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Comment on Imagining the human: new media tools by Our most popular posts in January | The Sociological Imagination

Our most popular posts in January | The Sociological Imagination — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:04:05 +0000

[...] Imagining the human: new media tools [...]

Comment on Who do you think you are, Richard Sennett??? by Our most popular posts in January | The Sociological Imagination

Our most popular posts in January | The Sociological Imagination — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:03:48 +0000

[...] Who do you think you are, Richard Sennett??? [...]

Comment on Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today by Our most popular posts in January | The Sociological Imagination

Our most popular posts in January | The Sociological Imagination — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:03:48 +0000

[...] Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today [...]

Comment on A round up of recent social media & academic publishing articles… by Mindful academia | Social Mindfulness

Mindful academia | Social Mindfulness — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:11:21 +0000

[...] and to intervene in their perpetuation. This has resonances with recent work by Debbie Epstein and Mark Carrigan which question the taken-for-granted ways in which academia operates. We welcome further debate on [...]

Comment on Popular culture and the unconstrained sociological imagination by Popular culture and the unconstrained sociological imagination | Thinking culture

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:49:46 +0000

[...] is a link to an blog piece about the sociological imagination in popular culture. This is a condensed version of a theme i’ve been working on for the last couple of years. [...]

Comment on Architecture, Art and Wellbeing by Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:10:14 +0000

Thanks very much for posting this! I found it very thought provoking.

Comment on A round up of recent social media & academic publishing articles… by Blogging against the stream | Social Mindfulness

Blogging against the stream | Social Mindfulness — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:17:20 +0000

[...] publishers and writers need to think about how they can work together with more open forms of publishing which are both more freely available and easier to [...]

Comment on SI Top 10 #6 – Anarchism and The Sociological Imagination: An Interview with Dana Williams by manjeet chaturvedi

manjeet chaturvedi — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:57:53 +0000

Dose not anarchism being reassessed to re-position this as to what was thought outcast has always been for the new social order? Domination of exploiters can only be removed by mass praxis of exploited classes.

Comment on Do schools kill creativity? by Kyle F. Reinson

Kyle F. Reinson — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:23:28 +0000

This is a highly-important message and one I share with many of my students here in New York. It’s a great way to open up a discussion about higher education and the complaints that students have about it. I think they all see themselves in that dancer story Robinson conveys. I know I do. We cannot just convey content and call it a college course. Students will get that the remainder of their lives. What we need to do is develop their talents, and help them to discover them.

Comment on Are sex offenders and lads’ mags talking the same language? by Sex offenders and lads’ mags « Rewriting The Rules

Sex offenders and lads’ mags « Rewriting The Rules — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:29:51 +0000

[...] Other research presented at the Institute of Education Sexualisation of Culture conference (see my last post) found that people struggled to tell the difference between statements of convicted sex offenders and statements taken from mens’ magazines. This raises many interesting questions (see post about this on The Sociological Imagination). [...]