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International Women’s Day: Jane Addams

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“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” Happy International Women’s Day, colleagues! Jane Addams, sociologist, was the second woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Applied Sociology Career Spotlight: Graduate Programs versus Small Business

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Here are some of the benefits of joining Graduate Training Schemes versus beginning your career in small to medium-sized enterprises.

Sociology of Law

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Sociology student and Fullbright Scholar, Jesse Fenichel, worked as a “temp attorney” over the summers before heading to the Philippines to study the ever-growing market for outsourcing American legal work overseas. The Philippines and India are two key nations where much of the outsourced work is happening. As part of his PhD dissertation, Fenichel will studyContinueContinue reading “Sociology of Law”

Applied Sociology Career Spotlight: Politics

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Angelia Schultz has a Masters in sociology and she ran in the Democratic nomination for the USA state of Aberdeen in 2014. She stood on a platform promoting stronger provision of healthcare and education, drawing on sociology.

Applied Sociology Career Spotlight: Urban Planning

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The Californian Department of Transportation in the USA has a cultural studies team who are unearthing the city’s cultural heritage.

Our Responsibility as Sociologists

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“We need to reflect, respond and recognise our responsibility as sociologists.” – Prof Margaret Abraham, President of the International Sociological Association, has addressed the discriminatory Executive Order by USA President Donald Trump.

The Power of Sociology

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“[Students] can see the power and relevance of sound social theories and sociological perspectives together with strong methodologies to analyse social conditions and suggest change.” – Malaysian sociologist Professor Abdul Rahman Embong

If Karl Marx Was Alive

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“If Karl Marx was alive he would say, I told you so.”

Sociology More Nimble on its Feet

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“When research is conducted in partnership with community, sociology becomes more ‘nimble on its feet.'” – Philip Nyden, Leslie Hossfeld and Gwendolyn Nyden

Social Survey Invented by Sociology

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“Indeed a case might well be made for the statement that the social survey was an invention of the sociologist.” – E. W. Burgess (1916)