Arien Mack, Editor This special issue seeks to explore the many ways in which comedy figures into political life, where it can serve as a...

Arien Mack, Editor Since becoming a folk term for Americans in the 1950s the category of the "image" has had multiple careers,...

Arien Mack, Editor Assumptions about the "normal," "healthy," and "acceptable" body lead to policies around the world that are unjust....

Arien Mack, Editor Assumptions about the "normal," "healthy," and "acceptable" body lead to policies around the world that are unjust....

Arjun Appadurai, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor This issue on India is part of our ongoing series devoted to countries in...

Befekadu Degefe and Berhanu Nega, Guest Editors Arien Mack, Journal Editor In this issue, experts examine the challenges of development...

Arien Mack, Editor How do the US government and other political and cultural institutions restrict, facilitate, or otherwise affect the...

Arien Mack, Editor This issue's multidisciplinary collection of essays and articles on happiness adds new perspectives to a subject that...

Victoria Hattam and Riva Kastoryano, Guest Editors Arien Mack, Editor This issue is an excellent array of papers bridging problems of...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction This issue of Social Research contains papers from the twentieth conference in the...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction The issue contains the proceedings of the twentieth Social Research conference,...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction This article introduces the articles and themes presented in this edition of the...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction In keeping with our policy to publish recurring issues on places in the world undergoing or recently having undergone marked changes, this issue looks at current aspects of the Russian state and society during a period of many deep, systemic changes. Anders Aslund Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed in Russia The article looks at the reasons for the failure of democracy and the success of market reform in Russ

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction The decision to edit an issue on fraud unfortunately reflects the sense of the times...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction This issue contains papers from the 17th Social Research conference, Disasters:...

Arien Mack, Editor Charles Tilly 1929–2008, in memoriam A Memoriam to Chuck Tilly, and esteemed colleague and longtime member of the...

Arien Mack, Editor William Hirst, Guest Coditor Arien Mack and William Hirst Editors’ Introduction Since Maurice Halbwachs first wrote about the phenomenon, the study of collective memory has played a critical role in discussions of collective and, in particular, national identity. Students of collective memory have chiefly been interested in the memory practices a community undertakes to maintain publicly available symbols of the past, with memorials and commemorations, al

Jerome Kohn, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction This is the second of two issues celebrating the 100th year...

Jerome Kohn, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction The current issue of Social Research and the one to follow this winter are dedicated to a discussion of the writings of Hannah Arendt, our colleague here at The New School for Social Research from 1967 until her death. Jerome Kohn Guest Editor’s Introduction Hannah Arendt’s centenary was celebrated with conferences and colloquia, art, exhibitions, dramatic and musical performances, in film, on radi

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction This issue contains almost all of the papers from the sixteenth Social Research...