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Archive for March 2013
Ethnographic Methods: ethics, practice and theory
Ethnographic Methods: ethics, practice and theory , Thursday, 23 May 2013 The University of Warwick At its best, ethnography – often glossed as ‘participant observation’ – has provided sociology and other social researchers with a valuable tool for apprehending a… Read More ›
The Definitive Guide to Academic Social Media
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The “Communist Monopoly” Game
If you like board games, you’ll love the Waiting Game. Well, not sure that you’ll actually enjoy it (though you might!), but you’ll certainly learn something. As someone who grew up in a still socialist Bulgaria, I do remember the… Read More ›
“I tried hard to be proud of my service, but all I could feel was shame”
A powerful speech by Mike Prysner, a US army veteren turned anti-war activist, given at the Winter Soldier symposium. This event involved anti-war veterans from around the US coming together to give testimony about their experiences on the grounds in… Read More ›
“Why do you find Twitter useful as an academic?” (part 2)
The original version of this post got an interesting comment yesterday. We hope the author won’t mind us reposting the comment as a new post. It was a quick content analysis of the answers in the original post. So… why do you… Read More ›
Subjects vs subjectification – getting beyond an unhelpful dichotomy (without irritating the Foucauldians too much)
One important objection to the notion of ‘internal conversation’ rests on a broader trend within contemporary social theory that is concerned with the possibility that theoretical claims about agency lead proponents to make claims about agents which are empirically inadequate…. Read More ›
New Report on Internet Ethics by AoIR
The Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is an organisation whose aim is to ensure that “research on and about the Internet is conducted in an ethical and professional manner”. AoIR recently published their second major report intended to assist researchers… Read More ›
Subjectivity and Subculture: One Day Symposium
Subjectivity and Subculture ~ One Day Symposium ~ Monday 10th June 2013: 9:00am-6:30pm Institute of Advanced Study, Milburn House, University of Warwick We are delighted to announce that Dr Rupa Huq, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University, and Dr Shane Blackman, Professor… Read More ›
23 April 2013 ‘Enacting public engagement: collaboration and critique within/beyond the university’
23 April 2013 – Enacting public engagement: collaboration and critique within/beyond the university, organised by the Creating Publics project and the Enactments Research Programme, Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, The Open University. The aims of this forum are to… Read More ›
Think Tanks In America
Given the ubiquity of think tanks within contemporary politics, it is easy to forget that their current influence is a relatively recent phenomenon. Yet without an understanding of their history, it is difficult to understand either their role within public… Read More ›
Reflections on taking the intellectual carving knife to your PhD thesis
I remember very distinctly the moment when I first took a figurative carving knife to my PhD thesis. I was in a careers workshop at a conference and a senior academic had just explained how the oh-so-rational metric of the… Read More ›
Philosophy by podcast?
In this podcast Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds, the duo behind the popular philosophy bites series, talk about podcasting and its broader significance in contemporary society. We found this fascinating, on a narcissistic level because of the idea that the unglamorous job of digital editing… Read More ›
CfP: Normality in an uncertain world
Normality in an uncertain world 6th ENQUIRE Postgraduate Conference, 10th and 11th September 2013 Call for Abstracts This conference aims to bring together post-graduates and researchers, with an interest in normality, to explore the development, current application and possible future… Read More ›
Digital Sociologist #3: David Beer
How did Thinking Culture come about? Has the way you’ve used the blog changed over time? How does your blog connect with the rest of your work? Do you ever have trouble finding time to blog? So is curation a central part… Read More ›
The Holstee manifesto
The Holstee manifesto – via Brainpickings.
Classifying Sex Conference, July 2013, Cambridge
Thursday, 4 July 2013 to Friday, 5 July 2013 Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT Summary This conference brings together social scientists, gender scholars, sexologists, psychiatrists, historians of science, as well as mental health practitioners… Read More ›
Your Brain on Alcohol
(HT Your Brain on Drugs)
Searching for an (empirical) middle ground between the social self and the liberal self
Back when I planned to do a PhD in political philosophy, I was extremely interested in Michael Sandel’s critique of John Rawls. Particularly his attack on what he claimed was Rawl’s notion of an ‘unencumbered self’: Now the unencumbered self describes… Read More ›
Continuous publishing has changed my experience of developing ideas
A few months ago Pat Lockley and I wrote an article for the LSE Impact Blog about continuous publishing. This was actually a phrase introduced by the site’s editor for the title but it perfectly captured what we were trying to get at. Given that… Read More ›
How will sociology cope with digital data? An interview with David Beer
Why should sociologists care about the ‘digital’? What is ‘digital by-product data’? Why is it sociologically interesting? How can sociologists cope with digital data? How will digital data shape sociological practice? To find out more about his work, see David’s… Read More ›
Sociology and the Global Economic Crisis
Sociology and the Global Economic Crisis Special Issue Call for Papers Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2013 Editorial Team: Ana C. Dinerstein (University of Bath), Gregory Schwartz (University of Bath) and Graham Taylor (University of the West of England) We… Read More ›
Are you a hipster? Or a nerd with glasses?
(HT Sociological Images)
“Why do you find Twitter useful as an academic?”
This was the question I asked earlier this morning on Twitter. I was preparing a workshop on twitter for academics and was a little nervous about my content. The basic point of the workshop was to convince participants about the value of… Read More ›
“For the majority of people capitalism is not delivering the goods”
An interesting discussion, though it’s probably best to skip the first two minutes. Unless you, like us, find it weirdly fascinating to see the range of foundations that support this mainstreamed discussion of ‘taming capitalism’. (HT GFMurphy)
“Why do you find blogging useful as a researcher?”
I asked this question on Twitter in preparation for a blogging for researchers workshop I was running at the University of Warwick. I’ve included some of the answers I received below. I’ve also collated a collection of resources here. Part of the… Read More ›