Social Science Bites
Bite-sized interviews with top social scientists
- Website
- http://www.socialsciencebites.com
- Description
- Social Science Bites is a podcast series interviewing major figures in social science, made in association with SAGE
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-10 14:10
- last episode published
- 2025-03-03 11:00
- publication frequency
- 31.26 days
- Contributors
- Nigel Warburton
- Owner
- michael.todd@sagepub.com (michael.todd@sagepub.com)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 151
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Education Philosophy Higher Education
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-03 | A new people has emerged in the digital age, that of ‘internet famous’ celebrities. And that new people has a class of social scientist focused on studying them, the digital anthropologist. Crystal Abidin, a professor at Australia’s Curtin Universi... | |
| 2025-02-03 | Everyone, we assume, wants to be their best person. Few of us, perhaps, none, hits all their marks in this pursuit even if the way toward the goal is generally apparent. If you want to know how to do a better job hitting those marks, whether its walki... | |
| 2025-01-06 | There is a natural desire on the part of governments to ensure that their future citizens -- i.e. their nation's children -- are happy, healthy and productive, and that therefore governments have policies that work to achieve that. But good intentions... | |
| 2024-12-02 | ||
| 2024-11-04 | As an investigative journalist, Julia Ebner had the freedom to do something she freely admits that as an academic (the hat she currently wears as postdoctoral researcher at the Calleva Centre for Evolution and Human Sciences at the University of Oxfor... | |
| 2024-10-01 | The relationship between citizens and their criminal justice systems comes down to just that - relationships. And those relations generally start with essentially one-on-one encounters between law enforcement personnel and individuals, whether those i... | |
| 2024-09-04 | Listening to the ongoing debate about artificial intelligence, one could be forgiven for assuming that the technology is either a bogeyman or a savior, with little ground in between. But that’s not the stance of economist Daron Acemoglu, professor at ... | |
| 2024-08-01 | How much of our understanding of the world comes built-in? More than you’d expect. That’s the conclusion that Iris Berent, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and head of the Language and Mind Lab there, has come to after years of r... | |
| 2024-07-01 |
Megan Stevenson on Why Interventions in the Criminal Justice System Don’t Work Do policies built around social and behavioral science research actually work? That’s a big, and contentious, question. It’s also almost an existential question for the disciplines involved. It’s also a question that Megan Stevenson, a professor of law... |
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| 2024-06-03 |