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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...
Is there an anti-quantitative bias in British sociology?

My title is inspired by a book chapter written more than 30 years ago by my former colleague Christopher T. Husbands called: The anti-quan...
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 ...
Payment by results

How depressing that - if we can believe the Guardian - a substantial proportion of teachers are in favour of payment by results. It just p...
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...
Sociology reader survey

The journal Sociology is fielding a survey that gives readers an opportunity to say what they think about the journal. This has got to be...
We all know social mobility has declined right? Well no, it probably hasn't.

If you study social mobility you are pretty much forced to study it through the rear view mirror, looking back, as it were, over your should...
Quantophobia is back in town

Good manners prevents me from saying much of what I really think about this piece by Robert Dingwall: Quantophrenia is Back in Town . Dis...
Still Alive

I haven't posted for a while, mainly because I'm busy writing - trying to finish three papers before we pack up to come home at the ...
A little light in a murky place

This is a little teaser: more will follow in due course, probably in the late Autumn. One of the things that irritated me about the GB...

Caveat Emptor

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

Friday, 18 March 2016

Friday music

The weekend's here; time for some musical genius: Michael Hedges' cover of She Drives me Crazy.

Posted by Colin at 10:53

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