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
- 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 - What Society Needs from Media in the Age of Digital Communication
The meeting, held at Balliol College at Oxford, explored how the changing media environment created by proliferation of media platforms and providers is affecting the kind of information and entertainment the public receives.
Oct 17, '13 - Making Parenthood Pay: Should Washington Pay Parents to Raise Future Taxpayers?
Sociologist Brad Wilcox, who heads up many STI Family Branch projects, published an article in "The Atlantic" this week.
Sep 19, '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.