I just spotted New Philosopher for the first time, in an airport newsagents. I’ve occasionally bought or subscribed to Philosopher’s Magazine and Philosophy Now in the past. That makes three popular magazines about philosophy aimed at a general audience. Why such an abundance of philosophy magazines and yet no comparable sociology publications? Is it because the public appetite couldn’t support a sociology magazine? Or is it because sociologists haven’t tried since New Society folded? Is it time for Discover Society to launch a print edition? Or something else entirely?
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Dear Colleague,
I hope that you have come across Discover Society the online magazine which publishes pieces based on social science research for a wide audience – you may even have written for us – but if not do check it out at discoversociety.org
As Editors we are committed ensuring that the magazine continues to be free at the point of access and to keeping our costs low, but we want to develop the magazine further and need to cover the costs of doing so.
Discover Society is approaching its third anniversary and is definitely a success – with over 25,000 hits on the site every month, close to 9,000 followers on Twitter, and a steady stream of people wanting to write pieces. If you enjoy Discover Society/ think it is useful for getting sociological research out there and you would like to help it to flourish please support it (either individually or as a Department) by becoming a ‘Friend of Discover Society’ and donating a small amount (or larger if you like!).
Your support would mean that we could:
- Fund the increasing costs of hosting and maintaining the website
- Fund the continuation of the Discover Society Internship
- Host Discover Society Lectures and other events to increase the reach of the magazine and the impact of the contributions
- Increase our support for making social science research more accessible
If you would like to help us to do these things, and more, please support the magazine by becoming a Friend of Discover Society via the Donate button on the front page at discoversociety.org.
All good wishes
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John Holmwood
Gurminder K Bhambra
Managing Editors of Discover Society
Would you like to write for Discover Society?
Discover Society is a free online magazine featuring articles on social research, policy analysis and commentary. It is supported by Policy Press and endorsed by the British Sociological Association and the Social Policy Association.
We publish short (1500 word) research-based articles on a variety of topics. We also publish: ‘Viewpoints’ (on current social issues); ‘Policy Briefings’; ‘On the Frontline’, and a longer, ‘Focus’ article in each issue.
Deadlines: mid-month for publication first Wednesday each month.
Guidance for contributors, here: http://www.discoversociety.org/contribute/
Potential contributions can be discussed in advance with the editors via a short ‘pitch’ sent to: discoversociety@outlook.com
Discover Society Issue 9
| ISSUE NINE: | June 2014 |
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| Sue Scott | On the Truth in Sex: The Times they are a-Changin’, or Not |
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| Ruth Holliday, David Bell, Meredith Jones & Olive Cheung | Clinical Trails: Cosmetic Surgery Tourism |
| Stephen Crossley | “Joining the Dots”? The Role of Research in the ‘Troubled Families’ Agenda |
| Naaz Rashid | Framing Integration: The New Assimilation |
| Navtej Purewal | The Two Iron Ladies of 1984: Remembering the Postcoloniality of Operation Blue Star Thirty Years On |
| Stevi Jackson | Mother/ Daughter Relationships: Cultural Difference and Modernity |
| Jenny van Hooff | Conscious Uncoupling: Reassessing Agency and Desire in Couple Relationships |
| Steve Garner | Freeze Frame? Resisting the Relevance of Films about Slavery |
| Maggie O’Neill | The Slow University: Work, Time and Well-Being |
| Susie Scott, Liz McDonnell& Matt Dawson | Asexual Lives: Social Relationships and Intimate Encounters |
| Noor-ul-Ain Khawaja &Muhammad Hashsham Khan | Egypt: From Mubarak to Sisi |
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| James Hampshire | UKIP’s Fox in the Henhouse |
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| Anonymous | Crude Power in Thailand’s 2014 Coup: Old Soldiers Almost Die |
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| James Wilson | Care.Data and the Future of the NHS |
Managing Editors: John Holmwood (Nottingham) and Sue Scott (York)
Editorial Board: Kehinde Andrews (Newman); Lorenza Antonucci (West of Scotland);
Les Back (Goldsmiths); Ben Baumberg (Kent); Gurminder K. Bhambra (Warwick);
Mark Carrigan (Warwick); Suzanne Hall (LSE); Steve MacKay (Lincoln); David Mellor (Oxford); Katherine Smith (Edinburgh); Emma Uprichard (Warwick)
Editorial Assistant: Rachel Jones
Twitter: @discoversoc | Facebook |Email: discoversociety@outlook.com
Published by Social Research Publishing (a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee)
Digital Public Sociology at #BritSoc14
It was interesting to follow the #BritSoc14 tweeting last week. The quality and quantity of the live tweeting was quite striking relative to previous conferences. Not surprisingly, it was the digital sociology sessions that provoked the most live tweeting. If Twitter is a reliable guide, which it probably isn’t, digital sociology seemed to be one of the most high profile topics at the conference. I was a bit dismayed to have missed the session I organised on Digital Public Sociology but thankfully Huw Davies recorded the talks:
I’m not sure if ‘Digital Public Sociology’ is a useful expression. But it’s how I’ve come to think of a topic that’s been one of my main interests ever since the first year of my PhD when I encountered Pierre Bourdieu’s public sociology at the same time as I was starting to see the academic relevance of blogging (which had long been a fairly directionless hobby of mine). There was a great day at Warwick, organised by Michelle Kempson and Lucy Mayblin, called the Politics of Sociology which helped connect these things in my mind. But I’m finding ‘digital public sociology’ useful because it’s the first time I’ve been able to articulate my interest in a way that doesn’t feel reductive, having formerly found myself saying rather sheepishly “er I’m interesting in sociologists blogging and tweeting and stuff”.
Edited to add: the disparity in the stats between the three talks is really striking. I hadn’t actually thought about the running order (I just added them in the order I uploaded the files) but it does seem as if Deborah’s talk is much more visible as a consequence of being first in the playlist.
Discover Society #5
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Managerialism, Democracy and the New Political Economy of English Higher Education |
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Mary Stuart |
Reconnecting and Re–Purposing the Civic Purpose of Universities |
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Diane Reay |
From Academic Freedom to Academic Capitalism |
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Wars Over English The Culture Schools |
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Timothy Clarke, Pojanath Bhatanacharoen & David Greatbatch |
Manufacturing Management Celebrity |
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Malcolm James |
Mark Duggan and Britain’s Postcolonial Politics of Death |
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Paola Tubaro |
Why Online Privacy is not Dead: Negotiation and Conflict in Social Media |
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Michael O’Regan |
The Tyrannies of Collaborative Consumption |
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Des Fitzgerald, Nikolas Rose, |
Urban Life and Mental Health: Re-Visiting Politics, Society and Biology |
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Jackie Turton |
Moral Panics and Youth Crime – Where are the Girls? |
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Poverty 50 Years On – But What is Poverty? |
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Priyamvada Gopal |
The Assault on Higher Education and Democracy |
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Mahmoona Shah |
Further Education – for other people’s children? |
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John Holmwood |
Whither Fees and Loans? |
Managing Editors: John Holmwood (University of Nottingham) and Sue Scott (University of York)
Editorial Board: Kehinde Andrews (Newman University); Lorenza Antonucci (University of West of Scotland); Les Back (Goldsmiths); Ben Baumberg (University of Kent); Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Warwick); Mark Carrigan (University of Warwick); Suzanne Hall (LSE); Steve MacKay (University of Lincoln); David Mellor (University of Oxford); Alison Shaw (Policy Press at the University of Bristol); Katherine Smith (University of Edinburgh); Emma Uprichard (University of Warwick).
Twitter: @discoversoc | Facebook |Email: discoversociety@outlook.com
Published by Social Research Publishing (a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee)
Discover Society Issue 3: Wealth
Please circulate on local lists
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John Hills |
The Distribution of Wealth: What We Think and How It Is |
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Caroline Knowles |
Millionaires Welcome: UK Migration and London Neighbourhoods |
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John Urry |
The Rich-Class and Offshore Worlds |
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Beverley Searle |
Help to Wealth-Fare |
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Roger Burrows |
The New Gilded Ghettoes: The Geo-Demographics of the Super-Rich |
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Beth Breeze Mathew Bond Adam Leaver |
Why Do Rich People Give?
Elite Conviviality and the British Political Class Growth in Whose Interests? |
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Norman Stockman |
In Praise of Ralph Miliband, Political Sociologist |
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Graham Scambler |
From Power Elite to Ruling Oligarchy |
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‘My Toothbrush Isn’t Foaming’: The Changing Status of the Rural Upper Class |
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Rajiv Prabhakar |
The Case for Inheritance Tax |
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Rowland Atkinson |
Domestic Sovereigns: Wealth and Public Space |
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Matt Barnes |
Home-Owners Get Richer and the Housing Ladder Gets Pulled Up |
Managing Editors: John Holmwood (University of Nottingham) and Sue Scott (University of York)
Editorial Board: Kehinde Andrews (Newman University); Lorenza Antonucci (University of West of Scotland); Les Back (Goldsmiths); Ben Baumberg (University of Kent); Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Warwick); Mark Carrigan (University of Warwick); Suzanne Hall (LSE); Steve MacKay (University of Lincoln); David Mellor (University of Oxford); Katherine Smith (University of Edinburgh); Emma Uprichard (University of Warwick).
Twitter: @discoversoc https://twitter.com/DiscoverSoc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoversociety
Email: discoversociety@outlook.com
Published by Social Research Publishing (a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee)
Discover Society Issue 2 Out Now
Issue 2 of online magazine of social research, policy analysis and commentary, Discover Society, out today.
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Danny Dorling |
Dismantling Universalism: Inequality and Public Health |
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John Brewer |
Culture, Class and Protestantism in Urban Belfast |
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Lynn Jamieson John MacInnes and Sin Yi Cheung Tom Shakespeare |
How Spare are Bedroom-Tax Rooms? Creating Public Attitudes to Immigration by Mis-Counting
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Kehinde Andrews and Lisa Palmer Larry Ray |
Why Black Studies Matters
Photography and the Public Sphere |
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Momin Rahman
Michael Farrelly |
The Rise of Ideological Secularism: Quebec’s Proposed Charter of Values Debating Energy |
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Fiona McQueen Rachel Thwaites |
More Equal? Still Different? What’s in a Name? Gendered Naming Practices and Identity in Britain |
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What’s Wrong with Modern Slavery? Why Theresa May in Wilberforce’s Clothing Won’t Appeal to All |
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Young Carers |
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Agency and the Child Support Agency |
Managing Editors: John Holmwood (University of Nottingham) and Sue Scott (University of York)
Editorial Board: Kehinde Andrews (Newman University); Lorenza Antonucci (University of West of Scotland); Les Back (Goldsmiths); Ben Baumberg (University of Kent); Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Warwick); Mark Carrigan (University of Warwick); Suzanne Hall (LSE); Steve MacKay (University of Lincoln); David Mellor (University of Oxford); Katherine Smith (University of Edinburgh); Emma Uprichard (University of Warwick).
Twitter: @discoversoc https://twitter.com/DiscoverSoc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoversociety
Email: discoversociety@outlook.com
Published by Social Research Publishing (a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee)
CfP: Discover Society
Announcing a new monthly online magazine of social research, policy analysis and commentary
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
DISCOVER SOCIETY
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We publish short (1500 word) research-based articles on social topics. We also publish: ‘Viewpoints’ (on current social issues); ‘Policy Briefings’; ‘On the Frontline’, and a longer, ‘Focus’ article in each issue
We welcome contributions that are research-based and meet our guidance for contributors (available online: http://bit.ly/18LEZMg)
Potential contributions can be discussed in advance with the editors via a short ‘pitch’ sent to: discoversociety@outlook.com
Managing Editors: John Holmwood (University of Nottingham) and Sue Scott (University of York)
Editorial Board: Kehinde Andrews (Newman University); Lorenza Antonucci (University of West of Scotland); Les Back (Goldsmiths); Ben Baumberg (University of Kent); Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Warwick); Mark Carrigan (University of Warwick); Emma Uprichard (University of Warwick); David Mellor (University of Oxford); Katherine Smith (University of Edinburgh).
Twitter: @discoversoc (https://twitter.com/DiscoverSoc)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoversociety
Email: discoversociety@outlook.com
Discover Society
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The first issue includes articles by: Gurminder K. Bhambra, Sam Friedman, Jacqui Gabb and Janet Fink, Peter Taylor-Gooby, Suzanne Hall, Lisa McKenzie, Alice Mah, James Nazroo, Karen Rowlingson and Steve McKay, Emma Uprichard, Alan Warde, and Mike Savage
Further details:
Twitter: @discoversoc (https://twitter.com/DiscoverSoc)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoversociety
Email: discoversociety@outlook.com
Managing Editors: John Holmwood (University of Nottingham) and Sue Scott (University of York)
Editorial Board: Kehinde Andrews (Newman University); Lorenza Antonucci (University of West of Scotland); Les Back (Goldsmiths); Ben Baumberg (University of Kent); Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Warwick); Mark Carrigan (University of Warwick); Suzanne Hall (LSE); David Mellor (University of Oxford); Katherine Smith (University of Edinburgh); Emma Uprichard (University of Warwick).
CfP: Discover Society
Announcing a new monthly online magazine of social research, policy analysis and commentary
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
DISCOVER SOCIETY
Measured-Factual-Critical
We publish short (1500 word) research-based articles on social topics. We also publish: ‘Viewpoints’ (on current social issues); ‘Policy Briefings’; ‘On the Frontline’, and a longer, ‘Focus’ article in each issue
We welcome contributions that are research-based and meet our guidance for contributors (available online: http://bit.ly/18LEZMg)
Potential contributions can be discussed in advance with the editors via a short ‘pitch’ sent to: discoversociety@outlook.com
Managing Editors: John Holmwood (University of Nottingham) and Sue Scott (University of York)
Editorial Board: Kehinde Andrews (Newman University); Lorenza Antonucci (University of West of Scotland); Les Back (Goldsmiths); Ben Baumberg (University of Kent); Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Warwick); Mark Carrigan (University of Warwick); Emma Uprichard (University of Warwick); David Mellor (University of Oxford); Katherine Smith (University of Edinburgh).
Twitter: @discoversoc (https://twitter.com/DiscoverSoc)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoversociety
Email: discoversociety@outlook.com
