Psychology suggests that people who consistently choose the back seat of a bus may be influenced by a combination of ...
Jürgen Habermas, the greatest democratic theorist of the post-war era, died in March. Some see his death as the final nail in ...
W hen Melissa J. Wilde, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was nominated to run for president of her field’s professional organization, her first reaction was surprise. Her ...
Whether you're playing poker against a single opponent or find yourself in a bidding war over a home purchase with another prospective buyer, you are operating under conditions of imperfect ...
Suicide becomes a sociological object through the communications that make it observable, recordable, reportable, and governable. This Perspective draws on Luhmann’s social systems theory to analyse ...
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The conspiracy theories of our time seem fixated on an absence of clues. By Peter C. Baker In Nick Shirley’s mega-viral YouTube videos alleging social-services fraud in Minnesota, the important piece ...
This graphic is part of a special report on consciousness. Read the full feature here. Theorists have proposed many explanations for consciousness. They are startlingly diverse, with different goals, ...
Consciousness is the ultimate question of existence. Nothing is more essential than our experience. Yet we have no consensus, and perhaps no clue, about what it actually is. The trouble, in part, is ...
ABSTRACT: How is legal reality constituted in social practice? Why do judges, lawyers, and citizens “see” the same law so differently? This paper introduces the Law of Observational Reciprocity (LOR) ...
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