Sociology

Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: former Chairman of Microsoft Research
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January 30, 2013

Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: former Chairman of Microsoft Research

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How can textbooks further student engagement?
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January 27, 2013

How can textbooks further student engagement?

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Islamic Cultures, Religious Affiliation, and Sex Outside of Marriage.
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January 9, 2013

Islamic Cultures, Religious Affiliation, and Sex Outside of Marriage.

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Provoked by Boredom: Experiences from Youth Confinement
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January 8, 2013

Provoked by Boredom: Experiences from Youth Confinement

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Weekly Overview of Social Science News

Weekly Overview of Social Science News

Ideologues vs. Science, young people on the search for soul mates, the decline of religion and more in your Weekly Overview of Social Science News

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Sir Jimmy Savile’s Crimes

Sir Jimmy Savile’s Crimes

The English in full moral panic are never an edifying spectacle. The Jimmy Savile affair is no exception, as self-appointed experts on child abuse, BBC-bashing tabloids and ambulance-chasing lawyers have piled into the fray.

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How to Improve Your CV and Get a Great Job

How to Improve Your CV and Get a Great Job

The unsettling truth about the Academic job market.

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A Sociology of Financialisation?

A Sociology of Financialisation?

Beyond an economic analysis of the financial crisis

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Tough on Crime or Beating the System?

Tough on Crime or Beating the System?

An evaluation of Missouri Department of Mental Health’s Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity Murder Acquittees.

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Hate Rock 101

Hate Rock 101

A sociologist explains why Sikh temple shooter Wade M. Page’s white-power music scene is dying out, just as we’re all discovering it.

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Writing the North Atlantic Bubble: Part 1

Writing the North Atlantic Bubble: Part 1

Sociology is arguably a global project. Significant approaches to the study of society have been developed in many parts of the world. Yet, students in the North Atlantic world do not learn about these approaches, as textbooks interpret the world in terms of scholars of the region.

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What Makes Sociology Textbooks Original?

What Makes Sociology Textbooks Original?

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.

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