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Finance is a Subject Social Science Must Study

By Isabelle Chambost, Marc Lenglet and Yamina Tadjeddine | Published: November 26, 2018

Budget Investment Money Finance Business Savings

If we are to hope to find a solution to the instability of the financial system, write the team behind a new edited volume, it...

Also posted in Interdisciplinarity | Tagged Finance, The Conversation | Leave a comment

Metricization, the SSCI Syndrome and Devaluing Books in Academic Sociology

By Daniel Nehring | Published: November 18, 2018

Is scholarship that doesn't appear in the Social Science Citation Index -- a commercial index of ‘internationally leading’ journals in the social sciences, compiled by...

Also posted in Communication, Higher Education Reform | Tagged East Asia, Publication Concerns, Sociology, SSCI | Leave a comment

Did Emile Durkheim Foresee Today’s Chaos?

By Galen Watts | Published: November 13, 2018

Emile Durkheim, one of the pioneers of the discipline of sociology, died 101 years ago this month. Although few outside of social science departments know...

Posted in Impact | Tagged Emile Durkheim, Sociology, The Conversation | Leave a comment

Social Science Data Solving Social Housing Problems

By Farida Mustafazade | Published: November 6, 2018

The ESRC describes Knowledge Transfer Partnerships as a relationship between a company/organization and staff in a knowledge base institution in which the the institution's knowledge...

Also posted in Public Policy | Tagged Knowledge Transfer Partnership, Social Data | Leave a comment

Extreme Polarization Is Bad But Need Not Be Inevitable

By Jennifer Lynn McCoy | Published: November 3, 2018

Are Americans now stuck in animosity and anger that will undermine democracy, or can the nation pull out of it? Here, Jennifer McCoy shares some...

Also posted in International Debates, Public Policy | Tagged Polarization, The Conversation | Leave a comment

Renowned Mindset Scholar Receives SAGE-CASBS Award

By SAGE | Published: October 24, 2018

Carol Dweck, the Stanford-based psychologist whose work brought the idea of “mindset” into the education mainstream, will receive the 2018 SAGE-CASBS Award.

Also posted in Recognition | Tagged Awards, Carol Dweck, CASBS, Mindset, Psychology | Leave a comment

SSHRC Impact Awards Get Metaphysical for 2018

By Social Science Space | Published: October 19, 2018

Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council, now in its 40th year, handed out five Impact Prizes earlier this month to honor those showing the...

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Navigating Trade-Offs Between Research, Impact, and Collaboration

By Valeria Izzi | Published: October 18, 2018

Valeria Izzi asks, when it comes to research for development, can we really have it all? Or are we setting the bar so high that...

Also posted in Resources | Tagged Knowledge Exchange | Leave a comment

Why Social Science? Because It’s Proliferating

By Alondra Nelson | Published: October 11, 2018

The president of the Social Science Research Council argues that that proliferation of data, data sharing and collaboration across private, government, and academic sectors requires...

Posted in Impact | Tagged Alondra Nelson, SSRC, Why Social Science | Leave a comment

Citizen Social Scientists Edit Day’s News with New Tool

By Michael Todd | Published: October 10, 2018

Sociologist Nick Adams' TagWorks methodology is being used to rate -- and in turn improve -- the most shared news stories of the day via...

Also posted in Communication, International Debates | Tagged Nick Adams, PublicEditor | Leave a comment

Economics Nobel Recognizes Nature and Knowledge

By Social Science Space | Published: October 8, 2018

Two academics who have integrated what might have once seemed like non-economic externalities into economic models have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics....

Also posted in Announcements, Career, Recognition | Tagged Climate Change, Economics, Nobel Prize, Technology | Leave a comment

Five with Social Science Credentials Win MacArthur Grants

By Social Science Space | Published: October 5, 2018

Five people with backgrounds in social, behavioral or data science were among 25 named in the 2018 class of MacArthur Foundation fellows. The fellowship and...

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Finance is a Subject Social Science Must Study

Metricization, the SSCI Syndrome and Devaluing Books in Academic Sociology

Did Emile Durkheim Foresee Today’s Chaos?

Social Science Data Solving Social Housing Problems

Extreme Polarization Is Bad But Need Not Be Inevitable

Renowned Mindset Scholar Receives SAGE-CASBS Award

SSHRC Impact Awards Get Metaphysical for 2018

Navigating Trade-Offs Between Research, Impact, and Collaboration

Why Social Science? Because It’s Proliferating

Citizen Social Scientists Edit Day’s News with New Tool

Economics Nobel Recognizes Nature and Knowledge

Five with Social Science Credentials Win MacArthur Grants

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