Tag: violence

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, sociology, Steel Valley, The War Against Ourselves, Ulrich Beck | 5 Comments

Are You a Viking? University, Masculinity and the Language of Violence

By Daniel Nehring | Published: November 25, 2012

The academic world today is in the process of being colonised by the values, mindset, and operational principles of business.

Posted in Featured, Higher Education Reform, International Debate, News | Also tagged academia, business, casualised labor, Daniel Nehring, Entreprenurial university, Graduates, Henry Etzkowitz, Masculinity, Neoliberal, organizational studies, PhD, PhD jobs, Rationalization, Vikings, Zsolt Kajocsos | 2 Comments

Podcast: Steven Pinker on Violence and Human Nature

By Social Science Bites | Published: November 1, 2012

Is the world getting less violent? It seems unlikely. But Steven Pinker has amassed empirical evidence to show that it is. In this interview with Nigel Warburton for the Social Science Bites podcast he explains some of the possible causes of this transformation.

Posted in Audio, Communication, Public Engagement, Resources | Also tagged Communication, Engagement, language, podcast, social science, Stephen Pinker | 15 Comments

Gangster Anthropologist

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: September 28, 2012

Jorja Leap immersed herself in the culture of Los Angeles’ notorious street gangs for over 10 years, interviewing and working with hundreds of active and former gang members.

Posted in Featured, News, Research Ethics, Research Methods | Also tagged anthropology, Anthropology of Violence, Female Gang Members, Gangs, gender, Jorja Leap, LAPD, Lesbian, Los Angeles, Pacific Standard Magazine, social science, Sociology of Violence, Youth Violence | 1 Comment

Much Ado about Conflict?

By nilspettergleditsch | Published: February 6, 2012

There is increasing agreement that the world is warming and that there is a significant man-made contribution. But uncertainty continues about many of the physical consequences of climate change and even more so about the social effects.

Posted in Interdisciplinarity, Public Policy, Science & Social Science | Also tagged climate change, Conflict, Global Warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, war | Leave a comment

Freedom to conduct research, write and share ideas: response to recent attacks

By ssseditor | Published: February 16, 2011

A statement has been issued by a number of scholarly associations in the US supporting the right of academics to carry out research and publicize the results without fear of attack. The statement was sparked by a series of attacks on Professor Frances Fox Piven, a Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the City [...]

Posted in Communication | Also tagged democracy, scholarship, threats | Leave a comment

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