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Archive for August 2012
Mid 20th Century Sex Education
“Mid 20th Century Sex Education” on Bundlr
A guide to curation tools for researchers
Do you suffer from information overload? Do you find it difficult to organise and process the things you find online so that you can apply them productively in your day-to-day working life? If so then curation tools could transform your experience of… Read More ›
Fox news discover asexuality, find it ever so funny…
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com There’s a petition online in response to it here: https://www.change.org/petitions/instead-of-talking-about-asexual-people-talk-to-us
The crisis of empirical sociology: against defeatism and rethinking the public role of the qualitative researcher
As Savage and Burrows (2007: 894) point out, the popularity of the in depth interview in British sociology stems from an intellectual reaction to the excesses of Parsonian functionalism: responding to talk of reference groups, norms and values with the valorization of intensely ideographic… Read More ›
Human nature and social change
Our concept of human nature is certainly limited; it’s partially socially conditioned, constrained by our own character defects and the limitations of the intellectual culture in which we exist. Yet at the same time it is of critical importance that… Read More ›
Chomsky vs. Foucault
We suspect many readers will have already seen this video, recorded at a 1991 debate between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky. But if you haven’t then you’re in for a treat: two of the finest radical minds of the 20th century… Read More ›
SI Weekend Reading: Pussy Riot
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs & the Social Media that Fulfill Them
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, & the Social Media that Fulfill ‘Em by Erica Glasier. Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License. (Hat Tip: Sound & Fury)
Get on the way, Pussy Riot!
This article was originally posted on the MYPLACE blog. The MYPLACE blog first reported on ”Pussy Riot’s” anti-Putin punk prayer protest, in March. Now, as 3 members of the group have been sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for “hooliganism,” the University of Warwick’s Dr Ivan Gololobov writes on… Read More ›
If your bottom line as an academic is that the world is a complicated and uncertain place, then expect job replacement by a smart search engine
Case in point: A bad analogy between UK Olympic funding and UK science policy funding. Clearly the author hasn’t thought through the idea that in a neo-liberal political economy, targets make all the difference – and the Olympics provided those,… Read More ›
An Introduction to Asexuality: An information pack for teachers, journalists, activists and researchers
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Saudi Arabia’s women: small steps for change
How do working women get to work in Saudi Arabia – where there is no public transport and they are not allowed to drive because of their sex? How do women who do not have a male guardian live without… Read More ›
The Nature of Cities
For me, good urban sociology reminds us that cities are small, intimate things that won’t be around forever. They might seem vast and tall and solid and permanent, but they’re not. Cities are living, breathing organic matter, like a flower… Read More ›
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 ›
SI weekend reading: who is Paul Ryan and why does it matter?
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‘Red Army 2.0′: human-flesh search engines in China
Western understanding of China’s ‘socialist market economy’ leaves a lot to be desired. The phenomenon of renrou sousuo yinqing, human-flesh search engines, sheds some light on the predominant values in contemporary Chinese society: ‘…they are a form of online vigilante justice… Read More ›
The Libertarian Con?
Warning: if you regard yourself as a ‘libertarian’, in the American sense of the term, it might be best if you avoid reading this strident critique of the role libertarianism is coming to play in contemporary political culture. But we’re… Read More ›
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing(?): On Being a Not So Dumb Blonde
Since returning northwards, and knowing that it would only be temporary, I’ve made the decision to try and get out into the Northumberland countryside as much as possible. It’s not going well, largely owing to my reluctance to leave my… Read More ›