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  • Anthropology under attack

    By anthroprobably | Published October 17th, 2011

    So the Governor of your state just publicly attacked your college major and declared it useless; what do you do?  Well, if you are an anthropologist from the state of Florida, you fight back. Last week, Florida Governor (and Tea Party member) Rick Scott went on a popular right-wing talk radio show to discuss his [...]

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  • What to consider when crafting your online identity

    By sarahlouq | Published September 23rd, 2011

    The question of what value social media, particularly blogging, holds in academia is ongoing and at times controversial. This is well illustrated over at The Guardian Higher Education Network where articles are still being produced in reaction to a comment by Leonard Cassuto in a live chat on the Guardian Higher Education Network – “I [...]

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  • The new language of sociology: teaching-and-learning

    By Daniel Nehring | Published October 11th, 2011

    Institutionalised sociology begins in the classroom. The classroom is the principal site in which sociologists communicate with non-sociologists or – idealistically – future sociologists about the ethos and knowledge of the discipline.

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  • Bad data or no data leads to policy blind spots…

    By Louise Bazalgette | Published August 29th, 2011

    Over the last decade the hallowed principle of ‘evidence-based policy-making’ has become cliché in government and policy circles in the UK, and it is now generally accepted that public policy can only be as good as the evidence that it is based upon. An important outcome of this development is that the Government is now [...]

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