Tag: sociology

The Myth of Academic Stardom

By Daniel Nehring | Published: May 14, 2013

The recent and on-going reforms of higher education are enforcing an individualisation of academic labour. That academics would gamely play along with such a system is astonishing.

Posted in Early Career, Featured, Higher Education Reform, Impact | Also tagged academic branding, Branding, Corporatization, doctorates, individualization, labor, labour, REF, reform, social science | Leave a comment

The Branded Sociologist: Can We Still Be On Anyone’s Side?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: May 9, 2013

Sociology is a brand. To survive or even thrive in the academic marketplace, sociology needs to take care of its image. But at what cost?

Posted in News | Also tagged academia, Branding, business, Corporatization, early career, Howard Becker, managerial class, Middlesex University, PhD, Rod Thornton controversy, social science, University of Nottingham | Leave a comment

Podcast: Ann Oakley on Women’s Experience of Childbirth

By Social Science Bites | Published: April 2, 2013

In this episode of the Social Science Bites podcast sociologist Ann Oakley discusses her research into a range of questions about women's experience of childbirth.

Posted in Audio, Impact, Interview, Public Engagement, Research Ethics, Resources | Also tagged Ann Oakley, Childbirth, Ethics, Interviews, Pregnancy, Women | 4 Comments

So Much Noise: Are Academics being Over-Branded?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: March 27, 2013

The Ivory Tower has been toppled and academia has an impact in the ‘real world’. The problem is that this may have come at the expense of truly innovative and critical scholarship.

Posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement | Also tagged Branding, British Sociological Association, BSA, education, Entreprenurial university, Ivory Tower, Matthew Goodwin, social science, The Guardian | 5 Comments

We Aren’t the World

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: March 13, 2013

Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics—and hoping to change the way social scientists think about human behavior and culture.

Posted in Impact, International Debate, News, Research Methods, Science & Social Science | Also tagged cognition, cognitive science, Culture, Psychology, religion, social science, study of religion | Leave a comment

In praise of Sociology! Speech by Pierre Bourdieu

By ssseditor | Published: March 7, 2013

In the February edition of Sociology, a previously unpublished translation of a speech given by Pierre Bourdieu. Here is an excerpt and introduction.

Posted in Featured, International Debate, News, Science & Social Science | Also tagged Bourdieu, Gold Medal of the National Center for Scientific Research, social science, Social Scientist | 1 Comment

Why Study Social Science

By The Monkey Cage | Published: March 5, 2013

We study social science because social phenomena affect people’s lives in profound ways. If you want to start with Cantor’s focus—physical illness and death—then social phenomena are tremendously important.

Posted in Academic Funding, Higher Education Reform, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Policy | Also tagged Eric Cantor, Funding, National Science Foundation, NIH, NSF, political science, social science, The Monkey Cage | 5 Comments

Liberal Arts: Still Valuable

By The Emory Wheel | Published: February 21, 2013

Emory’s recent decision to shut down or suspend various academic departments and programs has rightly generated campus-wide and national attention.

Posted in Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News | Also tagged academia, Andrew Delbanco, corporatizaton, Emory, history, Jason Schulman, Liberal Arts, Massive Open Online Courses, MOOCs, social science, The Emory Wheel | 1 Comment

The Vocation of Sociology – Exposing Slow Violence

By Global Dialogue | Published: February 20, 2013

Much destruction of human potential takes the form of a “slow violence” that extends over time. It is insidious, undramatic and relatively invisible.

Posted in Featured, Impact, International Debate, News, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Also tagged Bhopal, Collective Action, Environmental Justice, Environmental Pollution, food sovereignty, Global Dialogue, Importance of Social Science, Jackie Cock, Jacklyn Cock, malnutirtion, Michael Burawoy, Poverty, Public Sociology, slow violence, Social Movements, social recognition, social science, Steel Valley, The War Against Ourselves, Ulrich Beck, violence | 5 Comments

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