Blogs about: Public Sociology
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stepping carefully
Yesterday I had an email exchange with a local conservative politician & blogger. I realized I was concerned to be careful not to say anything that could be pulled out of context. He originally as… more →
Sociological Confessions
Encyclopedic
wrote 20 hours ago: I recently wrote an academic encyclopedia entry for my area of specialization; it was strange. The f … more →
Engaging publics: Do we need to re-imagine reality TV?
wrote 2 days ago: How to improve the way sociology is shared and made relevant to publics is something I have been mus … more →
For whom do we write?
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wrote 1 week ago: C. Wright Mills once wrote about being at a party of sociology grad students at Columbia who were wo … more →
Public geography/sociology and social media
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wrote 3 weeks ago: The new issue if Dialogues in Human Geography contains a forum on public geography and social media. … more →
Community Based Research - Universities and their publics
wrote 3 weeks ago: Community University Partnerships I am taking a Qualitative Methods course this term. In this course … more →
Can Academics Manage Their Twitter?
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wrote 4 weeks ago: My colleague Dave Beer asked a couple of months ago whether or not academics can manage without Twit … more →
Sociology on the rise?
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wrote 1 month ago: In the past few weeks, there have been two relatively high-profile attacks on sociology (recognizing … more →
A bibliography of public sociology
wrote 1 month ago: Today I’ll be attending this talk by Les Back, I’m sure it’s going to be fascinati … more →
Precariousness and public sociology
wrote 2 months ago: David Hill has a great post on his Schizomedia blog concerning ‘Precariousness and Public Soci … more →
Precariousness and Public Sociology
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wrote 2 months ago: Last week the BBC went live with the results of the Great British Class Survey, conducted by sociolo … more →
'What chance being heard?'
wrote 2 months ago: Steven Roberts In considering the role of sociology in public and political debate, a helpful starti … more →
Sociology versus Individualism
wrote 2 months ago: Have you ever wondered why sociological research and insights do not occupy a more prominent place i … more →
A Sociologist's perspective on the Value of Heritage and the Challenges in the Decision-Making Process
wrote 3 months ago: As a sociologist I am interested in the ways in which people perceive their lived environment and th … more →
Utopian Education
wrote 4 months ago: In his 2012 Presidential Address to the American Sociological Association, Erik Olin Wright states, … more →
An Adventure in Class Blogging
wrote 5 months ago: For the spring semester of 2013, I am pleased to announce that my Education in Contemporary Society … more →
Race, White People, and Colorblind Racialization: RE The Good Men Project on Race
wrote 5 months ago: As difficult a time I have with writing, and being in the throws of writing a dissertation chapter, … more →
Deserted Publics: An UNEASY Archive
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wrote 5 months ago: I recently did a ‘Desert Island Discourse’ (DID) feature in the British Sociological Association’s ( … more →
Public Sociology: Mark Regnerus on porn and same-sex marriage
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wrote 6 months ago: Mark Regnerus contributed a short piece on a correlation he found between watching pornography and s … more →
'Liveable' and 'unliveable' lives; this government's disrespect for ethics...
wrote 7 months ago: In 2010, I wrote a blog post discussing ethics and welfare for Public Sociology, a blog affiliated t … more →
