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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

Taking people seriously: a new approach for countering populism and furthering integr

May 11, 2017 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Democratic Theory, Populism No Comment 3 Views

In our deliberative democracy and integration projects we treat our participants – natives as well as migrants – as citizens, able and willing to discuss in a rational way the big themes likeRead 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

Yolocaust, Austerlitz & Uploading Holocaust: Dark Tourism Goes Public

February 9, 2017 by Asaf Leshem, Unkategorisiert, Urban Sociology and Tourism No Comment 6 Views

To many travellers, the act of visiting a tourist site, where death, tragedy or atrocity are presented in some way is a familiar experience. Relatively new, however, is the increased popularity of experiencingRead 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

Economists Looking For God

June 22, 2015 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Science Criticism, Uncategorized No Comment 7 Views

A science is not called a discipline by coincidence: its students are actively and deliberately disciplined to think and behave in the specific ways that define a discipline. They are trained to observeRead More

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