The Science of Compassion
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Happy New Year from Australia!
Happy New Year from Australia! Take care and have fun making the world better with social science. Continue reading Happy New Year from Australia!
Computational Social Science
This week’s social science quote comes from Kim L. Boyer, Interim Dean of the University of Albany’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Telling the Story of Income Inequality
“I remember looking at one of the household surveys that World Bank produced, and it was saying this many people in an age group have an ‘improved pit latrine. I started thinking, I understand the numbers, but do I really … Continue reading Telling the Story of Income Inequality
Social Science and Public Policy
Do you agree with this assessment of social science by an economist and quantitative sociologist?
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Social Science of Friendships Over Time
There are four key stages to friendships: sustaining it, developing stable closeness, making the bond satisfying, and living up to expectations beyond middle age.
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Why Every Company Wants Anthropologists
After Government jobs, anthropologists outside academia are employed in large numbers by Microsoft. Other companies that employ anthropologists include Google and Adidas.
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Sociology of Paris Attacks
Sociologist Dr Saskia Sassen contextualises national responses to the Paris attacks:
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Psychology of Happiness
Cornell University Psychologist, Dr Thomas Gilovich, has studied how experiences have a longer lasting cognitive benefit than the happiness that comes from material goods.
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Anthropological Cars
Dr Melissa Cefkin ’employs all of the core tools of anthropology—individual and group interviews, charted observation, and codified ethnographic videography among them—in order to seek patterns that can be fed into the decision chains of our robot overlords.’
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