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Social Science Space 2017 Round Up

By Philip Patino | Published: January 10, 2018

Last year Social Science Space presented more than 200 articles on the impact, infrastructure and industry surrounding social and behavioral science and research. Looking back over those articles, we've chosen a few of special merit. Social Science Space plans to continue to provide the latest that the new year has to offer. Stay up to date with us to see what is in store.

Posted in Academic Funding, Brexit, Higher Education Reform, Interdisciplinarity, News, Research, Science & Social Science | Also tagged Border Criminology, Fake News | Leave a comment

Overcoming the Politics and Economics of Social and Economic Fragmentation in the Name of Kids

By Timothy Smeeding | Published: June 12, 2017

The Social Security Administration has shown its ability to cut monthly checks for elderly, survivors and disabled. So why not for kids via their parents?

Posted in News, Public Policy | Also tagged Child Allowance, Inequality, Timothy Smeeding | Leave a comment

Poverty Action Lab and Its Leaders Honored by SSRC

By Social Science Space | Published: April 22, 2014

Two economists battling world poverty and the institution they helped create have received the highest honor offered by the Social Science Research Council, the Albert O. Hirschman Prize for 2014. The prize is awarded periodically for contributions to international interdisciplinary social science research, theory and public communication, according to the SSRC, in the spirit of […]

Posted in Recognition | Also tagged MIT, SSRC | Leave a comment

Eradicating Acute Poverty via UN Human Rights Machinery

By Joseph Wronka | Published: September 30, 2013

How do we continue to move towards a human rights culture?

Posted in International Debates | Also tagged Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, HIV, Human Rights Culture, IASSW, UN, UNICEF, Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 1 Response

The War We Are (Regrettably) Not Fighting

By American Academy of Political and Social Science | Published: May 29, 2013

The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences recognizes William Julius Wilson for his work on race, stratification, and disadvantage in the U.S.

Property Crime, Violence and Recession

By Richard Garside | Published: April 29, 2013

There is no inevitability in the rise in homicide, domestic and acquaintance violence in the coming year. Sadly, though, it would be more surprising if they did not increase than if they did.

The Vocation of Sociology – Exposing Slow Violence

By Jacklyn Cock | Published: February 20, 2013

Much destruction of human potential takes the form of a “slow violence” that extends over time. It is insidious, undramatic and relatively invisible.

Understanding why refugees in London work in the ‘informal economy’

By Social Science Space | Published: May 17, 2011

A new report by Community Links and the Refugee Council examines the causes of informal economic activity within refugee communities in London and considers what the ‘refugee-specific’ factors might be. The report, which was commissioned by the Greater London Authority, finds that – despite having permission to work in the UK – a proportion of […]

Posted in International Debates, Research, Resources | Also tagged informal economy, refugees | Leave a comment

21st Century Challenges: Persistent Poverty in Britain

By SAGE | Published: February 26, 2011

The Royal Geographical Society is proud to announce that they will be hosting an event at part of the not-for-profit discussion series, “21st Century Challenges“, which aims to inform and inspire public audiences, helping them to engage with important issues that face society in the coming decades. The theme for this event is “Persistent poverty in […]

Posted in Impact, International Debates | Also tagged poverty alleviation, Recession | Leave a comment

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 Debates | Also tagged America, Education, Health, Income inequality, Life expectancy | Leave a comment

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