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Montclair Socioblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
November 30, 2009 Posted by Jay Livingston I was leafing through the New York Times Book Review on Sunday, and when I got to the best sellers page, I noticed that three of the top ten books on the nonfiction list are sociology. Well, maybe not exactly sociology in a narrow sense, but in the sense of social science that isn’t psychology. (Click on the image for a larger view.) At number four...
Omniorthogonal (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Bruno Latour is a sociologist of science best known for his insistence that scientific facts are constructed rather than discovered. He's widely reviled by scientists and critics of postmodernity ; I rather like his work myself and feel that it's usually misinterpreted . Anyway, my guess is he's laughing his Gallic ass off right now at the so-called Climategate affair, which seems like a perfect test...
Mangan's (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
James Delingpole: Peer review is dead : Here’s what poor Ed doesn’t get. It’s perhaps the single most important fact to emerge from the Climategate scandal. Peer-review is dead. Meaningless. Utterly void of credibility. More irredeemably defunct than a Norwegian Blue. [...] What the CRU’s hacked emails convincingly demonstrate is that climate scientists in the AGW camp have...
forces of geek (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
This is slightly off topic, but something that I think is important enough to mention to all of the readers of the site. Read the full press release after the jump. USA NETWORK AND TOM BROKAW TO CO-HOST FIRST-EVER CHARACTERS UNITE NATIONAL TOWN HALL ON HEALING AMERICA’S DIVISIONS Brokaw to Moderate Panel of Prominent National Leaders from Government, Academia, Business, Media, the Arts and Non-Governmental...
The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Steve Busfield reports from a conference exploring US TV series The Wire as social-science fiction How many sociologists does it take to change a lightbulb? Five. One to change the lightbulb and four to examine The Wire. Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson believes that The Wire has done more "to enhance our understanding of the challenges of urban life, and the problems of urban inequality,...
CBSE News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The Board of Intermediate Education of Andhra Pradesh ( BIEAP ) has announced the date sheet for the Intermediate First and Second Year March 2010 examinations. Andhra Pradesh Date Sheet Intermediate First Year Examination March 2010 Paper 1 : Examination Date & Day Examination Paper March 3, Wednesday Second Language Paper - 1 March 5, Friday English Paper - 1 March 8, Monday Mathematics Paper...
CBSE News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) WBCHSE Class 12 Examination (New Syllabus) Date Sheet 2010 West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) Class 12 Examination (New Syllabus) Date Sheet 2010 DAY DATE SUBJECT/PAPER (10.00 A.M. TO 1.15 P.M.) WEDNESDAY 17.03.2010 Bengali (A), Hindi (A), Nepali (A), Bengali (B), Hindi (B), Nepali (B), Santali, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu,...
CBSE News (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) WBCHSE Class 12 Examination (Old Syllabus) Paper II Date Sheet 2010 West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) Class 12 Examination (Old Syllabus) Paper II Date Sheet 2010 DAY DATE SUBJECT/PAPER (10.00 A.M. TO 1.15 P.M.) WEDNESDAY 17.03.2010 Bengali (A), Hindi (A), Nepali (A), Bengali (B), Hindi (B), Nepali (B), Santali, Urdu,...
Ace of Spades (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Ah yes, a delicious stew of questionable/fake (pseudo)hard science heavily seasoned with some dubious sociology and extra dubious gender studies. What a treat it will be to slug down that tasty meal eh? A feast of heavenly dimension for sure....
2009 2010International Scholarships (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
International Center forDevelopment and Decent Work (ICDD) Graduate Schoolof Socio-Ecological Research for Development Call for Applications 20 PhD Scholarship Positions for Students from DACCountries* at the International Center for Developmentand Decent Work (ICDD) Starting: March 1st, 2010 Deadline for applications: November 15th, 2009 (electronically to: gradschool(at)icdd.uni-kassel.de) ICDD...
Sarkari Naukri-Govt, Bank ,Psu Jobs (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation NAL Belur Campus , P.B. No. 1779, Bangalore - 560 037, INDIA Advt. No. 3/2009 (CMM/PA) C-MMACS is looking for bright and highly motivated Project Assistants in various disciplines . The engagement of Project Assistants will be purely on temporary and contract basis , being co-terminus strictly with the completion of the project. Job Details...
Hodges' Model: Welcome to the Quad (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Of all the policy issues that government faces the care of an ageing population is irresistible in demanding attention. This one will keep tapping MPs, policy makers and families ... on the shoulder. It will constantly cycle through the government's gamut of official papers . In the UK this past week people suffering with dementia and the prescribing of anti-psychotic medication and deaths arising...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
(Ongoing archive--comments/suggestions are appreciated) Apodaca, Greg. "Digital Retouching Portfolio." (Archival Website: No Date) Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogical Imagination. ed. and trans. C. Emerson and M. Holquist. Austin: University of Texas P, 1981. ---. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Trans. V.W. McGee. Austin: U of Texas P, 1986. Bauer, Martin W., Nick Allum and Steve Miller....
Kai Arzheimer (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Image via Wikipedia Kai Arzheimer: Vorlesung Statistik II - Welcome | Teaching with Data (QSSDL) – TeachingWithData.org (TwD) is a repository of tools and educational materials designed to improve quantitative literacy skills in social science courses. Built especially for faculty teaching post-secondary courses in such areas as demography, economics, geography, political science, social psychology,...
eLearning Moments (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Our family has had a tough week. My 5-yr-old daughter was admitted to Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne with a severe kidney infection . For four days my wife and I played tag team as she recovered. Allison is doing well now, back to normal activities with no permanent damage, although it will still take several weeks for optimal renal function to return. To advance my research while at the hospital,...
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