
Gender and the Winter Olympics: A Collection
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics are here and in full swing. From serene skaters on ice to dramatic showdowns on […]
1 year agoA space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics are here and in full swing. From serene skaters on ice to dramatic showdowns on […]
1 year agoAmanda Paul at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto reviewed Opening Doors to Diversity […]
1 year agoJust over a month ago in November, Michelle Wu was sworn in as the first woman and person of color elected as […]
1 year ago“In times of crisis, the humanities and social sciences inform and guide our response — raising awareness of the issues, analyzing options and helping shape public policy,” according to a new report by Canada’s Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
1 year agoA new report on supporting the big data infrastructure needs of universities offers a variety of real-world recommendations for improving the research environment.
1 year agoWomen continue to be underutilized and underrepresented in senior-decision making roles, notes Shezadi Khushal as she explains lessons she drew from the book ‘Women and Leadership.’
2 years agoTexas A&M’s Sarah Dennis surveyed librarians and their conference -going thoughts with an aim is to find “multiple ways to make conferences better for everyone, in-person or virtually.”
2 years agoA few months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, two Black social scientists in Southern California approached a fledgling academic publisher with a unique proposition: let us launch a journal for another fledgling — the discipline of Black studies.
2 years agoGenerational thinking is a big idea that’s been horribly corrupted and devalued by endless myths and stereotypes.
2 years agoIn 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.
2 years agoIn The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media, Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis explore the discipline of sociology at a time when public life is increasingly shaped by social media platforms.
2 years agoProfessor Lisa Spiller noticed that sales management textbooks she looked at were missing topics like storytelling, neuro-linguistic programming, determining willingness-to-buy, servant leadership, and sales analytics. So she wrote a book that did.
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