Wellbeing of Children with Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury affects elderly people as well as kids under 19 years. Given that brain injury affects motor skills and emotions, a medical program needed to know how to assist young people with brain injuries, as well as their families, as the youth transition into adulthood. The medical team sought input through a qualitative study.
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Emotional Depth of Young Men of Colour
While these societal images focus on fear, punishment and crime, social science research shows that young boys of colour are deep critical thinkers and capable of profound emotion.
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For Science to Deliver for Society You Need Social Science
“If social, economic and/or cultural factors are not included in the framing of [science] questions, a great deal of creativity can be wasted. This message is not new. Yet it gets painfully learned over and over again, as funders and researchers hoping to make a difference to humanity watch projects fail to do so.
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Studying Sexuality for Social Policy
Studying sexuality has always been fraught with societal push-back. The story of other scientific innovations being rejected and ultimately adopted, such as with evolution, is widely celebrated as a triumph over religiously motivated politics. Yet the social sciences have repeatedly faced similar struggles and continue to do so today, but these stories are lesser known.
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Social Protest Music
Social science music time! Here’s a song by Bad Religion, who write about the problems with capitalism.
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Online Activism
There is some backlash about so-called “hashtag” activism, which critiques people tweeting about a women’s safety while doing nothing as a woman is being attacked and asking for help. This criticism is short-sighted.
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Happy New Year
Wishing you all a very happy New Year! May the year ahead bring us positive social change!
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Social Science Quote: Tolerance
The social science quote of the week is about building more tolerant and just societies. It’s also the last post for 2014!
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27 Million People Homeless Due to Disaster
“Over the last decade an average of 27 million people have lost their homes to disaster each year, and in 2010 that number rose to 42 million. In an especially bad year of violent conflict, 2013 saw three times more … Continue reading 27 Million People Homeless Due to Disaster
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