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 article introduces the articles and themes presented in this edition of the...

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...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction A difficult choice is a choice that is hard because of its inherent content -whether...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction Fairness is a central motivating force in our private and public lives. It is deeply...

Jean-Phillippe Béja, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction This issue of Social Research is another in our...

Ahmed Bawa, Guest Editor Arien Mack, Journal Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction In the eleventh issue in the series of...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one on...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction The origins of the Social Research conference at which the papers in this issue were...

Arien Mack, Editor Jerome Kohn, Guest Coeditor Jerome Kohn Introduction The editor of Social Research, Arien Mack, and I both thought...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction Over the last several decades there has been a growing wave of concern over the use...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction This issue on “Numbers” covers ground that has been explored many times before, but...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction The papers in this issue are versions of the presentations given at the Social...

Arien Mack, Editor Charles Tilly Introduction: Violence Viewed and Reviewed Observers of human violence divide into three camps: idea...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction This issue comprises papers presented at a Social Research conference at the New School University in November 1998. Judith Friedlander Introduction to Part I: Everyday Life: Ordinary Pleasures, Rituals, and Taboos This article explores the relationship between food and culture. According to French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, people spend most of their time in almost every culture turning nature into culture, the r

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction The papers in this issue are based on presentations given at a conference held at...

Arien Mack, Editor G. M. Tamás A Disquisition on Civil Society The article discusses aspects of the civil society and its relation to...

Arien Mack, Editor Nancy Folbre and Marjorie Abel Women's Work and Women's Households: Gender Bias in the US Census Examines how...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction The papers in this issue were presented at a public conference entitled “In Time of Plague: The History and Social Consequences of Lethal Epidemic Disease,” sponsored by Social Research. Charles E. Rosenberg I. The Definition and Control of Disease—An Introduction AIDS has reminded us of some very old truths, truths most Americans had managed to forget during the past four decades. Epidemic infectious disease is not simpl