last updated: March 2025

The CSO is happy to start sharing a selection of academic articles written by CSO members, either individually or collectively, that relates to the research works we are accomplishing at the CSO.

2025

Galazka, A. M., & Al-Amoudi, I. (2025). Managing stigma together: Relationality in the wound clinic. Organization, 32(5), 672–694.

2024

Al‐Amoudi, I. (2024). Ontological unpredictability: What can realists say about unpredictability, contingency and catastrophe?. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 54(3), 290–300.

Araz, B., & Morgan, J. (2024). Ontology, complex adaptive systems and economics. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 44(4), 953–977.

Donati, P. (2024). Margaret Archer’s theory of the human person: An assessment. International Review of Sociology, 34(1), 52–74.

Donati, P. (2024). The prediction of social catastrophes: Between necessity and contingency. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 54(3), 269–289.

Lazega, E. (2024). Borderline institution. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 54(3), 336–353.

Maccarini, A. M. (2024). Imagine, predict or perform? Reclaiming the future in sociology beyond scientism and catastrophism. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 54(3), 319–335.

Maccarini, A. M. (2024). Barbarism and modernity in S. N. Eisenstadt’s theory: Towards a cultural sociology of radicalism. International Sociology. 39(6), 631–649.

Morgan, J. (2024). Everything, everywhere, but not all at once? Time, contingency and the open future. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 54(3), 301–318.

Porpora, D. V. (2024). Do realists predict?. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 54(3), 255–268.

Porpora, D. V. (2024). Realism and complexity. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 54(1), 121–133.

2023

Al-Amoudi, I. (2023). The politics of post-human technologies: Human enhancements, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. Organization, 30(6), 1238–1245.

Morgan, J. (2023). The economics of tax behavior: The absence of a reflexive ethical-economic agent. Journal of Economic Issues, 57(4), 1103–1118.

Ritz, B. (2023). Social mechanisms: Bridging critical realist and pragmatist approaches. Journal of Critical Realism, 22(3), 404–410.

Ritz, B. (2023). Continuities between Peircean realism and critical realism: On causation, ontology, and truth. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 53(4), 434–453.

2022

Al-Amoudi, I. (2022). Are post-human technologies dehumanising?. Human enhancements and artificial intelligence in contemporary societies. Journal of Critical Realism, 21(5), 516–538.

Donati, P. (2022). Between the human and the social: The Third. Mauss international, 2(1), 282–304.

Donati, P. (2022). A methodological framework for relational research in sociology and social work. Relational Social Work, 6(2), 3–35.

Donati, P. (2022). A critical realist view of gesture. International Review of Sociology, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2022.2045140.

Donati, P. (2022). The pandemic: An epiphany of relations and opportunities for transcendence. Church, Communication and Culture, 7(1), 23–57.

[In Italian] Maccarini, A. M. (2022). L’aggressione e l’incontro: Risonanza e critica della modernità in Hartmut Rosa. Società Mutamento Politica, 13(26), 31–41.

Porpora, D. V. (2022). The metaphysical issues in the social sciences and how social scientists debate them. Synthese, 200, 501.

Vandenberghe, F. (2022). Critical realist hermeneutics. Journal of Critical Realism, 21(5), 552–570.

2021

Gills, B., & Morgan, J. (2021). Economics and climate emergency. Globalizations, 18(7), 1071–1086.

Vandenberghe, F. (2021). What’s good about the good life? Action theory, virtue ethics and modern morality. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 47(7), 814–830.

2020

Donati, P. (2020). Fluxes and structures: Which relational gaze?. Polish Sociological Review, 210(2), 179–198.

Lazega, E. (2020). Embarked on social processes (the rivers) in dynamic and multilevel networks (the boats). Connections, 40(1), 60–76 [From the Simmel Award Keynote, 2018 Sunbelt conference, INSNA, Utrecht, Netherlands].

Ritz, B. (2020). Comparing abduction and retroduction in Peircean pragmatism and critical realism. Journal of Critical Realism, 19(5), 456–465.

2019

Donati, P. (2019). Discovering the relational goods: Their nature, genesis and effects. International Review of Sociology, 29(2), 238–259.

Gills, B., & Morgan, J. (2019). Global Climate Emergency: after COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity. Globalizations, 17(6), 885–902.

Morgan, J. (2019). Will we work in twenty-first century capitalism?: A critique of the fourth industrial revolution literature. Economy and Society, 48(3), 371–398.

Morgan, J. (2019). A Realist alternative to randomised control trials: A bridge not a barrier?. The European Journal of Development Research, 31(2), 180–188.

2018

Brailly, J., Comet, C., Delarre, S., Eloire, F., Favre, G., Lazega, E., … & Pina-Stranger, A. (2018). Neo-structural economic sociology beyond embeddedness: Relational infrastructures and social processes in markets and market institutions. Economic Sociology, 19(3), 36–49.

Morgan, J. (2018). Species being in the twenty-first century. Review of Political Economy, 30(3), 377–395.

2017

Al-Amoudi, I., & Latsis, J. (2017). The limits of ontological critique: From judgmental rationality to justification. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 41(5), 1303–1321.

Al-Amoudi, I., Edwards, T., O’Mahoney, H., & O’Mahoney, J. (2017). De/humanisation and critical realism. Journal of Critical Realism, 16(4), 349–352.

Lazega, E. (2017). Networks and institutionalization: A neo-structural approach. Connections, 37 (1-2), 7–22.

Maccarini, A. M. (2017). Reflexivity, socialization, and relations to the world: Theoretical and practical challenges. Stan Rzeczy, 12, 141–175.

Morgan, J. (2017). Piketty and the growth dilemma revisited in the context of ecological economics. Ecological Economics, 136, 169–177.

Porpora, D. V. (2017). Dehumanization in theory: Anti-humanism, non-humanism, post-humanism, and trans-humanism. Journal of Critical Realism, 16(4), 353–367.

Porpora, D. V. (2017). Tony Lawson from a sociological point of view. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 41(5), 1525–1537.

2016

Donati, P. (2016). On the social morphogenesis of citizenship: A relational approach. SocietàMutamentoPolitica, 7(13), 41–66.

Morgan, J. (2016). The contemporary relevance of a Cambridge tradition: Economics as political economy, political economy as social theory and ethical theory. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 40(2), 663–700.

Porpora, D. V. (2016). Response to Tony Lawson: Sociology versus Economics and Philosophy. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 46(4), 420–425

Porpora, D. V. (2016). The recent methods debate in American Sociology and how Critical Realism fits into it. Journal of Critical Realism, 15(4), 342–351.

Porpora, D. V. (2016). The meaning of culture and the culture of empiricism in American Sociology. The American Sociologist, 47, 430–441.

2015

Donati, P. (2015). Manifesto for a critical realist relational sociology. International Review of Sociology, 25(1), 86–109.

Morgan, J. (2015). Seeing the potential of realism in economics. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 45(2), 176–201.

Morgan, J. A., & Olsen, W. (2015). The absence of decent work: The continued development of forced and unfree labour in India. Global Labour Journal, 6(2), 173–188.

Olsen, W., & Morgan, J. (2015). The entrapment of unfree labor: Theory and examples from India. Journal of Developing Societies, 31(2), 184–203.

2014

Colledge, B., Morgan, J., & Tench, R. (2014). The concept(s) of trust in late modernity, the relevance of realist social theory. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 44(4), 481–503.

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