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Sociology at ÌÇÐÄTV is reaching wider audiences and increasing its global impact across the social sciences.  Professor Steve Fuller's recent lecture at the University of Uppsala on evolution vs intelligent design has been discussed on 29 September 2010 the Swedish 'thought for the day'.  For more go to :

Hilary Pilkington, Elena Omel'chenko and Al'bina Garifzianova

Russia’s Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives provides a thorough examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian skinhead subculture is the ‘lumpen’ end of the extreme nationalist ideological spectrum.

Click on the link below to listen to the podcast by Professor Hilary Pilkington about the book.

Dr Karen Throsby, Associate Professor, has been training to swim the channel as part of her auto-ethnographic work into sporting bodies.  You can find out more by logging on to this Guardian article: 

 

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Fourth Edition of the bestselling research methods text How to Research.  Co-authored by Professor Christina Hughes, this has been designed for first time researchers and contains everything you need to know about starting and completing a research project, writing your dissertation and beginning your PhD.

A new issue of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology (2010; 13:3) and associated text has been published by Christina Hughes and Rachel Cohen.  This explodes the myth that feminists don't use quantitative approaches in their research.  Take a look at this ground breaking work at:  Or buy the text:  Hughes, C and Cohen, R (2010) Feminism Counts: Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender, Oxford, Taylor and Francis

Professor Walter Mignolo from Duke University, USA, will be a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study and will be hosted by the Department and the Social Theory Centre from 22-27 November 2010. Professor Mignolo will be involved in a number of academic activities during his time here including a reading group session on his book, ‘The Idea of Latin America’, a postgraduate advanced seminar on ‘Delinking and Connecting Histories’, as well as being involved in a symposium on ‘Decoloniality, Postcolonialism and the Subaltern’ co-organised with the Centre for Global History.

Dr Anne-Marie Kramer, spoke on Saturday 12 June at the opening of the art exhibition 'They Do Things Differently There' at the Talbot Rice Art Gallery in Edinburgh:

The Sociology Department continues to do exceptionally well in teaching league tables. The department has been ranked second in the and Times and we are now third in the .