Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundationās Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
Michael Burawoy is a practitioner of what we might call ‘extreme ethnography.’ In this Social Science Bites podcast, Burawoy tells interviewerĀ Dave Edmonds about his various experiences on factory floors, and some of the specific lessons he learned and the broader points — often unexpected — that emerged from the synthesis of his experiences.
āIn a sense, you could summarize the literature: āGroups are bad for you, groups take moral individuals and they turn them into immoral idiots.ā I have been trying to contest that notion,ā social psychologist Stephen Reicher says in this Social Science Bites podcast, ā[and] also to explain how that notion comes about.ā
One of the leading exponents of what might be called the second coming of kinship studies, Janet Carsten, a professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, has (literally) brought new blood into the field, exploring kinshipās nexus with politics, work and gender.
In this Social Science Bites podcast, Ted Cantle (of the post-2001 riot report that bears his name) explains how the concept of ‘parallel lives’ continues to exert a malign influence wherever communities find themselves segregated — even when they may live cheek-and-jowl.
‘I think that happiness is better than a lot of what the āhappiness industryā represents it as,’ Goldsmiths sociologist Will Davies tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Bites podcast.
Social psychologist Sheldon Solomon routinely thinks about the unthinkable, studying how humans behave differently when the unthinkable forces its way into their thoughts. In this Social Science Bites podcast, he explains how the fear of death actually propels humankind forward.
In this Social Science Bites podcast, social theorist Steven Lukes tells interviewer Nigel Warburton how Ćmile Durkheim’s exploration of issues like labor, suicide and religionĀ proved intriguing to a young academic and enduring for an established one.
C. Wright Mills was one of the most important sociologists of the 20th century. He believed that sociology could change peopleās lives, and that sociologists, far from being neutral, should help bring about such change, and his ideas would fuel ā60s counter-culture. In this Social Science Bites podcast, John Brewer reveals the full man behind the icon.