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Social research in critical times

A new issue of the Journal of Social Sciences is out. From the Journal of Social Science Education, a special issue on patriotism, nationalism, citizenship and beyond. Ruchi Agarwal (SFSU): Negotiating Visions of Teaching: Teaching Social Studies for Social Justice. Brian H. O'Beirne (TCD): The Empirical Social Sciences: Prudence for Jurisprudence? Elizabeth Mertz (Wisconsin): Undervaluing Indeterminacy: Translating Social Science into Law. Justin D. Levinson (Hawaii): SuperBias: The Collision of Behavioral Economics and Implicit Social Cognition. Clement Levallois (Erasmus): Economics Under My Skin: Introducing Physiological Observations in the Sciences of Decision-Making. In which sense can we see economics and physics as independent sciences? From Alternate Routes, a special issue on Uniting Struggles: Critical Social Research in Critical Times. Does political science research inform policy opinions of scholars? Behaviorism at 100: Behaviorologist Stephen Ledoux reviews what has happened since B. F. Skinner’s 1957 classic. James Choi on how to parent like a social scientist.