National Hispanic Heritage Month, which the United States observes between September 15 and October 15, was created by a 1988 […]

There is no blueprint for the liberation of learning in your subject discipline. Instead, deconstructing the content and approaches that have been used over the generations is a deeply personal – and at the same time, collective process.  

Generational thinking is a big idea that’s been horribly corrupted and devalued by endless myths and stereotypes.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has begun the search for a new executive director for the National […]

Within Communist academia, scholarship is managed top-down to a significant degree, for the benefit of part, state and society, and independent research operates in the nooks and crannies that remain. In this institutional environment, independent public speech carries a considerable risk, as does, to an extent, independent thought.

The phrase “Never Forget” is often associated with the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. But what does this phrase mean for U.S. students who are too young to remember? What are they being asked to never forget?

In the two decades since 9/11, social and behavioral science responded with a wealth of research on the motivations — and the aftermaths — of the terrorist attacks. The collection of free-to-read articles drawn from journals produced by SAGE Publishing (the parent of Social Science Space) during those intervening decades demonstrates the breadth of that research and the various ways that these acts of violence still resonate in lives and in scholarship around the globe.

Studies of medicine in China must not neglect Chinese medicine, writes medical sociologist Robert Dingwall..

In this Social Science Bites podcast, Molefi Kete Asante offers an insiders view of the growth of the Afrocentric paradigm, from the founding of the Journal of Black Studies a half century ago to the debates over critical race theory today.

What are the three biggest challenges Australia faces in the next five to ten years? What role will the social sciences play in resolving these challenges? The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia asked these questions in a discussion paper earlier this year. The backdrop to this review is cuts to social science disciplines around the country, with teaching taking priority over research.

While writing is certainly a critical communication skill, universities need to start learning how to thoughtfully integrate all available skills.

The COVID pandemic has affected teaching in India as it has everywhere. Applying a sociological lens to the Indian experience of teaching sociology itself is instructive.