👇 #truth #Sociology 😃 Looking forward to explaining these globalised capitalist processes to new students in the coming weeks. It didn't only happen in America #HigherEd #teaching #history #SociologicalImagination #inequality #justice #futures
A short film on C. Wright Mills 'The Sociological Imagination'.
#Sociology #sociologicalimagination
youtu.be/gsgZOjCS8Ao
UCalgary sociologist Alex Bierman on Global News podcast Connect discussing Black Friday shopping from a sociological perspective! #sociology #sociologicalimagination
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Revealing article using 'collective biography' to make personal concerns public - eg, 'academic service' (or 'citizenship') in academic promotions rewards service 'to' the university over service 'for' communities outwith, eg advocacy-activism
#SocialJustice
#SociologicalImagination
#HigherEducation
I recently learnt you don't need to defer to the past to plan for or imagine a better future:
*** #LiteratureReviews, the proverbial 'gap in the literature', 'joining the conversation' can stymie a #SociologicalImagination.
Hope, justice, creativity can unleash it.
#FutureStudies
#ConcreteUtopias
Yes, a #senseofplace is often complex. A part of the #sociologicalimagination is to make the strange familiar & the familiar strange. I think that much of what is familiar to us is taken for granted. We aren’t even always fully aware of said things.
How has the historical context shaped the social structures we inhabit? How do those structures, in turn, shape our personal biographies, our choices, and our challenges?
#SociologicalImagination.
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I'm convening #OpenAccess Educational Resources at #OpenUniversity to collate-share educational mentorship, accreditation, etc in #HigherEducation for #Gaza & an end to the #diaspora
Get in touch if you have the power💸#BonneFoi & basic #SociologicalImagination to #SpeakTruthToPower
#SocialJustice🇵🇸
Spending today looking at the theories of one against the life and works of the other …
This MPhil(Research) thing is making me seriously happy!
#postgradlife
#edwinmuir
#sociologicalimagination
