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• Some thoughts on sociological blogging

  By Sociological Imagination on January 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  The potential value and dangers of sociological blogging arise because of an environment in which the demands of audit culture incentivise the production of ‘unread’ and ‘unloved’ publications which are too often written to be counted rather than to be… Read More ›

• W.G. Runciman @SocioWarwick on January 22nd

  By Sociological Imagination on January 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

  The Social Theory Centre at Warwick is pleased to announce two events happening on Thursday 22nd January 2015 with W.G. Runciman (Trinity College, Cambridge; ex-President of the British Academy): Why So Little, Why So Much?: Change in English Society Since the… Read More ›

• Joe Sacco – On Satire

  By Sadia Habib on January 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Graphic artist and journalist Joe Sacco explores the limits of satire.

• Treating ideas with seriousness

  By Mark Carrigan on January 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  I recently interviewed Daniel Little, author of Understanding Society, as part of the research feeding into Social Media for Academics. Here are some extracts from an extremely thought provoking conversation:

• Charlie Hebdo: #JesuisCharlie ou Non?

  By Sadia Habib on January 8, 2015 • ( 17 )

  

  Following the horrific murders of police and journalists in Paris yesterday, Muslim communities in Europe are facing the inevitable consequences. Today mosques in France have been attacked. Muslims in Europe are feeling further reverberations, evident in criticisms of their supposed… Read More ›

• Dying for the Right of Free Expression: A Reflection on the Charlie Hebdo Massacre

  By Steve Fuller on January 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

  The clearly calculated mass murder that occurred yesterday at the headquarters of the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, is an affront to basic standards of human decency. However, the ensuing outrage has been spun in terms of various diagnoses: Did… Read More ›

• The gaps in which being human happens

  By Mark Carrigan on January 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

  I’m currently reading Vincent Deary’s How We Are. It’s the first book in a planned trilogy exploring how people change. For the last few months I’ve had a vague idea that at some point I’d like to develop themes from my PhD… Read More ›

• Does Sociology as a Discipline Have a Future in the UK after the REF?

  By Steve Fuller on January 7, 2015 • ( 2 )

  The British Sociological Association (BSA), the main professional body for sociology as a discipline in this country, has recently called for some calm soul-searching about the results of the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF), in which the lowest ever number… Read More ›

• Call for papers: Internet of You: Data Big and Small

  By Sociological Imagination on January 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Call for papers for special issue of IEEE Internet Computing –http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/iccfp6 Internet of You: Data Big and Small Final submissions due:  1 March 2015 Publication issue:  November/December 2015 Please email the guest editors a brief description of the article you… Read More ›

• A Decade Lost: Rethinking Radicalisation and Extremism

  By Sadia Habib on January 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  A Decade Lost: Rethinking Radicalisation and Extremism by Professor Arun Kundnani A report released today by Professor Kundnani and Claystone (a social cohesion think tank) critiques the government’s Prevent strategy and calls on the government to end this controversial programme…. Read More ›

• Book Review: Ann Oakley’s Father and Daughter – Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science

  By Sadia Habib on January 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  By Gwen Redmond Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science by Ann Oakley (Policy Press, 2014) I am not sure how an academic like Oakley would respond to my referring to her book as ‘unputdownable’, but there you have… Read More ›

• Two digital sociology events @sociowarwick on January 13th

  By Sociological Imagination on January 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  What is Digital Sociology? An evening lecture by Deborah Lupton with Mark Carrigan and Emma Uprichard responding. It will take place in S0.21 from 5pm to 7pm. This is in the Social Sciences Building on the University of Warwick campus…. Read More ›

• The sociology of sociological writing

  By Mark Carrigan on January 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  The denial of what Ben Agger calls ‘authoriality’ in sociological texts helps explain why concerns about the character of sociological writing have figured so prominently in recurrent anxieties about the status and future of the discipline. Its suppression involves a… Read More ›

• The value of blogging for part-time PhD students

  By Mark Carrigan on January 5, 2015 • ( 2 )

