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 […]
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.
The glum future of the American liberal arts college
In a recent article for Miller-McCune Magazine, “‘Wither’ The Liberal Arts College?”, English professor Anne Trubek discusses the troubled state of American liberal […]
‘In defence of public higher education’
An ‘alternative white paper’ has been published this week in the UK setting out an alternative to the Government’s proposed reforms to […]
What to consider when crafting your online identity
The question of what value social media, particularly blogging, holds in academia is ongoing and at times controversial. This is well illustrated […]
Stirling vs Philip Morris: A car-crash for social science?
A busy summer means the blog can be overtaken by events. I had intended to write on 11 July about the threat […]
The new language of sociology: what does ‘excellence’ mean?
British sociology is relentlessly marching towards excellence. A leading sociology department prides itself in its “international reputation for excellence”, one of the country’s most distinguished journals highlights its “commitment to excellence”
Boredom can fuel hostility toward outsiders
In a recent article in Miller-McCune Magazine, Tom Jacobs discusses new research that explains how feelings of boredom can both strengthen solidarity […]
Raising our children in an electronic media world
By Jerome L. Singer and Dorothy G. Singer, Yale University One of the greatest developments of the nineteenth century in industrial Europe, […]
