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17 minutes
Released:
Nov 1, 2012
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Podcast episode
Description
Is the world getting less violent? It seems unlikely. But Steven Pinker has amassed empirical evidence to show that it is. In this interview with Nigel Warburton for the Social Science Bites podcast he explains some of the possible causes of this transformation. He also discusses some broader questions about the nature of the social sciences.
Released:
Nov 1, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Michael Billig on the Royal Family and Nationalism: “One of the values of the social sciences,” argues Michael Billig, “is to investigate what people take for granted and to bring it to the surface.” In this Social Science Bites podcast, Billig, a professor of social science at Loughborough... by Social Science Bites