Book summaries Archives – Page 6 of 7

Joel Spring – Education Networks: Power, Wealth, Cyberspace and The Digital Mind

Karl Thompson / September 23, 2016

A summary of one thread within this excellent book… This is background reading on globalisation, neoliberalism and education, useful for […]

Karl Thompson / September 15, 2016

A summary of/ notes on Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age by Thomas Hylland

Karl Thompson / September 8, 2016

Michael Foley: The Age of Absurdity – Why Modern Life Makes it Hard to Be Happy (2010) Most of what

Karl Thompson / September 7, 2016

A brief summary of Steph Lawler’s ‘Identity’ – Chapter One – Stories, Memories, Identities Introduction: living lives and telling stories

Karl Thompson / September 5, 2016

A summary of Steph Lawler’s ‘Sociological Perspectives on Identity’, chapter 7 During summer 2000 and in January 2001, there were

A summary of Michel Foucault’s work on identity, deviance and normality, governmentality, subjectification and technologies of the self, taken from

A Summary of chapter three of Anthony Giddens’ Modernity and Self-Identity Self-identity, history, modernity Drawing on a therapeutic text –

A brief summary of part of Arundhati Roy’s ‘Capitalism: A Ghost Story’ – In which she explores some of the

The Spirit Level – Why more equal societies almost always do better – Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett This book

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the world’s leading sociologists. He is particularly interested in how the west’s increasing obsession with