Popular Posts

  • How sociologists make themselves absurd
    I'm struggling to articulate a half-formed thought in this post so you may prefer to skip it and wait  until I manage to state it more ...
  • Bourdieu versus Bourdieu
    My last post was a sideways observation on a little spat that is going on among the Bourdieusians. As I expected there is now a reply to...
  • Causality fascism
    While in Turku I heard a term that was new to me "causality fascism". Actually, in the usage, there is an important distinction t...
  • When is a myth not a myth?
    This is a place marker because with exam marking and other stuff to do I can't write at length just now. You'll have to believe me ...
  • 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...
  • The Waste Land
    From time to time I've tried to explain to colleagues  in other disciplines that sociology is a discipline of low disciplinarity. In ot...
  • Oxbridge, admissions, ethnicity and all that
    The annual round of Oxbridge bashing has begun. This year, irony of irony,  David Cameron is leading the pack. If nothing else that  shoul...
  • 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 ...
  • Bauman, plagiarism, blah, blah
    Another week, another plagiarism scandal. THE is reporting that one of Britain's favourite blah blah sociologists Zygmunt Bauman has...
  • 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...

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

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)