Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
Why America’s Strategy For Reducing Racial Inequality Failed
Harvard professor Christina Cross debunks the myth of the two-parent Black family.
by Saima Sidik
Harvard conference explores universities' role in slavery
A Radcliffe Institute conference highlights universities’role—and debates how to come to terms with their past.
Nutrition for health, environment, and society
Gidon Eshel explains the environmental, social, and political effects of food choices.
Modeling suicide risk
Traditional methods of preventing suicide have been ineffective, says psychologist Matthew Nock.
Tax Collection and Civil Society
Paying Pakistani tax collectors for better performance to increase tax revenue
Harvard studies how spirituality affects patients’ experience at the end of life
A Harvard initiative studies how spirituality affects patients’ experience at the end of life
How surveillance changes people’s behavior
Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.
Open Book: Bare-Knuckle Politics
Contentious American democracy—in a new case-method history book
Michael Klarman reinterprets the American founding
The anti-democratic origins of the Constitution
Ukrainian-language collections housed at Harvard
One of the largest Ukrainian-language collections in the world, housed at Harvard
Crowdsourcing solutions
Harvard’s Crowd Innovation Lab studies what motivates crowds to solve problems.