Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
by Nina Pasquini
Cities Too Smart for Their Own Good?
Ben Green warns against simple technological solutions for complex problems.
by Bennett McIntosh
Campuses’ Cultures
Howard Gardner and colleagues release a seven-year study of higher education in the twenty-first century.
by John S. Rosenberg
Misguided Mind Fixers
A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness
The Lost History of Iberia
Ancient DNA reveals Bronze Age replacement of Iberian men, raising new questions.
by Bennett McIntosh
Samuel Stouffer
Brief life of Samuel Stouffer, survey researcher: 1900-1960
by Jackson Toby
An Empiricist on Art
Unpacking “what art does to us”
What Counts
Wanted: Big ideas from the humanities
The New Monopoly
Economists look to new explanations for wage stagnation.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Technology, Paternity, Patriarchy
Debora Spar argues that social change has always been driven by technology.
by Jonathan Shaw
Adjacent but Unequal
Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”
by John S. Rosenberg