{"id":461,"date":"2010-03-15T00:27:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T00:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/?p=461"},"modified":"2010-03-15T00:27:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T00:27:25","slug":"response-from-cathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/2010\/03\/15\/response-from-cathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Response from Cathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;font-size: medium;line-height: normal\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Those of you who have chosen sociology as a discipline should have had some individual comments from Cathy on your reading. Here are some more general comments for everyone to think about:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">1. Most have chosen a mix of books ranging from the general (e.g. Giddens\u00a0<em>Sociology<\/em>) to the advanced (Castells\u00a0<em>Networked Society<\/em>). It is probably helpful to refer to at least one of the more <strong>basic introductory texts<\/strong> as well even if the specific ones look like they are more &#8216;on topic&#8217; &#8211; this is because the module is about understanding what (if anything) the broad disciplines might have to offer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">2. Some of the better blogs are starting to\u00a0<strong>critically appraise <\/strong>what they are reading. I would expect masters level students to be able to do this even when working outside their home discipline- so would encourage critical thought around this reading. i.e. just because it is in the text book does not mean it is right \/useful. Within sociology there should be examples of very different\/conflicting viewpoints about the same phenomena&#8230;and I would like to see some assessment of the arguments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">3. As the blogs progress hopefully they will begin to <strong>refine their questions<\/strong>. Many of the topics are helpfully broad at the start but the reading should help reframe the questions. I found it easier to direct this\u00a0by thinking &#8216;how does the discipline understand x (my topic) in the offline world and how would it explain x on the web&#8217;. <em>It is worth noting that\u00a0most of the disciplines and reading will not necessarily be directed at the web.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">4. the thing that is not coming across at this stage which I would hope to see\u00a0in later posts is the <strong>potential areas of debate\/challenge\/conflict between the disciplines<\/strong>. Do the two chosen disciplines sit neatly next to each other and offer no challenges to each other? I&#8217;d like\u00a0a sense of where the gaps are\u00a0in a\u00a0discipline compared with another, or the strengths of one discipline compared with another; and of any\u00a0fundamental areas of disagreement (e.g. is identity explained by individual psychology alone???)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif\">Overall I enjoyed reading the blogs &#8211; I&#8217;d encourage you to keep them going.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have chosen sociology as a discipline should have had some individual comments from Cathy on your reading. Here are some more general comments for everyone to think about: 1. Most have chosen a mix of books ranging from the general (e.g. Giddens\u00a0Sociology) to the advanced (Castells\u00a0Networked Society). It is probably helpful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}