Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
September 15, 2021
A Look at the Terminology Behind Hispanic Heritage Month
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September 14, 2021
Decolonizing Your Subject Discipline: Where to Begin
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Surely We Can Get Past This Toxic Boomer v. Millennial Mythologizing
Generational thinking is a big idea that’s been horribly corrupted and devalued by endless myths and stereotypes.
DBASSE Director to Retire, Sparking Hunt for Replacement
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has begun the search for a new executive director for the National Research Council’s […]
Some Thoughts on Academic Internationalization in China
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.
How Do America’s Teachers Teach 9/11 and its Aftermath?
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?
Social and Behavioral Science Responds to 9/11: Some Readings
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.
Traditional Chinese Medicine and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Studies of medicine in China must not neglect Chinese medicine, writes medical sociologist Robert Dingwall..
Molefi Kete Asante on Afrocentrism
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.
With COVID and Climate Change Showing Social Science’s Value, Why Cut it Now?
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.
