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• CfP: Digital Sociology PhD/ECR Workshop

  By Sociological Imagination on December 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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… Read More ›

• Are you a productivity ninja or a turtle-walking flâneur?

  By Mark Carrigan on December 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  That was the question (sort of) posed by this article on the LSE Impact Blog. With the intensification of workloads throughout the academy, as the ‘efficiency agenda’ leads to spiralling demands to do more with less, the resulting time squeeze… Read More ›

• The Second Cybernetics

  By Mark Carrigan on December 2, 2013 • ( 0 )

  I’ve recently been reading Magoroh Maruyama’s writing on the second cybernetics and I’m quite taken with it. There’s a context to his work which I only dimly understand, given my lack of grounding in the first cybernetics, though I’m still finding his writing… Read More ›

• Sociologists Outside Academia: My days in the telecoms industry

  By Sociological Imagination on December 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  The Swedish Ministry of Education proposed in a recent memorandum that universities should be transformed into private foundations in order to increase their autonomy and facilitate greater collaboration with industry. The proposed legislation follows more than two decades of political… Read More ›

• The Phenomenology of Inertia

  By Mark Carrigan on December 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  I wrote a few weeks ago about obsessiveness and how I understand it in terms of internal conversation. I’m particularly interested in the role that differing forms of obsessiveness, as a generic term for difficulty with drawing deliberations to a close, plays… Read More ›

• How long till we have Open Access books?

  By Sociological Imagination on November 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• CfP: Social and Political Critique in the Age of Austerity

  By Sociological Imagination on November 29, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• CfP: An Invitation to Digital Public Sociology

  By Sociological Imagination on November 29, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• How to be a progressive thinker in the 21st century

  By Steve Fuller on November 29, 2013 • ( 1 )

  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

  By Sociological Imagination on November 29, 2013 • ( 0 )

  “Getting Started: Public Engagement for Social Scientists” on Bundlr

• CfP: Digital Sociology PhD/ECR Workshop

  By Sociological Imagination on November 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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

  By Sociological Imagination on November 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Doing Social Network Analysis using Qualitative Methods

  By Sociological Imagination on November 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes

  By Sociological Imagination on November 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Free One Day Conference at Leicester Postgraduate Travel Bursaries available – please email hso1@le.ac.uk 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 ›

• The Sociology of Soldiers Reuniting With Their Dogs (no, really)

  By Mark Carrigan on November 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Is someone you care about involved with post structuralism?

  By Sociological Imagination on November 26, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

                            (HT Jonathan Davies)  

• Enduring Love? Couple Relationships in the 21st Century

  By Sociological Imagination on November 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Enduring Love? Couple Relationships in the 21st Century The Enduring Love? project is a major ESRC-funded study (2011-2013) 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 Perils of Passion: Videogames, Higher Education and Precarious Labour

  By Sociological Imagination on November 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• “No one is born gay (or straight)”?

  By Milena Kremakova on November 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Henry Giroux on Zombie Politics

  By Sociological Imagination on November 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• BSA Early Career Theorists’ Symposium

  By Sociological Imagination on November 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• The Quantified Self and Taylorization 2.0

  By Sociological Imagination on November 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Absent from the Academy: The lack of black academics in the UK

  By Sociological Imagination on November 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• The academic quantified self

  By Mark Carrigan on November 21, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›

• (a)Sexuality and Pathology

  By Mark Carrigan on November 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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’

  By Sociological Imagination on November 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• What is Capitalist Realism?

  By Mark Carrigan on November 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Social realism, strong misreading and the neo-pragmatist sensibility

  By Mark Carrigan on November 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Education, Tolerance and the Sociological Imagination

  By Sociological Imagination on November 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  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

  By Sociological Imagination on November 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Enduring Love? Couple Relationships in the 21st Century The Enduring Love? project is a major ESRC-funded study (2011-2013) 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 ›

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