in the Social Sciences”. This panel stemmed from the… Read More »Causal Powers in the Social Sciences panel at International Association of Critical Realism 2016 – Presentation by Dave Elder-Vass