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This book investigates the role of sustainability in the everyday lives of ordinary citizens, including issues of economy, social interaction, exploitation of natural resources, and sources of renewable energy.

For decades, international relations conferences have not been global; the reasons for this situation are diagnosed, including domination, disciplinary power, & hegemony at one level, & diversity, cosmopolitanism, & parochialism at another. However, the US international relations community, a scholarly great power, does have a strong cosmopolitan dimension. Six cures for the nonglobal reach of the discipline are discussed: dismantling the academic discipline, a high influx of funding, a systematic program to compare international relations communities, attention to the fuzzy border between international relations theory & civil society's political practice, acknowledging diversity in the discipline as an asset, & reconsidering the US & European international relations traditions. 45 References. M. Pflum

The aim of this article is to argue for a conception of critical social science based on the model of constitutive rules. The author argues that this model is pragmatically superior to those models that employ notions like "illusion" and " ideology," as it does not demand a specification of the "real (but hidden) interests" of social actors.

Exploring nonlinear dynamics with a spreadsheet : a graphical view of chaos for beginners / L. Douglas Kiel and Euel Elliott -- Probing the underlying structure in dynamical systems : an introduction to spectral analysis / Michael McBurnett -- Measuring chaos using the Lyapunov exponent / Thad A. Brown -- The prediction test for nonlinear determinism / Ted Jaditz -- From individuals to groups : the aggregation of votes and chaotic dynamics / Diana Richards -- Nonlinear politics / Thad A. Brown -- The prediction of unpredictability : applications of the new paradigm of chaos in dynamical systems to the old problem of the stability of a system of hostile nations / Alvin M. Saperstein -- Complexity in the evolution of public opinion / Michael McBurnett -- Chaos theory and rationality in economics / J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. -- Long waves 1790-1990 : intermittency, chaos, and control / Brian J.L. Berry and Heja Kim -- Cities as spatial choatic attractors / Dimitrios S. Dendrinos -- Field-theoretic framework for the interpretation of the evolution, instability, structural change, and management of complex systems / Kenyon B. De Greene -- Social science as the study of complex systems / David L. Harvey and Michael Reed

In this introduction to the special issue on Anti-Racism and Intersectionality in Feminist Criminology and Academia, we describe the Virtual Forum of the same name that inspired the special issue. The June 4, 2021 Forum was organized by an ad hoc committee of the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women & Crime's Diversity & Inclusion Committee and featured over 100 presenters. We also outline the contributions to the special issue, which contain concrete recommendations on how to improve our discipline, our research, our mentorship, our departments, and our universities. Finally, we included two beautiful tributes on the legacy of bell hooks, in light of her December 2021 passing. We hope that readers will find the contributions to this special issue informative and beneficial as they work to advance antiracist and intersectional ideas and practices within criminology, feminist criminology and academia.

This Kitabkhana contribution situates Beshara Doumani's Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History within recent trends in the field of legal history. Doumani's hybrid method, which combines quantitative analysis with qualitative case studies, presents a particularly fruitful model for new work in the field.

What are the virtues of institutions we take for granted-universities, the study of the social sciences and humanities, and scholarship on professions such as law? What are the vices of the disciplinary structure of the social sciences, even in the law and society movement and criminology that started as interdisciplinary projects? Research on regulation within an interdisciplinary structure, the Regulatory Institutions Network, is used to illustrate the difficulties of attempts to change direction in the social sciences. The article advocates the creative destruction of disciplinary structures by organizing in tents that study institutionalization (rather than buildings that study categories of institutions). To keep pace with social change, pulling tents down and endlessly pegging out new ones is a path forward. A politics of defending universities and opposing the disciplines that have captured them does not mean advocacy of restructuring. If more interesting work issues from poorly funded tents than from disciplinary edifices, reformers can advance creative destruction.

What are the virtues of institutions we take for granted-universities, the study of the social sciences and humanities, and scholarship on professions such as law? What are the vices of the disciplinary structure of the social sciences, even in the law and society movement and criminology that started as interdisciplinary projects? Research on regulation within an interdisciplinary structure, the Regulatory Institutions Network, is used to illustrate the difficulties of attempts to change direction in the social sciences. The article advocates the creative destruction of disciplinary structures by organizing in tents that study institutionalization (rather than buildings that study categories of institutions). To keep pace with social change, pulling tents down and endlessly pegging out new ones is a path forward. A politics of defending universities and opposing the disciplines that have captured them does not mean advocacy of restructuring. If more interesting work issues from poorly funded tents than from disciplinary edifices, reformers can advance creative destruction.

Has there been meaningful movement toward open sci-ence practices within the social sciences in recent years? Discussions about changes in practices such as posting data and pre-registering analyses have been marked by controversy—including controversy over the extent to which change has taken place. This study, based on the State of Social Science (3S) Survey, provides the first com-prehensive assessment of awareness of, attitudes towards, perceived norms regarding, and adoption of open science practices within a broadly representative sample of scholars from four major social science disciplines: economics, political science, psychology, and so-ciology. We observe a steep increase in adoption: as of 2017, over 80% of scholars had used at least one such practice, rising from one quarter a decade earlier. Attitudes toward research transpar-ency are on average similar between older and younger scholars, but the pace of change di˙ers by field and methodology. According with theories of normal science and scientific change, the timing of increases in adoption coincides with technological innovations and institutional policies. Patterns are consistent with most scholars underestimating the trend toward open science in their discipline.