Omnivore - What the Social Sciences Have to Tell Us

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, this collection of links deals with the social sciences - everything from book reviews, the new journals, to poststructuralism and sociolinguistics.

What the social sciences have to tell us

Feb 12 2014  

3:00PM

• The inaugural issue of Hydra: Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Studies is out. Herbert Gintis (SFI) and Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich): Homo Socialis: An Analytical Core for Sociological Theory. 
• Phillip M. Carter (FIU): Poststructuralist Theory and Sociolinguistics: Mapping the Linguistic Turn in Theory. 
• Bernd Reiter (USF): The Epistemology and Methodology of Exploratory Social Science Research: Crossing Popper with Marcuse. 
• From Society, a symposium on Facts, Values, and Social Science. 
• From Edge, what’s new in social science? A special event on the state of the art of what the social sciences have to tell us about human nature, HeadCon '13. 
• Davide Vecchi reviews Arguing About Human Nature: Contemporary Debates, ed. Stephen M. Downes and Edouard Machery. 
• John-Paul Smiley on the sociological imagination today: The need for biology. 
• The Third Intellectual Project: Iddo Tavory on the social condition. 
• David Banks on a social critique without social science. 
• An excerpt from The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature by Jamie Cohen-Cole. 
• Beyond Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: David Fields on the foundations for ethical political humanist social science. 
• David Beer on an invitation to punk sociology. 
• Oz Flanagan on the physicist and the social scientist. 
• In economics, climate science and public health, computer models help us decide how to act — but can we trust them? 
• Ben Williamson on the death of the theorist and the emergence of data and algorithms in digital social research. 
• You can download The Post-Modern Significance of Max Weber's Legacy by Basit Bilal Koshul (2005).