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Category Archives: future of sociology
The risks of academic blogging
On his blog Sam Burgum provides some thoughts about the risks of academic blogging. I’ve posted a quite few times in the past about academic blogging, but Sam focuses here on his experiences of using his blog. These experiences include … Continue reading
Sarah Burton reviews C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination: Contemporary Perspectives
Sarah Burton has reviewed John Scott and Ann Nilson’s edited collection on C.Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination: Contemporary Perspectives for the LSE Review of Books.
A second review of Punk Sociology
Last week I posted a link to Deborah Lupton’s review of Punk Sociology. A second review of the book has now been published, its by Jon Rainford and is available on his blog.
Punk Sociology playlist on Spotify
The preface to my Punk Sociology book contains a playlist that can be listened to whilst reading chapter 2 of the book. The playlist is intended to help orientate the discussion for those who are not familiar with punk music and … Continue reading
Deborah Lupton reviews Punk Sociology
I’m really pleased to say that Deborah Lupton has written a review of Punk Sociology for her excellent This Sociological Life blog.
Posted in future of sociology, history of sociology, music
Tagged Deborah Lupton, Punk sociology, review
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Predicting the future success of researchers and their research…academic moneyball
A bit of a scary article on the LSE Impact blog. It is a piece about using various metrics to predict which academics will achieve future success, and also to predict which journal articles will be most successful. The idea … Continue reading
Posted in data and dataplay, future of sociology, infrastructures, metrics, university, visualisation
Tagged Academic moneyball, prediction, research
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Punk Sociology…hardback and discount
I’ve just received my author copies of Punk Sociology. It’s really nice to see it. The discount I posted about the other day is now live, so the hardback version is available at half-price for a few days. The details … Continue reading
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Punk Sociology…50% discount
I posted previously about the recent publication of my Punk Sociology book. To mark 12 weeks since I submitted the manuscript, the publishers are offering a 50% discount on the hardback. This offer is only available for 7 days. The … Continue reading
Posted in cultural theory, fiction, future of sociology, history of sociology, metrics, music, university, writing
Tagged book, discount, flyer, Punk sociology
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C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination: Contemporary Perspectives
C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination: Contemporary Perspectives edited by John Scott and Ann Nilsen has been published by Edward Elgar. The publishers site can be found here.
Punk Sociology…published
My book Punk Sociology has now been published. I posted previously about the content of the book and Les Back’s endorsement (and also linking to chapter 1 which is still available open access). The book can now be accessed through … Continue reading
Posted in cultural theory, fiction, future of sociology, history of sociology, infrastructures, metrics, music, university
Tagged ebook, kindle, Punk sociology
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