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 […]
New Congress Gets First Peek at Proposed NSF Budget
Social science’s raise in the White House’s proposed National Science Foundation budget raises some Republican eyebrows.
Is Higher Education Losing Its Progressive Potential?
In the the concluding piece of his three-article look at academic labor in the UK in the wake of Marina Warner’s departure from Essex, Daniel Nehring asks if the conservative turn in education is driven by students or policy makers.
25 Years of ‘Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism’
Allan Bloom has claimed there are no classics in the social sciences, but the editors of a special collection of essays on the impact of Gøsta Esping-Andersen’s book ‘The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism’ on its 25th birthday suggest that in fact this book shows Bloom was mistaken.
Peter Lunt on Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman has been called the most influential American sociologist of the 20th century thanks to his study of the social interactions of everyday life. In this Social Science Bites podcast, social psychologist Peter Lunt discusses his own inquiries into Goffman and how he approached his subjects with “an ethnographer’s eye.”
Hope for the Common Good
Recent research suggests that the so-called Golden Rule of ‘doing unto others …’ may have resonance in enhancing the public good.
Tomorrow’s Britain Needs Social Science Today, Report Argues
The Campaign for Social Science is asking the British government-to-be for a greater recognition of social science, arguing that the nation’s future prosperity will depend on it.
Duckies Honor Nod to Nonviolence in Violent World
A post on the nonviolent conflicts that didn’t get noticed due to their lack violence – and which appeared on the Political […]
Let’s Play Fantasy Football for Big Thinkers
If you were to make up a fantasy football team for, say an intellectual Premier League, which thinks from Socrates forward might be among your picks?
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