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Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...social world of the airport is made and maintained. In particular, it investigates how the processes that constitute this world - queuing, check in, security clearance, moving around and so on - depend on relations between people and material objects...This free course, Passports: identity and airports, offers a sociological analysis of the modern airport. Using a lively...
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Do independent enterprises really matter?
Money & Business

Do independent enterprises really matter?

...work’ but what about social ventures, which have a distinctive mission beyond profit-making (e.g. in areas like health and social care) – how can they be protected against corporate capture? How might the era of corporate takeovers of independents be reversed (i.e. is it possible for corporates to be broken up in order to spawn a new generation of independent...
Methods in Motion: A view from a train
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: A view from a train

...Social Psychology, investigates the history of movement in Physics, and considers what it means for Social Science...[A child observes the world through a window of a moving train] The key question to answer when thinking about method is ‘how do we know?’ But what has the idea of ‘being in motion’ got to do with knowledge and how we know it? In this blog I will...
Surplus Value
Society, Politics & Law

Surplus Value

...work liberates’) and is a 1:1 replica of a sign that was stolen from Auschwitz. It was initiated by an artist and cultural organisation and encourages people to participate through a special event. Suplus Value is global in orientation and concerned with anti-discrimination, equality and social justice, democracy, politics and representation and peace. It was launched...
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...work part time. Social scientists suggested a number of explanations for this: economic changes, bringing with them more, and different, employment opportunities increases in educational opportunities for girls the re-emergence of feminism in the 1960s. Figure 2 Mary Wollstonecraft – an eighteenth century feminist and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women...
Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion
Money & Business

Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion

...work see Guillaume et al., 2014 and Otaye-Ebede, Priola and Yerby, 2017). While concepts such as diversity, cultural diversity and diversity management have initially been studied within the confines of employment and large organisations, more recently attention has been directed to ‘diverse’ entrepreneurship and, in particular, to migrant entrepreneurs and their...
Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City

...works with complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty. While John Tomaney finds this a learned and literate book rich in provocative metaphors and examples, the implications of today’s political and economic context, including the issue of inequality, upon its ethics of the city are underexplored...[Denver from the sky] The question of how we should live in the city is the...
The Who Are We? project
Society, Politics & Law

The Who Are We? project

...work together to develop new avenues for exchange and influence...[Who Are We?] During March 2017, The Open University, in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts, The University of Warwick and Loughborough University organized a free six-day cross-platform event, spanning the visual arts, film, photography, design, architecture, the spoken and written word as well as live...