<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Social Research: An International Quarterly]]></title><description><![CDATA[Founded in 1934 by immigrant refugees. Carrying the torch of academic freedom & mapping the landscape of intellectual thought at The New School.]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:28:27 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.socres.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[DISRUPTING DEATH / Vol. 93, No. 3 (Fall 2026)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joseph E. Davis, William Hasselberger, and Paul Scherz, Guest Editors Oz Frankel, Journal Editor Joseph E. Davis, William Hasselberger, and Paul Scherz Disrupting Death: Technology, Grief, and the Afterlife. Guest Editors’ Introduction   PART 1: SOCIAL CHANGE Joseph E. Davis Mourning Becomes Electric: Grief Without Ritual in the Age of AI Digital grief applications, powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI), are coming on the market. How they will be received and used is a question...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/933-fall-2026-disrupting-death</link><guid isPermaLink="false">691368c0c4b36b8728ab8d92</guid><category><![CDATA[Guest-edited Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Current issue]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:51:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_b8b02b3ad2fa4f8787db2a03ced7fd6f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_800,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[WRITING IN THE 21ST CENTURY / Vol. 93, No. 2 (Summer 2026)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oz Frankel, Journal Editor Regina Rini What Socrates Didn’t Write Socrates never wrote anything; he thought the technology of writing was dangerous for the self and the social fabric. That curmudgeonly stance has lately made Socrates a character in public debates about artificial intelligence (AI). Here I return to the source, unpacking what bothered Socrates about writing and whether it really does tell us anything about our technological moment. Socrates’s arguments are more complex than...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/932-summer-2026-writing-in-the-21st-century</link><guid isPermaLink="false">684ffa290a69afc9e46a2184</guid><category><![CDATA[Back Issues]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:09:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_52e3882eeb3944f08af55c394679176b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_900,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[SCHOLARSHIP AND POLITICS / Vol. 94, No. 2 (Summer 2027)]]></title><description><![CDATA[PAUL KOTTMAN, Issue Editor OZ FRANKEL, Journal Editor JULIA ADAMS ZEYNEP ALEMDAR GIULIA BERNARD GIULIA DAL MASO  JOSHUA DERMAN ALEX ENGLANDER PETER GORDON NICOLAS LANGLITZ CHIARA MAGNI NICOLA RAMAZZOTTO STEPHEN TURNER]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/942-summer-2027-scholarship-and-politics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dca2414760d48e5e91bc74</guid><category><![CDATA[Forthcoming Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guest-edited Issues]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[GASLIGHTING / Vol. 93, No. 1 (Spring 2026)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oz Frankel, Journal Editor Shelley Stamp Hollywood’s Gaslight and the Gendered Dynamics of Gaslighting The 1944 film Gaslight, from which contemporary use of the term “gaslighting” originates, provides key insights into the gendered dynamics of gaslighting. A gothic melodrama set in Victorian London, the film depicts a young bride terrorized by her new husband, increasingly unable to trust her own perception and pushed to the brink of psychosis. Watching the film, viewers experience a...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/931-spring-2026-gaslighting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67c91cb8704201787dbe1208</guid><category><![CDATA[Back Issues]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:01:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_64024ef4ac1147298d5d3d175b00894c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[STS: AFTER THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY / Vol. 94, No. 1 (Spring 2027)]]></title><description><![CDATA[NICOLAS LANGLITZ,  Issue Editor OZ FRANKEL,  Journal Editor CAMERON BRINITZER HARRY COLLINS TALIA DAN-COHEN GIL EYAL MIKE FORTUN GABRIELE GRAMELSBERGER and HANS-JÖRG SIGWART MICHAEL HAGNER REBECCA LEMOV MONIKA WULZ]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/941-spring-2027-sts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6977cf766e1e6fddb819dec5</guid><category><![CDATA[Forthcoming Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guest-edited Issues]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:38:28 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ABOLITION THEN AND NOW / Vol. 92, No. 4 (Winter 2025)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oz Frankel ,  Journal Editor W. Caleb McDaniel No Union with Slaveholders: A Radical, Practical Abolitionist Plan Nineteenth-century American abolitionists led by William Lloyd Garrison urged their followers to rally around the unpopular motto “No Union with Slaveholders.” Beginning two decades before the Civil War, they argued that the only way to end slavery was to dissolve the Union. These “disunionists” were criticized by other reformers at the time for doing nothing to advance the cause,...