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The researcher’s kitbag should include several analytical heuristics you can apply to your case. These are not ready made pop up explanations. They are designed to aid thinking…
Detailed ethnographic work (Bourgois 1998, Wakeman, 2015) has shown the rich, complex set of reciprocal obligations and responsibilities by which heroin users in marginal social and economic circumstances…
Clue: No I want to supplement some of the advice given to PhD students about their supervision team. There are a lot of guides for PhD students on…
The purpose of the exercise is to help you work out your ontological positioning. The reason I have done it this way is to provokes reflection which is…
Students taking sociology courses are can be very successful at absorbing empirical data and understanding the dynamics of everyday life in relation to topics of gender, class, ethnicity…
The researcher stance should be one of polite but informed puzzlement and a willingness to learn from the world. A few of the posts I have been writing…
This month was mainly spent reviewing references for a paper on darknet markets and illicit drug diffusion. It’s a fine thing to see the academic discussion developing alongside…
… it just happens to be one where everyone is silently watching, and judging 👍 To the introvert an academic conference is like being at a party where…
The field of crime and public policy is at a critical turning point. There are new threats such as the rise and commodification of disinformation in the public…
Thinking about Apple’s travails running its iCloud service in China. As a condition of operating in China the Chinese government insists on physical control over the iCloud servers,…
