Social Science Space

Loet Leydesdorff, a sociologist and communications scholar who found academic fame for his work in developing scientometrics and the “triple helix” model of innovation, has died.

Rebecca “Becky” Blank, an economist and administrator whose career spanned academe and the policy world, died of pancreatic cancer February 17 near Madison, Wisconsin. She was 67.

Yi-Fu Tuan, University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus of geography, died August 10 at the age of 91.

Bruno Latour, “France’s most famous and least understood philosopher,” died of pancreatic cancer in Paris on October 9, 2022. He was 75.

Sharon Oster, “a pioneer in the field of organizational strategy” and the first woman to be named dean and tenured professor at Yale University’s School of Management, died of lung cancer on June 10.

Sociologist Barney G. Glaser, who co-discovered the qualitative methodology known as grounded theory, has died at age 91.

Albert Bandura, a renowned social cognitive psychologist most well-known for his Bobo doll experiments studying aggression, died on July 26 at the age of 95.

Twenty years ago the second edition of one of the more influential books in social science, Geert Hofstede’s Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations, appeared.

Eleanor Bernert Sheldon, a pioneer in the use of social indicators as an important tool of social science, died on May 8 at the age of 101.

Ron Inglehart, a political scientist whose work on surveying values around the world set new and higher bars on what such studies could achieve, has died at age 86.

Leith Mullings, an anthropologist whose work on what she dubbed the Sojourner Syndrome created a baseline understanding of the “weathering” that the amplified stresses of race, class, and inequality have on African Americans, and in particular African American women, died on Cancer on December 12.

Professor Roger Hood CBE, QC (Hon), PhD, DCL, LLD (Hon), FBA, known for his immense contributions to the international discipline […]