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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 29/09/2026
Robert Nisbet, #BOTD in 1913 in Los Angeles, was an American sociologist and professor known for his seminal work on community, authority, and the historical decline of intermediate social institutions. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 28/09/2026
#BOTD in 1930 in New York City was renowned sociologist and pioneer of world-systems analysis Immanuel Wallerstein. He transformed how we understand global capitalism and historical social structures. 1/3
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 27/09/2026
September usually marks the statistical peak of the hurricane season. Luckily for communities that often lie in hurricanes’ path, the Atlantic basin has not seen a major storm this year. However, the Eastern Seaboard is now in the grip of a rare for this season nor’easter. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 25/09/2026
How do the things we leave behind online reshape grief? Davide Sisto looks at online mourning in “Social Media as Thanatechnology,” examining how platforms and thanatechnology transform profiles into public spaces for memory and grief, community, and new digital rituals. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 24/09/2026
Judith N. Shklar, #BOTD in 1928 in Riga, Latvia, was a political theorist and the first woman to be tenured (in 1971) by Harvard’s Department of Government. She’s best known for contributions to liberalism, the philosophy of fear, and the complexities of political injustice. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 22/09/2026
#TodayinHistory in 1980: The birth of Solidarność, Poland’s Solidarity movement, a surge of civil resistance amid an economic crisis and the Helsinki Accords. Solidarity played a key role in bringing about the end of communism in Europe at the close of the decade. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 20/09/2026
How do scientists actually talk about discovery? Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (and poet) Roald Hoffmann and chemist and science writer Pierre Laszlo explore the vital role of informal speech, molecular doodles, and dialogues in shaping scientific creativity. www.jstor.org/stable...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 20/09/2026
Leo Strauss, #BOTD in 1899, was a towering German-American political philosopher and historian renowned for reviving classical political rationalism and championing esoteric reading of texts. 1/3
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 18/09/2026
As traditional mourning rituals faded, we shifted toward a psychologized "new work of grief"—centered on personal stories and continuing bonds. Explore Joseph E. Davis’s take on technology and loss as he discusses the cultural shift that may prime us for AI griefbots. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 17/09/2026
What if the Constitution's truest defenders were also its deepest paradoxes? For #ConstitutionDay, this #TBT looks back at our Fall 1987 Bicentennial issue exploring freedom, civil religion, and the enduring transatlantic dialogue. www.jstor.org/stable...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 16/09/2026
#BOTD in 1939 was South African writer, poet, and anti-apartheid activist Breyten Breytenbach. His works embedded searing political critiques and opposition to the ruling regime, leading to years of solitary confinement and exile. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 15/09/2026
#TodayInHistory: In 1935 Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws that stripped Jews of citizenship and institutionalized antisemitism, taking yet another step toward the “final solution.” 1/2
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Public Seminar @publicseminar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Jeff Dolven explores the history and meaning of that most taken-for-granted of linguistic building blocks, the sentence, and asks if it might not be possible to imagine a new technic for writing. @socres.org publicseminar.org/2026/09/the-...
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The End of the Sentence - Public Seminar
Jeff Dolven explores the function, history, and relative importance of a workhorse of speech: the sentence.
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 13/09/2026
Alain Locke, #BOTD in 1885 in Philadelphia, was a pioneering African American scholar, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, and a prominent philosophy professor who profoundly shaped the Harlem Renaissance. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 11/09/2026
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we reflect on George Kateb’s "A Life of Fear" as we remember all the lives lost. Kateb examines the roots of tragedy and warns against the creeping tyranny of state violence and torture. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 10/09/2026
Celebrating Stephen Jay Gould, #BOTD in 1941 in New York. A paleontologist & evolutionary biologist, Gould coauthored the theory of punctuated equilibrium & popularized science to millions. He was a professor at Harvard University & worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 09/09/2026
Death isn’t the end anymore—at least, not with our technology. In Fall 2026’s “Disrupting Death,” guest editors Joseph E. Davis, William Hasselberger, and Paul Scherz go through how grieftech and emerging tech are rewriting mourning, memory, and the human condition. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 08/09/2026
Is work a divine curse or our highest expression? This #LaborDay, explore our complicated relationship with labor, leisure, and human potential with Alan Ryan’s “Keeping Busy.” muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 06/09/2026
Why do we still cling to the idea that grief is private and meant to be overcome? 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 05/09/2026
It’s a new month. Let’s see what our readers favored in the last month of summer. 1/6
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 03/09/2026
How do philosophy and cognitive science tackle the mysteries of the mind? This #TBT goes back to Spring 1993’s “Mind,” with John R. Searle on consciousness, Hubert L. Dreyfus on intentionality, and more. www.jstor.org/stable...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 01/09/2026
Fall 2026 issue of Social Research—“Disrupting Death,” guest edited by Joseph E. Davis, William Hasselberger, and Paul Scherz—is here! Check out the abstracts on www.socres.org and read the complete issue on Project Muse, muse.jhu.edu/issue/5.... 1/3
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 01/09/2026
#TodayinHistory: 87 years ago, at 5:30 a.m., Hitler’s armies invaded Poland, marking the start of World War II. The invasion followed the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 30/08/2026
Israeli political scientist, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and public intellectual Shlomo Avineri was #BOTD in 1933 in a small town in southwest Poland, which his family left a few months before his 6th birthday and the start of World War II. 1/3
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 28/08/2026
#BOTD in 1897 was American sociologist Louis Wirth, a key figure of the Chicago School, who revolutionized urban sociology by analyzing how city life shapes human behavior, community, and modern identity. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 27/08/2026
