Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
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.
The connection between money, degrees, employability, and the ‘real-world’ relevance of academic work has been hammered so relentlessly into our minds that is has become virtually possible to eschew.
In the New York Times recently Paul Krugman described how academic economists grow up, and how blogging might change that….
In June 2011, I was lucky enough to deliver the inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture. I chose to lecture on whether the […]
As part of a series of occasional interviews with leading social scientists Ellen Wartella, a scholar on the role of media in […]
“Its a well known fact you are not respected by your work collogues and in general just a vile rude obnoxious person.” […]
At some point during the past decade, the line managers began to arrive. Many sociology departments lost their ‘heads’, who then re-appeared […]
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.