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Yunas Samad
Yunas Samad is a British social scientist whose research is at the interface of sociology, politics and history. He is Professor of South Asian Studies and the Director of the Ethnicity and Social Policy Research Centre (ESPRC) at the University of Bradford. He is an expert on the study of South Asia and its diaspora and has published several books on the topic of Pakistani nationalism, ethnicity, Islam and the War on Terror. He regularly comments on the Muslim diaspora, politics and security issues in Pakistan for the BBC, the Dawn and other media outlets. Background He was born in Lahore and his family migrated to the United Kingdom during his childhood. He was brought up and educated in South Merton, London. He is married and has one son. Prior to being an academic he worked in commerce and left as Managing Director of Samad Carpets, working in various offices across London, Lahore and Karachi. Education He graduated with a B.A. Hons in History from the University of North Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Sciences
Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among members within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of society", established in the 18th century. It now encompasses a wide array of additional academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, history, linguistics, management, communication studies, psychology, culturology, and political science. The majority of Positivism, positivist social scientists use methods resembling those used in the natural sciences as tools for understanding societies, and so define science in its stricter Modern science, modern sense. Speculative social scientists, otherwise known as Antipositivism, interpretivist scientists, by contrast, may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
