Social Theory

Latest research

1. Kneading Margarine: Social Comparison and Feminist Testimony

   • Frances Maughan-Brown
   • Lily Jaramillo

   in Philosophia

   Article Open access 11 August 2026

2. Perspectives of Sociological Systems Theory

   • Saburo Akahori

   in Translational Systems Sciences

   Book 2026

   

3. Stigma and Economic Theory

   • Diego Lanzi

   in Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy

   Article 07 August 2026

   

4. The “Game” for Power

   • Francesco dell’Isola

   Book 2026

   

5. Leveraging sociological systems theory: integrating transformational leadership and social capital to enhance quality of care – an exploratory longitudinal study of German hospitals

   • Arno Stöcker
   • Jeffrey Braithwaite
   • Holger Pfaff

   in BMC Health Services Research

   Article Open access 06 August 2026

   

6. We Still Read Parsons Today

   • Pedro Martín Giordano

   in The American Sociologist

   Article 06 August 2026

7. Sociological rational choice theory: retrospect and prospect

   • Edgar Kiser
   • Steven Pfaff
   • Blaine Robbins

   in Public Choice

   Article 03 August 2026

8. The fidelity of large language models in social science: a human-ai parallel experimental test of middle-range theory

   • Pu Yan
   • Hengyi Li
   • Pince Chen

   in Theory and Society

   Article 31 July 2026

   

9. Pre-capitalist Remnants and Post-capitalist Buds? A North-South Comparative Study of the Social and Solidarity Economy Based on the Theory of Modes of Production

   • Zisi Yang
   • Ying Yang

   in Society

   Article 30 July 2026

10. Theorizing the Adjudication of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Legal Process Perspective on Jurisprudence from the Global South

    • Shuyuan Zhang
    • Gustavo Arosemena

    in Netherlands International Law Review

    Article Open access 29 July 2026

11. Social identification and equilibrium law enforcement

    • Claude Fluet
    • Tim Friehe

    in Public Choice

    Article Open access 29 July 2026

12. What Has Become of Verstehen in Sociology? A Comparison of Developments in Qualitative-Interpretive and Quantitative-Analytical Research

    • Gunnar Otte
    • Patrick Sachweh

    in KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

    Article Open access 28 July 2026

13. What kind of field is computational social science? Fragmentation, pluralism, and unification

    • Josef Ginnerskov

    in Theory and Society

    Article Open access 27 July 2026

    

14. Rails, not wallets: a compression–velocity–legibility theory (CVLT) of welfare generation through public instant payment infrastructure

    • Elamurugan Balasundaram

    in Digital Finance

    Article 27 July 2026

    

15. Hereditarianism: a century of the science of inequality

    • Gökhan Akbay

    in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

    Article 22 July 2026

16. Voting for centrality

    • Christian Laußmann
    • Katharina Volz
    • Jörg Rothe

    in Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

    Article Open access 22 July 2026

    

17. The Matthew effect: its definition, measurement, and explanation

    • Mikael Bask

    in Scientometrics

    Article Open access 21 July 2026

18. Transfer ist keine Einbahnstraße

    • Gunther Graßhoff

    in Sozial Extra

    Article Open access 20 July 2026

19. Dyadic and social Wes: comments on Dan Zahavi’s Being We

    • Bernard Yack

    in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

    Article 20 July 2026

20. LLM-enhanced computational grounded theory and the triadic dynamics of human-AI-society interaction

    • Kun He
    • Qianru Meng
    • Malvina Nissim

    in Theory and Society

    Article Open access 20 July 2026

    

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