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Weekly Overview of Social Science News

By Lorna McConville | Published: April 8, 2013

Is “social science” an oxymoron? Will that ever change? Scientific American (blog) More widows than widowers: study Sun.Star I’m a scientist. A social scientist. Please opine on the validity of my discipline Southern Fried Science ‘Organisations need to do more in social development’ Pak Values are at the heart of social science: John Brewer | [...]

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Weekly Overview of Social Science News

By Lorna McConville | Published: March 28, 2013

Social Science in the National interest, U.S. Congress cuts Social Science out of NSF Funding, and more in this Weekly Overview of Social Science News

Open Access and the Privatisation of Knowledge

By Martin Eve | Published: March 25, 2013

Is OA the flip side to privatisation of Higher Education? Is there a way in which OA is a means of justifying the economic inaccessibility of HE by providing a public good?

Risk Management Approach Could Motivate Climate Change Action

By ssseditor | Published: March 19, 2013

Is it possible that modern society’s bitter political divisions over belief in anthropogenic climate change is distracting decision-makers from the far more practical matter of confronting the risk that it presents, directly or indirectly, to businesses and the economy?

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Weekly Overview of Social Science News

By Lorna McConville | Published: March 4, 2013

The Republican war on Social Science, Natural Science and Social Science combine, and more on your weekly overview of Social Science News.

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Sarah Franklin on the Sociology of Reproductive Technology

By Social Science Bites | Published: March 1, 2013

New technologies have dramatically changed choices around reproduction. Sarah Franklin, Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University, discusses her research

Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)

By Lorna McConville | Published: February 16, 2013

Romantic jealousy and relationship closeness From SAGE Open If Romeo and Juliet had mobile phones From Mobile Media & Communication Is ‘gene talk’ used to shift responsibility for ‘fat’ problems? From The Public Understanding of Science

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Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)

By Lorna McConville | Published: February 8, 2013

The failures of governance that have led to the “Great Recession” and the end of public trust From Administration & Society Safe sex practices among African American women From Health Education and Behavior Compensation negotiation among women in the workplace From Psychology of Women Quarterly On/off relationships and ‘sex with an ex’ among teenagers and young adults From Journal [...]

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Podcast: Doreen Massey on Space

By Social Science Bites | Published: February 1, 2013

Geographer Doreen Massey wants us to rethink our assumptions about space. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast she explains why.

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