A fantastic resource by the National Centre for Social Research Methods: films of their “what is?” sessions from the 2012 festival of research methods: What is analytic induction? by Professor Martyn Hammersley What are cohort studies? by Professor Jane Elliott… Read More ›
Archive for September 2015
The rise of “connexionism” through online-offline integration
When checking in for a flight recently I was offered the opportunity to “Discover who’s on board”. By connecting my Facebook, Linkedin or Google+ account I could see who else had done the same. So, this makes it possible (in KLM’s… Read More ›
Registration now open: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life
Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life 2nd-4th December 2015, Prague (Vila Lanna) Organised by the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and supported by the Strategy AV21. For more details see our webpage at accelerated.academy Powered… Read More ›
Call for papers: Qualitative Methods and Data in Digital Societies
Call for papers: Themed Issue Qualitative Methods and Data in Digital Societies Qualitative Research [html: http://qrj.sagepub.com] Edited by William Housley (Cardiff University), Bella Dicks (Cardiff University) and Karen Henwood (Cardiff University). The explosion of digital social data in recent years has… Read More ›
Military Sociology in the Early 21st Century
My Day Job: Military Sociology in the Early 21st Century Eastern Sociological Society Meeting, The Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, March 17-20, 2016 We invite submissions of abstracts for a mini-conference on military sociology. This mini-conference will be held as… Read More ›
Learning and Playing Political Economy
Friday 9th October 2015, The Teaching Grid at University of Warwick http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/staff/teaching/teachinggrid/ This one-day workshop is an opportunity for scholars of political economy to discuss and debate how they teach the many facets of this interdisciplinary field of study. A teaching focus… Read More ›
The agonistic politics of anonymous
I’ve recently been writing about the fragility of many contemporary movements: the organisational weakness that can emerge from digitally mediated assembly because the logistical labour formerly necessary to bring people together provided an important foundation for collective reflexivity. Collective projects become harder… Read More ›
Call for proposals: BSA Early Career Forum Regional Events 2016
Call for BSA Early Career Forum Regional Event Proposals 2016 BSA ECF members are eligible to apply for this fund to arrange an event relevant and/or appropriate for early career BSA members. £1,000 is available to fund the event which can… Read More ›
First Faculty meeting of the year bingo
A superb bingo card by Lisa Nikolidakis on McSweeney’s to help you while away the first faculty meeting of the year: If you like this then you may enjoy the Conference Bingo card, by Kat Gupta and Heather Froehlich, which we posted a… Read More ›
CFP: Sexualities Special Issue ‘Trans Genealogies: Gender, Sexuality and the Emergence of Trans’
Guest editors: L Moon, R Pearce and DL Steinberg Forthcoming 2016 Deadline for submission of papers: November 30 2015 We would like to invite submissions for a forthcoming Special Issue of Sexualities on the topic of ‘Trans-Genealogies: Gender, Sexuality and… Read More ›
Precarious labour in higher education
HT to NotRightRuth for sharing this amazing Doonesbury cartoon:
Philip Abrams Prize 2016 – Nominations Open
Nominations are now being sought for the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial (PAM) Prize 2016. The PAM prize is awarded to the best first and sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology published between 1st December 2014 and 30th November 2015. The winner of… Read More ›
Cultures of Wellbeing: Method, Place, Policy
More information on the Palgrave website here.
Registration now open: Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life
Power, Acceleration and Metrics in Academic Life 2nd-4th December 2015, Prague (Vila Lanna) Organised by the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and supported by the Strategy AV21. For more details see our webpage at accelerated.academy Powered… Read More ›
CfP: Power and the Body
Power and the Body Paper Session for the 2016 ESS Annual Meeting Boston, March 17-20, 2016 Power is a topic that is commonly explored through its traditional channels of action, such as political parties, bureaucratic structures, and formal organizations. This panel, however,… Read More ›
A collection of Digital Sociology CfPs
Tressie McMillan Cottom has collected a broad range of upcoming Digital Sociology calls for papers on her blog: http://tressiemc.com/cfps-digital-sociology-inequalities/
Most millennial resists the millennial label
The increasing prominence of the category ‘millennial’ irritates me. I thought this was a sociological objection. As this superb n+1 essay observes, the category builds systemic conditions into the dispositions of the generational cohort and so disguises the former through… Read More ›
Selling the UK by the offshore pound
The Private Eye has launched a new data journalism initiative, analysing the growing ownership of the United Kingdom by offshore companies based in tax trusts. Explore the map here. OVER the last year Private Eye has revealed the extent of… Read More ›
Call for book proposals: New Visions of the Cosmopolitan
New Visions of the Cosmopolitan Series Editors: Dr Patrick O’Mahony Dr Tracey Skillington New Visions of the Cosmopolitan explores how the forces of contemporary social change release a cosmopolitan energy that dilutes the relevance of the nation-state. The ‘transnational turn’… Read More ›
The Mike Wallace Interview: Erich Fromm ()
In a sign of how far the quality of television has slipped in past decades, Erich Fromm was invited to take part in this series discussing “the problems of a free society and what it must do to survive” in… Read More ›
Don’t we need to take into account a researcher’s philosophical presuppositions amid calls for greater research replicability?
by John-Paul Smiley Calls for greater replicability in social research are seemingly increasing by the day. The issue has garnered renewed attention in light of the LaCour incident and has prompted a flurry of debate across both traditional and new… Read More ›
Jeremy Corbyn: Hope and Possibility
A Summary of the Speech Jeremy Corbyn’s winning speech after a stunning win of an undisputed majority today came after 99 rallies around the country. Today was poignantly the 100th gathering. And what a remarkable inspiring speech. A true leader:… Read More ›
CfP: My Day Job: Politics and Pedagogy in Academia
2016 Annual Meeting EASTERN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY CALL FOR PAPERS My Day Job: Politics and Pedagogy in Academia The Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, March 17-20, 2016 The online abstract submission system for the ESS annual meeting is now open… Read More ›
The necessity of digital sociology
It’s far from the most sophisticated argument I’ve heard made to this end, but I appreciate the spiritedness with which David Lyon defends the necessity of digital sociology in his Liquid Surveillance book with Zygmunt Bauman pg 34: Sociology is… Read More ›
Williams, Marcuse, and Smythe in the Age of Social Media
The astonishingly prolific Christian Fuchs gives an overview of his development of critical theory for digital capitalism.
The fiction future of faculty: an afternoon of sociological design fiction
I’m organising a design fiction event in Manchester on September 16th, with James Duggan and Joseph Lindley. It’ll be great. You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fiction-future-of-faculty-an-afternoon-of-sociological-design-fiction-tickets- The ability of storytelling to help us envision and discuss a gamut of plausible futures, from… Read More ›
Deadline extended for the Social Media, Activism, and Organisations Symposium
Call for Participation 2015 Social Media, Activism, and Organisations Symposium (#SMAO15) – November 6, 2015 @ Goldsmiths, University of London FREE Registration at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-media-activism-and-organisations-smao15-tickets- Social media (from mainstream platforms such as Twitter to organization-specific tools) have become increasingly pervasive. This… Read More ›
BSA Sociology of the Arts Study Group: “Unpacking Art”, September 11th
Full details here. The BSA have started promoting everything via PDFs, which aren’t blog friendly.