Summary: This episode, we speak with Barbara Risman [1] about her call for a Council of Social Science Advisors featured in her Spring 2009 One Thing I Know [2] column for Contexts. We talk about how policy might be different if social scientists played a greater role and also about sociology and socialism [3]. If you're interested in the idea of a Council for Social Science Advisors, and you're heading to San Francisco for the ASA's this weekend, be sure to attend Open Forum: Does the Obama Administration Need a Social Science Scholars Council? A Public Forum [4], Saturday August 8 at 2:30 pm. This episode also includes a discussion of a discovery on health & unemployment [5]. Also: let us know what you think of the podcast so far by taking our survey [6]! It's very short & your feedback will help us figure out what's working, what's not working & how we can best steer the Contexts Podcast Juggernaut into the Future! Download episode #17 now! [7] [1] http://www2.las.uic.edu/depts/soc/barbara-risman-3.html [2] http://contexts.org/articles/summer-2009/bringing-social-science-to-the-white-house/ [3] http://contexts.org/articles/summer-2009/from-the-editors/ [4] http://www.asanet.org/cs/root/leftnav/meetings/the_sociological_significance_of_president_barack_obama [5] http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2008.077354 [6] http://thesocietypages.org/podcast/survey [7] http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/download.php.mp3?orig=28966.mp3
