Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
The Sociology of Psychologies: What is It and Why Does It Matter?
Throughout the 20th century, psychological knowledge managed to break free from the confines of academic debates and clinical practice, defining, by the early 21st century at the latest, how we think about who we are, how we feel, what our goals in life are, how we form relationships with others, and how society’s institutions operate
Together Apart
Table of Contents Author Biographies Contributors Acknowledgements Section A: Setting the scene The need for a social identity analysis of COVID-19 A […]
Harnessing the Power of a Mob
David Canter considers what the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington tells us about the power inherent in a crowd.
After the US Capitol Attack, Wondering How the 25th Amendment Works?
A day after President Donald Trump incited supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol, Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer called on Vice President Mike Pence […]
‘Once You Engage in Political Violence, It Becomes Easier to Do It Again’
The Conversation asked Ore Koren, even as what some are calling an insurrection unfolded at the U.S. Capitol, to ask him for some perspective on the event.
APSA Condemns Trump After D.C. Insurrection
In the wake of a violent insurrection in Washington D.C. which interrupted, but did not derail, the U.S. Congress counting the votes […]
Creating Social Value in the Context of Institutional Failure
Although reliance on social networks could supplement some of the deficiencies in formal institutions, they are unlikely to entirely supplant the need for contractual governance mechanisms. We thus sought to understand how multi-stakeholder collaborations can create social value in contexts of institutional failure – or “institutional voids” in international business jargon.
COSSA Offers Social Science Recommendations to New US President
In December, the Consortium of Social Science Associations, an umbrella organization that has served as a united voice in Washington, D.C. for […]
