The Wrong side of capitalism website highlighted a course sadly indicative of the state (“of disrepute?”) of higher (“than what?”) learning (see also, more recently, University Diaries).
Alas, such content is not uncommon. Warwick University’s Sociology department is now an identity theory-ridden morass of statistical analysis, gender, gender, gender and rational choice study. What follows is a random sample of recent Ph.D. research.
An Analysis of the Motivations and Barriers to UK HE Experienced by African Caribbean Women and Men
Women’s Experiences of Urinary Incontinence
A sociology of bioprospecting and biopiracy
Cultural Constructions of Death in the Irish Catholic Community in Britain
The medicalisation of women’s sexual problems
BAH.
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