Social sciences
hideThe social sciences are the sciences, or the systematic knowledge-bases or prescriptive practices capable of resulting in a prediction or predictable type of outcome, relating to the social improvement of the community; a department in the more general extended field is Sociology. The social sciences initially were constituted of five fields: Jurisprudence and Amendment of the Law; Education; Health; Economy and Trade; Art. The contemporary field of science comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups, animals and individuals; This includes anthropology, archaeology, communication studies, cultural studies, demography, economics, human geography, history, linguistics, media studies, political science, psychology, and social work.
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Job insecurity leads to health problems in U.S. workers
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Persistent job insecurity poses a major threat to worker health, according to a new study published in the September issue of the peer-reviewed journal Social Science and Medicine.
Labor market economist studies changes in IQ
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Aug 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The more we work, the more we juggle a constant bombardment of tasks, the brighter we become.
Psychologists offer ways to improve prison environment, reduce violent crime
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Aug 08, 2009 |
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U.S. prisons are too punitive and often fail to rehabilitate, but targeting prisoners' behavior, reducing prison populations and offering job skills could reduce prisoner aggression and prevent recidivism, a researcher told ...
Challenging conventional wisdom: Advances in development reverse fertility declines
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Aug 05, 2009 |
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A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Università Bocconi in Milan have released a study that challenges one of the most established and accepted standards in the social sciences: Human fertility ...
Research says modern work-related stress damages national output more than 1970s strikes
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research presented by Bernard Casey of the University of Warwick’s Institute for Employment Research shows that work-related stress today damages national output even more than the loss to national output ...
New study indicates that parents' influence on children's eating habits is small
May 29, 2009 |
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The popular belief that healthy eating starts at home and that parents' dietary choices help children establish their nutritional beliefs and behaviors may need rethinking, according to a study by researchers at the Johns ...
Anthropologist examines stigma of infertility in Nigeria
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Apr 23, 2009 |
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In sub-Saharan Africa, the issue of infertility is often obscured by the region's high fertility rates. Though problematic, particularly for women, little is known about how different regions understand and respond to infertility ...
Domestic and international influences shape the politics of R&D and innovation
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In the last three decades, research across the social sciences has made great advances in the political economy of technological change (also called innovation or R&D). There exists a better understanding how domestic institutions ...
It's your funeral: The eco burial movement gathers ground
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Mar 09, 2009 |
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Natural burial is often thought of as a green option that takes place in the countryside for non-religious people, but according to researchers at the University of Sheffield, that is only part of the story. 'Lots of different ...
Video game Everquest 2 provides new way to study human behavior
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A research study by a University of Minnesota computer scientist and colleagues from across the country shows that online, interactive gaming communities are now so massive that they mirror traditional communities.
Internet emerges as social research tool
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For the past two decades, the Internet has been used by many as an easy-to-use tool that enables the spread of information globally. Increasingly, the Web is moving beyond its use as an electronic "Yellow Pages" and online ...
Surprising results: Virtual games players stick close to home
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In the real world, tracking a person's social network -- which could include hundreds of contacts that serve different purposes -- is nearly impossible.
Adolescents involved with music do better in school
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A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly reveals that music participation, defined as music lessons taken in or out of school and parents attending concerts with their children, has a positive effect on readin ...
Adolescents with unpopular names more prone to committing crime
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A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly examined the relationship between first name popularity in adolescents and tendency to commit crime. Results show that, regardless of race, juveniles with unpopular names ...
