Sociology

The Myth of Academic Stardom
Career
May 14, 2013

The Myth of Academic Stardom

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The Branded Sociologist: Can We Still Be On Anyone’s Side?
International Debate
May 9, 2013

The Branded Sociologist: Can We Still Be On Anyone’s Side?

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Ann Oakley on Women’s Experience of Childbirth
Impact
April 2, 2013

Ann Oakley on Women’s Experience of Childbirth

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So Much Noise: Are Academics being Over-Branded?
Featured
March 27, 2013

So Much Noise: Are Academics being Over-Branded?

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We Aren’t the World

We Aren’t the World

Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics—and hoping to change the way social scientists think about human behavior and culture.

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In praise of Sociology! Speech by Pierre Bourdieu

In praise of Sociology! Speech by Pierre Bourdieu

In the February edition of Sociology, a previously unpublished translation of a speech given by Pierre Bourdieu. Here is an excerpt and introduction.

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Why Study Social Science

Why Study Social Science

We study social science because social phenomena affect people’s lives in profound ways. If you want to start with Cantor’s focus—physical illness and death—then social phenomena are tremendously important.

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Liberal Arts: Still Valuable

Liberal Arts: Still Valuable

Emory’s recent decision to shut down or suspend various academic departments and programs has rightly generated campus-wide and national attention.

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The Vocation of Sociology – Exposing Slow Violence

The Vocation of Sociology – Exposing Slow Violence

Much destruction of human potential takes the form of a “slow violence” that extends over time. It is insidious, undramatic and relatively invisible.

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How Does Sociology Feel?

How Does Sociology Feel?

Just as it is insufficiently recognised in public debates, the emotional side of forced flexibility in academic labour does not appear to be a major topic of conversation among established sociologists

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To build a successful academic career, you need to play by the rules.

To build a successful academic career, you need to play by the rules.

So what exactly are the rules by which academic careers work? Where does one learn them? How does one learn them? And how, exactly, is playing by the rules to the benefit of one’s career?

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Edward Hopper: An ethnographic sensibility?

Edward Hopper: An ethnographic sensibility?

This is not a body of work that instructs us what to think – it invites us to ask the question that an ethnographer would ask: confronted with this scene, what is going on here?

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