HEY YOU!!!
Dr. Michael Sosteric | Nov 18, 2010 | Comments 0
Think you got what it takes to be a writer? Wanna put that expensive social science education to good use? Wanna rev up that creative right brain? Wanna decouple academic pedagogy from stultifying classroom environments? Wanna poke your colleagues with a pointy stick? Wanna have some fun? Then crank it up a notch and write for the Socjourn. It’s better than beating yourself in the brain with yet another dry and dusty scholarly journal.
Shout it out loud
Do you wanna do something useful with your expensive education?
Wanna reach beyond the boundaries (or is that bindings) of your academic indoctrination?
Wanna reach out with your sociological wisdom and touch the world?
Fancy yourself a creative writer?
Wanna help redefine the discipline?
Wanna help change the world?
Then write for the Socjourn! We are currently looking for students, professors, and practitioners with the creative chutzpah to speak out, speak up, and speak about the discipline they love. Why not put pen to paper, put that right brain to good use, and share with the world.
If you are interested in doing a regular column, we are interested in paying you. Payment is nominal and honorary but expected to increase over time. If you have a good idea for a regular column, are interested in a fancy CV line item, and want to make some lunch money, contact us.
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About the Author: I'm a sociologist at Athabasca University where I coordinate,amongst other things, the introductory sociology courses (Sociology I and Sociology II). FYI I did my dissertation in the political economy of scholarly communication (you can read it if you want). It's not that bad.
My current interests lie in the area of scholarly communication and pedagogy, the sociology of spirituality and religion, consciousness research, entheogens, inequality and stratification, and the revolutionary potential of authentic spirituality.
The Socjourn is my pet project. It started as the Electronic Journal of Sociology but after watching our social elites systematically dismantle the potential of eJournals to alter the politics and economies of scholarly communication, I decided I'd try something a little different. That something is The Socjourn, a initiative that bends the rules of scholarly communication and pedagogy by disregarding academic ego and smashing down the walls that divide our little Ivory Tower world from the rest of humanity.
If you are a sociologist or a sociology student and you have a burning desire to engage in a little institutional demolition by perhaps writing for the Socjourn, contact me. If you are a graduate student and you have some ideas that you think I might find interesting, contact me. I supervise graduate students through Athabasca Universities MAIS program.
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