School of the Humanities and Social Sciences
About this community
The School of the Humanities and Social Sciences covers a wide range of disciplines with differing methodologies, from highly quantitative analysis of ‘big data’ to ethnography and the analysis of the material culture and thought of past societies. The geographical range is equally broad, with specialist centres in Latin America, Africa and South Asia, as well as Development Studies and the specialists within each Department or Faculty.
Find out more about the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at http://www.cshss.cam.ac.uk/.
Sub-communities within this community
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Department of Archaeology
Promote archaeology as a discipline concerned with the entirety of human history - ranging in time from the Palaeolithic to the modern day, and in space from the Americas to the UK and Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia -
Department of Social Anthropology
Combines expertise in the central traditional fields of social anthropology with active explorations of new areas of study
Recent Submissions
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Visible Tools, Invisible Crafts: An analysis of textiles tools, textile production, and textile organisation along the south coast of Iron Age Britain
Textile production was an essential element of society in prehistory, supplying people with clothing, furnishings, and utilitarian items like sails, straps, and sacking. The fragility of textiles means few examples of ... -
The Early Novels of Konstantin Fedin
(Faculty of Economics, 1969)An attempt has been made in this study to examine in depth the early novels of Konstantin Fedin. The novels discussed are Goroda i gody, Brat'ja, Poxiscenie Evropy, and Sanatorij Arktur, so that the period covered is ... -
Essays on Social Networks
This thesis consists of three essays on the economics of social networks. It broadly deals with understanding the value of social connections on favour exchange and information exchange. Social networks facilitate trust, ... -
Tales of the ‘good’ capitalist: Evaluating ways to legitimise neoliberal capitalism via a justification analysis of the ‘social’ in entrepreneurship
Abstract – Tales of the ‘good’ capitalist – Julia Erdelmann The idea of social entrepreneurship has gained considerable traction over the past decades, offering itself as an ‘alternative’ approach to doing business and as ...
