The Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University says the social sciences have an important role to play in society, especially through multidisciplinary research.
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A comment from one of my readers, via my Tumblr:
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Continue reading “Culture is Important in Capitalist Business”“Even at the heart of capitalist business, culture is important. A purely strategic approach isn’t sustainable.”
A study of 11,000 workers find that managers have a negative perception of private social media use at work, but they are also more likely to indulge in private social media during work time.
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A psychology study by social scientist, Professor Sarah Damaske and colleagues finds people have lower levels of stress at home than at their paid work.
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“The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they – at some distant point in the future – will … Continue reading Social Science of Youth
Whenever I go to Little Bourke Street, I think of geographer Kay Anderson’s research on Chinatown in Melbourne (she’s also done similar work in Vancouver).
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Continue reading “Empathy in Youth Work”“Empathy is vital in understanding the needs and issues facing young people, and it is important to recognise the potential they have.”
Psychologist, Prof Barry Schwartz, argues that making paid work more meaningful for both blue and white collar workers begins with changing what we think about the motivations of paid labour.
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In 2013 Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argued Australia is overly focused on debt without putting this into international context.
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