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unusual facts about Social Science


Social science

In the terms of sociologists Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, social scientists seek an understanding of the Social Construction of Reality.


Arab Muslims

Arab Muslims are adherents of the religion of Islam who identify linguistically, culturally, or genealogically as Arabs.

Asa Baber

Quickly becoming one of the magazine's most popular features, the unapologetic and politically incorrect column covered a broad spectrum of subjects including sports, sexuality, divorce, male-bashing, employment, personal identity, fatherhood, and personal values.

Bernard Arps

He also served as Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2001-02, a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Asian Studies and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University during the first half of 2005, and the Netherlands Visiting Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan in 2006-07.

Case study

The use of case studies for the creation of new theory in social sciences has been further developed by the sociologists Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss who presented their research method, Grounded theory, in 1967.

Chickering's theory of identity development

Chickering's Theory of Identity Development, as articulated by Arthur W. Chickering explains the process of identity development.

Cosumnes River College

In September 1975 the Business/Social Science building was dedicated, which included computer laboratories.

Daniel Heath Justice

Justice's critical work has often centered around themes of identity, authenticity and decolonisation: this has led to his being associated with literary nationalists such as Craig Womack and Jace Weaver.

Emilie Turunen

Turunen graduated from Roskilde University in Social Science and Working Life Studies and lives with her boyfriend in northwest Copenhagen.

Mounir Farah

Before that, he taught history and social science at New York University and Western Connecticut State University, as well as being a lecturer at international teacher's conferences and has a Ph.D. A strong advocate for history for, by, and about the Middle East, he served as a consultant for the Ministry of Education in Jordan and as a board member and past president of the Middle East Outreach Council.

Pentito

In the United States, criminals testifying against their former associates can enter the Witness Protection Program, and be given new identities, with supporting paperwork.

Peter Klusen

After studying at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and RWTH Aachen University (German language, journalism and social science) he worked as a teacher at FernUniversität Hagen, the only state funded distance education university in Germany, and Mönchengladbach Franz-Meyers High School.

William Swann

He is primarily known for his work on identity, self and self-esteem, but has also done research on relationships, social cognition, group processes, accuracy in person perception and interpersonal expectancy effects.


see also

A. James Gregor

He attended and graduated from Columbia University in 1952 and thereafter served as a high school social science teacher while working for his advanced degrees.

Agyenim Boateng

He worked as an Assistant Professor in Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama and also at Daniel Payne College in Birmingham, Alabama where he served as Assistant Professor of Political and Social Science.

Alexander Carr-Saunders

The success of his magnum opus The Population Problem resulted in his appointment to the Charles Booth Chair of Social Science at the University of Liverpool in 1923.

Bhopal School of Social Sciences

The Bhopal School of Social Science (popularly known, among the Bhopal crowd as BSSS) is located in the city of lakes, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

Brox

Ottar Brox (born 1932), Norwegian authority in social science and a politician for the Socialist Left Party

C.T. Kurien

In 1978 he was appointed Director of the Madras Institute of Development Studies, a national centre for social science research, holding this position for ten year.

Charles Cahan

Cahan was a member of the American Economic Association, and American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Cohort

Cohort study, a form of longitudinal study used in medicine and social science

EPPI-Centre

The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre) is part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Evelyn Fox

Fox, who was General Secretary of the National Association for Mental Health (NAMH – now known as MIND) in the late 1940s, along with Tyler Fox (no relation), Medical Director of the Epilepsy Colony at Lingfield, Surrey and Irene Gairdner, a social science graduate from the London School of Economics, were the driving forces for the creation of the British Epilepsy Association (BEA).

Hildreth Meiere

1933 Chicago World's Fair Century of Progress, 60' long x 8' high painted mural called A Century of Women's Progress Through Organization for the National Council for Women's Exhibit in the Social Science Building

Institute of Governmental Studies

IGS Press is a small press publisher and has entered into more formal collaborations with the University of California Press and other campus social science units.

Institutionalism

Historical institutionalism, a social science method of inquiry that uses institutions as subject of study in order to find, measure and trace patterns and sequences of social, political, economic behavior and change across time and space

Interpretivism

Antipositivism, also known as interpretivism – a tradition in social science related to interactionism and the verstehen sociology of Max Weber and Georg Simmel

ISSP

International Social Survey Programme, a collaboration between different nations conducting surveys covering topics which are useful for social science research

James J. Jenkins

He was Consulting Editor, Associate Editor, or Editor of several major professional journals and member of several NIH and NIE grant panels, member of the National Research Council for four years, and Chairman of the Social Science Research Council Committee on Linguistics and Psychology (1960–1962).

James W. Tankard, Jr.

Pamela J. Shoemaker, James William Tankard, Jr., Dominic L. Lasorsa, How To Build Social Science Theories Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2004.

Jean Arnault

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Conciliation Resources, London, since 2013 and a member of the Advisory Board of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, Social Science Research Council, SSRC New York since 2008.

Jesus T. Peralta

He has participated in many literature, art, archeology, social science and cultural workshops and conferences including the writer's workshop in Silliman University, the writer's workshop at the University of Iowa, USA.

Kali Salwar

An alumnus of both the Tata Institute of Social Science TISS, Mumbai from where she passed out in 1984 and the Film and Television Institute of India FTII, Pune from where she graduated with specialization in Film Direction in 1989, it has been years of hard work in getting this film across to the screen.

