Teaching

Weekly Overview of Social Science News

Microsoft opens up new research center targeting social scientists for hire, what social science can do for India, the social science of archaeology and much more on this Weekly Overview of Social Science News.

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Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Fostering Sustainable Behavior Workshop An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing June 13-14, 2012   The cornerstone of sustainability is behavior […]

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Are You Reaching Your Audience?

The University of South Florida’s 22nd Annual Social Marketing Conference: Ideas Beyond Borders, sponsored by USF Health, kicks off this […]

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Kickstart Your Social Marketing Strategy

Kickstart your social marketing strategy this summer with the Social Marketing Field School’s Introduction to Social Marketing course! Sponsored by […]

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Using Racism in the (International) Seminar Room

Over the last ten years I have encountered a range of racist discourse in the teaching environment.The first often emanates from international students who inadvertently make inaccurate generalisations based on racial difference. The second is formed within the seminar room, and emanates from British students towards international students.

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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.

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Better Drowned than Duffers…?

Last Saturday, I went to the theatre to a see a touring production based on Arthur Ransome’s novel, Swallows and Amazons…. it prompted a number of thoughts about risk and risk management in the contemporary world.

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