Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Critical thinker explains skepticism vs. cynicism
D.J. Grothe explores the difference between skepticism and cynicism in an interview with Peter M. Nardi in Miller McCune magazine, and describes […]
Round-up of recent social science research (from SAGE Insight)
Trade practices key in deciding a trade’s moral legitimacy (Administrative Science Quarterly) All-out war: A case study in media coverage of for-profit higher education […]
Work Worth Doing
Thomas A. Conklin, Gannon University, published “Work Worth Doing: A Phenomenological Study of the Experience of Discovering and Following One’s Calling” on September 13th, […]
What’s happened to sabbatical leave for academics?
This was originally published on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog. By Tamson Pietsch In 1931 Arthur Currie, the principal of McGill […]
Unproctored Internet Test Verification
Guido Makransky, and Cees. A. W. Glas, both of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, published “Unproctored Internet Test Verification: Using […]
Employment and Gross Domestic Product in Swedish Family-Owned Businesses
Carl Magnus Bjuggren, Linköping University, Dan Johansson, Dalarna University, and Hans Sjögren, Linköping University, published “A Note on Employment and Gross Domestic Product […]
Tips for Self Promotion of your Journal Article or Book
Are you an author, researcher, academic, or practitioner who is looking to self-promote your journal article or book? Here are a few […]
The new language of sociology: teaching-and-learning
Institutionalised sociology begins in the classroom. The classroom is the principal site in which sociologists communicate with non-sociologists or – idealistically – future sociologists about the ethos and knowledge of the discipline.
