There’s an extremely informative article on the LSE Impact Blog giving a useful overview of the still uncertain future of open access monographs. There are a variety of potential models which could be adopted for publishing open access monographs and… Read More ›
Social and Political Critique in the Age of Austerity A one day workshop at Keele University 10.30am-6pm, Wednesday 12th February, 2014 This one day workshop is devoted to the discussion of critical politics in the contemporary age of austerity. Following… Read More ›
What does ‘public sociology’ entail in a world of facebook, twitter, youtube, slideshare, soundcloud, pinterest and wordpress? What affordances and constraints do these tools entail for the task of “taking knowledge back to those from whom it came, making public issues out… Read More ›
Suppose we live in an ideologically polarised world – let’s call it ‘left’ v. ‘right’ – where free speech is the norm. The ‘left’ people are basically about humans changing their default ways of being. The ‘right’ people are basically… Read More ›
“Getting Started: Public Engagement for Social Scientists” on Bundlr
Are you a PhD student or Early Career Researcher doing work in digital sociology? The BSA Digital Sociology Group has organised a PhD/ECR Workshop where a limited number of participants can get feedback on their work from peers and established academics in… Read More ›
Holy Crap! Intersections of the Popular and the Sacred in Youth Cultures 28–29 August 2014, Helsinki, Finland Call for Papers and Sessions Holy Crap! is an international conference organised by the Finnish Youth Research Society and Network, focusing on the… Read More ›
This interesting lecture by Nick Crossley and Gemma Edwards offers a helpful introduction to social network analysis before discussing purely qualitative approaches to analysing social networks. We interviewed Nick about his work on relational sociology a couple of years ago and it’s great to… Read More ›
Free One Day Conference at Leicester Postgraduate Travel Bursaries available – please email Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes: The Centrality of By-Products of Social Research College Court Conference Centre University of Leicester January 14th 2014 http://store.ioe.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=112&catid=42&prodid=242 Paradata, marginalia, fieldnotes… Read More ›
I’m someone who likes animals. I’m also someone who spends a lot of time procrastinating on youtube. These two facts converged some time ago when I noticed an interesting trend for youtube videos, usually filmed by female partners, capturing usually… Read More ›
(HT Jonathan Davies) Anyone know the original source of this? Please leave a comment if so. This was found on Twitter but it would be nice to be able… Read More ›
Enduring Love? Couple Relationships in the 21st Century The Enduring Love? project is a major ESRC-funded study () that has been exploring how couples experience, understand and sustain their long-term relationships. To celebrate the end of the project we are hosting an… Read More ›
The Jacobin Magazine has a fascinating article exploring the role played by a passion for gaming in facilitating the expansion and intensification of precarious labour within the video game industry. With seemingly endless cohorts of eager young gamers desperate to… Read More ›
Here is a great post by ejaneward at the Social (In)Queery blog discussing the social origins of sexuality and the complexity of notions, such as “choice”, which we are too often keen to simplify. What do you think? Social (In)Queery is… Read More ›
In his book, Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, author and scholar Henry Giroux connects the dots to prove his theory that our current system is informed by a “machinery of social and civil death” that chills “any vestige… Read More ›
Early Career Theorists’ Symposium 6th June, 2014, held at the London School of Economics Call for Abstracts The Early Career Theorists’ Symposium is a special one-day symposium for up-and-coming theorists, organized on behalf of the British Sociological Association’s Theory Study… Read More ›
There’s a provocative post on Nick Carr’s blog in which he discusses the potential expansion of self-tracking technology as a mechanism of quantified control: But, as management researcher H. James Wilson reports in the Wall Street Journal, there is one area where self-tracking is beginning to… Read More ›
We featured a documentary film last month called Absent from the Academy which explored the lack of black academics in UK higher education. So it was great to see the director and producer of the film, who is a PhD student at… Read More ›
There’s a great post on Deborah Lupton’s blog in which she discusses the academic quantified self. It builds on a recent paper by Roger Burrows, Living with the h-index, in which he explores the implications of the increasing quantification of academic labour… Read More ›
As the AVEN website describes, “in a world where sexuality is promoted as the norm, many asexuals grow up thinking that they’re somehow sick, broken or deficient”. This raises the question of the nature of this norm, as well as… Read More ›
Call for papers: Historical Perspectives on ‘Antisocial Personality Disorder’ We are organising a conference with the title ‘Historical Perspectives on ‘Antisocial Personality Disorder’’. This will be held in London on Monday 12th May 2014, at Queen Mary, University of London. We… Read More ›
Assuming I haven’t completely misunderstood Mark Fisher’s point then I’d argue this is one of the most striking examples of capitalist realism I’ve ever encountered. It was posted as a comment on this Glenn Greenwald article. Note how an assertion of the obviousness of this state… Read More ›
Since reading this astonishing book by Neil Gross earlier in the year I have been increasingly aware of the latent influence of pragmatism on my thought. I used to really like Richard Rorty but came to think it was just a phase, explicable in terms… Read More ›
The myriad of diverse groups from various social and cultural backgrounds within a multicultural society such as the U.K means it is essential to find ways to promote an atmosphere of acceptance and understanding to ensure community cohesion. It is… Read More ›
Enduring Love? Couple Relationships in the 21st Century The Enduring Love? project is a major ESRC-funded study () that has been exploring how couples experience, understand and sustain their long-term relationships. To celebrate the end of the project we are hosting an… Read More ›
Are you a PhD student or Early Career Researcher doing work in digital sociology? The BSA Digital Sociology Group has organised a PhD/ECR Workshop where a limited number of participants can get feedback on their work from peers and established academics in… Read More ›
Social Science and the Politics of Public Engagement Tuesday, January 28, 2014 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Open University Camden Centre, 1 – 11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London In recent years new technology has begun to facilitate ever… Read More ›
If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in… Read More ›
Kelle (1997) sounds a useful note of caution in an insightful discussion of the history of CAQDAS software: The newly developed software programs for computer-aided textual analysis became tools for data storage and retrieval rather than tools for ‘data analysis’…. Read More ›
That’s the rather provocative issue addressed in this Guardian article which explores the present malaise of liberal democracy in terms of the historical persistence of scepticism about its long term viability: It has been a bad few months for western… Read More ›