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  1. Obwohl der Vatikan nur ein kleiner Stadtstaat ist, hat er durch weltweite diplomatische Vernetzungen globalen Einfluss ⛪🌎 über seine politische Bedeutung schreibt Jodok Troy vom @PolSciUIBK ➡️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

    #politics #vatican #research #science #socialscience

  2. How has time spent alone changed by age over the last decade, and what does it mean for wellbeing?

    Parth Pandya explores this question in a new #ResolutionFoundation spotlight, in collaborative work with the #ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations: cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_news/?st

    #YoungAdults #Loneliness #SocialChange #Demography #Population #SocialScience #Generations #Ageing #WFH #Society #PopulationChange #WorkingFromHome #PublicPolicy #LabourMarket #Wellbeing #TimeUse

  3. Incredibile semi-plenary at ESA conference in Warsaw (Poland)! Looking forward to that!

    Chairs: Elena Pavan and Louisa Parks of the University of Trento (Italy)

    Speakers: Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy); Graeme Hayes, Aston University (England).

    #sociology #europe #palestine #socialscience #research #politics #academia

  4. From my Teaching Journal, August 14, 2018:
    1/?

    > Today I tried something new: Having them propose problems (a la Friere). I'm excited to see what falls out.

    I'd chosen/had them choose course "themes" for a couple of years, but not this way & without Freire's grasp of why. I was excited!

    They picked things I wouldn't have guessed, so I would have interesting, relevant material. I'd learn & grow, too!

    Or so I thought.

    #psychology #socialscience #teaching #higherEd #motivation #learning

  5. In the middle of trade talks, I think it's important to compare the economies of Canada and the USA. I've dug up info that suggests Canada's doing much better than most would think.

    billhulet.substack.com/p/my-ho

    #Canada #CUSMA #Trade #Economics #SocialScience #Politics

  6. 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 How has the UK changed in the past 25 years in terms of demographics?

    CPC-CG member Professor Athina Vlachantoni, CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham CBE, and CPC-CG Co-Director Professor Maria Evandrou (University of Southampton) discuss in The Conversation.

    Read the full article: theconversation.com/britains-q

    #Demography #Population #Ageing #Migration #Fertility #Families #Households #LifeCourse #SocialScience #Gerontology #LifeExpectancy #PopulationChange #DemographicTrends #SocialPolicy

  7. How are #ageing #populations, changing #family structures, and #inequalities reshaping #intergenerational support?

    In June, we welcomed more than 40 delegates from the UK, Europe, and beyond to the University of St Andrews for the CPC-CG Symposium on Intergenerational Change and Support, where they explored these issues over two days of presentations and discussions.

    Read all about it on page 9 of #ChangingPopulations: sway.cloud.microsoft/6PeRZlzYr

    #demography #population #socialscience

  8. Within families, does influence flow only from parents to children?

    Challenging traditional assumptions, in #ChangingPopulations find new research which explores whether children’s genetic predispositions for health, behavioural and cognitive traits were associated with major family outcomes, including whether parents had more children, married or separated.

    sway.cloud.microsoft/6PeRZlzYr

    #genetics #family #demography #socialscience #population #families #children #genetics #health #cognition #genes

  9. Also in this #ChangingPopulations, we focus on caring, working and ageing, and ask whether Britain is prepared as we face a “perfect storm”, with people expected to work longer, fund their own future care, and provide informal unpaid care, all at once - page 4

    ▶️ sway.cloud.microsoft/6PeRZlzYr

    #demography #population #ageing #laterlife #care #socialcare #unpaidcare #retirement #pensions #employment #healthinequalities #familynetworks #caregiving #socialpolicy #ageingresearch #socialscience

  10. In this issue of #ChangingPopulations, we report on findings that suggest declining fertility isn't simply the result of young people rejecting relationships and parenthood. Instead, economic and social barriers are making these goals harder to achieve - head to page 3

    ▶️ sway.cloud.microsoft/6PeRZlzYr

    #demography #population #fertility #parenthood #relationships #youngpeople #housing #employment #financialsecurity #economics #socialscience #families #birthrates #populationtrends

  11. This month’s list of consultations & inquiries from the UK’s 4 legislatures & governments that require #socialscience evidence incl. consultations on housing, SEND reform, priorities for the Senedd, prison population & penal reform, and more. Find out more➡️ acss.org.uk/policy-monit...

  12. The Science Basis of Natural Resource Management C - Social Science

    Slide presentation, unfortunately lacking image description for the slides.

    youtube.com/watch?v=zms-rJ5G13E #QualitativeResearch #Forestry #Science #SocialScience

  13. Secondo un recente studio le sfide psicologiche del giorno d'oggi, come lo stress, la solitudine o la competizione costante, sono frutto di un disallineamento evoluzionistico.

    Il nostro cervello non si sarebbe adattato abbastanza in fretta per stare al passo coi tempi moderni, fatti da una società iperconnessa e iperstimolata.

    C'è un conflitto tra biologia ed ecosistema sociale?

    asianscientist.com/2026/07/hea

    #science #behavioralscience #scienze #neuroscienze #socialscience #salute #health

  14. Three legs are needed for deductive causal inference:
    "Without assumptions regarding construct validity, one cannot accurately label the cause or outcome. Without assumptions regarding external validity, one cannot label the conditions enabling the cause to have an effect. If any of the assumptions regarding internal, construct, and external validity are missing, the claim is not deductively supported. The critical role of theoretical and substantive knowledge in deductive causal inference is illuminated by making such assumptions explicit. This article critically reviews approaches to identification in causal inference while developing a framework called causal specification. Causal specification augments existing identification strategies to enable and justify deductive, generalized claims about causes and effects. In the process, we review a variety of developments in the philosophy of science and causality and interdisciplinary social science methodology."

    Esterling, K., Brady, D. & Schwitzgebel, E. (2025). "The necessity of construct and external validity for deductive causal inference" doi.org/10.1515/jci-2024-0002

    #logics #validity #deduction #generalization #identification #causality #correlations #ProofTheory #PhilSci #truth #causalInference #socialScience

  15. "...much of the backlash is rooted in expectations rather than any fixed truth. We expect Helen of Troy to look like a European woman, not Lupita Nyong’o. When those expectations are violated, we get in our feelings."

    #neighborhoodsociologist #socialscience #sociology

    rodgraham.substack.com/p/on-th