John Curtice, Stephen Fisher, Jouni Kuha and Jonathan Mellon Social scientists aim to understand and explain human behaviour. If they are [...]
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Category "Focus"
Focus: Trans and the contradictions of gender
Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott In this article we will consider issues for sociological understandings of gender in the context of [...]
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FOCUS: Families and Relationships across Crises
Sara de Jong and Jacqui Gabb David Cameron’s plans to fix a “broken society” , by putting families first, gave prominence [...]
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FOCUS: Crowdfunding, Cryptocurrencies and Financial Inclusion – Precarious Innovation
Alexia Maddox Precariousness drives innovation. For research innovation, the state of precariousness in the higher education environment opens both possibilities for [...]
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Focus: Feminism in the Academy and Beyond
Victoria Robinson More than ever, we need to talk about the continuing, and frankly, not very helpful demarcation between the academy [...]
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Focus: Fracturing Societies
Rowland Atkinson and Don Mitchell The world feels like it is falling apart, and maybe it really is. Maybe the [...]
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Social Science & Social Futures: Fast Scholarship, Emerging Technologies & the Future of Inquiry
Mark Carrigan and Will Housley Distributed networked technologies have transformed communication, produced new forms of ‘data’ and have had a significant [...]
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Focus: Looking Critically at Gender and Sexuality
Susan F. Frenk and Mark McCormack Societies across the world have experienced large-scale social change related to gender and sexuality. For [...]
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FOCUS: Transparency and the Open Society
Roger Taylor Are people being driven to suicide by the stress of compulsory medical tests for sickness benefits? Are police in [...]
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Focus: Climate change and the social sciences
Reiner Grundmann Climate change is an important topic for society but it seems that social scientists could do a better [...]
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