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 […]
Report suggests Medical Schools teach social and behavioral science, how universities can help students in the job market, and more: Articles from around the Web on the state of social science this week.
Examining the impact of the Family Violence Option on women’s efforts to leave welfare (Research on Social Work Practice) Contracts in the classroom: […]
Michael Higgins asks if there too many sociologists; the dimming line between the real and the virtual; and more: Articles from around the Web on the state of social science this week.
Are online newspapers the modern day equivalent of 19th century bourgeois cafés for democratic discussions? (The International Journal of Press/Politics) Over time, awareness […]
I’m a sociologist and my primary role at this stage of my career is championing theory-driven research, but also research that you put into action: I’m not just a theorist, or just a researcher, or just an action-person – rather I’m trying to link all of those together.
Tributes – Khoo Khay Jin a committed social scientist, thinker and public intellectual Malaysia Star Racial identity is changing among Latinos PhysOrg.com […]
In June 2011, I was lucky enough to deliver the inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture. I chose to lecture on whether the […]
There was a stir in some sections of the UK media just before Christmas when it was revealed that a sequence of […]