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Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Communication
May 8, 2012

Weekly Overview of Social Science News

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Social Marketing and Healthy People
Business and Management INK
April 24, 2012

Social Marketing and Healthy People

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Fostering Sustainable Behavior
Business and Management INK
April 10, 2012

Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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Are You Reaching Your Audience?
Business and Management INK
March 30, 2012

Are You Reaching Your Audience?

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The Invisible Children in the Seminar Room: Kony 2012 and digital activism.

The Invisible Children in the Seminar Room: Kony 2012 and digital activism.

Since its earliest days there has been a great deal of writing about online activism and the possibility of forming active publics via the Internet.

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Kickstart Your Social Marketing Strategy

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 USF Health, […]

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Using Racism in the (International) Seminar Room

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

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…?

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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The LSE Big Questions Lecture 2011: Organized Common Sense

The LSE Big Questions Lecture 2011: Organized Common Sense

In June 2011, I was lucky enough to deliver the inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture. I chose to lecture on whether the […]

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The new language of sociology: Teaching and Learning, part 2

The new language of sociology: Teaching and Learning, part 2

“Its a well known fact you are not respected by your work collogues and in general just a vile rude obnoxious person.” […]

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How did students become ‘academically adrift’?

How did students become ‘academically adrift’?

‘Academically Adrift’, a new book on the failures of higher education, finds that undergraduates don’t study, and professors don’t make them. A […]

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