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What Makes Sociology Textbooks Original?
Textbooks occupy an odd place in academic sociology. There is vast variety of textbooks on offer, new ones are published all the time, and textbooks are frequently used in both undergraduate and...
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Writing the North Atlantic Bubble, part 2
Renjith Krishnan Textbooks play an ambiguous role in academic sociology. On the one hand, they are very widely used in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. On the other hand, there is a...
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I Have No Time to Think and Write
Photo by adamr One of the most frequent complaints I hear from colleagues is that they have less and less time for scholarship. On the one hand, they are heavily engaged in the administration of their...
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And Then There Were No Books
When the customs agent started to smile, I knew that things would go badly indeed. I had come to the offices of Argentina Customs to deal with the recent arrival of my books via international sea...
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How can textbooks further student engagement?
by Ambro How to enable new sociology students to become sociologists? In other words, how to truly engage students in the academic field they have chosen? How to allow students to become truly invested...
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‘I Became a Scholar in Order to Become a Better Activist’
Kitty Kelly Epstein was recently awarded the 2013 Marilyn Gittell Activist Scholar Award by SAGE and the Urban Affairs Association for her work in Oakland, California which combined scholarship,...
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Universities for the Post-Democratic Age
Sura Nualpradid Let’s begin with the scandal of the month. Over the last few weeks, various major newspapers have disclosed secret documents that shed light on the truly astounding scale of online...
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Living Death in the Academy
University lecturers, and high school teachers, are often puzzled by the behaviour of their students these days; their quiescence in lectures, with fixed stares and apparent lack of interest; their...
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140 Thoughtless Characters Cost Dear in Academia
Photo by winnond By Katherine Wheat, Maastricht University The censuring of an academic in the US for sending out an offensive tweet has led many university tweeters to pause for thought. Geoffrey...
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The Scottish Referendum: Social Science and National Identity
Could David Hume and Adam Smith and other Scottish thinkers of the 18th century have created a social science that was markedly Caledonian and yet not parochial?On 18 September, Scotland voted against...
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On The Job
(cc) Every job requires some kind of training, whether it’s how to make smoothies or how to write complex computer code, there’s on-the-job training and it comes in all different styles. In the new...
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Trying to Improve Marketing Education?
Interested in developing your marketing instruction? Check out the Journal of Marketing Education‘s new Editor’s Choice collection titled “Evidence-Based Methods for Improving Marketing Education.”...
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Out of Whack: AQ, PQ, Miscue?
[We’re pleased to reproduce Journal of Management Inquiry‘s “Out of Whack” by Charles M. Vance.] Read “Out of Whack” for free from the January 2014 issue of Journal of Management Inquiry by clicking...
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Go Team Girl! Women Empowerment and Olympic Success
Women first took part in the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900, according to the International Olympic Committee. At the time, out of 997 participating athletes, only 22 were women. By the 2012 Olympics...
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Announcing the Winner of the Fritz Roethlisberger Memorial Award for 2013!
We are pleased to congratulate Indiana University’s Janet Hillier and Linda M. Dunn-Jensen, who have received the Fritz Roethlisberger Memorial Award for 2013. Their paper “Groups Meet…Teams Improve:...
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A Warm Welcome to Journal of Management Education’s New Co-Editors!
We’re pleased to welcome new Journal of Management Education editors Jeanie M. Forray and Kathy Lund Dean. Drs. Forray and Dean discuss their thoughts on their new role and the direction of Journal of...
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SAGE Founder Sara Miller McCune Honored by Bath and Cardiff Universities
We are pleased to extend our warmest congratulations to SAGE Publications’ founder and executive chairman Sara Miller McCune. In June and July of this year, Ms. McCune was awarded an honorary...
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Reimagining the UK Sociology Curriculum: Internationalization,...
Robert Dingwall argues that the one topic that most UK sociology students never learn anything about is the UK’s own national tradition. Case in point: Whither once eminent British sociologist Herbert...
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Making a Sudden Transition to Teaching Online: Suggestions and Resources
Editor’s Note: As a means of supporting those attempting to do their best under trying circumstances, SAGE Publishing has drawn from its large body of published and peer-reviewed research to offer...
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Free Webinar: Having Conversations About Race in the Classroom
Stephanie Jirard Stephanie A. Jirard, professor of criminal justice at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and author of Criminal Law and Procedure: A Courtroom Approach, will discuss “Having...
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