David Canter reviews the evidence amassing to show the depredations of economic inequality.

In his 2017 SAGE-CASBS Award lecture, noted social scientist William Julius Wilson offer his “Reflections on American Race Relations in the Age of Donald Trump,”

Is the problem with fake news that individual stories confuse people? Or could it be, argues a new paper, that fake news sets the agenda that other and more legitimate media then follow?

Fire safety is not just an issue for engineers. People build buildings, people live in buildings, and people use (and abuse) buildings. That creates a need for social and behavioral work to accompany every nail driven.

Academics in the United Kingdom and in Australia interviewed about the impact agenda show fears that the balance between applied and basic knowledge may be tilting too far in one way.

In academic institutions that value hierarchies and compliance and seek to understand scholarship in terms of its economic value, argues our Daniel Nehring, there is little space for a discipline that aims to critically interrogate the intersections of structure and agency and the social production of inequalities.

Crystal clear graphs, slides, and reports are valuable – they save an audience’s mental energies, keep a reader engaged, and make you look smart. This webinar covers the science behind presenting data effectively and will leave viewers with direct, pointed changes that can be immediately administered to significan

The Social Security Administration has shown its ability to cut monthly checks for elderly, survivors and disabled. So why not for kids via their parents?

The National Science Foundation can do a lot more to articulate the transcendent value of the social, behavioral and economic sciences in both its portfolio and its outputs, says a new report from the National Academies.

Social Science Bites, a series of interviews with leading social scientists, reached a milestone with its 50th podcast -- Gary King on Big Data Analysis -- in March 2017. This Storify of tweets presents a memorable quote from each of those first 50 interviews.

On May 5, Congress finally cleared the fiscal year 2017 spending bill package, which included increases for the National Institutes of Health and flat funding for the National Science Foundation. Weeks later, President Trump unveiled his fiscal year 2018 budget, which includes sweeping cuts to NIH, NSF and federally-f

For social scientists, there must be a concern that a generation’s worth of accumulated empirical evidence on effective leadership has made so little impact on the candidates in the upcoming General Election in the United Kingdom.