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 […]
Video: Social Connectedness during COVID-19
Clinical psychologist Tegan Cruwys discusses the concept of social connectedness and how being ‘together apart’ is both possible and crucial during the coronavirus pandemic.
Spaces that Work for Us
Changes in our daily habits have been as simple as no longer buying our morning cup of joe on the way to […]
Policing the Klan 50 Years Ago Has Lessons for Dismantling White Supremacist Groups Today
If history is a guide, notes sociologist David Cunningham, providing police with new tools to address current white nationalist threats could result in further repression of activists of color.
Michèle Lamont on Stigma
The study of stigma, is, says Michèle Lamont, a “booming field.” That assessment can be both sad and hopeful, and in this Social Science Bites podcast the Harvard sociologist explains stigma’s manifestations and ways to combat it, as well as what it takes a for a researcher to actually study stigma.
Consumption and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Staying at home has completely changed our buying behaviors. Consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated our technological advancement and reliance on […]
Consumption as Intercultural Communication and Interaction
When was the last time you went out for a Thai meal, got items from the ethnic isle of a supermarket, wore […]
The Comfort of Strangers
David Canter considers how disasters and tragedies can bring out the best in what it means to be human, and sometimes the worst.
Consumption Does Not Equate to Happiness
We all want stuff, but in our overdeveloped, fast-paced culture we seldom challenge ourselves to ask ourselves the one important question: how much is enough?
