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• Call for speakers: Answering social science questions with social media data

  By Mark Carrigan on November 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Thursday 8th March 2018, The Wellcome Collection, London, NW1 2BE After several successful events, we’re pleased to say that the NSMNSS network (http://nsmnss.blogspot.co.uk/) and Social Research Association (www.the-sra.org.uk) are again teaming up to deliver a one-day conference on ‘Answering social science… Read More ›

• Write for @DiscoverSoc

  By Mark Carrigan on November 12, 2017 • ( 0 )

  We welcome contributions that are research-based and meet our guidance for contributors. Potential contributions can be discussed in advance with the editors via a short ‘pitch’ sent to: discoversociety@outlook.com Guidance for contributors: The target audience is the informed, interested general reader,… Read More ›

• A Reflective Narrative: Black Diaspora in London & 13 Dead and Nothing Said

  By Mark Carrigan on November 12, 2017 • ( 0 )

  By Ola Dirisu Tate Britain Millbank, London: Exhibition Title: “Stan Firm Inna Inglan’: Black Diaspora in London, 1960-70s & Goldsmiths, University of London: Exhibition Title: “Vron Ware: 13 Dead and Nothing Said” Unsure of what to expect or how I would… Read More ›

• Reflective Narrative Essay of Two Photos observed at Stan Firm Inna Inglan’: Black Diaspora in London, 1960-70s Tate Britain

  By Mark Carrigan on November 12, 2017 • ( 1 )

  By Nikki Achilleous I have never sincerely felt a victim of racism; I have never fully been personally exposed to hatred. Whilst looking around the Black Diaspora in London exhibition in Tate Britain, I absorbed the trajectories of the intersecting generations… Read More ›

• A Critical Narrative; A sociological reflection upon two photographic exhibitions in London exploring race within the Black community

  By Mark Carrigan on November 12, 2017 • ( 1 )

  By Holly Wayman As the end of my undergraduate degree in sociology draws closer I am beginning to realise that although the teaching and endless hours in the library will stop, the outlook that all this has provided me certainly will… Read More ›

• Setting the Scene, Shifting the Lens: Reflections on my Students’ Reflective Narratives on Race and Racism

  By Mark Carrigan on November 12, 2017 • ( 0 )

  By Lambros Fatsis Earlier this year, I taught a module on the sociology of “race” and “ethnicity” with my beloved colleagues Bindi Shah, Pathik Pathak, and Luiz Valério P. Trindade; which was partly assessed by a reflective narrative that my… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Politicians and Social Media in the Global South

  By Mark Carrigan on November 11, 2017 • ( 1 )

  *Call for Submissions* *Politicians and Social Media in the Global South* A seminar/workshop at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Date: April 14, 2018 2345 North Quad 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 In the last decade, politicians… Read More ›

• CFP – 11th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome

  By Mark Carrigan on November 11, 2017 • ( 0 )

  CALL FOR PAPERS 11th INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE OF ROME May 10-12, 2018 John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago The John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago is hosting the 11th international conference on Critical Theory of… Read More ›

• Call for papers: Intimacies online, online intimacies

  By Mark Carrigan on November 11, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Call for papers: Intimacies online, online intimacies We are delighted to announce this international conference about intimacy online, digitally mediated intimacies and how intimacies influence (new) mediascapes. Online media are increasingly intersecting and intertwined with our daily lives, bodily and… Read More ›

• CfP: Good Data book

  By Mark Carrigan on November 11, 2017 • ( 1 )

  Call for Proposals for an INC Theory on Demand edited book *Editors: Angela Daly (Queensland University of Technology), Kate Devitt (Queensland University of Technology) & Monique Mann (Queensland University of Technology).* In recent years, there has been an exponential increase… Read More ›

• Reimagining the Cooperative: An Interdisciplinary Conversation

  By Mark Carrigan on November 6, 2017 • ( 2 )

  Convenors Corinna Howland (University of Cambridge) Patrick O’Hare (University of Cambridge) Summary The cooperative has proved to be a remarkably enduring and adaptive organizational form. With roots in the Industrial Revolution and with its current iterations persisting in/in spite of the… Read More ›

• CFP: The Digital Dissertation: History, Theory, Practice (an eBook & Database Project)

  By Mark Carrigan on November 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Call for Participation The Digital Dissertation: History, Theory, Practice A Database and eBook Project Virginia Kuhn, Kathie Gossett (eds.) Abstract submission: 12 January 2018 Humanities scholars recognize the growing importance of digital media in knowledge production and distribution. However, recognition… Read More ›

• CFP: Death Online Research Symposium

  By Mark Carrigan on November 3, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The 4th Symposium of the International Death Online Research Network will take place at The University of Hull, UK, August 15 – 17, 2018. The symposium will consolidate the links between existing and new members of the network and provide… Read More ›

• Call for papers: Applying the Capabilities Approach to Media and Communications

