Textbooks

SAGE Business & Management Books Win TAA Textbook Awards
Business and Management INK
March 11, 2021

SAGE Business & Management Books Win TAA Textbook Awards

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Textbook Authorship: The Joys of a Crazy Undertaking
Bookshelf
June 13, 2019

Textbook Authorship: The Joys of a Crazy Undertaking

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Heidi Neck on Entrepreneurship in Teaching Future Entrepreneurs
Teaching
March 30, 2018

Heidi Neck on Entrepreneurship in Teaching Future Entrepreneurs

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My Textbook is Tracking Me: An Author’s Online Solution
Teaching
April 17, 2014

My Textbook is Tracking Me: An Author’s Online Solution

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How can textbooks further student engagement?

How can textbooks further student engagement?

All criticism of the genre notwithstanding, textbooks do have a central role to play in turning sociology students into sociologists. Sometimes I do wonder, however, whether it is time to re-invent the textbook.

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And Then There Were No Books

And Then There Were No Books

When the customs agent started to smile, I knew that things would go badly indeed. He told me that my books would not be allowed into the country, unless I paid a fine of 50 per cent of their current price (a lot of money, and more than I could possibly afford).

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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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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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Textbook World

Textbook World

Textbooks now play a crucial role in teaching in the social sciences. Their importance is mirrored by their abundance; there is an enormous variety of textbooks on the most commonly taught subjects. The rise of the ‘textbook industry’ is not necessarily a good thing, though.

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Weekly Overview of Social Science News

Weekly Overview of Social Science News

World Social Science confirmed for 2013, Black Iowans denied jobs test new bias theory, Suicide prevention bill moves ahead in Parliament and more in social science news this week.

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