We’re going to be taking our blog offline within the next couple of months. We’ll be compiling an eBook of highlights over the eight years we were active but please take this opportunity to save anything more ephemeral which you… Read More ›
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Call for blog posts: the value of graphic social science
The Graphic Social Science Network blog is calling for contributions. Each month, we would like to open the floor to discuss issues relating to producing social science research in comics form. Comics offer scholars a unique opportunity to communicate their… Read More ›
Write for @DiscoverSoc
We welcome contributions that are research-based and meet our guidance for contributors. Potential contributions can be discussed in advance with the editors via a short ‘pitch’ sent to: Guidance for contributors: The target audience is the informed, interested general reader,… Read More ›
A Reflective Narrative: Black Diaspora in London & 13 Dead and Nothing Said
By Ola Dirisu Tate Britain Millbank, London: Exhibition Title: “Stan Firm Inna Inglan’: Black Diaspora in London, 1960-70s & Goldsmiths, University of London: Exhibition Title: “Vron Ware: 13 Dead and Nothing Said” Unsure of what to expect or how I would… Read More ›
Reflective Narrative Essay of Two Photos observed at Stan Firm Inna Inglan’: Black Diaspora in London, 1960-70s Tate Britain
By Nikki Achilleous I have never sincerely felt a victim of racism; I have never fully been personally exposed to hatred. Whilst looking around the Black Diaspora in London exhibition in Tate Britain, I absorbed the trajectories of the intersecting generations… Read More ›
A Critical Narrative; A sociological reflection upon two photographic exhibitions in London exploring race within the Black community
By Holly Wayman As the end of my undergraduate degree in sociology draws closer I am beginning to realise that although the teaching and endless hours in the library will stop, the outlook that all this has provided me certainly will… Read More ›
Setting the Scene, Shifting the Lens: Reflections on my Students’ Reflective Narratives on Race and Racism
By Lambros Fatsis Earlier this year, I taught a module on the sociology of “race” and “ethnicity” with my beloved colleagues Bindi Shah, Pathik Pathak, and Luiz Valério P. Trindade; which was partly assessed by a reflective narrative that my… Read More ›
CfP: Good Data book
Call for Proposals for an INC Theory on Demand edited book *Editors: Angela Daly (Queensland University of Technology), Kate Devitt (Queensland University of Technology) & Monique Mann (Queensland University of Technology).* In recent years, there has been an exponential increase… Read More ›
CFP: The Digital Dissertation: History, Theory, Practice (an eBook & Database Project)
Call for Participation The Digital Dissertation: History, Theory, Practice A Database and eBook Project Virginia Kuhn, Kathie Gossett (eds.) Abstract submission: 12 January 2018 Humanities scholars recognize the growing importance of digital media in knowledge production and distribution. However, recognition… Read More ›
The most popular posts on sociological imagination
Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today How to write a good sociology essay (and not panic) Public Sociology Making the familiar strange 40 reasons why you should blog about your research The Sociological… Read More ›
A note on this weekend’s post and the future of this blog
Over the weekend, Steve Fuller published a blog post which has understandably been the object of many complaints. Steve is one of a number of people who have accounts which enable them to post directly on the site, without the… Read More ›
Making an Impact with Social Media, July 5th in Manchester
Social media offers for exciting opportunities for generating impact and communicating research beyond the academy. However, 500 million tweets and 3 million blog posts that are generated in a single day, as well as over a billion websites, pose an obvious challenge: how… Read More ›
Call for Chapters: Bourdieu, curriculum studies, education policy and reform
Co-editors James Albright (The University of Newcastle, Australia) and Shaun Rawolle (Deakin University) Revisiting the Principes pour une réflexion sur les contenus d’enseignment (Bourdieu, 1989) Call for chapters This proposed book aims to bring together scholars that take as… Read More ›
Gender, sexuality and digital culture: A half day symposium at City, University of London, 20 June 2017
GENDER, SEXUALITY AND DIGITAL CULTURE A half day symposium at City, University of London, University Building B200, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB June 20th 2.00-7.30pm //// Wine reception @7.30PM Keynotes: Winnie M Li and Rowan Ellis New and established scholars and… Read More ›
