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Gangster Anthropologist
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September 28, 2012

Gangster Anthropologist

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Tough on Crime or Beating the System?
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September 25, 2012

Tough on Crime or Beating the System?

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Open Access publishing: A Personal View
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September 20, 2012

Open Access publishing: A Personal View

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British Higher Education and the Language of Business
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September 20, 2012

British Higher Education and the Language of Business

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全球社会学的前景

全球社会学的前景

Note: This is a translation of my post on global sociology (completed with the help of Amanda Pang). A few weeks ago, […]

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Writing the North Atlantic Bubble, part 2

Writing the North Atlantic Bubble, part 2

Many sociology departments teach along conventionalist, Eurocentric lines. Nonetheless, a reformulation of the scope of the sociological curriculum seems to be slowly taking shape.

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Lie Detection by Inducing Cognitive Load

Lie Detection by Inducing Cognitive Load

Eye movements and other cues to the false answers of “witnesses” to crimes.

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Patients, Athletes, Freaks?

Patients, Athletes, Freaks?

Just Google “Paralympian” and you will find a plethora of stories that describe how a Paralympian heroically overcomes their tragic, freak-like disabled body in order to inspirationally compete in disability sport.

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A Sociologist’s Adventures in Social Media Land

A Sociologist’s Adventures in Social Media Land

Like many academics, I was quite oblivious to the virtues of using digital social media for professional purposes for rather a long time. Then one day earlier this year the scales fell from my eyes.

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Some thoughts on attitudes towards foreign students in the UK

Some thoughts on attitudes towards foreign students in the UK

When I was a student, I had teachers who spoke about opportunities to study abroad in terms of things like the ability to widen one’s emotional and intellectual horizon.To today’s hardboiled politicians, journalists, and academic managers, these views must seem quaint and laughable.

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Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 3 of 3)

Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 3 of 3)

Faith in the wisdom of the affluent to guide public policy has been sorely tested by the enormous costs in money and human suffering resulting from the Great Recession. My data cast further doubt on the notion that representational inequality arises from the greater knowledge or better judgment of those with higher incomes.

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I’m academic male & I don’t care about female ECRs?!

I’m academic male & I don’t care about female ECRs?!

I expect many of you will be aware of the very amusing yet, at the same time, incredibly scary twitter account @academic male…

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