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/924-winter-2025-abolition-then-and-now</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67895c3d5e293231a971fc54</guid><category><![CDATA[Back Issues]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:25:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_9fd1d777f1fe4bffae934c0db98b639f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[FOOTBALL POLITICS / Vol. 92, No. 3 (Fall 2025)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sean Jacobs, Guest Editor Oz Frankel, Journal Editor Sean Jacobs Guest Editor’s Introduction   Chris Bolsmann Men’s Professional Soccer in the United States: The Proverbial Sport of Tomorrow  Men’s professional soccer in the United States is both popular and profitable. This article offers a broad historical overview of the key factors in the development of the professional game, highlighting the continuities and changes in its organization. First, wealthy investors have consistently...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/923-fall-2025-football-politics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6723beb4352272d24341635e</guid><category><![CDATA[Guest-edited Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back Issues]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:02:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_9d40a57a6a0a4f9ea8794a1df54cd11b~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[DEMOGRAPHIC SHRINKAGE / Vol. 93, No. 4 (Winter 2026)]]></title><description><![CDATA[OZ FRANKEL, Journal Editor WEIKAI CHEN JOEL E. COHEN NANCY FOLBRE EMILY KLANCHER MERCHANT K. S. JAMES and SRINIVAS GOLI TOM A. MOULTRIE and IAN M. TIMÆUS JENNIFER ROBERTSON ALESSANDRO ROSINA JADE SASSER MICHAEL S. TEITELBAUM and JAY M. WINTER FUXIAN YI]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/934-winter-2026-demographic-shrinkage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68c82f956b9aef942beb3bbe</guid><category><![CDATA[Forthcoming Issues]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:34:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE EMBATTLED UNIVERSITY / Vol. 92, No. 2 (Summer 2025)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arjun Appadurai and Arien Mack,  Issue Coeditors Oz Frankel, Journal Editor Lisa Anderson From Pursuing Truth to Managing Stress: The Costs and Consequences of the Therapeutic Turn in American Universities The desire to simultaneously encourage and contain transformative research and to both nurture and control critical thinking has been a tension since the very creation of the university. In recent years, efforts to manage these conflicting impulses have been assigned to individual psychic...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/922-summer-2025-the-embattled-university</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6566544b5bb56c4543b23c0c</guid><category><![CDATA[Guest-edited Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back Issues]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:02:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_fbe9cf14c18a4ca98dcc3b5820662561~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[LIBERALISM UNDER SIEGE / Vol. 92, No. 1 (Spring 2025)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cass R. Sunstein, Guest Editor Oz Franke, Journal Editor Cass R. Sunstein Freedom and Pluralism: Guest Editor's Introduction Anne Barnhill  and Brian Hutler Is Liberalism a Defensible Framework for Pandemic Policymaking? Liberal commitments to upholding civil liberties and relying on representative democratic procedures may seem incompatible with an effective response to an emergency like a pandemic. At the same time, the high stakes of pandemic policymaking and disagreement about the best...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/921-spring-2025-liberalism-under-siege</link><guid isPermaLink="false">64e64153d9c942d803de27fe</guid><category><![CDATA[Guest-edited Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back Issues]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:32:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_dc0f84591fa8444e97e29f67a800f60d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[POLICING / Vol. 91, No. 4 (Winter 2024)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arien Mack, Issue Editor Oz Frankel, Journal Editor Jake Monaghan The Philosophical Problem of Democratic Policing This article provides a critical overview of democratic policing from a philosophical perspective. To do so, it constructs a stylized taxonomy of philosophical approaches to the topic, featuring the legalist and the participatory democratic. This taxonomy allows for the formulation of general theoretical problems for democratically legitimizing police power. The most significant...