Call for Nominations
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR SKAT COUNCIL MEMBERS AND STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE Want to get involved in SKAT governance? Now’s your chance! In Spring 2018, SKAT will hold elections for 2 Council […]
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Interview with Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Jennifer Singh caught up with Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University and winner of the 2017 Robert K. Merton Book Award for The Brain’s […]
Interview with Natasha Myers
David Peterson (Northwestern) spoke with Natasha Myers, Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University and winner of the 2016 Robert K. Merton Book Award for Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and […]
Are We Complicit? Talking Social Constructionism in the Age of Trump
by Owen Whooley Like many, the presidential election has left me with a profound sense of unease. This unease operates on three registers, the combination of which concoct a veritable […]
Perspectives in SKAT blog posts
The perspectives shared in individual posts on this blog do not necessarily reflect the views of the SKAT section, nor of the American Sociological Association. All posts are the sole […]
SKAT Council Publishes Statement on Trump Administration and Congress
On February 14, 2017, the SKAT Council voted unanimously to adopt the following policy statement. Statement of American Sociological Association Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT) Regarding Recent and […]
Fake News and the Future of Journalism
From friend of the section Pablo J. Boczkowski of Northwestern University: “Every public has its own universe of discourse and…humanly speaking, a fact is only a fact in some universe of […]
