I’ve always been fascinated by the question of why people hold the political beliefs they do. In part this is because of how badly most people handle this question. From across the political spectrum, there is a pervasive tendency to explain away the… Read More ›
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Academia 2.0
“Academia 2.0″ on Bundlr
Follow SI on Facebook and Twitter
This is a reminder that the Sociological Imagination has a presence on facebook. Please do add us as a friend and feel free to get in contact. We’re always open to ideas and suggestions so please don’t hesitate if there’s… Read More ›
Ethics and Social Theory: The Work of Andrew Sayer
University of Wales, Newport (City Campus) 22 February 2013 | 09:45-16:45 Ethics and Social Theory: The Work of Andrew Sayer Andrew Sayer’s work in critical social science has ranged across political economy, social theory and ethics – combining insights from each, and shedding… Read More ›
Want a Christmas tour of Slavoj Žižek’s apartment?
(Yes, we might have made up the Christmas bit)
“What on earth will I tweet about?”: Feeling Comfortable with Social Media
“What on earth will I tweet about?” from Mark Carrigan
New collaborative labour history project
LabourStart, an internation news and campaigning website for trade unionists, has launched a new collaborative project and is asking labour history enthusiasts to help! They want to produce a ‘Today in Labour History’ calendar that can be added as a widget… Read More ›
Getting Started: Social Media for Academics
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Surviving a PhD – 10 Top Tips
I was awarded my PhD in January this year following a successful viva in November 2011, so thought I would try and summarise my experiences over the last 3-4 years and see if I could come up with some key points of… Read More ›
The reasons for female religiosity
Why are women – historically as well as today – on average more religious than men, even though they are mostly excluded from leadership positions? In their new book entitled Why Are Women More Religious Than Men?, two sociologists from… Read More ›
Follow SI on Facebook and Twitter
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“Life gets under your skin”: reading about welfare and the lifecourse in plain English
As part of the Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Science that took place earlier this month (3-10 November 2012), researchers from the International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health (ICLS) funded by the Economic and… Read More ›
Why disability history should be on the school curriculum
A good article in the Guardian answering this question: here.
Some podcasting resources
The BSA PG Forum podcasting handbook An introduction to academic podcasting Audacity – free audio editor Call recorder for Skype (probably free ones out there but this is great) Tool to convert to or from MP3 The Sociological Imagination podcast section (e-mail here to… Read More ›
Call for Micro Podcasts
Over the last couple of years we’ve hosted a lot of podcasts on Sociological Imagination. However thus far all of them have been produced by us. We’d like to host some by you as well! Specifically micro podcasts on any… Read More ›
The Analytic-Continental Split in Philosophy
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Continental-Analytic split in Western philosophy. The Analytic school favours a logical, scientific approach, in contrast to the Continental emphasis on the importance of time and place. But what are the origins of this… Read More ›
SI Profile: Margaret Archer
“SI Profile: Margaret Archer” on Bundlr
Call for Contributions: what does the Sociological Imagination mean today?
It has been over 50 years since C. Wright Mills wrote the Sociological Imagination. In that time the world has changed beyond recognition: the Cold War ended, the Keynesian consensus broke down, a globalizing neoliberalism rose to the ascendancy and… Read More ›
Bertrand Russell on YouTube
Perhaps somewhat naively, it had never occurred to me how much archive footage was available of early 20th century philosophers. If my late modern prejudices had not blinded me to this fact, I would have looked up some of my… Read More ›
Call for Micro Podcasts
Over the last couple of years we’ve hosted a lot of podcasts on Sociological Imagination. However thus far all of them have been produced by us. We’d like to host some by you as well! Specifically micro podcasts on any… Read More ›