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One Step Closer to Restoring Government Chief Social Scientist Post
International Debate
March 5, 2013

One Step Closer to Restoring Government Chief Social Scientist Post

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Why Study Social Science
Academic Funding
March 5, 2013

Why Study Social Science

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Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
News
March 4, 2013

Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)

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Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Communication
March 4, 2013

Weekly Overview of Social Science News

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Super Bowls, Super Storms, and the Olympics: How They Affect Cities and Corporations

Super Bowls, Super Storms, and the Olympics: How They Affect Cities and Corporations

Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome András Tilcsik of the University of Toronto and Christopher Marquis of Harvard University, whose article […]

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social science sites of the week

social science sites of the week

This week Italian elections. The Italian political science association provides free access to its English language journal Political science This includes articles […]

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Social Science’s Dangerously Low Profile, and How to Fix It

Social Science’s Dangerously Low Profile, and How to Fix It

“We are now in a situation where science, technology, engineering and maths – the STEM subjects – were about 15 to 20 years ago….there was a lack of public understanding of what they contributed to society and its development”

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Are Vocational Education, Liberal Arts on a Collision Course?

Are Vocational Education, Liberal Arts on a Collision Course?

As even liberal arts colleges continue to turn their back on the liberal arts, where will the technocrats produced by higher education hone their thinking skills to address the current crisis in governing?

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Liberal Arts: Still Valuable

Liberal Arts: Still Valuable

Emory’s recent decision to shut down or suspend various academic departments and programs has rightly generated campus-wide and national attention.

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How Does Sociology Feel?

How Does Sociology Feel?

Just as it is insufficiently recognised in public debates, the emotional side of forced flexibility in academic labour does not appear to be a major topic of conversation among established sociologists

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Postgraduate Study – A right or an opportunity?

Postgraduate Study – A right or an opportunity?

There are all sorts of things from which we are excluded by limited means. Is postgraduate education really so different?

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Antebellism: The Neoliberal Compromise of the Political

Antebellism: The Neoliberal Compromise of the Political

Why we need to pay closer attention to the President of Emory’s shocking comparison of University budget cuts with the three-fifths compromise, and what it says about America now, not then.

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