Social Science Space

Social science’s raise in the White House’s proposed National Science Foundation budget raises some Republican eyebrows.

The German sociologist and public intellectual who posited that manufactured risk was a primary product of modernity died on New Year’s Day at age 70

Despite its obsession with the concept of equal opportunity, the United States hasn’t actively monitored its residents’ social mobility for more than four decades. Now a group of social scientists have proposed an efficient way using existing tools to chart mobility.

Game theory neatly — and sadly — predicted the futility of using torture to extract meaning information from terror suspects, neatly predicting the results of the recent U.S. Senate report years before its release.

A transdisciplinary investigation into ‘The City’ sponsored offered hard truths and rays of hope for the urban future most of us will face.