While one’s class position can cause identity issues, it is also the case that the great promise of democracy and meritocracy, of the capacity to mobilise between classes and maintain an upward...
https://socialtheoryapplied.com/2021/01/18/class-mobility-and-the-limbo-identity/
Karl Mannheim, often considered the founder of the sub-field of the sociology of knowledge, wished to unmask all intellectual positions as forms of ideology, as bounded to particular social posit...
The recently published book, Social Theory for Teacher Education Research: Beyond the Technical-Rational, co-edited by Kathleen Nolan and Jennifer Tupper, is a superb addition to the book series,...
https://socialtheoryapplied.com/2019/10/25/why-we-need-social-theory-in-teacher-education-research/
This all-day event, taking place in the University of Glasgow on Tuesday July 9th, 2019, is geared towards education researchers who are interested or engaged in hybridising social theory in thei...
This is the title of a book chapter in the following book: Education Governance and Social Theory: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research (edited by Andrew Wilkins and Antonio Olmedo). Below is...
Call for chapter submissions for a new book, entitled: Theorising the university: critical perspectives on institutional research Edited by Mark Murphy, Ciaran Burke, Cristina Costa and Rille R...
Much of the current focus on automation, technology and change is tied up with the promise of imagined futures and sets of expectations regarding the persistence or otherwise of capitalist dynami...
June 27th, 2018, London This symposium aims to explore the relevance of theories of neoliberalism to contemporary education research and to intervening upon and shaping education to create positi...
This workshop, to take place at the University of Essex on 20-21 September, will be of interest to many of the readers of this website. Key issues to be discussed are: (1) the role of the law and...
By Cristina Costa, Ciaran Burke and Mark Murphy This is the title of a recent paper by some of the team behind Social theory applied, published in International Journal of Research & Method in ...
https://socialtheoryapplied.com/2018/03/06/capturing-habitus-theory-method-reflexivity/