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This case contends that small implicit biases seep into social science research through the interrelated paths of definitional considerations, methodological discretion, and interpretative bias. Using a previously published study on the relationship between gun control and mass murder, I demonstrate how definition drives method and how method influences results and interpretation. The case focuses on the ways in which small implicit biases in definitions of key variables introduce larger biases in interpretation and influences the direction of social science research. Lessons for managing problems of measurement in method are discussed.

This article argues that the tradition within the individualism-holism debate of importing arguments from the micro–macro discussion in other disciplines (e.g., philosophy of mind and philosophy of biology) significantly has hampered our understanding of the "individual-social" relationship. While, for example, the "neural-mental" and "atomic-molecular" links represent empirical "gives rise to" relationships, in the social sciences the micro–macro link is a purely analytical "qualifies as" type of relationship. This disanalogy is important, since it has significant implications for the individualism-holism debate: (a) it implies a phenomenally monist social ontology and (b) it disqualifies the notion of social macro causation.

This article demonstrates how the evolution of US social sciences during the Cold War influenced French attempts to develop Algeria economically and socially. During a violent war of decolonization, French researchers drew from social psychology to inform development policies. Studying political trends through the lens of cultural and psychological factors transformed older understandings of social classification. Rather than being conceived in primarily biological terms, racial difference was increasingly defined in relationship to economic capacities. The Constantine Plan, introduced in 1958, exemplified the intimate link between social planning and the postwar social sciences. The article then studies attempts to develop the Sahara, where planners sought to determine which races would be able to work in the harsh conditions of the desert. Arguing that social planning in Algeria was not merely a 'colonial' phenomena, this article shows how development reflected the broader shifts in thinking about the economy and social organization that marked the 1950s and 1960s.

"Current mathematical models are notoriously unreliable in describing the time evolution of unexpected social phenomena, from financial crashes to revolution. Can such events be forecast? Can we compute probabilities about them? Can we model them? This book investigates and attempts to answer these questions through Gödel's two incompleteness theorems, and in doing so demonstrates how influential Gödel is in modern logical and mathematical thinking. Many mathematical models are applied to economics and social theory, while Gödel's theorems are able to predict their limitations for more accurate analysis and understanding of national and international events. This unique discussion is written for graduate level mathematicians applying their research to the social sciences, including economics, social studies and philosophy, and also for formal logicians and philosophers of science."--Publisher's website

Ethics as governance in genomics and beyond /Stephen Hilgartner, Barbara Prainsack, and J. Benjamin Hurlbut --Responsible research and innovation /Jack Stilgoe and David H. Guston --Reframing science communication /Maja Horst, Sarah R. Davies, and Alan Irwin --Engaging with societal challenges /Clark A. Miller --Aging : the sociomaterial constitution of later life /Kelly Joyce, Alexander Peine, Louis Neven, and Florian Kohlbacher --Agricultural systems : co-producing knowledge and food /Alastair Iles, Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Maywa Montenegro, and Ryan Galt --Knowledge and security /Kathleen M. Vogel, Brian Balmer, Sam Weiss Evans, Inga Kroener, Miwao Matsumoto, and Brian Rappert --Researching disaster from an STS perspective /Kim Fortun, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Vivian Choi, Paul Jobin, Miwao Matsumoto, Pedro de la Torre III, Max Liboiron, and Luis Felipe R. Murillo --Environmental justice : knowledge, technology, and expertise /Gwen Ottinger, Javiera Barandiarán, and Aya H. Kimura --The making of global environmental science and politics /Silke Beck, Tim Forsyth, Pia M. Kohler, Myanna Lahsen, and Martin Mahony.

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la investigación que se ha desarrollado en el área de Trabajo Social de acuerdo a los trabajos publicados en revistas del área de Trabajo Social según las bases de datos bibliográficas de referencia internacional propiedad de Thomson Reuter, Web of Science y Journal Citation Reports. Para ello, recuperaremos desde el Web of Science todos los trabajos publicados en las revistas internacionales indexadas en la categoría de trabajo social del Journal Citation Report entre los años 2010-2015. Entonces, analizamos mediante técnicas de mapas de ciencia el contenido de los trabajos e identificamos los temas de investigación más relevantes, los temas emergentes, los temas en decadencia y temas periféricos

Researchers from the humanities and social sciences can help governments emerge and recover from COVID-19, yet their perspectives continue to be ignored and marginalised. Humanities and social science research can provide the political, historical, cultural, social, and economic insights to deepen our understanding of the pandemic, how it has been experienced, how to overcome it, and how best to learn from it.

'Doing Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences: An Integrated Approach to Research Design, Measurement and Statistics' by Thomas R. Black is reviewed.

In spite of the manifold critique about the state of economics in the aftermath of the financial crisis, an even increasing presence of economists and economic experts can be observed in the public sphere during the last years. On the one hand this reflects the still dominant position of economics in the social sciences as well as the sometimes ignorant attitude of economists towards findings of other social sciences. On the other hand this paper shows that the public debate on politicoeconomic issues among economists is dominated by a specific subgroup of economists, tightly connected to an institutional network of "German neoliberalism". This group of "public economists" (i) is dominant in public debates even after the financial crisis, (ii) reproduces the formative German economic imaginary of the Social Market Economy in a German neoliberal interpretation and (iii) has a good access to German economic policymaking, rooted in a long history of economic policy advice.