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Exploring the many Facets of Failure in Academia

January 17, 2022 by Mafalda Sandrini, Science Criticism No Comment 5 Views

Most of the people working in academia who watched The Chair, which aired this summer, were probably filled with a bittersweet feeling; indeed, Netflix’s comedy-drama depicted quite vividly American academic life, with itsRead More

Branding of cities: to whom is the city advertized and what fundamental idea lies beh

February 6, 2018 by Oktay Tuncer, Science Criticism, Urban Sociology and Tourism No Comment 5 Views

“Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief”, is one of the famous quotations of 20th century-advertisement and branding Guru, Leo Burnett. As a residentRead More

How Postmodernism Advanced Populism: An Inside Story From The Netherlands

December 21, 2017 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Democratic Theory, Populism, Science Criticism No Comment 4 Views

There are many factors that explain the upheaval of populism. Postmodernism is one of them. In the Netherlands, certainly the columnist represented and helped to shape the postmodernist mood, a mood characterized byRead More

Why Does Fieldwork Matter? Reflections On Immersion, The Everyday & Knowledge Cr

November 10, 2017 by Johannes Petry, Research, Science Criticism No Comment 6 Views

“If the RMB depreciates, Southbound trading goes through the roof!” A conversation overheard in Central Ideas about the borderless world have been around since the advent of modern information communication technologies in theRead More

The Limits Of Survey Data: What Questionnaires Can’t Tell Us

March 7, 2017 by Sarah Coughlan, Science Criticism, Uncategorized No Comment 8 Views

All research methodologies have their limitations, as many authors have pointed before (see for example Visser, Krosnick and Lavrakas, 2000). From the generalisabilty of data to the nitty-gritty of bias and question wording,Read More

Intellectual monocultures, black swans & the failure of economics: lessons from

November 7, 2016 by Johannes Petry, Research, Science Criticism, Science Watch No Comment 3 Views

  One of the most pressing challenges to the global economy has been the global financial crisis of 2007 – 2009 which morphed into a prolonged recession and sovereign debt crises in manyRead More

Keeping Social Science Relevant: Society Needs Clear Prose

September 14, 2015 by Christian Kipp, Science Criticism, Uncategorized No Comment 3 Views

If somebody were to ask me what I do all day as a student of the social sciences, my answer would be plain: Most of the time, I work hard to decipher incomprehensibleRead More

What Do Education Scholars Know?

August 4, 2015 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Science Criticism, Uncategorized No Comment 3 Views

Some time ago Martin Spiewak stated in the German quality-weekly Die Zeit that an awful lot of undisputed knowledge existed about the best ways to educate children, but that policy makers hardly everRead More

Are There Too Many PhDs?

July 15, 2015 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Science Criticism, Uncategorized 1 Comment 4 Views

In all OECD countries, but in particular in Germany, there seems to be an enormous overproduction of PhDs – in case one sees a PhD as the starting point of an academic careerRead More

Academic Conferences Should Be Outlawed

July 7, 2015 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Science Criticism, Uncategorized No Comment 3 Views

It’s conference season! Thousands and thousands of social scientists are flying around to visit conferences. The American Sociological Association gathers with more than 4000 participants in 600 sessions in Chicago. In 2014 theRead More

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