Book Review: Towards a Sociology of Science

Book Review The Economic Sociology of Capitalism

Comparative economists have gradually concluded that success or failure in transition to democratic capitalism is a matter of institutions, not geography or leadership or outside assistance. However, why do some countries exhibit pro-growth institutions, with little corruption or rent seeking? And how can we explain the relative successes of very different forms of capitalism, such as the USA, ...

Risk Socity: Towards a New Modernity (Book Review)

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Book Review: A New Kind of Science

“Somebody says, ‘You know, you people always say that space is continuous. How do you know when you get to a small enough dimension that there really are enough points in between, that it isn’t just a lot of dots separated by little distances?’ Or they say, ‘You know those quantum mechanical amplitudes you told me about, they’re so complicated and absurd, what makes you think those are right? M...

Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology