Mark Carrigan

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• LS Lowry and the Sociological Imagination

  By Mark on May 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  This isn’t the blog post I have intended to write for ages about LS Lowry’s profoundly sociological sensibility. But it is a percursor to it because this article so succinctly describes exactly the point I’m trying to make about Lowry’s work:… Read More ›

• What is Digital Sociology?

  By Mark on May 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Tuesday 16th July 2013 BSA Meeting Room, Suite 2, 2 Station Court Imperial Wharf, Fulham, London SW6 2PY This inaugural event for the BSA’s Digital Sociology Group brings together a diverse range of speakers who, in a variety of ways,… Read More ›

• BSA Teaching Group Conference on June 15th

  By Mark on May 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  BSA TEACHING GROUP CONFERENCE Saturday 15th June 2013 Nottingham Trent University Sponsored by the Higher Education Academy  The BSA’s Teaching Group is pleased to announce a regional conference hosted by the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University. This event is… Read More ›

• It worries me how excited I am about this software launching…

  By Mark on May 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

• RFR Masterclass – Facet methodology – principles and practices workshop

  By Mark on May 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Facet methodology – principles and practices workshop Wednesday 12 June 2013 2pm – 4pm Professor Jennifer Mason, Co-director, Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life Registration fee @ £50.00 http://www.crfr.ac.uk/eventsandtraining/training/masterclass-facet-methodolo gy/ ‘Facet methodology’ – is an inventive orientation… Read More ›

• Interdisciplinarity and the poverty of post structuralist intellectual strategies

  By Mark on May 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Post-structuralism exchanges the undesirable situation of lack of communication between the social sciences for the equally undesirable one where the internal logic of each subdiscipline is completely ignored. To be specific, there is little satisfaction with the present status quo… Read More ›

• Invitation to contribute to the CelebYouth project website

  By Mark on May 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  ‘The role of celebrity in young people’s classed and gendered aspirations’ is an ESRC funded research project which examines the relationship between celebrity culture, inequalities of class and gender and young people’s educational experiences, identities and transitions. The project has… Read More ›

• What’s the point of sociological theory?

  By Mark on May 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  By maintaining its specialized logic and orientation it is capable of providing a set of conceptual tools that can operate as a theoretical lingua franca, as a flexible vocabulary with no foundationalist pretensions, which can help sociologists establish bridges between… Read More ›

• Participants needed for art/research project about asexuality

  By Mark on May 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Holly Falconer and I are working on a project exploring asexuality through photography. Over the past two years she has done portraits of people across the UK, and is now looking for a few more volunteers to complete the project…. Read More ›

• Call for Papers/Participants – Gendered Knowledges: An interdisciplinary workshop

  By Mark on May 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Call for Papers and Participants Gendered Knowledges: An interdisciplinary workshop The Gendered Knowledges project is holding a Gender and Sexuality(ies) Interdisciplinary Workshop on 12th June 2013 at the University of Warwick. Gendered Knowledges is a newly launched research project that… Read More ›

• “What kinds of creatures do we think we are?”: Human Sciences in the ‘Age of Biology’

  By Mark on May 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

• Digital Humanities but No Digital Sociology

  By Mark on May 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  All these changes in scholarship have been taken up with a great deal more enthusiasm by some in the academy than others.  Our colleagues in the humanities have embraced digital technologies much more readily than those of us in sociology… Read More ›

• CfP: Queer Feminine Affinities

  By Mark on May 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Queer Feminine Affinities Call for Submissions Deadline 31st July 2013 Website: http://queerfeminineaffinities.wordpress.com Email: queerfeminineaffinities@gmail.com Queer Feminine Affinities aspires to become the first collaborative book that collects a diverse variety of written and visual materials by, on and for femme, queer, alternative and… Read More ›

• CfP: Tensions of Rhetorics and Realities in Critical Diversities

  By Mark on May 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Call for Papers Tensions of Rhetorics and Realities in Critical Diversities Edited byAlexa Athelstan, Nichole Edwards, Mercedes Pöll & Sanaz Raji(University of Leeds) Website: http://tensionsrhetoricsrealities.wordpress.com/call-for-papersEmail: tensions.rhetorics.realities@gmail.com We warmly invite your contributions to our edited collection entitled Tensions of Rhetorics and Realities. The… Read More ›

• Moral behaviour in animals

  By Mark on May 6, 2013 • ( 0 )

  In this talk the primatologist Frans de Waal explains the transition underway from a tendency to construe animal behaviour (including the human animal) in terms of competition, aggression and domination to a new understanding of a pervasive capacity for cooperation and empathy. It’s… Read More ›

• The frustrations of philosophers: Richard Rorty, sociological explanation and intellectual biography

  By Mark on May 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  I’m finally in the process of reading this intellectual biography of Richard Rorty by Neil Gross. I’ve intended to for a few years now, given my long term fascination with Rorty, however it was only recently that I had it… Read More ›

• ‘Trans’ as Everyday Culture @SocioWarwick

  By Mark on May 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

• Deadline Approaching: FWSA Small Grants Scheme 2013

  By Mark on May 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Dear all, The FWSA offers a small grant of £250 for workshops, seminars, conferences and networks organised by and aimed for postgraduate students. This money can be used for a variety of purposes and can be used alongside other awards…. Read More ›

• What are you doing tonight? I’m going out to commit some sociology…

  By Mark on April 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  In the wake of a foiled terrorist attack in Canada, recent comments have offered a fascinating insight into mindset of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Now is not the time to “commit sociology,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday in the wake of… Read More ›

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