Social science

Vladimir Tismaneanu on a study of one man’s journey from ‘Homo Sovieticus’ to ‘Homo Antisovieticus’

Simon Underdown relishes an engaging study of evolution that delights in breaking the fourth wall

Book of the week: Economic instability is inevitable – what matters is our efforts to limit it, says Victoria Bateman of L. Randall Wray's latest book

New research initiative is thought to be the first of its kind in the UK, if not the world

Research organisations who previously worked with the troubled children’s charity have sought to clarify ‘misleading’ descriptions of clinical work

There may be ideas for research here, but less in the way of practical lessons for busy managers, says Helga Drummond

The real-life versions of Philip Marlowe were more likely criminals than heroes, says Sharon Wheeler

There are insights for scholars and law enforcement officials alike in this investigation of how the most lethal lone-wolf attack was planned, says Matthew Feldman

Book of the week: A shared sense of precarity is at the heart of recent disparate mass protests, says Mary Evans

Former Nuffield Foundation director Sharon Witherspoon says the disciplines face many challenges

Better training will help communities to prevent and deal with consequences of procedure, says vice-chancellor

Settlers will study course on ‘life stories’ led by University of East London academic

'Confrontational policies' will have long-term consequences on universities' international collaborations, claims academic

A small tax hike for the cream of 1 per cent could fund college for the poorest, says Danny Dorling

Marianne Franklin on a guide to help people escape the attentions of public and private bodies capturing and capitalising on our online actions

Wageningen University president and author of Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat on her appetite for good books, from Primo Levi to Claudia Roden.

Survey also finds that women do more work with the general public than male researchers

Book of the week: Beneath a bourgeois veneer is a secret history of defunct jobs and fascinating lives, says Paul White

Increase led by growth in number of international students

An intellectual tag team helped to steal workers’ time, bodies and then souls, Philip Roscoe learns

Through a series of ‘creation stories’, E. Stina Lyon hears how individuals are breaking ground as they form families

Book of the week: Ethics aside, no useful information is to be gained from ‘coercive questioning’, says Steven Rose

Labour ex-minister criticises the view that UK ‘can’t afford English identity’

The latest detention of Miguel Ángel Beltrán is viewed by many scholars as an attack on academic freedom

Marcus Chown on a brief, critically important guide to economic literacy

A Welsh town’s Boiz, Geeks and Emos are in urgent need of new scripts, finds John Field

Cait MacPhee on personal accounts of gender trouble in the sciences

The responses to a UK-wide survey show how life chances are diverging, argues Danny Dorling

Adam Afriyie urges policymakers to test their preconceived ideologies against evidence

Author of new book The Cunning of Uncertainty fears pressure for scientific certainty is leading researchers to make promises they cannot deliver

Howard P. Segal on a brilliant study exploring the conflict between free speech and instruction guides that may be used for violence

Caroline Osella on a fieldwork-based study of the attachments that develop among those in shanty towns

Richard Murphy praises a bold effort to halt tax-dodging by the 1 per cent

Policymakers in US and UK told not to jeopardise the nations’ strength in the fields

Danny Dorling sees how bricks and mortar became part of the arsenal with which the US fought the Cold War

Helen Bynum lauds an exploration of the moral and social aspects of science through the evolution of a leading publication

A new paper finds that more than half of economic studies are unreproducible. But there could be even deeper issues with the discipline, says David Matthews

Inequality in income lowers the life expectancy of everyone in society, says Marcus Chown

From living rent-free to Madoff’s fraud, a study of scams forces us to face our sins, says Dick Hobbs

Director Jeremy Farrar argues that current research culture damages scientists’ ability ‘to dream’

Fears that discipline is particularly susceptible to statistical ‘hacking’ of data to gain a positive result

Jonathan Mirsky on the treaties and extraterritoriality imposed on China in the decades after the Opium Wars

When it comes to meritocracy in free market capitalism, people don’t hate the game, they hate the players, says Angelia Wilson

Jane Appleton on how youths feel about the organisational decisions and interventions that are supposed to help them

Flora Samuel on a revelatory call for researchers to embrace context, culture and the unknown

Views of early career social scientists will be collected with a view to improve support for those starting out in academia

Even in the academy, your class background will always be a factor in how you are seen, says LSE’s Lisa Mckenzie

A study of the predatory nature of markets holds up a mirror to the field, says Victoria Bateman

Joanna Williams on a study embracing technology and introducing a provocative concept of learning

It’s communal, kinky, defiant – but whatever it is, don’t call it that, says Kalle Berggren

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016 subject tables will be revealed over six weeks

Joanna Lewis on a portrait of British blubbering from medieval mystics to the death of Diana

Lisa Mckenzie on a sobering American ethnography written with understanding and respect

Time and temperament are explored in a masterly study of an old game of thrones, says Les Gofton

A work of distinction offers fresh insights into the hedonism and hangovers, says Richard J. Williams

Kenn Nakata Steffensen takes an in-depth look at the challenges facing Japan’s public universities

Stomach-churning detail reminds us of the blood, sweat and tears in clothes, says Shahidha Bari

Philip Altbach warns that ‘you can’t starve a higher education system’ without grave consequences

Major/minor course designed to improve graduates’ employment prospects

Emma Rees lauds an essay collection that highlights the American scholar’s game-changing writing