Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

Anthropology 135

Anthropology Economics Sociology Archiving 135

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. . Washington University in St.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

Ripley via the Internet Archive ) Ripley was a man of various talents. A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. In 1933, he was elected president of the American Economics Association. ” ( Credit : William Z. railway policy.

Archiving 52

Archiving Sociology Humanities Anthropology 52

Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

For data collection, we consider the typical ways in which process tracing gathers evidence on the observable implications of causal mechanisms, including archival work, document analysis of secondary sources, various field methods (interviews, political ethnography, ethnography), and surveys.

Sociology 48

Sociology Social Science Archiving Political Science 48

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. A few years ago, I went out to Amherst College in western Massachusetts, where Catherine Epstein took me down to the school’s archives. Josipa Roksa: Students are not spending adequate time on academics and academic pursuits.

Humanities 90

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 90

Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

The selection committee was impressed by Owolabi’s skillful use of multiple methodological tools including large-scale statistical analysis and comparative historical analysis based on extensive original archival research across multiple continents.

Political Science 52

Political Science Archival Research Sociology Archiving 52

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

And as we extend that definition to larger groups of people, as we introduce power, we begin to understand that who gets to decide what those rules are and what those norms are becomes much more complicated, and often an expression of political, economic, and cultural power. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

Primary Sources 98

Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98