Popular Posts

  • Nobel Bob
    Literary prizes are silly. Blood on the tracks is one of the greatest popular music albums of all time. I haven't listened to the rest...
  • On metaphors - cultural and social capital again
    Recently, as you no doubt know,  I've been beating up on the use of the term "capital" in phrases like "cultural capital...
  • Open letter to Prof. Richard Wilkinson & Prof. Kate Pickett
    Dear Professors Wilkinson and Pickett You don't know me and are unlikely to read this letter. Even if you do, I know  you won't r...
  • Writing a Master's Thesis
    It's that time of year when my MSc students are starting to seriously worry about choosing a dissertation topic. With that in mind here ...
  • New Journal - Sociological Science
    Recently I've been talking quite a lot with colleagues about how we need a new sociology journal  that takes advantage of the digital m...
  • Μολὼν λαβέ
    So the guys over at GBCS have finally  got around to responding,  in a piece titled ' On social class, anno 2014 '.   Obviously th...
  • The Great British Class Fiasco
    It's been a bad week for my blood pressure. I'm trying manfully to ignore the hooplah arising from MT shuffling off her mortal coil...
  • What have you been reading?
    Kieran Healey has produced a fascinating graphic of the number of citations of the 10 most cited sociology journal articles in each decade...
  • Is it a hoax?
    Clearly I've taken my eye off the ball these last few months. Probably I've been distracted by the fun and games occasioned by the ...
  • David Byrne on Mills on Byrne on quantitative methods
    I believe in genuinely open discussion, so when David Byrne contacted me about my post on  his Sociology article on quantitative methods ...

Caveat Emptor

The opinions expressed on this page are mine alone. Any similarities to the views of my employer are completely coincidental.

Friday, 11 July 2014

Happy Sounds

Listening to Michael Marmot on Desert Island Discs this morning while packing for a short trip & doing various household chores. His last choice was a knockout track by a band called Afriquoi.  His son plays the djembe. Enjoy.
Posted by Colin at 03:57 0 comments
Subscribe to: Comments (Atom)