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The choice is a tough one and I prefer the former. A bad book is a sign that one lacks imagination. Plagiarism is proof that you’ve some imagination. I prefer being accused of some imagination to none. An honest person would rather write a bad book. Honesty is a sign of lack of imagination. It’s not a coincidence that most criminals are imagina ...

Between plagiarism and writing a bad book | The Sociological Imagination

Between plagiarism and writing a bad book | The Sociological Imagination
Amy Louise Webber is a Phd student in Ageing, Transport & Society at the University of the West of England. She alsodescribes herself as ethnographer, artist, philanthropist, and aspiring Social Entrepreneur. You can read her blog about life in (and beyond) PhD study here: http://amylouisewebber.com (...Contd.) The epiphany... Odd ...

Flying awkwardly: a year in the life of a first year PhD student, by Amy Louise Webber (II) | The Sociological Imagination

Flying awkwardly: a year in the life of a first year PhD student, by Amy Louise Webber (II) | The Sociological Imagination
Amy Louise Webber is a Phd student in Ageing, Transport & Society at the University of the West of England. She alsodescribes herself as ethnographer, artist, philanthropist, and aspiring Social Entrepreneur. You can read her blog about life in (and beyond) PhD study here: http://amylouisewebber.com ‘Successful post graduates emerge with ...

Flying awkwardly: a year in the life of a first year PhD student, by Amy Louise Webber (I) | The Sociological Imagination

Flying awkwardly: a year in the life of a first year PhD student, by Amy Louise Webber (I) | The Sociological Imagination
It was a surprise and somehow a welcome relief when my supervisor at the University of Nottingham, Prof Carol Hall, encouraged me to ‘write the I’ into my MA dissertation about emotional intelligence in teaching and learning. The six (long, tough) years I’d spent between 2000-06 as a mature, part-time under-graduate student at the University ...

Are you writing the ‘I’ into your research? | The Sociological Imagination

Are you writing the ‘I’ into your research? | The Sociological Imagination
María Martínez Aldana was born in 1939 in Ixtlahuaca, a small village located in the municipality of San Martín de las Piramides in the state of Mexico. María does not know exactly the day of her birth, “I have two birthdays”, she says, smiling, but what she knows is that this year she will celebrate her 71st. birthday. Although she has slowed ...

María Martínez: Story of an Indigenous Woman | The Sociological Imagination

María Martínez: Story of an Indigenous Woman | The Sociological Imagination
In 2006, when I began research into Australian football and sexual assault for my doctoral thesis, I was a footy fan. No, I was an Australian Football League fanatic: a ‘Proud, Passionate and Paid Up’ member of the Hawthorn Football Club, as numerous bumper stickers on my old car attest. At the games, week in, week out, rain, hail or shine, wit ...

The Affair that Ended in Rape: Researching Australian Footballers and Sexual Assault | The Sociological Imagination

The Affair that Ended in Rape: Researching Australian Footballers and Sexual Assault | The Sociological Imagination
What does it mean to see the world through Indigenous eyes, to come to understand the ontological worldview that Indigenous peoples assert as an essential component of their existences? These questions have more than just theoretical relevance; for Settler peoples, understanding Indigenous ways of knowing is necessary for understanding the natu ...

Indigenizing Approaches to Research | The Sociological Imagination

Indigenizing Approaches to Research | The Sociological Imagination
I Am Redneck, Hear Me Roar | The Sociological Imagination

I Am Redneck, Hear Me Roar | The Sociological Imagination

Y’all call me Bubba. Some years ago -- never mind how long precisely -- having little or no money, and nothing particular to interest me in Southeast Missouri, I thought I would move away, get an education, get a job, and join former Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s “knowledge workers” feasting at the table of the global economy. I was just lik ...
Y’all call me Bubba. Some years ago -- never mind how long precisely -- having little or no money, and nothing particular to interest me in Southeast Missouri, I thought I would move away, get an education, get a job, and join former Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s “knowledge workers” feasting at the table of the global economy. I was just lik ...

I Am Redneck, Hear Me Roar | The Sociological Imagination

I Am Redneck, Hear Me Roar | The Sociological Imagination
I never, ever wanted to be a journalist. But when an editor of a niche entertainment magazine about to go monthly came knocking at my door about a year and a half after receiving my bachelor’s degree, I was in no financial position to refuse. My newfound writing job put me on the periphery of the cultural industries in the United States, writin ...

From Journalist to Sociologist: Some Reflections | The Sociological Imagination

From Journalist to Sociologist: Some Reflections | The Sociological Imagination
Dickson-Smith et al (2009: 61) suggest that ‘undertaking qualitative research is an embodied experience and that researchers may be emotionally affected by the work that they do’. They also state that this ‘emotional work’ (Hochschild 1983) is rarely theoretically or empirically investigated (Dickson-Smith et al 2009). Throughout this article I ...

Emotional management during research: A personal reflection | The Sociological Imagination

Emotional management during research: A personal reflection | The Sociological Imagination
As I sit in my quiet but chaotic study, staring out of the window and wondering whether I can justify stopping for another cup of tea, I find myself wondering why I have spent the last three years doing social research for my PhD. It is a question that I often see (or imagine I see) on people’s faces when they ask what I do, especially since a ...

Why am I doing a PhD? By Sarah Smart | The Sociological Imagination

Why am I doing a PhD? By Sarah Smart | The Sociological Imagination