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Are Vocational Education, Liberal Arts on a Collision Course?

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: February 26, 2013

As even liberal arts colleges continue to turn their back on the liberal arts, where will the technocrats produced by higher education hone their thinking skills to address the current crisis in governing?

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News | Tagged higher education, Higher Education Reform, Liberal Arts C, Vocational school | 1 Comment

How can textbooks further student engagement?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: January 27, 2013

All criticism of the genre notwithstanding, textbooks do have a central role to play in turning sociology students into sociologists. Sometimes I do wonder, however, whether it is time to re-invent the textbook.

Also posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform | Tagged Engagement, higher education, Online Textbooks, Professor, Publishing, social science, sociology, teaching, Textbook publishing, Textbooks | 1 Comment

Writing the North Atlantic Bubble, part 2

By Daniel Nehring | Published: September 14, 2012

Many sociology departments teach along conventionalist, Eurocentric lines. Nonetheless, a reformulation of the scope of the sociological curriculum seems to be slowly taking shape.

Also posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News | Tagged international sociology, Science of Sociology, teaching, Textbooks | Leave a comment

Rebel Manhood

By jasoneastman | Published: September 7, 2012

With poverty now rising to levels not seen in a generation, many scholars are revisiting the still controversial theories connecting culture to class. Currently the great recession is accelerating the outsourcing and deindustrialization that has been decimating the economic well-being of all Americans for almost a generation.

Also posted in Impact, News, Public Engagement, Reports, Research, Research Methods, Resources | Tagged Culture of Poverty, Declining Significance of Race, Ethnography, Great Society, Hegemonic Masculinity, Jason Eastman, race, research, Rock, social science, Southern Rock, southern rock revival, The Moynihan Repor, War on Poverty, William Julius Wilson, working class | 5 Comments

A Sociologist’s Adventures in Social Media Land

By dlupton | Published: September 4, 2012

Like many academics, I was quite oblivious to the virtues of using digital social media for professional purposes for rather a long time. Then one day earlier this year the scales fell from my eyes.

Also posted in Communication, Early Career, Featured, Impact, Public Engagement | Tagged academic blogging, Academics, conversations, deborah lupton, digital sociology: an introduction, Facebook, social media, Twitter | Leave a comment

“The author has asked not to be identified in case this further affects his career prospects.”

By Daniel Nehring | Published: August 7, 2012

Many PhD graduates are forced into the troubled world of unemployment while, at the same time, being denied a public voice. How is it that extremely narrow standards of professional legitimacy are used to judge young scholars who simply cannot meet them?

Also posted in Early Career, Featured, Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News | Tagged Corporatization, Early careers, getting a phd, higher education, Hireability, PhD, Politics of academic labour, Post-doc, Rationalization, The Guardian | 4 Comments

Writing the North Atlantic Bubble: Part 1

By Daniel Nehring | Published: August 7, 2012

Sociology is arguably a global project. Significant approaches to the study of society have been developed in many parts of the world. Yet, students in the North Atlantic world do not learn about these approaches, as textbooks interpret the world in terms of scholars of the region.

Also posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate | Tagged and Linda Schneider and Arnold Silverman’s Global Sociology, Eurocentrism, Global Sociology, Global South, Haralambos and Holborn’s Sociology: Themes and Perspectives, Higher Education in Global South, Joan Ferrante’s Sociology: A Global Perspective, North Atlantic Bubble, Social Studies, sociology, Sociology textbooks, Textbooks | 1 Comment

What Makes Sociology Textbooks Original?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: July 23, 2012

Currently, textbooks exist at the margins of the Sociology, summarising and recycling extant knowledge while fundamentally lacking in original contributions to sociological enquiry. This doesn't have to be.

Also posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform | Tagged higher education, social science, sociology, teaching, Textbooks, UNdergraduate, writing | 3 Comments

Textbook World

By Daniel Nehring | Published: June 30, 2012

Textbooks now play a crucial role in teaching in the social sciences. Their importance is mirrored by their abundance; there is an enormous variety of textbooks on the most commonly taught subjects. The rise of the ‘textbook industry’ is not necessarily a good thing, though.

Also posted in Higher Education Reform, Interdisciplinarity, International Debate | Tagged social science, sociological imagination, sociology, Standardisation, Standardization, teaching, teaching sociology, Texas, Texas Textbooks, Textbook Industry, Textbooks, Undergraduate Teaching | 4 Comments

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