A space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
Choice is overwhelming. This should be no surprise to anyone who has spent a good few hours in a department store looking for the right pair of jeans. What if you’re a researcher looking at the landscape of technological tools available for data collection, analysis, or participant recruitment? A new white paper from SAGE has some answers.
The Academy of Management 2015 Annual Meeting is officially underway in Vancouver, Canada! This year’s theme is “Opening Governance,” inviting […]
The founder of the academic publisher SAGE has given the Social Science Research Council $3 million from her own pocket […]
Would you like to help shape the features and functionality of SAGE’s online products? We are conducting monthly usability testing […]
Leading social and behavioral sciences publisher SAGE today joined with science associations and American universities in opposing the FIRST Act. […]
Open movements focus on the consumption of information but neglect to focus on its mode of production, writes Ziyad Marar […]
Studying ourselves is something the British do exceptionally well: specialists flock here from all over the world seeking answers to fundamental questions from our unique series of cohort birth studies, and no one else has anything quite like them.
A two-day conference organised by the Academy of Social Sciences looked at the implementation of the recommendations of the Finch Review for Open Access publishing in the UK.
A group of scholars and experts who are not traditionally associated with the social sciences were found in one location discussing the important accomplishments of social and behavioral scientists.
Recently, the US House of Representatives passed off an amendment offered by Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) that would prohibit funding for the Political Science Program with the National Science Foundation. If enacted into law, this amendment would set an extraordinary and disturbing precedent in which Congress chooses which scientific disciplines should be funded and not funded within the NSF’s research portfolio.
Across the world in the media, in policy, government discussions, and in our daily lives, there is evidence of social science at work. Whether it’s analysis of a cultural phenomenon like crime, or a major international concern such how climate change leads to changing lifestyles or inequality, social scientists help us understand cultures and behaviours.
Social Science Bites is a series of interviews with leading social scientists on different aspects of the social world. The series is produced and presented by well known authors Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds…
