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FOOTBALL POLITICS / Vol. 92, No. 3 (Fall 2025)
Sean Jacobs , Guest Editor Oz Franke, 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 co
Social Research An Int'l Quarterly
Nov 155 min read
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THE EMBATTLED UNIVERSITY / Vol. 92, No. 2 (Summer 2025)
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 ind
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Jun 34 min read
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LIBERALISM UNDER SIEGE / Vol. 92, No. 1 (Spring 2025)
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
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Apr 85 min read
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CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM / Vol. 91, No. 3 (Fall 2024)
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
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Oct 10, 20246 min read
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PATIENCE / Vol. 90, No. 3 (Fall 2023)
Arjun Appadurai, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor Arjun Appadurai Waiting for Patience: Guest Editor's Introduction Patience and...
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Sep 28, 20234 min read
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THE CROWD / Vol. 90, No. 2 (Summer 2023)
James Walkup, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor James Walkup Guest Editor's Introduction Michael T. Heaney The Multivalence of...
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Jul 12, 20234 min read
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SCIENCE UNDER STRESS / Vol. 90, No. 1 (Spring 2023)
Ahmed Bawa, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor Ahmed Bawa Guest Editor's Introduction Ari Sitas Science and Scientists in Distress...
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Apr 18, 20234 min read
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PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM AS EVIDENCE / Vol. 89, No. 4 (Winter 2022)
Paul A. Kottman, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor Paul A. Kottman Guest Editor's Introduction Of what are photographed or filmed...
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Jan 17, 20235 min read
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CONSPIRACY THINKING / Vol. 89, No. 3 (Fall 2022)
Oz Frankel, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor Oz Frankel Guest Editor's Introduction The following articles address diverse...
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Oct 15, 20227 min read
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THE COMMONS / Vol. 88, No. 1 (Spring 2021)
Akeel Bilgrami, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman, and Brett Clark Marx and the Commons Karl...
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May 9, 20214 min read
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CULTURAL TRAUMA / Vol. 87, No. 3 (Fall 2020)
William Hirst, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor Nick Haslam and Melanie McGrath The Creeping Concept of Trauma Over the past...
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Nov 17, 20205 min read
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PERSONS WITHOUT QUALITIES: ALGORITHMS, AI, AND THE RESHAPING OF OURSELVES / Vol. 86, No. 4 (W 2019)
Joseph E. Davis and Paul Scherz, Guest Editors Arien Mack, Journal Editor PART 1: THE TURN TO QUANTIFICATION AND ITS HISTORICAL APPEAL...
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Jan 18, 20204 min read
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REFUGEE SCHOLARSHIP: THE CROSS-FERTILIZATION OF CULTURE / Vol. 84, No. 4 (Winter 2017)
Harald Hagemann and William Milberg, Guest Editors Arien Mack, Journal Editor Arien Mack A New, New School for Social Research University...
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Feb 26, 20186 min read
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THE FUTURE OF SCHOLARLY KNOWLEDGE / Vol. 84, No. 3 (Fall 2017)
Kenneth Prewitt, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor Arien Mack Introduction This is the fourth issue of Social Research since 2009...
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Oct 1, 20176 min read
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CUBA: Looking Toward the Future / Vol. 84, No. 2 (Summer 2017)
William M. LeoGrande, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor William M. LeoGrande Introduction: Cuba Looks to the Future In 2018, Raul...
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Aug 29, 20176 min read
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FAILURE / Vol. 83, No. 3 (Fall 2016)
Arjun Appadurai, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor The most important thing about failure is that it is not a fact but a human...
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Nov 30, 20166 min read
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BORDERS AND THE POLITICS OF MOURNING / Vol. 83, No. 2 (Summer 2016)
Alexandra Délano Alonso and Benjamin Nienass, Guest Editors Arien Mack, Journal Editor Contributors to this special issue explore a...
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Oct 1, 20166 min read
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SOCIAL RESEARCH AT 80 / Vol. 82, No. 1 (Spring 2015)
Ira Katznelson, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor This eightieth anniversary issue of Social Research looks back at the most...
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Apr 1, 20159 min read
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MACHIAVELLI'S THE PRINCE: 500 YEARS LATER / Vol. 81, No. 1 (Spring 2014)
John P. McCormick, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor This issue marks the five hundredth anniversary of Machiavelli's The Prince....
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Apr 1, 20145 min read
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AUSTERITY: Failed Economics but Persistent Policy / Vol. 80, No. 3 (Fall 2013)
Teresa Ghilarducci and Rick McGahey, Guest Editors Arien Mack, Journal Editor This issue features the discussion of economists on the...
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Oct 1, 20139 min read
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