Social Research: An International Quarterly

22/11/2025

Sociologist Dennis H. Wrong was in 1923 in Toronto, Canada. His research dug into social class divisions, challenged the notion that people are completely molded by society, and investigated the point where conformity stops.

He taught at the New School for Social Research between 1961 and 1963 and chaired the editorial board of “Social Research” in 1963–1964.

Wrong's 1963 article "Human Nature and the Perspective of Sociology" urged theory to examine human nature's role, questioning if the dominant structural-functional view fosters a dangerously selective and one-sided idea of the individual.

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20/11/2025

What made 20th-century science so revolutionary?

For this , we revisit our Fall 1984 issue, "Modern Masters of Science." It details the pivotal work of scholars and theorists like Bohr, Pauling, Szilard, Wegener, and Schrödinger in physics, molecular biology, genetics, and earth science.

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19/11/2025

The late sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman was in 1925 in Poznań, Poland. His work explored liquid modernity, consumerism, and the Holocaust. Bauman's analysis of contemporary life is a testament to endurance.

Contributing to the journal in Fall 1967 with "Modern Times, Modern Marxism," Bauman stressed that a true Marxist approach rejects separating method from Weltanschauung (worldview), striving instead for a unified, holistic image of humanity that resists academic partitioning.

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17/11/2025

Our long-awaited Fall 2025 issue, "Football Politics," is finally out! And just in time for the final round of the qualifying matches for .

⚽ ⚽ It is available to read at 🔗 https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55920?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

16/11/2025

What did the fall of the Iron Curtain mean for social thought & politics? How did nations like Poland & Hungary navigate their transition from state socialism? For this , we explore the tumultuous shift of East Europe from communism to democracy.

Contributors like György Bence on social theory and Mira Marody on Polish politics offer critical insights from the moment of transition.

🔗 https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40043651

15/11/2025

Nov. 15, 1969: Around 2 million people marched down to Washington, DC, for the Vietnam War Moratorium, the largest antiwar protest in US history at its time.

Read the Spring 1975 “Is Peace Possible?” issue, with articles like “Lost Illusions: The End of the Postwar World?” and “The Chances for Peace,” which reflect on the enduring struggle for peace as the war in Vietnam was ending.

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13/11/2025

Are we the citizens we ought to be?

For this week’s read, dive into The Meaning of Citizenship from our 1974 issue. Scholars like Michael Walzer, Robert Nisbet, and Raymond Aron debate civic virtue, multinational identity, and the state's role.

🔗 https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40043617

11/11/2025

On , we honor all who served. Thank you, veterans, for your courage, dedication, and sacrifice.

Read Michael Walzer's "The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success)." He interrgates the theory's application in US conflicts like Vietnam and the 1991 Iraq bombing, examining if moral limits or civilian protection were upheld.

🔗 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/558540/

11/11/2025

German-Jewish political scientist & jurist Otto Kirchheimer was in 1905 in Heilbronn, Germany. Kirchheimer was a leading figure of the Frankfurt School, analyzing the decline of the rule of law and the rise of the "catch-all party" in modern democracy.

One of his notable contributions to Social Research is his article on politics and justice from our Winter 1955 issue.

🔗 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40982438

10/11/2025

As global leaders gather for the UN Climate Change Conference, be sure to revisit our Fall 2015 issue that begs the question: Climate Change Demands We Change. Why Aren't We?

This timely issue explores the barriers to effective action on climate change, going beyond the science to focus on human and systemic obstacles.

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09/11/2025

, November 9 is a doubly historic day for Germany: It marks not only the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 but also the proclamation of the Weimar Republic in 1918. For this , we look back at the Weimar Culture (1919–1932), our 1972 issue. Essays explore the polarized intelligentsia, modernist culture, utopia & apocalypse in literature, and parallels to US history.

🔗 https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40043607

08/11/2025

Economist and politician Frieda Wunderlich was on November 8, 1884. A pioneer in labor economics and social policy, she was a member of the city council of Berlin, her hometown, and the Prussian state parliament.

Forced to flee N**i Germany, she was the only woman faculty member of the University in Exile at the New School and of the founding editorial board of our journal. Wunderlich was also the first woman to serve as dean of a US graduate university, when in 1939 she was appointed to lead the University in Exile. Her analysis of the reversal of women's rights under the N**i regime, like her 1935 article "Women's Work in Germany," meticulously details the economic and political forces challenging female employment and equality.