Author: Social Science Bites

Welcome to the blog for the Social Science Bites podcast: a series of interviews with leading social scientists. Each episode explores an aspect of our social world. You can access all audio and the transcripts from each interview here. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @socialscibites.

Robin Dunbar on Dunbar Numbers
Social Science Bites
November 4, 2013

Robin Dunbar on Dunbar Numbers

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Tour of Award Winning Podcast: Social Science Bites
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October 2, 2013

Tour of Award Winning Podcast: Social Science Bites

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Valerie Curtis on the Sources of Disgust
Social Science Bites
October 2, 2013

Valerie Curtis on the Sources of Disgust

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Social Science Bites
August 7, 2013

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David Stuckler on Austerity and Death

David Stuckler on Austerity and Death

You might assume that deaths increase in a recession, but that doesn’t necessarily happen.

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Kate Pickett on the Case for Equality

Kate Pickett on the Case for Equality

Social epidemiologist Kate Pickett, co-author (with Richard Wilkinson) of The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, argues that inequality has bad […]

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Angela McRobbie on the Illusion of Equality for Women

Angela McRobbie on the Illusion of Equality for Women

Has equality for women been achieved? Feminism has apparently achieved many of its aims. But have they? Angela McRobbie from the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, discusses her research on this topic.

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Happy Birthday Social Science Bites!

Happy Birthday Social Science Bites!

SAGE’s Global Publishing Director, Ziyad Marar talks with Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds about the one year anniversary of Social Science Bites.

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Lawrence Sherman on Criminology

Lawrence Sherman on Criminology

The latest episode of Social Science Bites is an interview with Lawrence Sherman, professor of criminology at Cambridge University and a keen advocate of experimental criminology.

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Ann Oakley on Women’s Experience of Childbirth

Ann Oakley on Women’s Experience of Childbirth

In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast sociologist Ann Oakley discusses her research into a range of questions about women’s experience of childbirth.

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Sarah Franklin on the Sociology of Reproductive Technology

Sarah Franklin on the Sociology of Reproductive Technology

New technologies have dramatically changed choices around reproduction. Sarah Franklin, Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University, discusses her research

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Doreen Massey on Space

Doreen Massey on Space

In honor of the late Doreen Massey, an eminent geographer who died Friday at age 72, we repost her Social Science Bites podcast, which has long been one of our most popular. In this interview, Massey asked us to rethink our assumptions about space — and explained why.

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