Elena Omel’chenko and Nastya Min’kova, MYPLACE team members at Centre for Youth Research, Higher School of Economics (St Petersburg) on the latest from Russia’s ‘Snow Revolution’ (27th December 2011) This article was initially posted to the MYPLACE blog. For more information on… Read More ›
Archive for January 2012
Breaking the ‘Fukuyama taboo’— a journey through the global crisis with Slavoj Žižek.
Love him or hate him, Slavoj Žižek is no ordinary thinker, with a reputation for his always provocative and take-no-prisoners approach to social analysis. In an interview for Al-Jazeera released at the end of the year just passed, the Slovenian philosopher takes… Read More ›
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Are you interested in being a Postgraduate Forum Convenor for the British Sociological Association?
Are you interested in being a Postgraduate Forum Convenor? Our existing team work together to make sure that student members of the Association are kept up-to-date with matters of specific interest to them. They will also facilitate contact between student members and… Read More ›
Social Class and Educational Aspiration
The BSA postgraduate forum is sponsoring an event of Social Class and Educational Aspiration for postgraduates involved in this area of research. The Conference and Workshop will be hosted by the University of East London On Tuesday 20th and Wednesday… Read More ›
Our most popular posts in January
Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today Who do you think you are, Richard Sennett??? A Mexican, a Kiwi and a Nigerian walk into a bar… a dose of (sociological) Xmas humour Review of… Read More ›
The best of Sociological Imagination
Check out what we’ve been making with Bundlr, a new online curation tool: The Sociological Imagination Public Scholarship and Private Commitments The best of SI What do you think? We’re still in the early stages of figuring out Bundlr but… Read More ›
Prickles and Goo (or Quals versus Quants)
A new video of an old talk by philosopher Alan Watts () perfectly illustrates the falsity of the quantitative vs qualitative sociology divide:
ANNOUNCEMENT: Summer School on Vampires and Vampirism
Apply for this summer school at your own peril! Euro-Balkan Institute for Social and Humanities Research, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia 15th OHRID SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2012 Summer School “Vampires and Vampirism: Between Anthropology, Folklore and Popular Culture” to be… Read More ›
Nick Crossley on Relational Sociology
In this podcast Mark Carrigan talks to Nick Crossley about his recent book Towards Relational Sociology. The interview covers relational sociology, interdisciplinary approaches to social theory, the future of social theory and the contested status of quantitative methods. Relational Sociology
Sociology@Warwick
A quick flag up to any interested readers that the Sociology Department at the University of Warwick now has a blog and twitter feed. Although Sociological Imagination has no formal connection to the department, a number of people involved in… Read More ›
Zygmunt Bauman on How to Survive Death
Zygmunt Bauman will be keynote speaker at this year’s British Sociological Association conference in Leeds this April. He will also speak to postgraduates at the BSA Postgraduate Day which is the day before the start of the main conference. There… Read More ›
Are you interested in being a Postgraduate Forum Convenor for the British Sociological Association?
Are you interested in being a Postgraduate Forum Convenor? Our existing team work together to make sure that student members of the Association are kept up-to-date with matters of specific interest to them. They will also facilitate contact between student members and… Read More ›
A round up of recent articles for PhD researchers
Here are some of our recent favourites: PhD education and mental health: A follow-up Time–out to reflect on the bigger picture Reflections on taking the intellectual carving knife to your PhD thesis Tool Roundup: Productivity Helpers for the New Year… Read More ›
Tending your ‘ideas garden’
Do you value your ideas? If you’re reading this website then chances are you answered ‘yes’ to that question. Yet unless you record all your ideas I’d argue that you don’t value them. At least not as much as you… Read More ›
The Sociology of Hip Hop
I realise this won’t be to everyone’s tastes but, given how fascinating I found it, I couldn’t resist posting it up. Three of the most talented young artists outside the mainstream gathered last year at the British Library to discuss… Read More ›
Recognising the people who make it all work
In a recent article in the Times Higher, the registrar of the University of Nottingham calls attention to an important and often overlooked dimension to the politics of the UK government’s higher education ‘reforms’: the role of support staff. As… Read More ›
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Universities cashing in on library fines
Universities across the UK have collected almost £50m from fining students for overdue library books in the past six years, the Guardian reports. Some of the top universities, who have accrued the most money from overdue books, include Leeds University,… Read More ›
Do ‘prestigious’ journals make academics lazy? An unlikely parallel with the art world
In a recent book economist Don Thompson explores the crucial role that branding has in the contemporary art market. With the market skewed by an influx of the ultra-rich seeking something to do with their money, a strange dynamic emerges. As the… Read More ›
New ‘iconic’ image of 9/11? Photographs and meanings
A newly popularised photograph from the bombing of New York on 9/11/2001 has caught the attention of the media and the public. The image, taken by photographer Thomas Hoepker, has stirred up controversial opinions. Perfect example of the ambiguity of… Read More ›
Spotlight on Asexuality Studies
“Spotlight on Asexuality Studies” was a groundbreaking event hosted by the Identity Repertoires/Mind the Gap research group in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. Academics, activists, community members, therapists and students gathered in the university library… Read More ›
Who is Barack Obama?
I’m someone who is far from sympathetic to postmodernism, seeing it as, at best, mildly interesting observations couched in a silly insular language and, at worst, reactionary attitudes presenting themselves as radical intellectual chic. Yet I find it difficult to… Read More ›
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Our readers favourite sociology & theory quotes
Just before Christmas we asked readers on Twitter for their favourite sociology and theory quotes: “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation” in which we live is the rule.” – Walter Benjamin (from @Rykalski) “The old… Read More ›
Sociology@Warwick
A quick flag up to any interested readers that the Sociology Department at the University of Warwick now has a blog and twitter feed. Although Sociological Imagination has no formal connection to the department, a number of people involved in… Read More ›