Why Social Science? - Because It Can Help Prepare Students for Employment
This month's Why Social Science? post comes from The Conversation, where Dr. Sandra Lapointe writes about how social sciences and humanities programs can help prepare students for employment and navigating their next professional steps. Future graduates face complex global…
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Why Social Science? Because People Can’t Be Represented If We Don’t Know What They Think
This month’s Why Social Science? post comes from Josh Pasek (University of Michigan) who discusses the importance of using public opinion polling as a key approach to understand the desires of the public. Read on for more.
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Why Social Science? - Because Improving the Lives of Children is Complicated
This month's "Why Social Science?" post comes from Dr. Narayan Sastry (University of Michigan) who discusses the importance of social and behavioral data to improve outcomes for children over time and across generations. READ ON
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Why Social Science? - Because It Can Strengthen Communities
This month's Why Social Science? post comes from Dr. David Campbell (University of Notre Dame) who discusses how social capital can help make democracy work. As the 2024 presidential election approaches, we are reminded that Americans are deeply polarized. But while the term “polarization…
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Why Social Science? - Because It Might Help Us Save American Democracy
This month's Why Social Science? post comes from Dr. John T. Jost (New York University) and Dr. Daniela Goya-Tocchetto (University of Buffalo) who discuss political polarization and the future of American democracy. By John T. Jost, Ph.D. (New York University) and Daniela Goya-Tocchetto,…
Why Social Science? - Because We Need to Show Up to Have Our Voices Heard: Reflections from COSSA’s 2024 Social Science Advocacy Day
By Dr. Laura Widman (North Carolina State University); Dr. Aaryn L. Green (American Sociological Association); and Emma Southern (American University) This month's Why Social Science? post comes from three participants from this year's Social Science Advocacy Day who reflected upon…
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Why Social Science? Because It Can Contribute to AI that Benefits Society
The new Why Social Science? post comes from Carlotta Arthur and Emanuel Robinson from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine who discuss how the social and behavioral sciences are poised to inform and improve AI and AI systems. Artificial Intelligence – “AI…
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Why Social Science? - Because It Makes An Outsized Impact on Policy
The new "Why Social Science?" post comes from Camille Gamboa from Sage who interviews Euan Adie, Overton's managing director, to learn more about the large impact that social science makes on policy and his work creating tools to connect the scholarly and policy worlds. We know that…
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Why Social Science? - Because It Helps Us Incorporate Lived Experience into Health Research
The new Why Social Science? post comes from Dr. Monica N. Feit from the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) who writes about how social science can provide valuable expertise to help…
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Why Social Science? Because It Can Explain How the Next Technological Revolution Impacts Our Lives and the Communities We Care About
The new Why Social Science? post comes from Dr. Rayvon Fouché from Northwestern University who writes about how social science can provide valuable history, context, and interpretive perspectives to help inform our societies moving forward. For those reading nearly any media outlet…
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Why Social Science? - Because It Can Help Students Find Their Place in Fighting Climate Change
This month's Why Social Science? post comes from The Conversation, where Clare Cunningham, Catherine Heinemeyer, and Jude Parks write about how universities can help empower students feeling helpless about the climate crisis. By Clare Cunningham Ph.D., Catherine Heinemeyer…
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Why Social Science? - Because It Can Shed Light on Representation in the STEM Workforce
This month's Why Social Science? post comes from Dr. Amy Burke and Julia Milton from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) who write about representation in the STEM workforce. Every 2 years, the NCSES within the NSF…