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 […]
Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman discusses behavioral economics with scholars, business leaders
Nobel laureate in economic science and CASBS Fellow Daniel Kahneman (psychology, 1978) presents the keynote address at the 2013 CASBS Behavioral Science […]
Sociology Outside Academia
Why academics’ misunderstanding of the epistemology and politics of science is leading them to silently and uncritically support the politics of the powers that be.
AAU Explains Why the U.S. Federal Government Funds Social and Behavioral Sciences Research
Once again, the American Association of Universities has come out to publicly support social and behavioral research funding. As a follow up to […]
The Science of Science Communication
The National Academy of Sciences hosted the second Arthur M. Sackler colloquium on the topic of the science of science communication, from […]
Eradicating Acute Poverty via UN Human Rights Machinery
How do we continue to move towards a human rights culture?
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
AAU Protests Efforts to Cut Federal Funds for Social Science Inside Higher Ed $200,000 Funding Available for Behavioral and Social Science Research […]
Social Sciences Need a Collective Voice
Social science may be faring better politically in UK than US, says Ziyad Marar, but let’s avoid complacency at all costs
The Rule of Optimism – Thirty Years On
Not many social scientists introduce a phrase into the English language and its subsequent history is instructive about the ways in which the impact of successful sociology becomes invisible. It is also a nice example of how ideas become assimilated into a societal environment that finds it hard to accept the sociologist’s focus on systems and organizations.
