Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Report: Who Is Doing Computational Social Science
SAGE Publishing surveyed social scientists around the world to learn more about who engages in research using ‘big data,’ and what challenges they face as well as the barriers facing those who are interested in conducting computational social science going forward.
Karenza Moore on Dance Culture
Sociologist has studied the dance club scene — think of the lamented Fabric nightclub as a cultural touchstone — for years as a ‘participant observer.’ In this Social Science Bites podcast she talks about the scene’s obvious drug use and the mechanics of doing ethnography at a rave.
Who is Doing Big Data: A SAGE Survey
A new survey shoots down the idea that early-career researchers aresomehow more likely to be digital natives and therefore more apt to conduct computational social science than those whose PhDs were issued more than a decade ago.
What Trump’s Veep Choice Can Teach Us About Coalitions
A case study, drawn from Bob Graham’s new book, about how coalitions formed to reverse measures seen as anti gay — such as the religious freedom act that Mike Pence signed and then revised — is available for free here.
Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries
Candace Jones, Mark Lorenzen, Jonathan Sapsed , eds.: The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 576 pp. $170.00, […]
Understanding Vocational Education in Industrialized Countries
[We’re pleased to welcome Nuria Rodriguez-Planas. Nuria published an article in ILR Review in March 2015, entitled “A Road Map to Vocational […]
Labor Economics and May Day throughout the Year
As in recent years, work and economic issues have been on the minds of citizens worldwide – and not just on May […]
Articles Pertinent to US Primaries Available for Free Now
For a limited as the the United States’ presidential election cycle reaches some critical state-level primary votes, the journal Political Research Quarterly […]
