Selections from the Web:
Adam Tooze: The Sociologist Who Could Save Us From Coronavirus
Blair McClendon: A Gathering of Wolves
Christopher Clark: Libya’s Storms of History
Héctor Tobar: East of the Eastside
Irina Dumitrescu: How to Read Aloud
Maya Lau: Police PR Comes Under Scrutiny for Inaccurate Reporting, Pro-Cop Bias
Paul Taylor: Ofqual and the Algorithm
Susan Orlean: The Rabbit Outbreak
Tom Stevenson: The US Had Other Ideas
From the Archives:
Kim Phillips-Fein: Lotteryville, USA (1995)
Books and Journal Articles:
Journal Articles and Chapters:
Abeba Birhane: “Algorithmic Colonization of Africa,” SCRIPTed, (2020)
Andreas Pickel: “Rethinking Systems Theory,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, (2007)
Robert K. Merton: “The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy,” The Antioch Review, (1948)
Robert K. Merton: “The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action,” American Sociological Review, (1936)
Steven Yearley: “Computer Models and the Public’s Understanding of Science,” Social Studies of Science, (1999)