  By Mark Carrigan on November 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 2018 PRECONFERENCE Applying the Capabilities Approach to Media and Communications May 24, 2018 Venue: Main Conference Hotel Abstract Deadline: December 15, 2017 Recent years have seen a growing interest in the concept of… Read More ›

• CFP for “Social Life of Time” 1st International Temporal Belongings conference due 17th November

  By Mark Carrigan on November 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The social life of time: power, discrimination and transformation  The 1st Temporal Belongings International Conference Supported by the Wellcome Trust 5th – 7th June 2018, Edinburgh, Scotland Since 2011 the Temporal Belongings network has brought together scholars from across the arts, humanities… Read More ›

• Identity, belonging and activism in the 21st Century

  By Mark Carrigan on November 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  CALL FOR PAPERS February 24, 2018 Venue: University of Nottingham Abstract Deadline: December 8, 2017 How do the pressures of austerity, migration and populism impact on identity and belonging in the 21st century? What is the emotional cost of maintaining… Read More ›

• Book Launch: Care and Policy Practices

  By Mark Carrigan on October 30, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Care and Policy Practices The Sociological Review Monograph Launch & Wine Reception Friday 10th November 2017, 17.45-19.30, followed by wine reception Senate House University Of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU The Court and Jessel Room, first floor of Senate House… Read More ›

• First Global Biophilia Summit

  By Mark Carrigan on October 30, 2017 • ( 0 )

  http://biophiliasummit.com First Global Biophilia Summit In partnership with www.pandisciplinary.net Call for Presentations Dates: May 21, 22 and 23, 2018 Location: Mount Mellary Monastery, County Waterford, Ireland Conference Fee: From €380 (Includes accommodation, all meals, tea/coffee breaks, and return transport from… Read More ›

• The most popular posts on sociological imagination

  By Mark Carrigan on October 29, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Charles Wright Mills’ Sociological Imagination and why we fail to match it today How to write a good sociology essay (and not panic) Public Sociology Making the familiar strange 40 reasons why you should blog about your research The Sociological… Read More ›

• Announcing a community noticeboard for Sociology

  By Mark Carrigan on October 29, 2017 • ( 3 )

  A couple of months ago, I decided to put Sociological Imagination on hiatus after a contributing author posted something which left me unwilling to run a group blog without a proper editorial process. Since then I’ve been wondering what, if… Read More ›

• A note on this weekend’s post and the future of this blog

  By Mark Carrigan on August 21, 2017 • ( 4 )

  Over the weekend, Steve Fuller published a blog post which has understandably been the object of many complaints. Steve is one of a number of people who have accounts which enable them to post directly on the site, without the… Read More ›

• The populist right are demotic, rather than democratic

  By Mark Carrigan on August 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In an important essay earlier this year, Jan-Werner Müller identifies a dangerous tendency for leftist critics to take the claims of right-populist demagogues at face value. Suddenly vindicated in their struggle with the ‘third way’ that has dominated the centre-left, the claims… Read More ›

• The Surplus of Objects

  By Mark Carrigan on August 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In Immaterialism, Graham Harman offers a provocative critique of Latour’s social theory, praising Actor-Network Theory as “the most important philosophical method to emerge since phenomenology in 1900” (pg. 1) while also regarding its account of objects as philosophically deficient. While he accepts the… Read More ›

• Engines of Knowledge in the First Information Age: The Library and the Text

  By Mark Carrigan on August 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  By Hamish Robertson Introduction This is the final piece in this series for The Sociological Imagination and it comes full circle by focusing on one of the most obvious, even foundational, ‘factories’ of knowledge – the library. More specifically, the… Read More ›

• Academic Autism: Its Institutional Presence and Treatment

  By Steve Fuller on August 19, 2017 • ( 52 )

  Over the weekend, Steve Fuller published this blog post which has understandably been the object of many complaints. Steve is one of a number of people who have accounts which enable them to post directly on the site, without the… Read More ›

• The Sociology of Connection

  By Mark Carrigan on August 19, 2017 • ( 0 )

• Digital Futures and Big Data

  By Mark Carrigan on August 18, 2017 • ( 0 )

• Ontology Etc

  By Mark Carrigan on August 17, 2017 • ( 4 )

  Philosophy often operates at such a high level of abstraction it is difficult to see how it can be useful to practicing social scientists. The work of Roy Bhaskar is no different. Renowned for its difficulty, its technicality, and its… Read More ›

• Computational social science and the promise of a reflexive, empirically robust activist-sociology

  By Mark Carrigan on August 16, 2017 • ( 3 )

  By John-Paul Smiley What is the role for sociology going forward? What should it look like as a discipline? Discussions of this topic have become commonplace (see, for example, Flyvberg: 2001: Rutzou: 2016). The failure of the majority of researchers in… Read More ›

• The poverty of student experience

  By Mark Carrigan on August 15, 2017 • ( 1 )

  By Jana Bacevic One of my favourite texts back from the time when I was writing my Master’s thesis is the Situationist International’s On The Poverty of Student Life (De la misère au milieu étudiant). Written in 1966 and distributed in 10.000… Read More ›

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