Social Trends Institute
STI is an international research center dedicated to the analysis of significant social trends: Family, Bioethics, Culture & Lifestyles and Corporate Governance
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Family
Marriage and family life in contemporary societies
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Bioethics
Ethical dimension of science and biotechnology
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Culture & Lifestyles
Contemporary cultural trends with an interdisciplinary perspective
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Corporate Governance
The governance of the business corporation
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Experts Meetings
Fostering understanding
News
- What is meant by “double-effect”?
Interview with Craig Iffland, who has actively organized the Double Effect meeting alongside Academic Leader John O’Callaghan.
Mar 07, '14 - Experts Meeting on Double Effect: Theoretical and Practical Challenges
STI’s first Experts Meeting at the University of Notre Dame is scheduled to begin Thursday. The meeting will explore the role that intention, foresight, and proportionality play in determinations of moral or legal fault.
Mar 04, '14 - Tenth Anniversary Meeting
The Executive Committee held a 10th Anniversary meeting in New York on October 24 to assess The Social Trends Institute's first decade as a research foundation, and to plan for the next several years.
Oct 28, '13
Publications
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Mapa mundial de la familia 2013
Spanish version of the World Family Map 2013 Report, Mapping Family Change and Child Well-being Outcomes
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Mapping Family Change and Child Well-being Outcomes
STI is pleased to support important research into family trends around the globe. The World Family Map project is one such STI-sponsored project.
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Is Science Compatible with Free Will?
The world and the brain are governed to some extent by non-material agencies, and limited consciousness does not abolish free will and responsibility.