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 ›
Archive for September 2012
SI Weekend Reading: The Dawn of the MOOC
“SI Weekend Reading: The Dawn of the MOOC” on Bundlr
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 ›
Egypt 2011 vs Iraq 2003
(from Mohandas Gandhi)
The open access debate and what it means for researchers
Iad talk from Mark Carrigan
The Open Access movement gains momentum – should young scientists care?
The Open Access movement gains momentum – should young scientists care? from Martin Ballaschk
Scholarly Publishing, Open Access and the ‘Academic Spring’
“Scholarly Publishing, Open Access and the ‘Academic Spring’” on Bundlr
Can’t get a job with a sociology degree?
(via, surprisingly enough, fuckyeahsociologystudentsheep)
Podcasts are a natural fit for communication of academic ideas
I first encountered the idea of academic podcasting when working for a University of Warwick based project a few years ago. It gave a small stipend to PhD students in exchange for producing a short podcast profiling the research of… Read More ›
Using NVivo: a one day crash course for qualitative researchers, Fri 9th Nov
9:30am to 5:30pm, Friday 9th November at the Manchester Digital Laboratory Suitable for complete beginners or those who need a refresher, this intensive one day course will cover all the core functionality of NVivo: An overview of the software Managing and… Read More ›
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 ›
SI weekend reading: Golden Dawn
“SI weekend reading: Golden Dawn” on Bundlr
BSA Theory – Early Career Theorists’ Symposium, Apr 2013, London
BSA Theory Study Group: Early Career Theorists’ Symposium 2nd April, 2013, London Call for Abstracts The Early Career Theorists’ Symposium is a special one-day symposium for up-and-coming theorists, organized by the Theory Study Group of the British Sociological Association. This symposium… Read More ›
What about the authors who can’t pay? Why the government’s embrace of gold open access isn’t something to celebrate
Sometimes I worry that Twitter is an echo chamber, reflecting my own prejudices back at me and shielding me from contrasting views. On other occasions though, I find this same characteristic immensely comforting. Such as when reading that the government… 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 ›
Twitter for academics
What’s the point of Twitter? Twitter has an image problem. It first penetrated the public consciousness in a way which has left it defined by celebrities and, particularly for academics, this is unattractive. However the academic twittersphere (for lack of a better… Read More ›
SI Profile: Žižek
“SI Profile: Žižek” on Bundlr
Žižek Talks About The Dark Knight Rises
It’s always fun hearing Slavoj talk about films. Read related stuff here and here.
Using NVivo: a one day crash course for qualitative researchers, Fri 9th Nov
9:30am to 5:30pm, Friday 9th November at the Manchester Digital Laboratory Suitable for complete beginners or those who need a refresher, this intensive one day course will cover all the core functionality of NVivo: An overview of the software Managing and… Read More ›
Can Google Autocomplete Tell Me ….
As the psychologist Meg Barker suggests in her new book, Rewriting the Rules, looking at the most common words which Google uses to complete the phrase “how can I get my boyfriend/girlfriend to … ” can be a fun way… Read More ›
The Accidental Sociologist
This is The Accidental Sociologist – a place in which I will be holding court on the wonderful myriad of ways in which getting somewhere entirely by happenstance can result in great things. The column has its origins in a… Read More ›
We now have a Facebook page…
And we’ll be ever so offended if you don’t like it: The Sociological Imagination And of course there’s always Twitter: And the Newswire and CWrightMills.
SI Weekend Reading: The Death of Privacy
“SI weekend reading: the death of privacy” on Bundlr
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 ›
Accidental sociologists
Today I stumbled across an interesting biographical account by Sarah Burton, sociology postgraduate researcher, entitled The Accidental Sociologist. Sarah writes that she – as, it seems, a great many other sociologists – ended up in sociology ‘by chance’. She wonders… Read More ›