Until people started calling themselves homosexual, it didn’t make much sense for anyone to refer to themselves as heterosexual. Up until that point, it had simply been taken for granted and, as such, escaped scrutiny either by individuals or by society more widely. As… Read More ›
Archive for February 2012
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 ›
The Facebook Project
* In my Introductory Sociology course, It’s Not Rocket Science, students create faux Facebook profiles of people who are their exact social opposite, then interact with one another for ten weeks, (as well as observe and analyze these interactions), finally… Read More ›
Introducing Charles Taylor
Check out our Charles Taylor bundle for more information about the man and his work.
Add SI on Twitter and Facebook
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 ›
Fantastic Monsters Protecting Morality
MYPLACE team members at Centre for Youth Research, Higher School of Economics (St Petersburg) present their latest blog on the passing of a new law against the propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia. This was originally posted on the MYPLACE blog. Follow MYPLACE… Read More ›
When riots have colour
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe… Read More ›
Some favourite sociological quotes from our Twitter followers
“We are little Gods who shit” – Ernest Becker (from @Ursies) “You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest” – Zygmunt Bauman (from @PaulWilks) “either one lives for politics or one lives off politics” – Max… Read More ›
C. WRIGHT MILLS: LEGACIES AND PROSPECTS – 50 YEARS ON
C. Wright Mills: Legacies and Prospects – 50 Years On Friday 13th April, 11-12.30pm In March 2012 it will have been 50 years since the death of C. Wright Mills. In that time the world has changed beyond recognition: the… 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 ›
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 ›
Add SI on Twitter and Facebook
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 ›
Discourses of Dissent Part 2 – Public Universities and Public Futures
Discourses of Dissent was a one day symposium organised by SI’s editor in February 2011. The website hosting them is soon to lapse so SI will be the new home for the videos from the day. In light of the coalition… Read More ›
The Divided Self
This lovely video is based on an RSA talk by David Brooks about his great book The Social Animal.
Discourses of Dissent Part 1 – Social Theory and the Politics of Austerity
Discourses of Dissent was a one day symposium organised by SI’s editor in February 2011. The website hosting them is soon to lapse so SI will be the new home for the videos from the day. In light of the coalition… Read More ›
Some favourite sociological quotes from SI’s facebook friends
“Deviance is not a quality of the act the person commits, but rather a consequence of the application by others of rules and sanctions to an ‘offender’. The deviant is one to whom that label has successfully been applied; deviant behavior is behavior that… Read More ›
Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of stories
In recent years narrative has become a central concept within significant areas of the humanities and social sciences. Yet in this provocative TED talk, the economist Tyler Cowen argues that we ought to be suspicious of stories. It’s a thought-provoking… Read More ›
BSA Conference Event – C Wright Mills, 50 Years On
C. Wright Mills: Legacies and Prospects – 50 Years On Friday 13th April, 11-12.30pm In March 2012 it will have been 50 years since the death of C. Wright Mills. In that time the world has changed beyond recognition: the… 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 ›
The future of the university
Over the last year Sociological Imagination has published a range of podcasts exploring the future of the university. We thought it might be useful to round them up and post them together in one convenient place: Engaging with the media… Read More ›
Memories of a ‘Ghost Town’: the George Shaw exhibition in The Herbert Museum, Coventry, UK
Dr Anton Popov, University of Warwick MYPLACE team member, on the new exhibition by Turner Prize nominated local artist George Shaw at the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery in Coventry, and its particular relevance to the work of MYPLACE. This… Read More ›
Podcast: late capitalism and a/sexual culture
The next sexual revolution…?