Social Trends Institute
STI is an independent, non-profit research center that offers institutional and financial support to academics in all fields who seek to make sense of emerging social trends and their effects on human communities.
Experts Meetings
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Elevating Fatherhood: Policies, Organizations and Health and Wellbeing
8 months agoFatherhood involvement is influenced by multiple factors operating at macro- (institutional practices and culture), meso- (peer and family support), and micro-levels (personal characteristics) over the life course. This meeting will take a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the favorable conditions at each level that allow fathers to be as involved as they want to be, and thereby transmit differential advantages to their children.
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Will Science Remain Human?
11 months agoCan machines substitute for scientists in the crucial aspects of scientific practice? This is the question at the heart of the "Will Science Remain Human? Frontiers of the Incorporation of Technological Innovations in the Bio-Medical Sciences" Experts Meeting.
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The Future of Global Governance
one year agoHas there been a significant change in the architecture of global governance? To the degree that there has been broad and identifiable change, what are the chief causes? And what are the effects of these changes? Do they make it more difficult or easier to solve global governance problems?
Publications
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Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas
4 months ago -
The Home: Multidisciplinary Reflections
10 months agoThe Home: Multidisciplinary Reflections explores the relationship between home environments and family and societal wellbeing.
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Global Finance on Screen: From Wall Street to Side Street
one year agoGlobal Finance on Screen is the first collection exclusively dedicated to a growing body of multi-format and multimedia audiovisual work that this book designates as the finance film.
Quick-links & downloads
- Annual Report 2017
- Application form - Master of Social Science Research
- The 2017 WFM report is now available in Spanish.
- What Do We Do?
- The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Cultural Power
- Mapping Family Change and Child Well-Being Outcomes
- Intention & Double Effect: Theoretical and Practical Challenges
- What Society Needs from Media in the Age of Digital Communication
- Fashion, Image and Identity
- Is Science Compatible with Our Desire for Freedom?
- Family Experts
- Experts Meetings
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