Public Policy

Social Science Needs its Own Doctor-Patient Confidentiality
International Debate
January 10, 2017

Social Science Needs its Own Doctor-Patient Confidentiality

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President Signs Bill Setting Policy for NSF, NIST
Public Policy
January 9, 2017

President Signs Bill Setting Policy for NSF, NIST

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Is the Concept of Race Science’s Biggest Mistake?
Public Policy
January 5, 2017

Is the Concept of Race Science’s Biggest Mistake?

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Sociology’s (Selective) Diversity
News
January 3, 2017

Sociology’s (Selective) Diversity

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Rapeglish: A Program that Spits Out Hate — For the Greater Good

Rapeglish: A Program that Spits Out Hate — For the Greater Good

A new computer program from the author of ‘Misogyny Online’ slices up and shuffles around an archive of sexualized vitriol, rape threats, and aggressive sleaze received by real-life women and presents its own version of what is called Rapeglish.

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Do We Really Want Historians as Policy Advisers?

Do We Really Want Historians as Policy Advisers?

The claim that Thucydides’ account of the past is useful is often extended to historiography in general, rather than just to his specific – and idiosyncratic – approach. And that, suggests Neville Morley, may be the real trap of Thucydides.

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Will November Prove to be the Cruelest Month for Science?

Will November Prove to be the Cruelest Month for Science?

T.S. Eliot said “April is the cruelest month.” This November has been pretty harsh, too, says blogger Howard J. Silver, who wonders what the new U.S. president will mean for a number of issues, including research funding.

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An Engineer at the NSF: Erich Bloch, 1925-2016

An Engineer at the NSF: Erich Bloch, 1925-2016

Erich Bloch was the first non-academic to serve as director of the NSF. Although a computer engineer by background, he recognized the value of the social and behavioral sciences.

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Jennifer Hochschild on Race in America

Jennifer Hochschild on Race in America

In this Social Science Bites podcast, Harvard’s Jennifer Hochschild explains to interviewer David Edmonds some of the pertinent data points from her years of using quantitative and qualitative analysis to map the racial, ethnic and class cleavages in America’s demography.

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Enough of Experts? Data, Democracy and the Future of Expertise

Enough of Experts? Data, Democracy and the Future of Expertise

Expertise in governing has been under attack, argues Beth Simone Noveck, but not just in recent demagogic attacks on “the elites.” For years, she explains in the annual SAGE/Campaign for Social Science lecture delivered November 22 in London, the expertise of the populace has been structurally excluded from the levers of power.

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Scholarly Research Looks at Brexit: Free Papers

Scholarly Research Looks at Brexit: Free Papers

SAGE Publishing is providing free access to a range of academic research which engages directly with the Brexit referendum and its potential impacts or gives a background on the UK-EU relationship.

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Call for White Papers: Social and Behavioral Sciences for National Security

Call for White Papers: Social and Behavioral Sciences for National Security

The Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, part of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National […]

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