Social Science

Social Science’s Dangerously Low Profile, and How to Fix It
Academic Funding
February 27, 2013

Social Science’s Dangerously Low Profile, and How to Fix It

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Science, Advocacy and Anthropology
International Debate
February 22, 2013

Science, Advocacy and Anthropology

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Liberal Arts: Still Valuable
Higher Education Reform
February 21, 2013

Liberal Arts: Still Valuable

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The Vocation of Sociology – Exposing Slow Violence
Impact
February 20, 2013

The Vocation of Sociology – Exposing Slow Violence

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How Does Sociology Feel?

How Does Sociology Feel?

Just as it is insufficiently recognised in public debates, the emotional side of forced flexibility in academic labour does not appear to be a major topic of conversation among established sociologists

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Antebellism: The Neoliberal Compromise of the Political

Antebellism: The Neoliberal Compromise of the Political

Why we need to pay closer attention to the President of Emory’s shocking comparison of University budget cuts with the three-fifths compromise, and what it says about America now, not then.

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Can We Make College Cheaper?

Can We Make College Cheaper?

The authors of “Why Does College Cost So Much?” take a look at the root causes and determine that we can reduce the price of higher education, but not dramatically.

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The Myths of Offender Profiling

The Myths of Offender Profiling

Recent publications have encouraged me not to keep quiet about this any longer. Now is the time to explain why I find the term ‘profiling’ so problematic yet get stuck with using it.

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To build a successful academic career, you need to play by the rules.

To build a successful academic career, you need to play by the rules.

So what exactly are the rules by which academic careers work? Where does one learn them? How does one learn them? And how, exactly, is playing by the rules to the benefit of one’s career?

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Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: former Chairman of Microsoft Research

Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: former Chairman of Microsoft Research

“The social scientists we could do business with were those who grounded their ideas through field studies, cultural probes and social data”.

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How can textbooks further student engagement?

How can textbooks further student engagement?

All criticism of the genre notwithstanding, textbooks do have a central role to play in turning sociology students into sociologists. Sometimes I do wonder, however, whether it is time to re-invent the textbook.

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The Formula

The Formula

How an equation cooked up by Mussolini’s numbers guy came to define how we think about inequality—from Occupy Wall Street to the World Bank to the billionaires at Davos—and why it’s time to find a new way of looking at the numbers.

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