{"id":95,"date":"2014-10-21T23:23:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T22:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=95"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:02:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:02:24","slug":"do-we-need-to-shake-up-the-social-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/do-we-need-to-shake-up-the-social-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Do We Need to Shake Up the Social Sciences?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nicholas Christakis\/ Patrick Dunleavy\/ Amanda Goodall\/\u00a0Andrew Oswald\/ Siobhan Benita<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/newsAndMedia\/videoAndAudio\/channels\/publicLecturesAndEvents\/player.aspx?id=2647\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This event is jointly organised with the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/soc\/economics\/\">Department of Economics, University of Warwick<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 21 October 2014, 6.30 \u2013 8pm<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholaschristakis.net\/\"><strong>Nicholas Christakis<\/strong><\/a>, Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science and Director of the Human Nature Lab, Yale University. He is also Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/government\/whosWho\/profiles\/pdunleavy@lseacuk\/Home.aspx\"><strong>Patrick Dunleavy<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, LSE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amandagoodall.com\/\"><strong>Amanda Goodall<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, Cass Business School<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewoswald.com\/\"><strong>Andrew Oswald<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Economics, University of Warwick<\/p>\n<p>Chair:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/soc\/economics\/staff\/sbenita\/\"><strong>Siobhan Benita<\/strong><\/a>, Chief Policy and Strategy Officer, Department of Economics, University of Warwick<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Yes\u2019, according to Nicholas Christakis. He wrote, in the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>, \u2018Taking a page from Darwin, the natural sciences are evolving with the times. In contrast, the social sciences have stagnated. They offer essentially the same set of academic departments \u2026 This is not only boring but also counterproductive &#8230;\u2019 Is Christakis right? In this event, physician and sociologist\u00a0<strong>Nicholas Christakis<\/strong>, management scientist\u00a0<strong>Amanda Goodall<\/strong>, economist\u00a0<strong>Andrew Oswald<\/strong>, and political scientist\u00a0<strong>Patrick Dunleavy<\/strong>\u00a0debated this question, and then joined a discussion on the issue with policy and strategy officer <strong>Siobhan Benita<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Christakis\/ Patrick Dunleavy\/ Amanda Goodall\/\u00a0Andrew Oswald\/ Siobhan Benita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[74,57,35],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-economics","tag-philosophyofscience","tag-social-sciences"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/interview-wide2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-1x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11923,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/11923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}