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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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
We present a collection of three essays exploring topics in microeconomic theory: conflict, alliances, and the origins of society; supply chain networks and industrial organisation; and game theory on economic networks. ... -
To What Extent Do Theories Derived in a Westernised Context on Self-Regulated Learning, Self-Efficacy, and Seeking Social Assistance Apply to Saudi First-Year Undergraduates: A Mixed Method Research
Students in their first year of university face great challenges that may influence their studies and career. In Saudi Arabia, where this study took place, this difficulty might be greater, as Saudi undergraduates’ autonomous ... -
Essays into Firms, Innovation and Productivity
This empirical research aims to understand firm-level innovation and productivity in the context of firm’s innovative activities or international activities such as offshoring and exporting. The PhD dissertation consists ... -
Promoting Conceptual Development through Mediation: An Investigation of Gal’perin’s Concept-Based Instruction of Genre in Chinese EFL Writing Classrooms
In sociocultural research on second language (L2) learning, there has been a growing interest in concretising Vygotskian principles in the language classroom. Gal’perin’s model for Concept-Based Instruction (CBI) has been ...
