In a series of lectures published under the title ‘L’évolution pédagogique en France’, Durkheim analysed the sociology of education and how the ‘history’ of secondary and higher education has been marked by a series of changes resulting from new political and economic trends since the Middle Ages. These were shaped by the development of new attitudes and needs.
This study was written by Benjamin Irvine for Steady State Manchester and Equality North-West. It investigates the pay policies of Local Authorities in the North West. The objectives are to scrutinise the basis of Local Authorities’ pay policies and to encourage them to implement stronger policies to reduce pay inequality within their workforce and within that of their suppliers.
The full title of the study is ‘In Place of Pay Inequality: How Local Authority Pay Policies can help make Greater Manchester more equal and sustainable, and why it matters’ By Benjamin Irvine, and can be found on the Steady State Manchester website:
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Emile Durkheim founded the subject of Sociology on a lifetime of study and review of sociological phenomena. He published his “The Division of Labour in Society” in 1893, and his last, “The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life “ in 1912.
Ciaran Healy has dedicated his life to philosophy and feels passionately about it as a subject and as a way forward for humans to reach a better way of life. Here he talks about his journey of interest and how philosophy has come to be his life; he discusses the obstacles he has met and the challenges of his subject:
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In my younger days, hares were a common sight on the hills and golf courses within the city limits. The Braid Hills, Ravelston Dykes behind the zoo, Blackford Hill and Arthur’s Seat were all places I used to hunt “city hares” with my rifle.
This inductive (Bryman 2012:8,12,111) research project was based on nine in-depth and unstructured interviews carried out between February and May 2014, resulting in rich (Charmaz 2006:10) qualitative data. Seven of the interviews were transcribed verbatim, one was lost due to the audio file being corrupted and another was excluded as the participant was deemed to not have experienced food poverty. Read more…
This is the work of Kenneth Wilson B.Sc.(Edin.); a thesis presented in 1998 for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. It is published in sections on the Ragged University website, and this is the overview. Read more…
Ray Oldenburg’s (1989) influential work on third places (or third spaces) within communities has been pivotal in encouraging sociologists, civic leaders and activists to look critically at how our public spaces for congregating (e.g. museums, cafes, pubs, parks, even barber shops) can provide a locus for democratic discussion and debate, community action, creative thought and expression, and importantly also for frivolity, friendship, and harmonious interaction. Read more…
I’m an 18 year old singer/songwriter. I play acoustic guitar and sing my own songs and some covers with a mixture of genres. My sound has been described as soulful. I like to write about whatever springs to mind, some turn out to be quite chilled out and some turn out to be pretty funky. I’ve recently came back from a music course in Motherwell and can’t wait to start gigging in Edinburgh. I’ve supported acts in venues such as the Voodoo Rooms, Electric Circus, Cabaret Voltaire and played a couple of gigs in the Blind Poet. Read more…