Social Sciences Courses and Certifications

Causal Inference Bootcamp - Your Guide to Experiments

Comprehensive guide to causal inference, covering experimental design, analysis, and real-world applications. Explores controlled experiments, natural experiments, and key issues in research methodology.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Academic Achievement of Children in Same Sex and Different-Sex-Parented Families

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Explore research on same-sex parenting, including socio-economic characteristics, challenges, and academic outcomes of children. Gain insights into debates surrounding this topic and understand the latest findings from comprehensive studies.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Computation for Social Sciences: Wolfram U Class

Explore social science concepts using Wolfram Language: analyze texts, map historical boundaries, study social networks, and determine political sentiment from tweets using built-in and external data.

• Wolfram U
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

The Impact of Evolutionary Thought on the Social Sciences - Lecture 22

Explore evolutionary transitions in human society, examining conflicts between individual and group selection, and their impact on cooperation, aggression, and cultural norms.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Incentives, Levers and Beliefs

Explore psychological, social, and economic mechanisms to mitigate pandemics and their societal effects. Gain insights from experts on collective decision-making and applying rigorous social science concepts to combat current and future health crises.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Science of Networks - C4 Public Lectures

Explore the emerging science of networks, their structure, and function across diverse systems. Learn about phase transitions, interdependence, and mathematical models for predicting network behavior and consequences.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Law of the Few

Explore how a small group of influencers shape information flow in social networks, using mathematical models and experiments to explain this phenomenon and its economic implications.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Research in Action - Making an Impact Through Social Science

Experts share strategies for translating academic research into real-world impact, discussing challenges and offering tips for emerging social scientists to effectively communicate findings beyond academia.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Aspen Institute

Restructuring America and Reopening Cultural Venues - Day 1 Plenary

Explore transportation's role in restructuring America, the revival of theater post-pandemic, and valuable life lessons from the global crisis in this thought-provoking discussion on societal changes and cultural resilience.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Diseño de cuestionarios para encuestas sociales

Aprende a diseñar y evaluar cuestionarios efectivos para encuestas sociales, abordando el proceso de respuesta, tipos de preguntas, técnicas de evaluación y métodos de entrevista.

• Coursera
• 13 hours 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Sexualidad y educación

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Explora la educación sexual integral en diversos contextos, abordando inquietudes comunes y proporcionando herramientas para garantizar este derecho fundamental en familias, escuelas, servicios de salud y medios de comunicación.

• Coursera
• 1 day 2 hours 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Fighting Hate Speech with AI and Social Science

Exploring AI and social science approaches to combat hate speech online, discussing research on classifying hate and counter speech patterns to promote civility in digital spaces.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Network Experiments on the Emergence of Shared Categories across Cultures

Exploring how large communication networks lead to similar category systems across cultures, challenging traditional theories and offering insights into cultural evolution and shared understanding.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM)

Institutions, Innovation, and the Social Production of Collective (Un)Intelligence

Explore how institutions and innovation shape collective intelligence, examining scientific attention, discovery limitations, and strategies for fostering creativity in research and knowledge production.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM)

What is "Race" in Algorithmic Discrimination on the Basis of Race?

Explore the complex relationship between race and algorithmic discrimination, examining causal effects and proposing a constructivist theory to address discrimination in machine learning.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video