Getting knocked back for a publication is not a concern, in and of itself, but the issue is how today’s academics are not yet understanding the emerging scholarship of cognition histories and cognition sociology. Below is such a rejection letter....
"Who, after all, runs America? No one runs it altogether, but in so far as any group does, the power elite." C. Wright Mills (1959). The Sociological Imagination, Oxford University Press. p. 31. Mills' The Power Elite thesis (1956) has sustain the...
Teen Challenge (Qld) Inc. existed as a youth charity and a set of programs in drug rehabilitation. It is also a case study of a regional Christian organisation working out its thinking for 40 years. The Sociology of Teen Challenge (Qld) Inc....
A colleague of mine posted about an investigation for code programming designed for the machine to produce original research questions. It is mind-bogglingly that the question "Why" is not understood more strongly in society, particularly among...
“The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” [spoken...
Sarah Longwell and George Conway debrief the presidential debate, applaud Alberto Gonzales's Harris endorsement, and talk trial timelines in DC and New York. The splinter of the most confused will stick with Trump, but among the one-fourth...
NDB. Levelling the Playing Field (edited 15 Sept 24) The seminar, co-convened by Sharon Aris of the TASA Sociology of Education Special Interest Group, commenced with a warm welcome to participants and an introduction to the theme centered...
Following the Final Report by the Australian Public Service Commissioner on the Robodebt Centralised Code of Conduct Inquiry, The Commissioner set forth a statement and directions, with an apology. Dr Gordon de Brouwer stated, "I apologise as Public Service...
Jacob N. Shapiro and Sean Norton on September 10, 2024, wrote an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, with the headline, "Why Scholars Should Stop Studying 'Misinformation'." Their article was not propaganda per se, but the headline was 'click bait', and for...