For a Global Social Science

Science for global understanding.

ince its founding in 1945, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been a leading convener and advocate for the natural and social sciences and the humanities. Every year since 2001, on 10 November, UNESCO’s World Science Day reminds us of the importance of science for sustainable development and peace. This year’s theme, “Science for Global Understand...

Social science. Computational social science.

Social science intelligence in the global Ebola response.

330 www.thelancet.com Vol 385 January 24, 2015 and collaborating on research initiatives. This kind of initiative avoids the wasteful duplication of eff ort, and should be reproduced for other medical humanitarian emergencies. The Ebola response shows the need for new global mechanisms to be established that can rapidly mobilise all experts who can bring relevant local contextual, medical, epid...

Testament for Social Science

George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 15s. This book sets out to study the extent to which Scientific methods are being and can be used in the eld of the social sciences. The position and reputation of the author thus must command careful attention, and the importance she attaches to the subject is reflected in her choice of a title ; she is perhaps ambitious here, and the result scarcely corresponds to an...

For public social science.

Braithwaite (Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University) (Corresponding author email: [email protected]) © London School of Economics and Political Science 2005 ISSN 0007-1315 print/1468-4446 online. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA on behalf of the LSE. DOI: 10.1111/j.146...