International Debate

When Is It Appropriate to Call a Crime ‘Terrorist’?
International Debate
October 16, 2017

When Is It Appropriate to Call a Crime ‘Terrorist’?

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Anti-Intellectualism and the Rise of the British Right
Higher Education Reform
August 23, 2017

Anti-Intellectualism and the Rise of the British Right

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What Does Research Say About Race, Diversity, Acceptance, and Hate?
International Debate
August 21, 2017

What Does Research Say About Race, Diversity, Acceptance, and Hate?

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Reimagining the UK Sociology Curriculum: Internationalization, Decolonialization and Employability
News
July 13, 2017

Reimagining the UK Sociology Curriculum: Internationalization, Decolonialization and Employability

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Through the Prism of the Past: Watergate Memories at the Nixon Library

Through the Prism of the Past: Watergate Memories at the Nixon Library

What does the Watergate saga of the early 1970s tell us about the current furor over investigations centered on the occupant of the white House?

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Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Peer Review and Publishing Itself?

Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Peer Review and Publishing Itself?

The founder of StateReviewer outlines a future where humans are written out of the publication process by artificial intelligence. But is the goal of eradicating bias and other malignancies potentially opening the door to a new set of ills?

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Behavioral Evidence Hub Seeks to Link Research With Solutions

Behavioral Evidence Hub Seeks to Link Research With Solutions

A new website promises to spotlight evidence-based initiatives that offer deep insight into tough problems – from staying in college and increasing savings rates to improving medication adherence and vaccination uptake – into a single tool.

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Negotiating Brexit – A Clash of Legal Cultures?

Negotiating Brexit – A Clash of Legal Cultures?

Membership in the European Union was a contract, and the differing legal approaches between situational British common law and the more codified French approach helps explain some of the rancor as Brexit comes to be applied.

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Fake News Reveals Truths About Our Digital Age

Fake News Reveals Truths About Our Digital Age

‘By looking more closely at how fake news moves and mobilizes people, we can develop a richer picture of not only how much it circulates where, but also why it circulates and how it resonates amongst different publics.’

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New Think Tank Starts Policy Research Critique Series

New Think Tank Starts Policy Research Critique Series

Social Science Works, a new German-based international think tank, launches a product to assist decision makers in evaluating the quality of social science research.

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In Search of Conservative Sociology

In Search of Conservative Sociology

As sociology has drifted further and further from any conservative touchstones, argues Robert Dingwall, it has become less and less able to understand the society that provides its subsistence.

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‘Ethics Dumping’ and Research on Vulnerable Communities

‘Ethics Dumping’ and Research on Vulnerable Communities

When researchers from countries where regulation is well developed choose to conduct ethically dubious research in countries where regulation is not as strict, it is known as “ethics dumping.” When it happened to Africa’s San people, they responded.

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