Social Science Space

New Zealand native Brian Sutton-Smith, a developmental psychologist who brought study of fun off the playground and into the classroom, passed away earlier this month at age 90.

Two important American social scientists died over the new year, Philip Converse and Martin Anderson. But their similarities ended there, argues Howard Silver.

The German sociologist and public intellectual who posited that manufactured risk was a primary product of modernity died on New Year’s Day at age 70

Philip Converse looked at the “informed voter” and questioned just what sort of information that voter really possessed, forever changing the assumptions behind political science research.

Economist Norman Girvan, one of the Caribbean’s most respected social scientists and a consistent and loud voice for greater unity in the region, died last month.

Nobel laureate Gary S. Becker, one of the University of Chicago economists who unshackled the dismal science from its focus on the behavior of money to the behavior of people, has died.

Well-known leftist political theorist Ernesto Laclau, an Argentinian who made his home in the United Kingdom and with his partner […]

The father of Argentinian semiotics, Eliseo Verón, has died at age 78.

The author of the paradigm-changing “On The Take” had a zest for life that epitomized the “sociological imagination,” reports his long-time friend and colleague Rich Applebaum.

Robert Dahl, one of the founders of American political science and the theorist of pluralism, has died at age 98.

The permanent outsider who helped pry open Britain’s eyes to the field of cultural studies has died at age 82.

Last week we heard the sad news that Professor Elinor Ostrom has died. Her profound contributions to scholarship have been told often since she became the first woman and the first political scientist ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Economics.