The American Educational Research Association, the nation’s largest professional organization devoted to the scientific study of education, has named three […]

Citizen social science calls on experts and the public to re-evaluate their roles in addressing social problems. Erinma Ochu, a social neuroscientist, elucidates the opportunities on offer when experts let the public in on the business of addressing these pervasive challenges. Real learning comes in the social life of the method – in the practice of listening, trying and often failing to collaborate – trying again and getting into the rhythm of the issue, together.

[Editor’s Note: This piece was originally posted on SAGE’s blog SAGE Connection and is re-posted here with the kind permission […]

The author of the paradigm-changing “On The Take” had a zest for life that epitomized the “sociological imagination,” reports his long-time friend and colleague Rich Applebaum.

[Editor’s Note: This piece was originally posted on the Family Firm Institute’s blog “The Practitioner” and is re-posted here with […]

Two pieces of upcoming legislation, the Frontiers in Research, Science, and Technology bill and American COMPETES, could include some unwelcome news for social and behavioral science if certain key legislators get their way.

Where should we draw the line between normal data gathering about university students–with the intent of helping them, of course–and outright intrusiveness?

As life expectancy increases, so does the number of dementia cases. Some of us have had a loved one who […]

As it is released in North America, a book on the impact of social science in Britain suggests guidance for raising the disciplines’ profiles in the U.S. and beyond.

Corporations are encouraged more and more to consider social responsibilities when producing their merchandise. But do the virtues advertised by […]

From Martin Luther King to black political participation to race relations to teaching African American students, here are some academic papers from the ‘Journal of Black Studies’ that provide a scholarly snapshot of different aspects of black history and current issues in black studies.

Dr. John Yinger looked at Cleveland housing market at the turn of the millennium to see if neighborhood ethnicity impacts […]