by Kathie | Jul 22, 2016 | Gender, Social sustainability
Of the 17 sustainable goals adopted by the UN in January 2016, more than one-third relate to gender equity (personal comments in brackets): Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages (this includes work-life balance) Goal 5: Achieve gender...
by Kathie | Jan 21, 2016 | Accounting, Gender, PhD Studies, Qualitative research
First of all, to understand where I am coming from, my ontology is a nominalist one rather than a realist one. I argue that our social world exists because of how we, as society, structure it. It is society that has created the social world that we live in, unlike the...
by Kathie | Sep 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
I always love looking through the pictures from our trips because Paul is such an excellent photographer. Our time spent this spring over in the UK and Ireland resulted in a book Castles for Faye, inspired by an aunt who loves to look at pictures of castles. Our...
by Kathie | Dec 21, 2014 | PhD Studies
Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge: By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little: By the time you finish high school, you know a bit more: With a bachelor’s degree, you gain a specialty: A master’s degree deepens that...
by Kathie | Nov 14, 2014 | Bourdieu
Searching for some interesting Youtube videos the other day I came across this one by Kari Alexander on Pierre Bourdieu