Ragged University as a project is aiming to develop a holistic understanding on the environments we populate and problems we encounter. Sociology speaks about the relationships we have, the institutions we live with and the psychological habitat we occupy. Here are some of the aspects of sociology which have been raised as important:

Articles:

• A Critical Analysis of the Role of International Law in the Israeli-Palestine by Amy McLean Conflict
• A Personal Account of Poverty in the United Kingdom: Entrenched Difficulty and Tenacious Myths
• Action Research: Outcomes and Measures Executive Summary and Recommendations
• Action Research: The Situation I am In; The View From The Other Side
• An Intelligent Way of Working: People Know How by Alex Dunedin
• An Interview With Dr Tuppy Owens; Human capabilities and supporting disabled people with their sexual lives
• Are Scottish Prisons Fit For Purpose: Transcript and Podcast of Panel Discussion
• Biases Around How People’s Intellectual Contribution Is Valued; Prejudicial and Biased Reasoning as Illogical and Irrational
• Biases In Psychology Which Affect How People’s Intellectual Contribution Is Valued; Implicit and Explicit Bias
• Biases In Psychology Which Affect How People’s Intellectual Contribution Is Valued; Behavioural Reactions to Dissonance and Confirmation Bias
• Binaries, Young Carers and The Barriers to Accessing Higher Education
• Britain’s Living Legacy of Racism and Prejudice: A Narrative and Review of Policy Recommendations
• Class, Opportunity and the Lesser Minds Problem
• Collaboration and Distinguishing the Selfish from Self Interest
• Cult Behaviours: Avoiding Dissent – Reviewing Prof Arthur J. Deikman’s Work
• Cult Behaviours: Compliance with the Group – Reviewing Prof Arthur J. Deikman’s Work
• Cult Behaviours: Dependence on a Leader – Reviewing Prof Arthur J. Deikman’s Work
• Cult Behaviours: Devaluing the Outsider – Reviewing Prof Arthur J. Deikman’s Work
• Dear Batman…
• Development as Freedom: The Human Capabilities Approach
• Disappearing Social Spaces and The Third Place
• Education as Human Development
• Education, Utopia, Necessity, and Existential Poverty
• Educational History: Emile Durkheim 1858 to 1917
• Educational History: Ivan Illich and Deinstitutionalisation
• Experiences of Food Poverty in Brighton and Hove by Samuel Lindskog
• Experiences of Food Poverty: Contents and Bibliography by Samuel Lindskog
• Experiences of Food Poverty: Literature Review by Samuel Lindskog
• Experiences of Food Poverty: Methods of Study by Samuel Lindskog
• Experiences of Food Poverty: Results and Discussion by Samuel Lindskog
• Giving Up The Smartphone and Gating Technology: Managing Information, Media and Technology
• How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Wellbeing by Prof Kate Pickett & Prof Richard Wilkinson
• Impoverishment, Downsourcing and Buying Your Way Out
• Informal Public Life And The Urban Agenda
• Information Inequalities and Cultural Life: University of Manchester Policy Week Nov 2014
• Investigating Attitudes Towards Aspects of Welfare Reform by Stephen McMurray
• John Morrison: Pop Up Lesson in Summerhall
• Justice Through The Looking Glass: Class and the Corruption of Law by Unsound Robin
• Kintsugi: Learning To Love The Critical
• Mad Studies: The Identitarian Problem
• Making a Prison Film: Injustice by Unsound Robin
• Male Street Based Sex Workers In Manchester; A Hidden Population By Judith Vickers
• On Mutual Recognition by Richard Gunn
• Outcomes and Measurements Project: Interview with Colin MacLean
• Outcomes and Measurements Project: Interview with Glenn Liddall
• Podcast and Annotated Transcript: I Daniel Blake – The Benefit Cuts Debate with Jeane Freeman MSP Social Security Minister, Paul Laverty Screenwriter, and others
• Podcast: Classificatory Struggles; Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times by Dr Imogen Tyler
• Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain: Research and Resources
• Professor Beverley Skeggs talks about Exploitation, Domination, Dispossession and Devaluation
• Public Places Where We Meet And Share Are Third Places
• Public Sociology: From Dehumanisation to Epistemological Error Checking
• Security, Privacy, Information and Surveillance Discussion by Prof William Webster, Prof Charles Raab and Dr Andrew Neil
• Sexual Diversity Throughout Nature: A Primer
• Shared Anthropology, Corporate Parenting and Care Experience
• Social Capital and Pierre Bourdieu: A Digest
• Social Justice Issues and the Valuation of People as Knowledgeable
• Social Security Reform Panel with Ben MacPherson MSP, Alison Johnson MSP, Mike Vallance
• Sociological Barriers to Community Engagement with Higher Education Institutions
• Student Support Services On Zero Hours Contracts
• Sylvia Federici Discusses Feminist Responses, Unpaid Labour, Femicide And Institutional Silence
• The Cooperative Development of Julian Edge: A Digest, Notes and Reflections by Alex Dunedin
• The Differences Arise In Group Psychology
• The Great Good Place: A Digest
• The Importance of Spaces To Meet People
• The Pornography of Benefits Street; Comments on Classificatory Struggles: Class, Culture and Inequality in Neoliberal Times by Prof Sarah Green
• The Porous University, Socialisation and Reflections
• The Sociology of Education: A Durkheimian View
• The Tragedy of the Commons People: A Marmot Overview
• Thinking In Complex Ways And Development On Our Own Doorstep
• Trouble in Paradise: ‘Positive Prison ? Positive Futures…’; An Interview with Pete White
• Twas The Rant Before Christmas… What Makes The COOCs Initiative Succeed Where Others Fail
• Welfare Reforms and United Nations Report: Grave and Systematic Violations of Human Rights by UK Government
• What do you know about The Irish Potato Famine ?
• Why Not To Chase Wealth And Status: A Community Project Perspective
• Working Classness: Class as a Topology of Finance and Status
• Working Men’s Clubs and Education by Dr Ruth Cherrington