1. Sociology's Relevance to International Relations 2. Historical Origins of Sociological Thought 3. Historical Sociology 4. The Historical Sociology of the State and International Relations 5. Principles of Historical Sociology 6. Problems with Historical Sociology 7. Sociology of Globalization 8. Global Versus Historical Sociology? 9. The Future Sociological Agenda in International Relations ...

This research note argues that pragmatic sociology is a useful theoretical framework when researching the third sector during uncertain times of COVID-19 and beyond. It begins by introducing sociology, which describes how actors express their values through ‘orders worth’ framework, then they justify practices moments conflict, process ‘tests’. ultimately employs complex fragile in history to u...

all along history, the art and society always have interplayed. literary works especially novel are rooted in contemporary society and tell us about social, political, cultural and historical issues of a society. a realistic novel may reflect realities of its time like a mirror. the sociology of literature is aimed to explain the links between society and literature and clarifying the quality o...

This issue of SER contains three articles on public sociology and economic sociology, which all have their origin in a session on this theme that was held at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in August 2006 in Montreal. The reason for organizing this session was a sense that ‘new economic sociology’ has ignored many of the issues that are associated with the term ‘publ...

Do all disciplines fret over the state of their own intellectual and policy-relevant health? Is it a symptom of our hyper-reflexive and confessional times that collective anxiety has to be rehearsed over the track record, and present and projected performance of a group of scholars? Medical sociology’s lengthy reflections on the state of its own practice are recognizable as part of a more gener...

There is a great deal to welcome in Michael Burawoy's plea for public sociology. For one thing, sociologists can have an impact on public affairs, and in the varied ways in which he suggests. The role played by European sociology in ending capital punishment seems to me exemplary, and I have no doubt but that basic morality should lead sociologists into active engagement when they clearly have ...

The challenge of Karl Polanyi. Journal of European Economic History 6: 703–16 Schmoller G 1904 Grundriss der Allgemeinen Volkswirtschaftslehre. Teil 2. Duncker und Humblot, Leipzig Swedberg R 1994 Markets as social structures. In: Smelser N J, Swedberg R (eds.) The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, pp. 255–82 Vanberg V J 1982 Markt und Organisation. J. C...

Visualizing data is central to social scientific work. Despite a promising early beginning, sociology has lagged in the use of visual tools. We review the history and current state of visualization in sociology. Using examples throughout, we discuss recent developments in ways of seeing raw data and presenting the results of statistical modeling. We make a general distinction between those meth...