Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly
Judith Mehta takes heed of a cautionary tale about the lazy deployment of abstract concepts
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
David Shields has had one or two thoughts. But instead of putting them in a dustbin, he's put them in a book. As soon as I write that, I am overcome with remorse. I know how difficult it is to have...
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The Canon: Life and Labour of the People in London. Edited by Charles Booth
In 1889, Charles Booth's research into poverty in East London was published under the title Life and Labour of the People. Accompanying the text was a street map showing gradations of poverty in a...
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Protect and serve
Bill Jordan is scathing of New Labour's social policy, but has some trenchant suggestions for whoever takes power next week, writes Matthew Reisz
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Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England
Geoffrey Alderman finds much to commend in this vast account of anti-Jewish prejudice in England
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Liberalism and Prostitution
This is an intriguing and somewhat controversial book in which the author favourably considers the value of "paternalistic" prostitution laws. Peter de Marneffe situates this version of paternalism...
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The Emancipated Spectator
The Algerian-born Jacques Ranciere, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Paris Saint-Denis, is the latest in a long line of "new" French philosophers. Ranciere, who has risen to fame...
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The English Lakes: A History
The Lake District has been fought over and revelled in. Jonathan Bate enjoys a tale of a little paradise
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? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony BehaviorBy Deborah M. Gordon, professor of biology, Stanford University. Princeton University Press, £13.95...
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Illusion of quality and trouble with citations 1
Michael Wood's proposal for "The journal of everything" (22 April) suffers from the usual problem of all such proposals: the lack of a credible business plan. He points out the advantages for authors...
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Illusion of quality and trouble with citations 2
Your news report "'Publish or perish' culture distorting research results" (22 April) has clear links with the problem of multiple authorship flagged up by Times Higher Education in "Phone book et al...
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Undeserving causes 1
There has been much comment, as expected, in light of the latest data on vice-chancellors' salaries ("It was fun while it lasted", 1 April). The widening salary differential between vice-chancellors...
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Undeserving causes 2
The idea that the ratio of the highest and lowest pay within an organisation should be limited seems to me to be a good one (Letters, 22 April). However, a constant, as suggested by Ken Smith, would...
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Barbed-wire welcome mat 1
Overseas students are worth far more to UK academia than tuition fees alone ("More than money is at stake", 22 April): rather than being mere "cash cows", they ensure that studying in Britain (...
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Barbed-wire welcome mat 2
As someone who has spent their life teaching international students, I read your editorial of 22 April with interest. I agree with you that we cannot ignore facts, but where are the facts that...