This issue is organized around the theme of Big Data as our new social world, one that has been taking shape thanks to three important recent advances in information technology, all accelerated in the last few years.

In recent years, fiscal sociology has grown to become one of the most vibrant subfields in economic sociology. For a long time, its core topic - public finance - was considered to lie beyond the discipline of sociology, despite the contributions of Rudolph Goldscheid, Fritz Karl Mann, and Joseph...

This issue centers on the encounter between the economy and the human body. Economics, like other social sciences, treats people mostly as disembodied actors who never catch viruses or suffer from back pain or creeping dementia. These abstract actors are all too often assumed also to be...