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 […]
February 28, 2014
AERA Appoints Inaugural Editors for New Open-Access Journal
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Never Afraid of Living: William Chambliss, 1933-2014
The author of the paradigm-changing “On The Take” had a zest for life that epitomized the “sociological imagination,” reports his long-time friend and colleague Rich Applebaum.
Family advantage: Why all the doom and gloom
[Editor’s Note: This piece was originally posted on the Family Firm Institute’s blog “The Practitioner” and is re-posted here with the kind […]
Cuts to Behavioral and Social Science Funding Threatened
Two pieces of upcoming legislation, the Frontiers in Research, Science, and Technology bill and American COMPETES, could include some unwelcome news for social and behavioral science if certain key legislators get their way.
Snooping Professor, Friendly Don? The Ethics of Learning Analytics
Where should we draw the line between normal data gathering about university students–with the intent of helping them, of course–and outright intrusiveness?
Are Dementia-Friendly Tourist Destinations on the Horizon?
As life expectancy increases, so does the number of dementia cases. Some of us have had a loved one who suffered from […]
Social Sciences Learn the Tactical Benefits of Concentration
As it is released in North America, a book on the impact of social science in Britain suggests guidance for raising the disciplines’ profiles in the U.S. and beyond.
Consumer Identification and Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporations are encouraged more and more to consider social responsibilities when producing their merchandise. But do the virtues advertised by these corporations […]
Recent Scholarship on the Black Experience in the U.S.
From Martin Luther King to black political participation to race relations to teaching African American students, here are some academic papers from the ‘Journal of Black Studies’ that provide a scholarly snapshot of different aspects of black history and current issues in black studies.
