Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
The space between – positioning student voice at the heart of leadership in education From Management in Education Male politicians have “bigger heads” in […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
SAGE Insight celebrates 100,000 views Making sense of the ‘Big Society’: Social work and the moral order From Journal of Social Work Top executives’ team […]
Steven Pinker on Violence and Human Nature
Is the world getting less violent? It seems unlikely. But Steven Pinker has amassed empirical evidence to show that it is. In this interview with Nigel Warburton for the Social Science Bites podcast he explains some of the possible causes of this transformation.
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Threat of separation often the trigger for murder of collaterals such as children related to intimate partner conflict From Violence Against Women No […]
Why Open Access is Good News for Neo-Nazis
Much of the debate on Open Access has concentrated on the shift from a subscription model that opens access for authors, while […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
How close were we to Armageddon? Fifty years on, why still study the Cuban Missile Crisis? From International Relations Minority children at a […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
How Afghanistan was broken: The disaster of the Soviet intervention From International Area Studies Review The benefits of racial diversity in the classroom From Teaching Sociology […]
Jonathan Haidt on Moral Psychology
What can psychology tell us about morality? Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind, discusses the place of rationality in our moral judgements in this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast.