Lewis Wade Jones

A member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, he received his A.B. degree from Fisk University in 1931, and followed it with postgraduate study as a Social Science Research Council Fellow at the University of Chicago in 1931-1932.

LGBT parenting

Judith Stacey, of New York University, stated: "Rarely is there as much consensus in any area of social science as in the case of gay parenting, which is why the American Academy of Pediatrics and all of the major professional organizations with expertise in child welfare have issued reports and resolutions in support of gay and lesbian parental rights".

Likert

the Likert scale developed by Rensis Likert, a measuring device used in quantitative social science

Luc Boltanski

Boltanski, L., Thévenot, L. 1983, Finding One's Way in Social Space : A Study based on Games, Social Science Information, 22 (4-5), 1983, p.

Lui Che Woo

Lui was also awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa by the University of Victoria in 2001; the degree of Doctor of Social Science, honoris causa, by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2002; an Honorary University Fellowship by the University of Hong Kong in 2002; the degree of Honorary Doctor of Laws by Concordia University in 2004, and the degree of Doctor of Business Administration, honoris causa, by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

M. Crawford Young

He has held chairmanship of the UW–Madison political science department twice (1969–72; 1984–87), and was between 1973-75 Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at the Université Nationale du Zaire.

Margherita Cagol

In 1964 she enrolled in the faculty of Social Science at the University of Trento.

Michael Banton

He was President of the Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations section of the International Sociological Association 1990-94, and Director of the Social Science Research Council Research Unit on Ethnic Relations, 1970-78.

Miguel Hernández University of Elche

In Orihuela, there are two schools and five UMH departments distributed between two university locations (Desamparados and Salesas), where technical and social science education, respectively, are offered.

Native American recognition in the United States

Peroff, Nicholas C. (1997) "Indian Identity" The Social Science Journal, Volume 34, Number 4, pages 485-494.

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Sylvia Nasar wrote in her book A Beautiful Mind that in February 1995, after acrimony pertaining to the awarding of the 1994 Prize in Economics to John Forbes Nash, the Prize in Economics was redefined as a prize in social science.

Pickup artist

However, the claims of Pick Up Artists are not made in peer-reviewed psychological or social science journals, and central figures in the community such as Mystery and Neil Strauss have no formal training in psychology or the methodologies of the social sciences.

Population Council

The Population Council also publishes the journals Population and Development Review, which reports scientific research on the interrelationships between population and socioeconomic development and provides a forum for discussion of related issues of public policy, and Studies in Family Planning, which focuses on public health, social science, and biomedical research on sexual and reproductive health, fertility, and family planning.

R. Kent Weaver

From 2002 to 2002, he served as co-director of the Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative at Brookings, which sought to build a better understanding of social science research findings among policymakers and advocates in the lead-up to congressional debate on reauthorization of welfare reform legislation.

Robert Mackenzie Johnston

He was president of the economic and social science and statistics section at the meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science held at Melbourne in 1890, and with the coming of federation he was able to influence very much the special problems of finance that were raised.

Rudolf Virchow Award

1991 - Merrill Singer: Reinventing Medical Anthropology: Toward a Critical Realignment, Social Science and Medicine 30(2):179-187 (1990).

Social Science Japan Journal

SSJJ’s editorial board is located at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo, and supported by the international advisory board members including Andrew Gordon (Harvard University), Carol Gluck (Columbia University), Jomo Kwame Sundaram (United Nations), and J. Victor Koschmann (Cornell University).

SSRC

The Social Science Research Council, former name of the Economic and Social Research Council, one of the United Kingdom's eight Research Councils

Structure and agency

The critical realist structure/agency perspective embodied in the Transformational Model of Social Action (TMSA) has been further advocated and applied in other social science fields by additional authors, for example in economics by Tony Lawson and in sociology by Margaret Archer.

SWI-Prolog

The name SWI is derived from Sociaal-Wetenschappelijke Informatica ("Social Science Informatics"), the former name of the group at the University of Amsterdam, where Wielemaker is employed.

Tadao Yanaihara

The first director of Shakai Kagaku Kenkyűjo (Institute of Social Science or Shaken) at the University of Tokyo.

Tamsin Wilton

Tamsin Elizabeth Wilton (1952 – April 30, 2006) was an English academic, a lesbian activist, theorist, social researcher, writer and cartoonist, and professor of Human Sexuality in the School of Social Science at the University of the West of England.

The Sarai Programme at CSDS

Partha Chatterjee et al., Published by the Social Science Research Council, New York, 2002 as part of the "SSRC Working paper series" on 'Building Intellectual Capacity for the 21st Century'.

University of Stavanger

The university offers doctorates in Petroleum Technology, Offshore Technology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Special Needs Education, Literacy and Social Science (with specializations in Medicine and Health, Risk Management and Societal Safety, Management, Economics, Tourism, Sociology, Social Work and Culture & Society).

Wang Zhongshu

His excavation report for the Balhae projects won an award from the National Social Science Fund and the Guo Moruo Chinese History Prize.

Yogendra Yadav

He has also acted as an editor and adviser for various publications, such as the European Journal of Political Research, Samayik Varta and the Hindi-language social science anthologies titled Lokchhintan and Lokchintak Granthamala.