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Ed Sociologist Pedro Noguera Awarded

By Social Science Space | Published: November 4, 2014

Sociologist and education rights activist Pedro Noguera has received a second annual award that recognizes outstanding achievement in advancing the understanding of the behavioral and social sciences.

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‘I Became a Scholar in Order to Become a Better Activist’

By Camille Gamboa | Published: June 17, 2013

A conversation with Kitty Kelly Epstein, winner of the 2013 Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Award and a university professor who took a four-year break from teaching to live her research.

So Much Noise: Are Academics being Over-Branded?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: March 27, 2013

The Ivory Tower has been toppled and academia has an impact in the ‘real world’. The problem is that this may have come at the expense of truly innovative and critical scholarship.

Weekly Overview of Social Science News

By Lorna McConville | Published: July 17, 2012

Social Scientists protest biased study targeting LGBT parents, Chinese girls outperforming boys and more in this Weekly Overview of Social Science News.

Working Moms: The Kids Are All Right

By Social Science Space | Published: March 20, 2012

Working mothers tend to be happier and healthier than mothers who stay at home caring for young children, according to recent research. But many of those who work are often haunted by the question: “Am I screwing up my kids?”

The LSE Big Questions Lecture 2011: Organized Common Sense

By dannyquah | Published: December 29, 2011

In June 2011, I was lucky enough to deliver the inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture. I chose to lecture on whether the East was taking over the world. I felt these changes in the world matter to everyone, and they are developments with important economic ideas surrounding them. The LSE Big Questions Lecture is targeted […]

Posted in Communication, Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Resources, Teaching, Videos | Also tagged Economics, LSE Big Questions Lecture, Outreach, Teaching | Leave a comment

The new language of sociology: Teaching and Learning, part 2

By Daniel Nehring | Published: November 25, 2011

“Its a well known fact you are not respected by your work collogues and in general just a vile rude obnoxious person.” A former colleague of mine now teaches an undergraduate research methods course in a large sociology department at a New University. A major problem in this department is student attendance. Living far away, […]

Posted in Career, Communication, Higher Education Reform, International Debate, Science & Social Science, Teaching | Also tagged Higher Education, management, Organizational Management, Teaching, Well-being | 1 Response

Schools for Democracy

By American Sociological Association | Published: September 14, 2011

Some labor unions actively involve their members, including those who are immigrants, in workplace and political campaigns. How does this labor union experience impact members’ civic participation? “’Schools for Democracy: Labor Union Participation and Latino Immigrant Parents’ School-Based Civic Engagement,” published by Veronica Terriquez in the August 2011 issue of American Sociological Review explores whether […]

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Unequal America: Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor

By Harvard Magazine | Published: January 11, 2011

This is an extract from a post originally published in Harvard Magazine. When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, “I think of an epidemic like HIV, or I think of the collapse of a social system, like in the former Soviet Union.” But such a decline is happening right now in some […]

Posted in Impact, International Debate | Also tagged America, Health, Income inequality, Life expectancy, Poverty | Leave a comment

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