Hard Problems in Social Science top ten

Hard Problems in Social Science top ten

哈佛大学社会科学未解决难题top ten
 

Social science lines up its biggest challenges'Top ten' crucial questions set
research priorities for the field.

1. How can we induce people to look after their health?
2. How do societies create effective and resilient institutions, such as governments?
3. How can humanity increase its collective wisdom?
4. How do we reduce the ‘skill gap’ between black and white people in America?
5. How can we aggregate information possessed by individuals to make the best decisions?
6. How can we understand the human capacity to create and articulate knowledge?
7. Why do so many female workers still earn less than male workers?
8. How and why does the ‘social’ become ‘biological’?
9. How can we be robust against ‘black swans’ — rare events that have extreme consequences?
10. Why do social processes, in particular civil violence, either persist over time or suddenly change?

哈佛大学社会科学未解决难题top ten

2010年4月美国NSF公布征集他们将支持的未解决的社会科学难题，让社会学家提出"grand challenge questions that are both foundational and transformative"。

1900年Hilbert提出23大未解决的数学问题，激励了无数青年数学家的研究热情，数学在20世纪取得了极大的进步。2010年4月10日，哈佛大学召集十余位“Big thinker”，征集社会科学难题及重要课题，并在Facebook广泛调查征求意见，列出十大难题。
Social science lines up its biggest challenges'Top ten' crucial questions set research priorities for the field.
哈佛大学问题征集Hard Problems in Social Science
哈佛大学社会科学未解决难题top ten