Director of the Centre for Social Ontology, Professor Ismael Al-Amoudi, recently appeared on Xerfi Canal to discuss the ethical challenges presented by artificial intelligence. The video can be viewed here (in French):
Category Archives: Videocasts
The Role of Reflexivity in Sociological Explanation
Doug Porpora on how he came to critical realism
An interesting video interview produced by the Critical Realism Network:
The Sociology of Human Trafficking
Our director Margaret Archer and advisory board members Douglas Porpora and Pierpaolo Donati discussed human trafficking at this event organised by the EndSlavery campaign and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences:
‘We believe’ – but who are ‘we’? The Relational Subject versus the Plural Subject
Tony Lawson on mathematical modelling
This talk by CSO International Advisory Board member Tony Lawson was given as part of a seminar entitled ‘Confronting mathematical modelling in economics’, which took place on 26th March 2014. This seminar was part of the Bloomsbury Confrontations seminar series organised by Better Economics UCLU:
Culture and Socialization in Late Modernity
In this talk at the Universidad de Navarra in Spain, Margaret Archer critiques the prevailing understanding of socialisation within the social sciences and an alternative account of culture and socialisation in late modernity.
