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Microsoft opens up new research center targeting social scientists for hire, what social science can do for India, the social science of archaeology and much more on this Weekly Overview of Social Science News.
Did you know that social marketing objectives have been added to Healthy People 2020? Healthy People, the program of national […]
Fostering Sustainable Behavior Workshop An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing June 13-14, 2012 The cornerstone of sustainability is behavior […]
The University of South Florida’s 22nd Annual Social Marketing Conference: Ideas Beyond Borders, sponsored by USF Health, kicks off this […]
Since its earliest days there has been a great deal of writing about online activism and the possibility of forming active publics via the Internet.
Kickstart your social marketing strategy this summer with the Social Marketing Field School’s Introduction to Social Marketing course! Sponsored by […]
Over the last ten years I have encountered a range of racist discourse in the teaching environment.The first often emanates from international students who inadvertently make inaccurate generalisations based on racial difference. The second is formed within the seminar room, and emanates from British students towards international students.
I find it ironic that interesting current debates about sociology’s Eurocentrism and calls for a more truly global sociology take place in journals and books that are likely to be inaccessible at many, many universities around the world.
Last Saturday, I went to the theatre to a see a touring production based on Arthur Ransome’s novel, Swallows and Amazons…. it prompted a number of thoughts about risk and risk management in the contemporary world.
In June 2011, I was lucky enough to deliver the inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture. I chose to lecture on […]
“Its a well known fact you are not respected by your work collogues and in general just a vile rude […]
‘Academically Adrift’, a new book on the failures of higher education, finds that undergraduates don’t study, and professors don’t make […]
