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In 1944, as World War II neared its end, the exiled Hungarian economic sociologist Karl Polanyi published The Great Transfor-mation, a treatise that focused on the dangers of trying to separate economic systems from the societies they inhabit.
The Tory model to avoid a low-wage economy that prevailed during the Regency years reflected a uniquely British school of conservative pragmatism, one that greatly facilitated innovations in science and their industrial application. Railways, gas lighting, the ambitions and achievements of Brunel, McAdam and the others who harnessed science to commerce, they were the first kicks of embryonic modernity
As the title suggests, Carlo Bordini’s "Ethical Violence" studies the ways different forms of violence – especially but not only, war – come to be accepted as morally legitimate. The book builds on the Italian sociologist and journalist’s prior work examining social forces and changes unfolding in modern...
Antara Haldar urges policymakers to heed Larl Polanyi's warning that the economy cannot be disembedded from society
Florida voted to drop sociology as a general education requirement. Sociologists are, justifiably, disconsolate.