The ontological conservatism and the new left
The disputes that take place in society, between left and right, however tense they may be, and...
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Tag: Social theory
Class mobility and the ‘limbo identity’
While one’s class position can cause identity issues, it is also the case that the great promise...
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To cut off the King’s Head: Foucault goes to Pakistan
Kafkaesque, a term which can be used to construe a postcolonial confusion called Pakistan. It is...
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Knowledge and the question of objectivity: On Karl Mannheim
Karl Mannheim, often considered the founder of the sub-field of the sociology of knowledge, wished...
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Why we need social theory in teacher education research
The recently published book, Social Theory for Teacher Education Research: Beyond the...
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New event: Hybrid social theory and education research: working with conceptual interdisciplinarity
This all-day event, taking place in the University of Glasgow on Tuesday July 9th, 2019, is geared...
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Call for Chapters: Social theory, digital education and the Global South: Critical perspectives
Call for chapter submissions for a new edited collection, entitled: Social theory, digital...
Read MoreWhose involvement has capital? The application of Bourdieu’s thinking tools for the study of parental involvement.
All parents want the best education for their children (Vincent 2017), but not all parental actions are created equal (Lareau 2015). One of the explanations of this phenomenon provided in the literature has been the fact that...
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Ever greater scrutiny: Researching the bureaucracy of educational accountability
This is the title of a book chapter in the following book: Education Governance and Social Theory:...
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Why we need social theory …now!
2018 has been a strange year. Actually, the world has become a particular strange place to me...
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Authoritarian neoliberalism and the alienation of academic labour
I recently delivered a keynote on neoliberalism and HE at a British Educational Research...
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What is social theory? Interview with Jana Bacevic
In this interview, Mark Carrigan (@mark_carrigan) talks to Dr. Jana Bacevic, University of...
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