Matt Bruenig raises some issues about poverty that I think are worth discussing. He compares two popular theories of poverty: individual and structural. Contrasting the two, Matt writes: The ...

To understand some of the puzzling trends in recent American literature, it helps to have a basic knowledge of the so-called “post-structuralist” theory that took hold in U.S. English departments in ...

John B. Cullen, Kenneth S. Anderson and Douglas D. Baker The major objective of this study was to determine if Blau's (1970) theory of structural differentiation better captures differences in scale ...

[This is the first of a two-part article that examines both structural and processural paradigms of social theory. This argues that the structural-based theories cannot do what they claim to do; in ...