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Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

This article is an account of the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences. Against an arid rhetoric of ‘interdisciplinarity’, it calls for a more expansive imaginary of what experiment – as practice and ethos – might offer … Continue reading →

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Philosophy and Social Science: Introducing Bourdieu and Passeron

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

This text derives from a recording, and transcripts, of the introduction which Althusser gave on 6 December 1963, to a seminar for students in the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, offered at his invitation by Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron. Althusser … Continue reading →

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How to Do Social Science Without Data

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Giorgio Bertini

With the death last month of the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman at age 91, the intellectual world lost a thinker of rare insight and range. Because his style of work was radically different from that of most social scientists in the … Continue reading →

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Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: An Introduction

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Giorgio Bertini

Chaos and complexity are the new buzzwords in both science and contemporary society. The ideas they represent have enormous implications for the way we understand and engage with the world. Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences introduces students to the … Continue reading →

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Social Science is not fighting Inequality

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

Sociology is at risk of losing what credibility it has because we have latched onto ways of studying inequality that are not suited to new economic arrangements. What are those ways? They started as truths that now represent half-truths or … Continue reading →

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Corporate Social Science and the Loss of Curiosity

Posted on December 11, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

“Social science is an enterprise of the modern world.” Peter Taylor reflects on the directions in which social science has moved in the twenty years since the issuing of the Gulbenkian Commission’s report, Open the Social Sciences. While a strong … Continue reading →

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Complex Adaptive Systems in the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

This article examines applications of complexity theory within the behavioral and social sciences. Specific attention is given to the fundamental characteristics of complex adaptive systems (CAS) — such as individuals, groups, and societies — including the underlying structure of CAS, … Continue reading →

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The Origins of Western Social Sciences

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

On the whole, Muslims have accepted Western claims that both social sciences and physical sciences are equally fact and logic based, and “positive” descriptions of reality. In fact, Western formulations of social sciences hide ethical and social commitments to secular … Continue reading →

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Social Science Parks: Society’s New Super Labs

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

This paper introduces a practical innovation in facilitating interdisciplinary social science research and its application: the Social Science Research Park (SPARK). Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in developing interdisciplinary research that addresses societal problems and so-called … Continue reading →

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Complexity in Social, Political, and Economic Systems

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

We live in a time of rising complexity both in the internal workings of our social, economic and political systems and in the outcomes that those systems produce. Increasing complexity has implications for social science: it hinders our ability to … Continue reading →

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