What is it like when interviews go well?
I thought this was a lovely description on pg 8 of Sherry Turkle’s Reclaiming the Conversation: When things go right, the social scientist’s interview becomes an open, easy exchange. This often happens...
View ArticleHelp us forge UK applied sociology
Help us forge UK applied sociology by Nick Fox and Marguerite Regan For the past 18 months, the British Sociological Association (BSA) group Sociologists outside Academia (SOA) has been focusing on the...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal to Raise the Academic Game: The Google Test
I’ve always been a big supporter of bursaries to ‘English’ (understood as a transitive verb) the dissertations of students for whom English is a second language. These students often have interesting...
View ArticleWhat is Graphic Social Science?
Earlier this month I co-organised an event exploring how graphic novels can be used to communicate research. My interest in research communication and love of the medium had long left me fascinated by...
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The Personal Stories of a Methodology Study Group: An independent learning...
by Karen Cooper, Louise Oliver, Mananya Podee & Joanna Thurston (Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, UK) Figure 1 (l. to r.) Louise Oliver, Jo Thurston, Karen Cooper...
View ArticleCFP: ‘What’ and ‘How’ of Critique: Styles, Issues and Confrontations in...
Wednesday, 20th September 2017, Duurham University Keynotes: Professor Peter Fleming (City University London), Dr Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (University of Bath) The way power operates in contemporary...
View ArticleWhat does public sociology have to say about sociologists who are ‘merchants...
What does public sociology have to say about sociologists who are ‘merchants of doubt’? This is the question I’m slightly obsessing over after discovering that Peter Berger, famous for his work on...
View ArticleTowards a sociological curatorial journalism
In Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, Zeynep Tufekci discusses the emergence of curatorial journalism and contrasts its function with that of traditional journalism....
View ArticleAnnouncing a community noticeboard for Sociology
A couple of months ago, I decided to put Sociological Imagination on hiatus after a contributing author posted something which left me unwilling to run a group blog without a proper editorial process....
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Ann Oakley’s lessons for social scientists
Four lessons offered by Ann Oakley in her Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science. This is a wonderful, thought-provoking and deeply human series of essays on the unfolding of her...
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