Thematic Foci 1973 - Present

2024-25	The Politics of Migration and Displacement as a Form of Life
2023-24	PLATFORM
2022-23	Climate Crisis Politics
2021-22	Political Mobilizations and Social Movements
2020-21	Science and the State
2019-20	Economy and Society
2018-19	Crisis and Critique
2017-18	The Social Sciences in a Changing World
2016-17	Law and the Social Sciences
2015-16	Borders and Boundaries
2014-15	Egalitarianisms
2013-14	The Environmental Turn and the Human Sciences
2012-13	Economics and Politics
2011-12	Morals and Moralities
2010-11	Secularism
2009-10	The Dewey Seminar: Education, Schools and the State
2008-09	Social Norms and Cooperation
2007-08	The Rule of Law Under Pressure
2006-07	The 'Third World' Now
2005-06	Psychology and Economics
2004-05	Interdisciplinarity and Its Objects
2001-04	Ethics and the Social Sciences: Present Directions
	2003-04 The Social Implications of Bioethics 2002-03 Politics and Ethics: The Case of Corruption 2001-02 Economics and Business Questions
2000-01	Information Technology
1997-00	Globalization and the Different Kinds of Local Resistance to It: A Three-Year Program
	1999-00 Universalism of Human Rights 1998-99 Political Economy 1997-98 Cultural Globalization
1993-97	Transitions: A Four-Year Program
	1996-97 Development of “Interpretive Social Science” 1995-96 Modernization and Its Discontents 1994-95 Traveling Reform Movements: Feminism and Environmentalism 1993-94 Politics
1990-93	New Perspectives on Social Science and Humanities Scholarship: A Three-Year Program
	1992-93 Philosophy and Sociology of Science 1991-92 Ethics, Politics and Law 1990-91 Philosophy of History
1987-90	Group Identities: A Three-Year Program
	1989-90 National Identity in Post-Colonial Third World States 1988-89 Political Revival of Ethnicity and Religion 1987-88 Gender
1984-87	Interpretive Social Science: A Three-Year Program
	1986-87 Research Methods in Interpretive Social Science 1985-86 Social Experience of Equality and Inequality 1984-85 The Life History of the Individual
1983-84	Toward a Broader Economics
1982-83	Social and Cognitive Psychology
1979-82	Self-Perception, Mutual Perception and Historical Development (This 3-year focus, jointly organized by the SSS and SHS, and funded by the Mellon Foundation, ran concurrently with the individual theme years.)
1981-82	Problems in Political Philosophy
1980-81	The Comparative Impact of Colonial Regimes on the Newly Independent Countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America
1979-80	The Sociology of Art
1978-79	New Trends in Economic Thought
1977-78	Problems of Advanced Capitalist Societies
1976-77	The Sociology of Science
1975-76	The Analysis of Symbolic Structures
1974-75	The Social, Economic and Political Development of Latin America
1973-74	Islamic Societies