Social sciences

Ask a linguist: Q&A with David PesetskyProfessor, AAAS fellow discusses 'Universal Grammar,' relationship between language and music

Said and DoneHumanities, arts, and social sciences digest for February 2011

The lonely crowdIn a new book, Sherry Turkle documents the sometimes-detrimental effects of technology on our families and social lives.

Said and DoneHumanities, arts, and social sciences digest for January 2011

CIS's Précis examines research, student workLate fall edition of the biannual publication now available.

Diamond to receive Nobel at ceremony on Friday

Tech support?Contrasting views on display as MIT researchers debate how technology can curb global poverty.

Can telecom data help redraw political boundaries?By analyzing one of the world’s largest databases of phone data, researchers partition Great Britain into densely interconnected regions.

A hardy ConstitutionIn Ratification, historian Pauline Maier uncovers the contentious debates behind a political document that many Americans once opposed.

Harrell convenes thought-leaders to catalyze new research informed by science, humanities and arts disciplines

MISTI 2.0 selects new granteesSeven student projects awarded funding.

Said and DoneHumanities, arts, and social sciences digest for November 2010

MIT students expand their horizons as Burchard ScholarsProgram brings together MIT sophomores and juniors with humanities, arts and social sciences faculty for eight elegant dinner-seminars.

How wise are crowds?By melding economics and engineering, researchers show that as social networks get larger, they usually get better at sorting fact from fiction.

Explained: Currency warsCountries are clashing over their currency prices. Why?

7 win presidential early career honorsMIT has greatest number of recipients from a single institution.

MIT economist Peter Diamond wins Nobel PrizeHonored with two others for work on 'analysis of markets with search frictions'

Said and DoneHumanities, arts, and social sciences digest for July 2010

Said and DoneHumanities, Arts, and Social Sciences digest for April 2010

The sound and the queryWhy do questions take the form they do? An MIT linguist explains how the noises we make help to shape the sentences we speak.

Burchard Scholars for 2010 announced34 MIT undergraduates selected who excel in the humanities, arts, and social sciences

Said and Done: humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for January 2010

Said and Done: humanities, arts, and social sciences digest for December 2009

Nobel-winning economist Paul A. Samuelson dies at age 94In a career that spanned seven decades, he transformed his field, influenced millions of students and turned MIT into an economics powerhouse

'Genius' grant for MIT economistEsther Duflo receives MacArthur Fellowship for transformative work on economic development; has brought field experiments to studies of poverty around the world

MIT economists see a few bright spotsSix months after panel's initial warnings, 'we're not doomed'

MIT-trained economists bring pragmatic approach to Obama administration

Economist Robert C. Merton to receive Muh Award

Economists offer up advice to ObamaSolow, Mankiw see promising future, short-term problems