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 Future of Precarious Work
In 2009, American Sociological Review published Arne L. Kalleberg’s “Precarious Work, Insecure Workers: Employment Relations in Transition,” in which he explores the various ways unpredictable work impacts employees. Over 10 years later, sociologists actively turn to and build upon his work and the suggested structural changes needed to create more stable conditions.
Our Consolation If Your Graduation Ceremony Was Cancelled: Win an Online SAGE Campus Course
There’s a lot going on in the world right now, much of it very sad. And so if you’ve been hard at […]
Collaboration, Coordination and Cooperation Between Organizations
The terms “collaboration,” “coordination” and “cooperation,” write Xavier Castañer and Nuno Oliveira in a recent paper published by the Journal of Management, underpin both the organizations they describe and the study of those organizations, and yet the terms themselves are inconsistently defined and therefore their use can be imprecise or even downright confusing.
Why We Need Experiential Scholarship to Better Understand Racial Inequality
It wasn’t until I started doing a degree in gender studies that I was told it was OK to use the first […]
How Can Wise Graphics Use Cut Through the Complexity of COVID-19?
Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard to the […]
People Do Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used to Visualize COVID-19
Editor’s Note: If you’re curious about the ways in which data visualization and graph use can generate impact with regard to the […]
Can Social Science Save Lives in a Pandemic?
David Canter considers the emerging social science perspectives for controlling COVID-19
In Search of Today’s Fannie Lou Hamers and Martin Luther Kings
Vincent Adejumo says that his scholarship in the discipline of black politics can explain why there aren’t any national African American leaders at this moment, filling roles like Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer and others once did.
