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Sociologists, Bumblebees and Urban Legends (comic)
…and bumblebees. Visit XKCD, then hold your mouse over the original image to see the Alt text (or click on the image below to go to the original):
The legacy of deindustrialisation has shaped the meaning of the urban landscape for young people in the West Midlands
This post by Anton Popov and Martin Price is based on the first full report of the MYPLACE project, whose work we have regularly featured on Sociological Imagination. For more information on the MYPLACE project, visit the project’s website HERE or the project’s blog HERE. You can… Read More ›
New column! “Visual Sociology” call for reader submissions
For all professional and/or novice visual researchers out there: the Sociological Imagination is pleased to announce its new column dedicated to “Visual Research”. To celebrate its beginning, we are launching a continuous call for reader submissions. The call is open to all our… Read More ›
Where Do Neoliberals Go After the Market? Calculation, Computation and Crisis
Where Do Neoliberals Go After the Market? Calculation, computation and crisis A one-day conference organised by Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick13th June 2013 10am-6.30pm Room S0.21 Neoliberalism is commonly identified as a belief in the self-regulating powers of markets,… Read More ›
New column! “Visual Sociology” call for reader submissions
For all professional and/or novice visual researchers out there: the Sociological Imagination is pleased to announce its new column dedicated to “Visual Research”. To celebrate its beginning, we are launching a continuous call for reader submissions. The call is open to all our… Read More ›
Classifying Sex Conference, July 2013, Cambridge
Thursday, 4 July 2013 to Friday, 5 July 2013 Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT Summary This conference brings together social scientists, gender scholars, sexologists, psychiatrists, historians of science, as well as mental health practitioners… Read More ›
Call for papers: E.P.Thompson and the history of capitalism
Reposted from: the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) THE GLOBAL E.P. THOMPSON: REFLECTIONS ON THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS AFTER FIFTY YEARS Date: October, 3rd – 5th, 2013 Deadline: Paper Proposals are due May 15th, 2013 Fifty… Read More ›
“My summer at an Indian call center” by Andrew Marantz
For our readers interested in the globalisation of labour and workers’ experiences, today’s reading is about call centres. Two documentary films, the 2005 film Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night and the 2006 film Bombay Calling also tackle this recent… Read More ›
Bird’s eye view of currently published research
If you are a visual learner (fancy way of saying that you are a fan of pictures and graphs), you might like to see this visualisation of the current ocean of research in all possible sub-fields, from dynamic network analysis… Read More ›
Objective Mind: new online platform for post-soviet studies
Just a brief post to introduce you to a new and growing online platform dedicated to post-Soviet states. It is called (somewhat peculiarly) Objective Mind and offers analytical articles as well as background information on ex-Soviet countries, including Country Profiles and Portraits that anyone can… Read More ›
Do you find social media taking up too much of your time?
Do you find social media taking up too much of your time? If so then IFTTT could be incredibly useful for you. It allows different social media channels to be connected up using statements of the form IF [x] THEN [Y] - where X is… Read More ›
The Politics of Football
“The Politics of Football” on Bundlr
The internet of things
The Internet of Things (says Wikipedia) is a concept which describes “a system of uniquely identifiable objects (things) and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure”. The term was coined by Adam Baumgarten in 1999. But how can it be made real? Here is a video… Read More ›
How does scientific advice work in government? How SHOULD it work?
Geoff Mulgan: Future directions for scientific advice in Whitehall from Nesta UK on Vimeo.
What is Digital Sociology?
Though it is a hugely exciting trend, the growth of digital research methods risks becoming a narrow specialism. It is crucial that we don’t fall into the digital dualist trap of assuming that ‘online’ and ‘offline’ constitute distinct realities, as doing so… Read More ›
Social Theory Postgrad Seminars @SocioWarwick
The Social Theory Centre Postgraduate Seminars will take place in the odd weeks of the second term of 2012-2013 in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. This series is particularly designed for postgraduate students interested in all aspects… Read More ›
Interested in Digital Sociology?
The British Sociological Association’s new Digital Sociology group aims: To identify and disseminate best practice in the use of digital tools by sociologists. To develop and promote specifically sociological modes of inquiry into digital media use. To develop and promote… Read More ›
Digital Sociologist #1: @ProfSteveFuller
In the first of this series for the BSA Digital Sociology group, Steve Fuller (Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick) talks about his experience of using Twitter. If you have ideas of how profile sociologists… Read More ›
No one wants to know how… science is made
Two days ago, a postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience who tweets as dr leigh, started a new hashtag: #overlyhonestscience. The result? A mountain of somewhat tongue-in-cheek confessions by researchers whose methodology didn’t work out quite as planned. Read a selection here… and… Read More ›