"It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/opinion/sunday/lets-shake-up-the-social-sciences.html

GRAY MATTER

Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences

By NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS

Published: July 19, 2013

"It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science. Eventually, these departments would themselves be dismantled or transmuted as science continues to advance."