Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
September 30, 2021
The Mask of your Enslavement: Escrava Anastácia and COVID Mandates
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Making Sense of Religion in America Through Critical Race Theory
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Molefi Kete Asante on Afrocentrism
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Molefi Kete Asante offers an insiders view of the growth of the Afrocentric paradigm, from the founding of the Journal of Black Studies a half century ago to the debates over critical race theory today.
Should We Tell Stories of Vaccine Sceptics Who Die of COVID?
Our mixed feelings about reporting the deaths of vaccine sceptics, says Nick Chater, reflect the complexity of our moral selves – consequences, rules, agreements and virtues can pull us in different directions.
Geert Hofstede, 1928-2020: The Engineer of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Twenty years ago the second edition of one of the more influential books in social science, Geert Hofstede’s Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations, appeared.
Jennifer Richeson on Perceptions of Racial Inequality
There is inequality in the United States, a fact most people accept and which data certainly bears out. But how bad do you think that inequality is, say, based on comparing the wealth held by the average Black person in America and the average white person?
What the Pandemic Teaches Us About Human Behavior
During the pandemic, a lot of assumptions were made about how people behave. Many of those assumptions were wrong, writes Stephen Reicher, and they led to disastrous policies.
What Can Social Science Tell Us About How We Relate to the Fourth of July?
Every July, as stars and stripes flare and then dissipate over the course of a week, I struggle to untangle my discomfort […]
A Social Scientist Looks at the Irish Border and Its Future
‘What Do We Know and What Should We Do About the Irish Border?’ is a new book from Katy Hayward that applies social science to the existing issues and what they portend.
A Quick Primer on Critical Race Theory
The development of critical race theory by legal scholars such as Derrick Bell and Kimberle Crenshaw was largely a response to the slow legal progress and setbacks faced by African Americans from the end of the Civil War, in 1865, through the end of the civil rights era, in 1968.
