CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: ASA Junior Theorists Symposium 2015
This has been doing the rounds for a few days now but it is an excellent opportunity for serious, theory-orientated early career sociologists. If they can afford it of course. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 2015...
View ArticleIrish Journal of Sociology UK Regional Editor 2015-16 Call for Applications
Irish Journal of Sociology UK Regional Editor 2015-16 Call for Applications Deadline for Applications: 30 November 2014, 17:00 (GMT) The Irish Journal of Sociology (IJS)is seeking to recruit a second...
View ArticleLiving in and coping with world risk society – Ulrich Beck
In this talk (from a few years ago, 2011 I think), sociologist Ulrich Beck outlines and updates his theory of reflexive modernization and the ‘risk society’. He suggests that, to the extent that risk...
View ArticleZygmunt Bauman: ”Liquid Modernity revisited”
In the introduction to my new Global Society class in QUB today I mentioned Bauman’s work on Liquid Modernity in the context of debates on globalization. In this lecture, given in Aarhus in 2012, he...
View ArticleDeep Stories, Emotional Agendas and Politics By Arlie Hochschild
I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the 12th European Sociological Association Conference in Prague last August, where Prof. Arlie Hochschild (Berkeley) gave one of the plenaries at the...
View ArticleOn the Emotional State: Workshop at Queen’s University Belfast, May 27th, 2016
Provisional Programme. More details to follow. On the Emotional State_poster_final
View ArticleRe: blogging: ‘From lens to lens-grinding’, and (the hope of) more to come…
I am eventually getting my mind around the possibility of attempting to begin to consider blogging a bit more and revitalising this old site with some new posts and reflections. At last. And it may...
View Article13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Athens, 2017: RN11...
The Board of the ESA RN11 Network (Stina, Monika, and myself) have finalized the schedule of papers for the big ESA Conference in Athens in August. The full programme will be released by the conference...
View ArticleOn the Emotional State: Workshop 2 Friday, November 2nd, 2017, Queen’s...
If any of you are around Belfast/Queen’s University on Friday feel free to drop in to this! Jonathan
View ArticleDRAFT PROGRAMME: Joint Conference of the European Sociological Association’s...
Draft Programme — WILL LIKEY CHANGE AFTER REGISTRATION Joint Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association’s Sociology of Emotions Research Network (RN11) and the British Sociological...
View ArticleIan Hacking: Making Up People
I have recenetly been thinking about classification, which prompted me re-read a classic short paper by Ian Hacking called ‘Making Up People’ (pdf), which caused me to stumble upon this short video,...
View ArticlePhD Course: Sociology of Emotions, Autumn, 2019 (7,5 ECTS), 28 – 30 August,...
Registration deadline June 1, 2019! Do you research into emotions or emotional matters? Do you consider certain emotions as part of understanding or explaining your research matter? Or, do you...
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