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More than 50 years ago, George Miller, president of the American Psychological Association, urged his colleagues “to give psychology away.” […]
This section of Social Science Space features some of the most important work across social science disciplines that has engaged […]
In ‘The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education,’ Loenard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch argue that graduate programs aren’t preparing doctoral students for the jobs they’ll likely have outside college classrooms or laboratories.
In an attempt to uncover and highlight anti-racist research in the social sciences, SAGE Publishing (the parent of Social Science […]
The opening days of the administration of Joe Biden as U.S. president have continued two themes of the last administration: […]
According to the author of the book ‘Principles of Management,’ We have to mind the management practices that make and potentially break our world even if, and especially if they seem so mundane and ‘normal.’
Table of Contents Author Biographies Contributors Acknowledgements Section A: Setting the scene The need for a social identity analysis of […]
In December, the Consortium of Social Science Associations, an umbrella organization that has served as a united voice in Washington, […]
Free webinar: Having conversations about race in the classroom Professor of criminal justice Stephanie A. Jirard offers suggestions on how […]
In this Q&A conducted by the LSE Impact blog, social psychologist Sonia Livingstone outlines the ways that the pandemic has transformed the process of promoting a book. She discusses the heightened importance of social media and the opportunities that digital technologies have afforded for reaching new audiences and adapting conventional formats.
Political scientist Robert Putnam, whose book Bowling Alone achieved a popular and policy prominence that most social scientists can only dream of, will discuss his latest book, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again, co-written by Shaylyn Romney Garrett, in a virtual launch on November 5.
The author of a new book on the response to the coronavirus tries first to understand how apparently sane people could think it made sense to implement damaging policies, and secondly asks how the public might ensure that such a disastrous episode can never happen again.
