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 […]
Universities awarded £19.5 million for overhaul of quantitative social science training
Fifteen universities across the UK will receive £19.5 million to overhaul their social science teaching over […]
Why Social Science Research Matters
Michael Lubell, accomplished professor of physics, explains why the social sciences are critical to the advance of science and technology, and explains why we need to protect the social sciences from political attempts to de-fund them.
Social science sites of the week
In the news this week. The Funeral of Baroness Thatcher. Full version still available to download on BBC iplayer. until 24th April. […]
social science sites of the week
In the news this week see the new classification of social class and our other related class resources. United Nations historic global […]
Social Science sites of the week
In the news this week. The budget. HM Treasury: Budget 2013 policy decisions See our recommended academic links See also the twitter […]
We Aren’t the World
Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics—and hoping to change the way social scientists think about human behavior and culture.
In praise of Sociology! Speech by Pierre Bourdieu
In the February edition of Sociology, a previously unpublished translation of a speech given by Pierre Bourdieu. Here is an excerpt and introduction.
Sarah Franklin on the Sociology of Reproductive Technology
New technologies have dramatically changed choices around reproduction. Sarah Franklin, Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University, discusses her research
