Centre for the Study of Women and Gender Seminar Karen Throsby “If I could bottle this feeling…”: Channel swimming, pleasure and positive deviance Wednesday 2 February, 5-6pm University of Warwick, Ramphal Building (R3.25) No need to book – everyone is… Read More ›
Public Symposium, Warwick Social Theory Centre 16th February 2011, 2-6pm, Birmingham Midland Institute £10 waged / £5 student, unwaged Discourses of Dissent is a one day symposium, open to all, which explores the relationship between social theory and political resistance. In… Read More ›
On my fifth birthday, my mother asked me what I wanted for lunch: spaghetti or soup. I hesitated. Unexpectedly, she grew impatient. ‘You have FIVE seconds to make up your mind. Decide.’ And she counted down. I hesitated for three… Read More ›
Absolutely fascinating coverage on the Guardian’s live updates feed. President Hosni Mubarak has ordered a curfew in three cities (3.30pm), later extended to the entire country, which was supposed to start at 6pm today and last until 7am tomorrow morning but… Read More ›
Her blank eyes gaze at you from her white face, her button nose a sunshine yellow. A dainty bow rests askew on her left ear, the color matching the day’s adorable—not to mention perfectly coordinated—outfit. Cute, one almost overlooks an… Read More ›
David Mitchell offers a bitterly humorous view on the cuts in higher education subsidies here. But make sure you read everything up to the last sentence. And do not forget to read the comments…
Social Research in an Age of Austerity A new coalition government pledges an unparalleled age of fiscal austerity and a new universities minister promises radical ‘reform’ of higher education: what does the future hold for the British university in an… Read More ›
The conscious mind gives us one way of making sense of our environment. But the unconscious mind gives us other, more supple ways. The cognitive revolution of the past thirty years provides a different perspective on our lives, one that… Read More ›
The Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change is a large research centre based at Manchester University and the Open University. As they describe themselves: CRESC is a major ESRC-funded Manchester University/Open University research centre. Our social science and humanities researchers use state-of-the-art research… Read More ›
Happy Monday morning to all readers who find themselves in their offices right now. If you wonder how alarm clocks managed to make us so dependent upon them, read this article in the BBC magazine.
Adam Curtis is the author of many documentaries, among which one that he names, with jokingly-seriousity, “The rise of “Oh, dear”-ism”. It is the story of the interplay between television reporting and world politics which began roughly a couple of… Read More ›
Race, Sport and Politics is an intense sociological engagement with the intersection of- as the title suggests- race, sport and politics in twentieth century Britain and USA. Ben Carrington is a well-established and well-respected author in the areas of sociological… Read More ›
Sociological Imagination will be running a free day school in June at Warwick. It will include social media training workshops and a seminar about the potential uses for social media in the research process. Watch this space for more information.
A fascinating article by Nigel Thift, Vice Chancellor of Warwick University, about the ongoing tension which the university system must resolve: Budgets. There is not enough money to go round every institution that wants to be a University of the old… Read More ›
One of the very paradoxes of the tuition fees and education cuts’ odyssey that has heated the political debate over the past few months lies in the way in which political leaders seem to be utterly shocked by the anger… Read More ›
In this podcast Stephen Turner, plenary speaker for the theory stream at this year’s BSA conference, talks about his new book Explaining the Normative. The discussion explores changing theories of normativity and the different meanings they hold for philosophy and… Read More ›
In this podcast Steve Fuller talks about the future of the university. At a time of crisis in the university, the discussion explores how academia has arrived at its present juncture and where it might go from here. It contextualises… Read More ›
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 ›
Public Symposium, Warwick Social Theory Centre 16th February 2011, 2-6pm, Birmingham Midland Institute £10 waged / £5 student, unwaged Discourses of Dissent is a one day symposium, open to all, which explores the relationship between social theory and political resistance. In… Read More ›
There is speculation that increasing pressure on limited university places, in tandem with rising tuition fees, may be making the prospect of studying in other western European countries and even the US more attractive to British students. Representatives from British… Read More ›
We’ve been here before. At the student march on the 10th November, all my memories came flooding back – young men and women with fluorescent hair and matching T-shirts, the shouts of ‘What do we want: free education! When do… Read More ›
Thousands of young people who were unable to secure a place at university last year have re-applied for degree courses for the coming academic year. The knock-on effect of the shortage of university places in 2010 is now going to… Read More ›
No wonder so many school and college students joined NUS on their latest protests. Unlike most Vice Chancellors, these teenagers and their parents can see tripled fees and HE funding restricted to Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine marks the end,… Read More ›
Number 4: Common People Number 3: I read some Marx and I liked it
Number 8: We’ve Got To Stop The Mosque At Ground Zero Number 7: How To Pick Between Milibands
Cultural politics is a concept used to label a complex range of social phenomena, frequently as diverse as media cultures and ideologies, forms of political action and social movements, institutional and professional cultures. However, social sciences themselves are driven (explicitly or otherwise)… Read More ›
While some Kent students continued their sit-ins over the holiday break and others are planning further demonstrations to protest the proposed tuition fee rises, the government decided that English universities are to face a 6% cut to their teaching budgets… Read More ›
Social Research in an Age of Austerity A new coalition government pledges an unparalleled age of fiscal austerity and a new universities minister promises radical ‘reform’ of higher education: what does the future hold for the British university in an… Read More ›