  One of the more elusive benefits of blogging has been the implications for my professional identity. As a part-time PhD student, without funding but committed to an academic career trajectory (albeit at times waveringly), I found myself engaged in a… Read More ›

• Sexual Cultures 2: Academia Meets Activism

  By Sociological Imagination on January 4, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Sexuality activists/academics – do consider submitting to this and please pass it on. Due to the huge interest in the Sexual Cultures 2: Academia Meets Activism conference, we have extended the Call for Papers to 15 January 2015.  Please circulate widely and… Read More ›

• Two digital sociology events @sociowarwick on January 13th

  By Sociological Imagination on January 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  What is Digital Sociology? An evening lecture by Deborah Lupton with Mark Carrigan and Emma Uprichard responding. It will take place in S0.21 from 5pm to 7pm. This is in the Social Sciences Building on the University of Warwick campus…. Read More ›

• Life in the accelerated academy: how it’s possible for Žižek to publish 55 books in 14 years

  By Mark Carrigan on January 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  I’ve long been a little bit fascinated by Žižek. I find him utterly hypnotic to watch and have consumed countless YouTube lectures by him. I genuinely enjoy his journalistic output and have read a lot of it via the Guardian, London Review of Books… Read More ›

• CFP – BSA Early Career Theorists’ Symposium (29th May, 2015, Goldsmiths)

  By Sociological Imagination on January 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Submission DEADLINE: 27th January, 2015 We invite early-career sociologists across all research areas to submit abstracts for the 3rd Early Career Theorists’ Symposium (ECT). Submissions from advanced PhD students are also welcome. ECT is a special one-day symposium for up-and-coming… Read More ›

• There was no ‘I’ to do it, because the ‘I’ was the result

  By Sociological Imagination on January 1, 2015 • ( 0 )

  From How We Are (How to Live Trilogy 1) by Vincent Deary (loc 247) – a beautiful and strange book: Our first memories are of things out there, worldly happenings taking place in a world of circumstance, to this ‘I’ here,… Read More ›

• Call for papers: Causal Inference and Mechanism-Based Explanation: Friends or Foes?

  By Sociological Imagination on December 31, 2014 • ( 0 )

  INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF ANALYTICAL SOCIOLOGISTS We are happy to announce the call for papers for the 8th Analytical Sociology Conference – June 12 and 13, 2015 in Cambridge, MA. Theme: “Causal Inference and Mechanism-Based Explanation: Friends or Foes?” Organizers: Mary… Read More ›

• On the Future of Face-to-Face Academic Interaction, or Why We Need to Talk about Gemeinschaft

  By Steve Fuller on December 30, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Oh, how I hate Gemeinschaft! But as with so many things one hates, there are some deep things worth cherishing, preferably in some other form. For the benefit of non-sociologists, this German term belongs to a foundational moment in the… Read More ›

• An Agenda for Digital Sociology

  By Mark Carrigan on December 30, 2014 • ( 0 )

  I see Digital Sociology as an open-ended integrative project, concerned to assemble the disparate strands of sociological engagement with digital technology within a more or less shared intellectual space: not in the sense of striving for unanimity but rather to… Read More ›

• ‘Rank and Yank’ in Higher Education

  By Sociological Imagination on December 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  From What about Me?: the struggle for identity in a market-based society by Paul Verhaeghe: Enron, an American multinational, introduced this practice at the end of the previous century, dubbing it the ‘Rank and Yank appraisal system’. The individual performances of… Read More ›

• The temporal horizons of sociology

  By Mark Carrigan on December 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  I just came across a passage by James Meek in which he describes being drawn to, the obscure realm of events that are too fresh for history, but too old for journalism; the murky gap of popular perception that covers… Read More ›

• The Sociology of Civilizational Collapse

  By Mark Carrigan on December 27, 2014 • ( 3 )

  How do we envisage our future? To ask this question usually invites reflections upon personal biography. More rarely does it address ‘our’ in a civilizational sense – I use the term loosely here to refer to the totality of organised human… Read More ›

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