Intellectual diversity, disciplines and public engagement
Why do psychologists and economists enjoy more prominence in the public sphere than sociologists? I’ve been thinking a lot in the last couple of days about what seems to me to be a failure of sociology to value or encourage media… Read More ›
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Making an Impact with Social Media, July 5th in Manchester
Social media offers for exciting opportunities for generating impact and communicating research beyond the academy. However, 500 million tweets and 3 million blog posts that are generated in a single day, as well as over a billion websites, pose an obvious challenge: how… Read More ›
Coming of Age through the Recession: High School Imaginings of Post-Recession Futures in New York Cities
by Patrick Alexander What do you want to be when you finally grow up? In 2014, on a humid September morning, I boarded a crowded subway train to arrive at the New York City public high school where I would… Read More ›
Social Media and the Impact Agenda: making an impact with your research
Many researchers are excited about the potential social media offers for making an impact with their work. However 500 million tweets per day, 3 million blog posts per day and over a billion websites poses an obvious challenge: how can… Read More ›
Deadline Soon: Using graphic novels to communicate your research
Manchester Digital Laboratory Thursday 8th June The Sociological Review Foundation is delighted to announce our forthcoming workshop using graphic novel methods to present social research. We invite applications to take part in a Graphic Novel Workshop with Tony… Read More ›
Social Morphogenesis: Five Years of Inquiring Into Social Change
Postmodernity. Second modernity. Network Society. Late modernity. Liquid modernity. Such concepts have dominated social thought in recent decades, with a bewildering array of claims about social change and its implications. But what do we mean by ‘social change’? How do… Read More ›
How should we attribute authorship on our blog?
I just came across this student essay in which a blog post written by Les Back was attributed to me. This isn’t the first time it’s happened and I’m unsure how to respond to it. The backlist of posts on… Read More ›
Using graphic novels to communicate your research
Manchester Digital Laboratory Thursday 8th June The Sociological Review Foundation is delighted to announce our forthcoming workshop using graphic novel methods to present social research. We invite applications to take part in a Graphic Novel Workshop with Tony… Read More ›
This Week: Cities and the Political Imagination
Keynote Speaker: Rivke Jaffe (University of Amsterdam) The Manchester Museum Friday 28th April , followed by wine reception at 20.00 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cities-and-the-political-imagination-the-sociological-review-annual-lecture-2017-with-rivke-jaffe-tickets- Cities and the Political Imagination How can we recognize the political in the city? How might social scientists… Read More ›
Using graphic novels to communicate your research
Manchester Digital Laboratory Thursday 8th June The Sociological Review Foundation is delighted to announce our forthcoming workshop using graphic novel methods to present social research. We invite applications to take part in a Graphic Novel Workshop with Tony… Read More ›
Social Media Training Workshop
Social Media Training Workshop Led by Holly Powell Jones City University, London EC1V 0HB Monday 8 May 2017, 12.30 – 4.00 pm This workshop will be of interest and assistance if you wish to use social media to disseminate… Read More ›
Metaphysical matters in post-truth cultures
by Joshua Stein In the early months of the Trump administration, and even the late months of the Presidential campaign, social theorists and commentators started to write Jeremiads on the death of truth and its relata, knowledge and disagreement and… Read More ›
Youth employment in the ‘gig’ economy, isolation and @youthloneliness
Isolation at the beginning of working lives As part of the @YouthLoneliness project (Twitter/Tumblr), we are interested to find out more about young people’s working lives, their casual employment, their experience of self-employment and their involvement in the ‘gig economy.’… Read More ›
International Journal of Social Research Methodology Seminar Competition
The Board of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology (IJSRM) is pleased to announce the launch of the 2017 Seminar Competition. Our aim is to support the development of critical and innovative approaches to on-going and emerging methodological debates… Read More ›