Having spent much of the past year writing about research methods, I found myself returning to a book I had not read properly for many years: C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination. Published in 1959, it is still surprisingly fresh, especially when Mills turns from criticising sociology to explaining how researchers should actually go about… Continue reading Revisiting C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination
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Press reporting of surveys
Whenever my club (I am talking football) win I seek out as many reports of the match from online media as I can; blogs give personal reactions but I like to look at the online newspapers too. I particular want to know what a professional journalist made of the match and, if I was not… Continue reading Press reporting of surveys