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News Just in from Pennsylvania

Jim Riley

11th November 2009

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It’s important for sociology teachers - and students - not to be parochial. Or present-fixated. The sociologist Loic Wacquant has been fashionable to quote (or name drop?) in academic sociology for some time now. Read this review in The Daily Pennsylvanian to find out why and get a bit of taste for his brand of sociology.

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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