Social Science

Did Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law Increase Firearm Homicides?
Research
July 23, 2013

Did Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law Increase Firearm Homicides?

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Defensive Political Science Responds Defensively to an Attack
International Debate
July 23, 2013

Defensive Political Science Responds Defensively to an Attack

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Social Science Must Change to Realise Its Full Value
International Debate
July 8, 2013

Social Science Must Change to Realise Its Full Value

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TED, Port and Coffee Consciousness
Career
June 26, 2013

TED, Port and Coffee Consciousness

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Universities for the Post-Democratic Age

Universities for the Post-Democratic Age

Critical scholarship and intellectual dissent are currently being closed down in favour of a model of academic life that accords scholars a limited role as purveyors of practically useful skills in ‘real-world’ labour markets.

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Who Really, Really Wants Open Access?

Who Really, Really Wants Open Access?

There is broad agreement is the desirability of wider access by readers to scholarly journal articles. There is less agreement on who these imagined readers might be.

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Save the Humanities—From Themselves

Save the Humanities—From Themselves

The humanities and social sciences in America could use a white knight, but instead they got a white elephant.

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UK backs Social Science, the World benefits

UK backs Social Science, the World benefits

Studying ourselves is something the British do exceptionally well: specialists flock here from all over the world seeking answers to fundamental questions from our unique series of cohort birth studies, and no one else has anything quite like them.

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The War We Are (Regrettably) Not Fighting

The War We Are (Regrettably) Not Fighting

The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences recognizes William Julius Wilson for his work on race, stratification, and disadvantage in the U.S.

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Can Brands be Intellectuals?

Can Brands be Intellectuals?

As an academic, you are a brand not only as a matter of choice, but, increasingly, due to powerful institutional imperatives that are becoming harder and harder to ignore.

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Happy Birthday Social Science Bites!

Happy Birthday Social Science Bites!

SAGE’s Global Publishing Director, Ziyad Marar talks with Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds about the one year anniversary of Social Science Bites.

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The Myth of Academic Stardom

The Myth of Academic Stardom

The recent and on-going reforms of higher education are enforcing an individualisation of academic labour. That academics would gamely play along with such a system is astonishing.

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