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 […]
What Makes Sociology Textbooks Original?
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.
Textbook World
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.
The Politics of Dissent
Recently, The Independent published a brief piece on the ‘slave-like’ working conditions of PhD students at UK universities. This sounds dramatic, but it’s hardly news – the problem has been around for years. The question arises why dissent did not emerge earlier and more forcefully.
What Do Higher Education Consumers Want?
The Guardian yesterday published a set of worrying facts. Even though consumers of higher education pay almost three times as much in tuition fees than they did six years ago, face-to-face with lecturers in class has barely increased
What are the prospects for global sociology?
For there to be some sort of global sociology there would need to a recognition of socio-culturally disparate forms of knowledge and institutional settings.
The Guardian’s Simon Jenkins is completely wrong.
A response to Sir Simon Jenkins’ article on the value of public universities.
Global Sociology Without a Global Audience
I find it ironic that interesting current debates about sociology’s Eurocentrism and calls for a more truly global sociology take place in journals and books that are likely to be inaccessible at many, many universities around the world.
What should an Early-Career Research Agenda Look Like?
How to approach the years beyond the PhD. Some thoughts on alignment, coherence, breadth, and depth.
