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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · Jun 3

Our Summer 2025 issue “The Embattled University” is out, a little bit ahead of schedule! 🎉🎉 It is available to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social
🔗 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54948

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 3h

Before winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, Orhan Pamuk, best-selling Turkish novelist and screenwriter, published “A Private Reading of André Gide’s Public Journal” in our Fall 2003 issue on “Islam: The Public and Private Spheres.”
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 3h

In 1937 Thomas Mann (the 1929 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature) spoke about the New School as the embodiment of “The Living Spirit” of intellectual freedom to pursue knowledge and truth, which, at that time, was being suppressed in Europe.
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 1d

To mark this week’s announcement of new Nobel Prize winners, we’ll share work of some past laureates who published with us.

Baruch Blumberg (1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine) wrote “Hepatitis B Virus and the Carrier Problem” for our 1988 issue “In Time of Plague” www.jstor.org/stable...
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Hepatitis B Virus and the Carrier Problem on JSTOR

BARUCH S. BLUMBERG, Hepatitis B Virus and the Carrier Problem, Social Research, Vol. 55, No. 3, In Time of Plague (AUTUMN 1988), pp. 401-412

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 1d

“The Potency of Art” by Paul Chan (from our Spring 2016 issue) is in open access thru Oct. 31!
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Among the myriad ways art matters, writes Paul Chan, "the experience of art saves us from being conned"

Read Chan's The Potency of Art, from the Spring 2016 issue of @socres.org— free on @projectmuse.bsky.social thru 31 October

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There are many arguments today about why art matters: it is a form that authenticates what is most human about humanity; it celebrates and affirms the diversity of cultures and identities; it upholds values of individual freedoms; it is a good pedagogical tool for teaching social and political ideas; it is a sound economic investment; it gives pleasure. Among these competing claims, I want simply to add one more, and a fairly prosaic one at that: that the experience of art saves us from being conned.
The Potency of Art
Paul Chan
Social Research: An International Quarterly
Volume 83, Number 1, Spring 2016
Read Free thru 31 October
Illustrated with the Spring 2016 cover of Social Research

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 3d

5/ Lawrence D. Bobo and Victor Thompson, “Unfair by Design: The War on Drugs, Race, and the Legitimacy of the Criminal Justice System” (Summer 2006, reprinted Spring 2024)
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 3d

4/ Albena Azmanova, “Free Speech or Safe Speech: The Neoliberal University's False Dilemma” (Summer 2025)
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 3d

3/ Judith Butler, “Academic Freedom in a Time of Destruction: Reconsidering Extramural Speech” (Summer 2025)
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 3d

2/ Lisa Anderson, “From Pursuing Truth to Managing Stress: The Costs and Consequences of the Therapeutic Turn in American Universities” (Summer 2025)
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 3d

1/ Nick Haslam and Melanie J. McGrath, “The Creeping Concept of Trauma” (Fall 2020, reprinted Spring 2024)
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 3d

September is over, and we know what were the 5 most read articles in Social Research last month:

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 4d

In 1988, a year before the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the fall of the Berlin Wall, he participated in a roundtable “Parallel Polis, or An Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe,” published in Social Research.

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Parallel Polis, or An Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe: An Inquiry on JSTOR

VÁCLAV BENDA, MILAN ŠIMEČKA, IVAN M. JIROUS, JIŘÍ DIENSTBIER, VÁCLAV HAVEL, LADISLAV HEJDÁNEK, JAN ŠIMSA, Paul Wilson, Parallel Polis, or An Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe: An Inquiry, Social Research, Vol. 55, No. 1/2, Central and East European Social Research—Part 2 (SPRING/SUMMER 1988), pp. 211-246

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 4d

Writer, poet, playwright Václav Havel was #BOTD in 1936 in Prague.

One of the most important political dissidents of the 20th century, Havel later served as the first president of the democratic Czech Republic (1993–2003).
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 5d

To mark #WorldAnimalDay today, be sure to read Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka’s thought-provoking 2023 article “Doing Politics with Animals.”
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#animalrights #loveanimals 🦑 🦈 🦗 🦩 🐘

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 5d

Coincidentally, in the fall of 1990 Social Research published an essay by Jeffrey Goldfarb “Post-Totalitarian Politics: Ideology Ends Again” examining political and ideological realignments happening at that time and their implications for democracy across the world. www.jstor.org/stable...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 5d

Today is Unity Day in Germany. In 1990, following the fall of the Berlin Wall the year before, two parts of the country divided by the Cold War reunified. Die Wende, as it’s called in German, signified a turn away from totalitarianism and ideological division of Europe.
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 7d

What is an apology? What is it good for? Who should apologize? And also, when and how?
Find some answers here, in our Winter 2020 issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/4...

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 8d

Here are the topics we have in our pipeline through 2026.

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 8d

Nisbet’s scholarship explored issues of progress, conflict, anarchy, community, individualism, and freedom.

Among his several contributions to Social Research was the article “Citizenship: Two Traditions” (part of our 1974 issue “The Meaning of Citizenship”) 🔗 www.jstor.org/stable...
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Citizenship: Two Traditions on JSTOR

ROBERT NISBET, Citizenship: Two Traditions, Social Research, Vol. 41, No. 4 (WINTER 1974), pp. 612-637

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 8d

American sociologist and social theorist Robert Nisbet was #BOTD in 1913 in Los Angeles.

Known as a major architect of postwar conservative thought, he was also among the founders and the first chair of the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley.

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 10d

He wrote several seminal books which have served as the cornerstone of contemporary sociology.

Wallerstein wrote for Social Research three times. His first essay, published in 1986, was titled “Dilemmas of Antisystemic Movements.”

Read it here: www.jstor.org/stable...
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Dilemmas of Antisystemic Movements on JSTOR

GIOVANNI ARRIGHI, TERENCE K. HOPKINS, IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN, Dilemmas of Antisystemic Movements, Social Research, Vol. 53, No. 1 (SPRING 1986), pp. 185-206

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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 10d

Wallerstein’s world-systems theory is perhaps his most influential contribution to sociological discourse, which posits that the perpetuation of global capitalism requires “core” countries exerting an extractive dominance over more “peripheral” countries.
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 10d

Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein was born on this day in New York City in 1930. #botd
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 14d

What can we learn from “The Religious Secular Divide: The US Case,” which we published over a decade ago, in Winter 2009?

Contributors included Richard J. Bernstein, José Casanova, Ann Pellegrin, and Charles Taylor: muse.jhu.edu/issue/2...
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 14d

How does organized religion affect governance, both in a macro way—like on social norms—and in a micro way—like how a politician or legislator organizes their values and beliefs? How does the US government navigate the “separation of church and state,” if at all?
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Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org · 15d

Read one of her two contributions to Social Research, “Rethinking the Past,” published in “Hannah Arendt” (Spring 1977): www.jstor.org/stable...
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Rethinking the Past on JSTOR

JUDITH N. SHKLAR, Rethinking the Past, Social Research, Vol. 44, No. 1, Hannah Arendt (SPRING 1977), pp. 80-90