The necessity of rigorous if uninspiring academic writing is perhaps best illustrated with the story of a prominent 18th-century intellectual named Franz Anton Mesmer. He believed that illnesses were caused by blockages that interfered with the healthy flow of magnetic fluid through the body.
As part of a SAGE project to demonstrate, measure and promote this impact, we’re looking for short write-ups from members of the social science community that we can share widely to make the case that our disciplines routinely provide knowledge that can be used to improve the human condition.
[We’re pleased to feature an interview, originally posted on the SAGE Connection blog, with Bailey Baumann and Stephen Pinfield. Stephen Pinfield […]
Where do researchers go first to find new scholarly materials? Do researchers relay on recommendations from peers and faculty members […]
Last month I was invited to take part in a panel discussion for early-career faculty thinking about their first book […]
You can now submit to Compensation & Benefits Review electronically through SAGE Track! Compensation & Benefits Review publishes scholarly empirical, theoretical […]
The reference section of an academic work is more complex than you might think. The references not only provide validity […]
If you’re writing a review paper, be sure to check out the Journal of Management Editor’s Choice collection on this […]
The extent to which academics in different situations own their time appears to be closely associated with the distribution of privilege. In an academic world that is elitist one needs to acquire privileges in order to have time.
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.
The challenge of writing popular psychology came home to me recently when I accepted the invitation to write Forensic Psychology for Dummies
The commentator Nick Cohen argues in an article this week that many academics – specifically in social sciences and humanities – are unable to […]