Can we untangle the modern state from religion? This week’s #TBT revisits Political Theology, guest-edited by Richard J. Bernstein, featuring deep dives into Carl Schmitt, secularism, human rights, and democracy by Simon Critchley, Seyla Benhabib, and more. muse.jhu.edu/issue/2...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 26/08/2026
On this day in 1920, the 19th Amendment was certified in the United States, securing women's constitutional right to vote after decades of tireless activism. 1/3
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 25/08/2026
We just sent our Fall 2026 issue, titled "Disrupting Death" and guest edited by Joseph E. Davis, William Hasselberger, and Paul Scherz, to the printer and expect it to come out in two weeks. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 23/08/2026
#BOTD in 1924: Nobel laureate Robert M. Solow revolutionized economics by creating the Solow-Swan growth model, proving how capital accumulation and technological progress drive long-term economic expansion. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 23/08/2026
Clifford Geertz, #BOTD 100 years ago, revolutionized anthropology with his shift toward interpretive, "thick" description, profoundly impacting how we understand culture, symbols, and human behavior. 1/3
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 22/08/2026
#TodayinHistory: Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959. Yet this path began with the 1893 coup that overthrew Queen Liliʻuokalani by U.S.-backed sugar planters. Debra Satz explores how such historical private interests & privatization can fuel systemic corruption. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 20/08/2026
Paul Tillich, #BOTD in 1886, was a towering 20th-century Protestant theologian and philosopher renowned for his groundbreaking method of correlation, existential theology, and influential critiques of culture. 1/3
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 18/08/2026
Can AI truly capture human grief? Tahneer Oksman says “not quite” as she unpacks Vauhini Vara’s AI-assisted essay “Ghosts” to show how generative tech reveals the cultural clichés and communal pressures shaping our autobiographical expressions of loss. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 17/08/2026
#TodayinHistory: The Dartmouth workshop, widely recognized as the founding event of AI, was held in August 1956. 70 years later, the technology has permeated every part of life. This #SundayRead looks to Hubert & Stuart Dreyfus as they address human intuition vs. computation. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 14/08/2026
As AI automates thought and challenges traditional truth, student writers face deep epistemic disruption. Otto Kruse introduces "epistemic literacy"—a pedagogical framework to protect independent critical thinking and human intellectual development in the digital age. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 13/08/2026
When virtue meets the paradox of global crisis. #TBT to Spring 1995’s “Rescue: The Paradoxes of Virtue,” featuring perspectives from Monique Mujawamariya, Barbara Harff, Michael Walzer, and more on humanitarian intervention and the ethics of saving others. www.jstor.org/stable...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 11/08/2026
#BOTD: Horace M. Kallen, American philosopher and educator best remembered as the intellectual father of cultural pluralism. 1/3
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 10/08/2026
#TodayinHistory: In 1793 the Louvre formally opened, transforming royal collections into shared heritage. Centuries later, David Freedberg asserts that censorship remains tied to a fear of their vitality, proving that every act of censorship is also an act of iconoclasm. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 09/08/2026
Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, #BOTD in 1896, revolutionized developmental psychology with his groundbreaking theory of cognitive stages, mapping how children construct knowledge through active exploration and adaptation. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 09/08/2026
#TodayinHistory in 1945: “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki, ushering in a new atomic age. This #SundayRead returns us to the question: was this technology the destroyer of worlds or a force for good? 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 06/08/2026
Was post-1989 democratization a clean win or a complicated trade-off? This week’s #TBT weighs in on the "Gains and Losses of the Transition to Democracy." This issue tackled the messy realities, unseen costs, and shifting ideals across Central & Eastern Europe post–Berlin Wall. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 06/08/2026
Happy 110th #BOTD to Pulitzer-winning historian Richard Hofstadter! Renowned for “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” and “The American Political Tradition,” he reshaped how we analyze political extremism, consensus, and anti-intellectualism in US history. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 05/08/2026
Four of the five most read articles in July come from our most recent issue, “Writing in the 21st Century” (and the fifth is from the issue on soccer/football, not surprisingly during the FIFA World Cup): 1/6
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 04/08/2026
From hypertext to video, new tech always redefines media creation. Now AI is entering its "prosumer" era—moving beyond basic prompting toward full system customization. Anderson & Duncan propose a new model for literacy based on active building, transcending consumption. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 03/08/2026
#BOTD: Janet Abu-Lughod (1928–2013), renowned urban sociologist & New School professor of sociology and historical studies. 1/3
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 03/08/2026
Alain Touraine, #BOTD in 1925, was a towering French sociologist who revolutionized how we understand collective action, championing the study of social movements, actor-oriented sociology, and postindustrial society. 1/2
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 02/08/2026
Can we alter our state of consciousness without drugs? Irving Kirsch’s paper on hypnosis suggests yes—it all starts with belief. Discover how the power of suggestion can induce a trance state naturally in this week's #SundayRead. www.jstor.org/stable...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 01/08/2026
#BOTD in 1930: Pierre Bourdieu, one of the key sociologists of the late 20th century, revolutionized the field with his groundbreaking concepts of cultural capital, habitus, and symbolic violence, reshaping how we understand power and social stratification. 1/3
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 31/07/2026
How does your relationship with digital archives and LLMs shape your writing? Join John Cayley in “Writing Implements” as he explores how computation, databases, and large language models redefine writing beyond traditional word processing. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 30/07/2026
This week’s #TBT investigates our “Loyalty.” Marking the New School’s centennial in 2019, past editor Arien Mack & scholars unpack the complex guises of loyalty and betrayal. Is patriotism a virtue? When is dissent a duty? Dive into the political and cultural weight of our allegiances. 1/2
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