Colonial Professionalism

July 23, 2009 in testing

An excellent article on the discourses of intervention in Afghanistan by Rory Stewart, from the July 9th issue of the London Review of Books.

Message to the Youth

July 9, 2009 in explaining, objecting, publicizing
Tags: becker, methods, NSF, qualitative, research, science, sociology

Howie Becker’s revolutionary (hopefully) clarification on how the sciences in general, social sciences in particular and qualitative social sciences more precisely do function (initially available here as a reaction to Michèle Lamont and Patricia White’s NSF report on “systematic” qualitative research) is now fully quotable as:
Becker, Howard S. (2009), “How to Find Out How to [...]