The Future of Public Markets by Claudia Vallvé, Barcelona Fresh markets are an essential part of Mediterranean countries. Not only as a place for shopping groceries and fresh food. Fresh markets are also (or used to be) the social centre… Read More ›
This isn’t the blog post I have intended to write for ages about LS Lowry’s profoundly sociological sensibility. But it is a percursor to it because this article so succinctly describes exactly the point I’m trying to make about Lowry’s work: What is amazing,… Read More ›
‘The role of celebrity in young people’s classed and gendered aspirations’ is an ESRC funded research project which examines the relationship between celebrity culture, inequalities of class and gender and young people’s educational experiences, identities and transitions. The project has… Read More ›
In this talk the primatologist Frans de Waal explains the transition underway from a tendency to construe animal behaviour (including the human animal) in terms of competition, aggression and domination to a new understanding of a pervasive capacity for cooperation and empathy. It’s… Read More ›
Call for Papers Tensions of Rhetorics and Realities in Critical Diversities Edited by Alexa Athelstan, Nichole Edwards, Mercedes Pöll & Sanaz Raji (University of Leeds) Website: http://tensionsrhetoricsrealities.wordpress.com/call-for-papers Email: We warmly invite your contributions to our edited collection entitled Tensions of Rhetorics… Read More ›
Today’s visual sociology article is not just visual, but also spatial. It is a fascinating project for the visualisation and embodied learning of one of the classic philosophy works: Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason”. Kant in Hand by Hanno Depner,… Read More ›
All these changes in scholarship have been taken up with a great deal more enthusiasm by some in the academy than others. Our colleagues in the humanities have embraced digital technologies much more readily than those of us in sociology… Read More ›
I’m finally in the process of reading this intellectual biography of Richard Rorty by Neil Gross. I’ve intended to for a few years now, given my long term fascination with Rorty, however it was only recently that I had it pointed out… Read More ›
“Getting Started: Public Engagement for Social Scientists” on Bundlr
Tuesday 16th July 2013 BSA Meeting Room, Suite 2, 2 Station Court Imperial Wharf, Fulham, London SW6 2PY This inaugural event for the BSA’s Digital Sociology Group brings together a diverse range of speakers who, in a variety of ways,… Read More ›
Act of Terror from Fat Rat Films on Vimeo. While filming a routine stop and search of her boyfriend on the London Underground, Gemma suddenly found herself detained, handcuffed and threatened with arrest. Act of Terror tells the story of… Read More ›
“Lost in London” is a film by Michael Smith and Wojciech Duczmal, who’ve collaborated on many documentaries for the BBC over the years. It develops further their idea of the lyrical essay-film, or documentary-poem. Inspired by Baudelaire’s idea of the… Read More ›
BSA TEACHING GROUP CONFERENCE Saturday 15th June 2013 Nottingham Trent University Sponsored by the Higher Education Academy The BSA’s Teaching Group is pleased to announce a regional conference hosted by the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University. This event is… Read More ›
I shoot, therefore I exist by Claudia Vallvé, Barcelona This is my street. I see them every day, any hour of the day. By dozens. Standing there. Taking their photos. They come, they shoot, they go. Average of stay: 3… Read More ›
There’s a couple of interviews we’ve done on these themes with Les Back here and here. If you find the lecture interesting then you really should check out the edited collection it draws on.
If you find Charles Taylor interesting, there’s another lecture and a link to introductory resources available here. If you don’t find Charles Taylor interesting then apologies in advance for the profusion of philosophers and theorists who will be featuring on… Read More ›
This is the first in a series of blog posts on realism and social movements. The purpose of it is to refine the explanatory purchase of realist thought within social movement studies and consider what it means ‘to be realist’… Read More ›
New Round of Postgraduate Research Scholarships in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR) University of Kent. SSPSSR has a world-wide reputation for excellence and is one of the leading and largest research centres for social science in… Read More ›
Although criminology has grown as a field of study in the last 2 decades, it remains rooted in sociology. The study of the analysis of crime, criminal behaviour, and societal responses to law breaking cannot be understood without understanding who… Read More ›
…and bumblebees. Visit XKCD, then hold your mouse over the original image to see the Alt text (or click on the image below to go to the original):
Baklava is a recent Bulgarian film which was banned as soon as it was released a couple of years ago due to allegations of content unsuitable for the screen, including violence, indecency and child pornography. Allegations aside, the film presents a bleak,… Read More ›
Taos alone by Michael V. Miller The title of this work is “Taos alone”. Shot by Michael V. Miller with telephoto lens on Pentax 35 mm SLR at side of mission church in Taos Pueblo, northern New Mexico, June, 1982. He… Read More ›
What is Digital Sociology? You can find out more about Noortje’s work here.
This interesting article in the Guardian Higher Ed reports on empirical data which supports something I’ve believed for quite some time: communications offices are, at least in some respects, ill suited to using social media for student recruitment. Their role as an official channel… Read More ›