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Paul Stoller: Saving Social Science
STEM is important in the future of higher education, but so are the social sciences and humanities which teach students how to think critically and to how assess the social and cultural ramifications of rapid technological change.
Social policy and administration
Study of contemporary social, political and economic problems – such as poverty, inequality, crime, unemployment, healthcare, education and housing – and potential policy responses to them What will I learn? Social policy has a long history as a social science subject but expanded rapidly in the UK after the creation of the welfare state in the 1940s. You will draw on theoretical ideas from ...
Nussbaum wins Asturias Social Sciences prize
For only the second time the Asturias jury has decided to award its 2012 Social Sciences prize to a woman, American philosopher Martha Nussbaum. The…
New Psychology and Radiology Resources Published at Sciences Social Network
The Psychology and Radiology Sciences are two new key health categories covered by the Sciences Social Network ScienceIndex.com. The users of the website monitor 263 scientific journals and submit the most significant scientific results of these journals for inclusion in these two categories which currently contain a total of 34,320 articles. ScienceIndex.com was established in 1998 to index the ...
Big Data Troves Stay Forbidden to Social Scientists
Huge repositories of data collected by Internet companies are not accessible to scientists, leading some to complain that studies based on these data can’t be peer-reviewed.
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