Lee Siegel: Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob (2008)
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12:17 pm | Over the coming months you will spot some changes to socialsciencespace. We’ll be working to make the interface more intuitive, so that it’s easier to find the content you are most interested in, and to see what is new on the site.…
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12:21 pm | A psychology professor and a sociologist who has published four books in eight years were selected as George Fox University’s undergraduate teacher and researcher for the 2010-11 academic year, respectively. Kris Kays, who has taught courses in the school’s psychology major since 2005,…
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06:45 pm | Here’s the new QS World Ranking for Sociology Universities. Read from the original here. Rank Title Country Academic Employer Citations Score 1 Harvard University United States 100.0 99.3 84.0 98.3 2 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 96.0 57.0 65.2 89.0 3…
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12:27 pm | Stephen M. Walt writes on Foreign Policy about the role that academics should play in public discourse about major social issues, including foreign policy. He argues that academic scholars have a unique role to play as an independent source of information and…
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05:00 pm | Erik Wright, pioneer of class analysis, presents his project of "envisioning real utopias" that he has carried across the globe. Seeking alternatives within capitalism -- such as Wikipedia, worker cooperatives, participatory budgetting and unconditional basic income -- and examining the conditions of their…
Jul 27 2011 / No Comment / 49 views / Read More »12:13 pm | HARTFORD, CT, July 25, 2011 – The world’s first journal dedicated to the exploration of secularism and nonreligion will…
Aug 3 2011 / No Comment / 29 views / Read More »11:51 am | Posted on August 2, 2011, in Podcasts and tagged american sociological association, contexts, politics of sleep, sleep, social theory,…
Aug 3 2011 / No Comment / 32 views / Read More »01:08 pm | The figure to the left is from a new paper in Science , When the World’s Population Took…
Aug 1 2011 / No Comment / 10 views / Read More »01:02 pm | “Two theories of sexual risk taking (disinhibition and alcohol myopia) were tested using genital measures of sexual response…
Aug 1 2011 / No Comment / 15 views / Read More »01:26 pm | This article explores the relationship between British Asians’ sense of nationhood, citizenship, ethnicity and some of their manifestations…
Jul 31 2011 / No Comment / 11 views / Read More »Discover Magazine | When sociology meets statistical genetics
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06:39 pm | Adjunct faculty position available in the Sociology Department at Molloy College in Rockville Centre to teach the following course during the Fall 2011 semester: SOC 101 - Introductory Sociology Mondays and Wednesdays ... …
Aug 3 2011 / No Comment / 13 views / Read More »11:37 am | Event – Call for papers – ' Sociology of Youth' – ISA World Forum 2012. By Michele, on August 3rd, 2011. Our ' Sociology of Youth' call for papers for the ISA World Forum of Sociology has just gone online. The conference will be held in ... …
Aug 3 2011 / No Comment / 18 views / Read More »10:07 pm | The Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD) is supported by the American Sociological Association through a matching grant from the National Science Foundation. The goal of the program is to nurture the development of scientific knowledge by funding small, groundbreaking research initiatives and other important scientific research activities such as conferences. FAD awards…
Jul 24 2011 / No Comment / 6 views / Read More »11:56 am | Download date: 2012 02 22 11:56 - Post date: 07-02-2012 11:03 - Organisation: Université de Liège (ULg) - Application Deadline: 28/03/2012…
Feb 22 2012 / No Comment / 24 views / Read More »10:11 am | Click here to download the second announcement of the Geneva Conference Social relations in Turbulent times The next ESA conference will take place in the University of Geneva from 7th…
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11:07 pm | Roberta Spalter-Roth and Nicole Van Vooren recently wrote a Footnotes article on sociology PhDs employed in non-academic positions. (See “Should New PhDs…
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10:13 pm | The European Sociological Association (ESA) aims to facilitate sociological research, teaching and communication on European issues, and to give sociology a voice…
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11:07 pm | Roberta Spalter-Roth and Nicole Van Vooren recently wrote a Footnotes article on sociology PhDs employed in non-academic positions. (See “Should New PhDs…
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10:07 pm | Our first research brief of the new year is now available! Networks and the Diffusion of Cutting-Edge Teaching and Learning Knowledge in…
Jul 24 2011 / No Comment / 3 views / Read More »11:52 am | Social discipline covers a wide range of fields: behavioral scientific discipline, history, economics, geography, political science, females's studies, psychology, sociology, theology, library scientific discipline, human services, city and regional…
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