Social Science Bites

Remember the amazing, spoon-bending Uri Geller? Bruce Hood does. And while Geller is, well, to be kind, controversial, Hood is a quite recognized and reputable developmental psychologist at Bristol University. But he does share one trait with the...

Here's an idea: social scientists should reflect critically on the prevailing concepts and categories before launching into empirical work with an existing framework. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast, sociologist  discusses...

Here's an idea: social scientists should reflect critically on the prevailing concepts and categories before launching into empirical work with an existing framework. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast, sociologist  discusses...

Here's an idea: social scientists should reflect critically on the prevailing concepts and categories before launching into empirical work with an existing framework. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast, sociologist  discusses...

Surnames predict social status with surprising accuracy. In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast  discusses this phenomenon with David Edmonds. Social Science Bites is made in association with . A transcript of this and other episodes...

Social scientist , Director of the LSE, discusses protest movements including the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in this episode of the podcast. The interviewer is Nigel Warburton. Social Science Bites is made in association with .

In this episode of the podcast Harvard social theorist claims that the social sciences need to reorient themselves away from retrospective rationalisation of what exists and focus instead on transformative opportunity. Social Science Bites is made...

In this episode of the podcast Harvard social theorist claims that the social sciences need to reorient themselves away from retrospective rationalisation of what exists and focus instead on transformative opportunity. Social Science Bites is made...

In this episode of the podcast Harvard social theorist claims that the social sciences need to reorient themselves away from retrospective rationalisation of what exists and focus instead on transformative opportunity. Social Science Bites is made...

There have been substantial gains in life expectancy in the last two hundred years or so, partly because of improved public health policy. In this episode of the podcast , whose recent research has focussed on India, discusses  the relationship...