CfP: Tensions of Rhetorics and Realities in Critical Diversities
Call for Papers Tensions of Rhetorics and Realities in Critical Diversities Edited by Alexa Athelstan, Nichole Edwards, Mercedes Pöll & Sanaz Raji (University of Leeds) Website: http://tensionsrhetoricsrealities.wordpress.com/call-for-papers Email: tensions.rhetorics.realities@gmail.com We warmly invite your contributions to our edited collection entitled Tensions of Rhetorics… Read More ›
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Kant in Hand! (Visual Sociology #004)
Today’s visual sociology article is not just visual, but also spatial. It is a fascinating project for the visualisation and embodied learning of one of the classic philosophy works: Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason”. Kant in Hand by Hanno Depner,… Read More ›
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“What kinds of creatures do we think we are?”: Human Sciences in the ‘Age of Biology’
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Digital Humanities but No Digital Sociology
All these changes in scholarship have been taken up with a great deal more enthusiasm by some in the academy than others. Our colleagues in the humanities have embraced digital technologies much more readily than those of us in sociology… Read More ›
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The frustrations of philosophers: Richard Rorty, sociological explanation and intellectual biography
I’m finally in the process of reading this intellectual biography of Richard Rorty by Neil Gross. I’ve intended to for a few years now, given my long term fascination with Rorty, however it was only recently that I had it pointed out… Read More ›
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Getting Started: Public Engagement for Social Scientists
“Getting Started: Public Engagement for Social Scientists” on Bundlr
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What is Digital Sociology?
Tuesday 16th July 2013 BSA Meeting Room, Suite 2, 2 Station Court Imperial Wharf, Fulham, London SW6 2PY This inaugural event for the BSA’s Digital Sociology Group brings together a diverse range of speakers who, in a variety of ways,… Read More ›
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Acts of terror: a short film about photography, freedom and the police
Act of Terror from Fat Rat Films on Vimeo. While filming a routine stop and search of her boyfriend on the London Underground, Gemma suddenly found herself detained, handcuffed and threatened with arrest. Act of Terror tells the story of… Read More ›
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Lost in London
“Lost in London” is a film by Michael Smith and Wojciech Duczmal, who’ve collaborated on many documentaries for the BBC over the years. It develops further their idea of the lyrical essay-film, or documentary-poem. Inspired by Baudelaire’s idea of the… Read More ›
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BSA Teaching Group Conference on June 15th
BSA TEACHING GROUP CONFERENCE Saturday 15th June 2013 Nottingham Trent University Sponsored by the Higher Education Academy The BSA’s Teaching Group is pleased to announce a regional conference hosted by the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University. This event is… Read More ›
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I Shoot, Therefore I Exist (Visual Sociology #003)
I shoot, therefore I exist by Claudia Vallvé, Barcelona This is my street. I see them every day, any hour of the day. By dozens. Standing there. Taking their photos. They come, they shoot, they go. Average of stay: 3… Read More ›
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Can Human Action Be Explained?
If you find Charles Taylor interesting, there’s another lecture and a link to introductory resources available here. If you don’t find Charles Taylor interesting then apologies in advance for the profusion of philosophers and theorists who will be featuring on… Read More ›
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New Round of Postgraduate Research Scholarships in Sociology at Kent
New Round of Postgraduate Research Scholarships in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) University of Kent. SSPSSR has a world-wide reputation for excellence and is one of the leading and largest research centres for social science in… Read More ›
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Getting a Ph.D. will turn you into an emotional trainwreck, not a professor
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The future of the brain by Professor Steven Rose
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The Visual Criminology Project: Beyond Data Visualization and the Power of Spectacle
Although criminology has grown as a field of study in the last 2 decades, it remains rooted in sociology. The study of the analysis of crime, criminal behaviour, and societal responses to law breaking cannot be understood without understanding who… Read More ›
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Sociologists, Bumblebees and Urban Legends (comic)
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Bulgarian elections and (banned) film “Baklava”
Baklava is a recent Bulgarian film which was banned as soon as it was released a couple of years ago due to allegations of content unsuitable for the screen, including violence, indecency and child pornography. Allegations aside, the film presents a bleak,… Read More ›
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One Man’s Story (Visual Sociology #002)
Taos alone by Michael V. Miller The title of this work is “Taos alone”. Shot by Michael V. Miller with telephoto lens on Pentax 35 mm SLR at side of mission church in Taos Pueblo, northern New Mexico, June, 1982. He… Read More ›
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What is digital sociology? An interview with Noortje Marres
What is Digital Sociology? You can find out more about Noortje’s work here.
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Getting Started: Public Engagement for Social Scientists
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What is Digital Sociology?
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Painting Primates (Visual Sociology #001)
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Acts of terror: a short film about photography, freedom and the police
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Lost in London
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Being realist about social movements
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The future of the brain by Professor Steven Rose
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Two approaches to understanding normativity
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Academic integrity for the new year
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Review of Beyond Duty by Shannon Mehan
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Prayers for Bobby
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Kant in Hand! (Visual Sociology #004)
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I Shoot, Therefore I Exist (Visual Sociology #003)
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The Visual Criminology Project: Beyond Data Visualization and the Power of Spectacle
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Bulgarian elections and (banned) film “Baklava”
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Transformational
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