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Technology and international competitiveness / Christopher T. Hill -- Technological frontiers and human integrity / Langdon Winner -- Automation madness, or the unautomatic history of automation / David F. Noble -- Engineering birth / Joan Rothschild -- Radiation and society / Rosalyn S. Yalow -- In the clutches of Daedalus / Sal Restive -- Progress, culture

Early research led scholars to believe that institutional accountability in Congress is lacking because public evaluations of its collective performance do not affect the reelection of its members. However, a changed partisan environment along with new empirical evidence raises unanswered questions about the effect of congressional performance on incumbents' electoral outcomes over time. Analysis of House reelection races across the last several decades produces important findings: (1) low congressional approval ratings generally reduce the electoral margins of majority party incumbents and increase margins for minority party incumbents; (2) partisan polarization in the House increases the magnitude of this partisan differential, mainly through increased electoral accountability among majority party incumbents; (3) these electoral effects of congressional performance ratings hold largely irrespective of a member's individual party loyalty or seat safety. These findings carry significant implications for partisan theories of legislative organization and help explain salient features of recent Congresses.

Policy studies or policy analysis can be broadly defined as the study of the nature, causes, & effects of alternative public policies. All fields of scientific knowledge, but especially the social sciences, are relevant to such a study. Sociology, for example, has developed a substantial amount of factual knowledge & theory in broad fields, eg, social control, socialization, & social change, that can be helpful in understanding the effects of alternative policies & the behavior of policymakers & appliers. Economics has developed sophisticated mathematical models for synthesizing normative & empirical premises in order to deduce means-ends policy recommendations. Psychology has developed techniques of statistical inference, cross-tabulation, survey research, & multivariate analysis. Anthropology, geography, & history provide a broader perspective over space & time than the other social sciences do. Philosophy provides direction to policy studies. Mathematics offer quantitative & computer science tools, while the physical & biological sciences provide models to emulate in the development of mathematically scientific laws. Political science is turning more toward the analysis of specific policy problem areas. More interdisciplinary research teams & more interaction among policy-oriented people from different disciplines may be needed. Modified AA

1.Football as a multifaceted object of academic studies in Brazil -- 2.Football and politics -- 3."My concern was to play football": relations between football and dictatorship -- 4.The political dimension of futebol-arte -- 5.1982 World Cup: Democratic winds in Spain and Brazil.-6. Brazilian football and history -- 7.Myths, football and national identity (1930-1983) -- 8.Order & Progress on the Grandstands: Sports Journalism and the Genesis of uniformed football fans during the political regime of the Estado Novo (1937-1945) -- 9.Sport and society in the writings of Roberto DaMatta -- 10.Neymar, football and the formation of a neoliberal culture -- 11.A modernity that is not complete? Ideas and interpretations about Brazilian football -- 12. FIFA, BRICS and the Soft Power discourse: analysis of the World Cup in South Africa, Brazil and Russia -- 13.Football and anthropology in Brazil -- 14.An ethnographic game of fluid categories of analysis -- 15. Garrincha, Pelé and Maradona: The sporting sacred in times of football icon veneration -- 16.When does the World Cup 2014 event start and end? -- 17.Football and communication studies in Brazil: Fences and crossroads of an indisciplinary field -- 18.Sport and the media in Brazil: vices and virtues of a secular marriage -- 19. World Cups' geography: urban Brazil in 1950 -- 20.Stadiums and arenas as privileged lenses to capture changes in urban space -- 21.The football industry in Brazil -- 22.The controversy over the introduction of the VAR in Brazil -- 23.Life projects, women and football -- 24.Brazil is Hexa: Marta's Sporting Career -- 25.Gender expressions and the multiple practices of football in Brazil -- 26.Football, violence and democratic politics in Brazil -- 27.Narratives about football hooliganism in Brazil: (De)constructing the label "violent supporter" -- 28.The experience of cheering in (so-called) "modern football" -- 29.Brazilian racism in Football -- 30."This is a reality": The racism narrated by black characters in Brazilian football.

AbstractIn its most recent report, the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia (ASSA, 2021: 10) identified social inequality as a "grand challenge" for the social sciences, arguing that social scientists have a pivotal role to play in "understanding, addressing and guiding us towards a narrowing of a two‐tier society." Nevertheless, the social sciences continue to be regularly positioned as "soft" and esoteric in relation to the natural sciences, while also sustaining disproportionate funding cuts. In this article, we—a multidisciplinary group of social science researchers forming part of the Inequalities and Social Action Research Cluster based at The University of Queensland (Australia)—draw on the existing literature and our diverse experiences to reflexively consider how academic social scientists might play the active role that ASSA foresees to address social inequalities into the future. This includes by countering the inherent imperialism of the Western academy itself. We explore the roles, barriers and tensions that social scientists face and conclude by offering a framework of key strategies to improve the translational impacts of social science research for addressing social inequalities.

Singer, Milton (U of Chicago, I11), THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IN NON-WESTERN STUDIES, A. Amer. Acad. Polit. Soc. Sci., 1964, 356, Nov, 30-44. The involvement of the soc sci's in non-Western studies has been growing despite instit'al & intellectual conflicts between area & disciplinary studies. The process of instit'al adaptation is illustrated by the postwar development of nonWestern studies. The intellectual conflict springs from the fact that the definitions & classifications of major world areas do not correspond to the definitions & classifications in any soc sci discipline. The several disciplines have a diff'1 proneness to area studies, & the problem of integrating them for study of a particular area has no simple, uniform solution. Evidence is presented to show how the study of non-Western societies & civilizations is generating new & fertile hybrid disciplines in anthrop & is giving a comparitive & internat'al dimension to the other soc sci's. AA.

One area of family law that has generated considerable public discourse but has received relatively little attention in the social science literature is the awarding of alimony. Because of the paucity of research in this area, we are left with little information about the impact of these support awards and payments on the emotional and economic dynamics between former spouses. In this article, we outline key issues associated with spousal support and call for research on the implications of this neglected aspect of domestic relations.