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/914-winter-2024-policing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6503178f2148218af10e2da1</guid><category><![CDATA[Back Issues]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:26:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_ffcd56790c464aeb9a72ff5ac159e688~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM / Vol. 91, No. 3 (Fall 2024)]]></title><description><![CDATA[William Milberg, Guest Editor Oz Frankel, Journal Editor Federico Finchelstein Authoritarianism and Free Markets: Notes on Fascism, Populism, and Economics Is there a link between authoritarian politics and free market economics? How important has economic theory been historically to the rise of authoritarian systems and ideologies? Are fascism and populism determined by economic priorities or economic interests? In this article, I argue that economics was not that important , and certainly...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/913-fall-2024-democracy-and-capitalism</link><guid isPermaLink="false">661d6490c3955fbfe1543e68</guid><category><![CDATA[Guest-edited Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back Issues]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:36:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_76258b39273744429da5168df67b3bc7~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[EXILE / Vol. 91, No. 2 (Summer 2024)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arien Mack, Issue Editor Oz Frankel,  Journal Editor Avishai Margalit Internal Exile and Politics This essay has two parts. One scans...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/912-summer-2024-exile</link><guid isPermaLink="false">646389a077aa06afeedcf289</guid><category><![CDATA[Back Issues]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:56:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_b5bc777022894b90a4b49a083ce7b162~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[SOCIAL RESEARCH AT 90 / Vol. 91, No. 1 (Spring 2024)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arien Mack , Journal Editor Michael Walzer The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success) This article considers the useful...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/911-spring-2024-sr90</link><guid isPermaLink="false">660b254583abfdc09a44420d</guid><category><![CDATA[Back Issues]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_403ad69653384ee09546cb762a55a6d8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[FRONTIERS OF SOCIAL INQUIRY / Vol. 90, No. 4 (Winter 2023)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arien Mack, Journal Editor Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka Doing Politics with Animals An increasing number of theorists are challenging...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/904-winter-2023-social-inquiry-frontiers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63e135bdaff04fed6ce2091e</guid><category><![CDATA[Back Issues]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:23:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_1627d8705ae04739a48b7bba5152438f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[PATIENCE / Vol. 90, No. 3 (Fall 2023)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arjun Appadurai, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor Arjun Appadurai Waiting for Patience: Guest Editor's Introduction Patience and...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/903-fall-2023-patience</link><guid isPermaLink="false">62fad6f3563740fa1be8c218</guid><category><![CDATA[Guest-edited Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back Issues]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:33:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_0aca9419b5ae46208c70bd847a242dc1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE CROWD / Vol. 90, No. 2 (Summer 2023)]]></title><description><![CDATA[James Walkup, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor James Walkup Guest Editor's Introduction Michael T. Heaney The Multivalence of Crowds Crowds have diverse meanings and serve varied functions for their participants and observers. To make sense of this diversity, the ontology of crowds can be understood through two dimensions: (1) global/collective processes versus local/individual processes; and (2) symbolic benefits/costs versus concrete benefits/costs. 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Kottman, Guest Editor Arien M ack , Journal Editor Paul A. Kottman Guest Editor's Introduction Of what are photographed or filmed images evidence? This is the organizing question of the present volume. This question is taken in many directions by the contributors, who write from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives. Some are philosophers; some are scholars; some are photographers. As a result, this issue contains reflections on various declinations of the core question:...]]></description><link>https://www.socres.org/post/894-winter-2022-photography-and-film</link><guid isPermaLink="false">620c161a5356877859a75cad</guid><category><![CDATA[Guest-edited Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back Issues]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:52:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/837f8c_17948dea42eb48e1993240b28859dd49~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Social Research An Int&apos;l Quarterly</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[SOCIAL RESEARCH BACK ISSUES BUNDLES]]></title><description><![CDATA[Social Research  back issues are available for purchase in special bundles!  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