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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A new Australian social science website has catalogued over 1,000 local languages from Papua New Guinea.
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The Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University says the social sciences in developing nations have an important role to play in society, especially through multidisciplinary research.
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Research shows casting agents often have anthropological training.
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Social science research shows three-quarters of French Muslim people have a French identity, This finding may seem to run contrary to right wing political debates that Muslims are not “integrating.”
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Japan’s Ministry for Education made waves by asking universities to review and condense their humanities and social sciences departments at a time when up to 70% of employers are seeking skills from these academic disciplines.
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The discipline of economics has the lowest proportion of women relative to other social sciences. Leading women economists face routine sexism. They are referred to as wives or second authors even when they are renowned experts and lead authors.
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Postgraduate students discuss how social science can improve the future.
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An Australian social science website catalogued over 1,000 local languages from Papua New Guinea. Continue reading Mapping Language
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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