Archives for 2020

How Are You Really Doing? Asks Survey of Researchers
Industry
December 31, 2020

How Are You Really Doing? Asks Survey of Researchers

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Online Christmas Shopping and Gift Giving as a Form of Retail Therapy?
News
December 29, 2020

Online Christmas Shopping and Gift Giving as a Form of Retail Therapy?

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Can We Have Open Science Where No Scholar Is Left Behind?
Open Access
December 29, 2020

Can We Have Open Science Where No Scholar Is Left Behind?

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COVID’s Lessons On Conducting Fieldwork
Infrastructure
December 23, 2020

COVID’s Lessons On Conducting Fieldwork

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A Different Kind of Masking Helps Explain Consciousness

A Different Kind of Masking Helps Explain Consciousness

How much are you conscious of right now? Are you conscious of just the words in the center of your visual field or all the words surrounding it? We tend to assume that our visual consciousness gives us a rich and detailed picture of the entire scene in front of us. The truth is very different

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Return Political Science to the Noble Science of Politics

Return Political Science to the Noble Science of Politics

As the ‘impact agenda’ weighs ever more on political scientists (and the academy as a whole), ). this should be seen less a threat to autonomy than an opportunity to rise to political science’s inherent public responsibilities.

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2020 Proved Value of Social Science to Wider World

2020 Proved Value of Social Science to Wider World

If there is one thing that has become abundantly clear through this pandemic it is that a pandemic, like so many of the other really big and pressing issues facing us such as structural racism or climate change, are not problems to be faced by one discipline or sector alone.

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Watch the Event: Reimagining Higher Education

Watch the Event: Reimagining Higher Education

Reimagining Higher Education is the second event in the Reimagining Social Institutions series of online forums sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and SAGE Publishing.

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Readying for a New Normal: Higher Ed Teaching and Learning after COVID

Readying for a New Normal: Higher Ed Teaching and Learning after COVID

Kiren Shoman, the editorial director for SAGE Publishing, discusses what SAGE has learned from the higher ed sector as it reflects on how the pandemic response has affected teaching and what it expects once the new normal arrives.

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At Its Core, Changing Consumer Behavior Requires Empathy

At Its Core, Changing Consumer Behavior Requires Empathy

Just as the current pandemic illuminates society’s pre-existing challenges, so too it shapes our behavior, changing the ways we interact, shop and consume.

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COVID, Simmel and the Future of Cities

COVID, Simmel and the Future of Cities

Robert Dingwall summons the writings of Georg Simmel to present ‘crucial arguments against the break-up of urban life that is envisioned by some contemporary Utopians: the case against the 15-minute city needs to be heard.’

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Leith Mullings, 1945-2020: Anthropologist Behind the Sojourner Syndrome

Leith Mullings, 1945-2020: Anthropologist Behind the Sojourner Syndrome

Leith Mullings, an anthropologist whose work on what she dubbed the Sojourner Syndrome created a baseline understanding of the “weathering” that the amplified stresses of race, class, and inequality have on African Americans, and in particular African American women, died on Cancer on December 12.

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