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I can remember after afternoons at the University of York

when my sociology teaching seemed about as tightly tethered to the real world as a mid-Atlantic cruise ship.

It was I recall of such times that I tended to overcompensate by urging my students to get

out into the streets and the pubs and the clubs of York and make their own observations,

do their own sociology, get your boots dirty, I'd say, leaning forward across my large

well-polished desk. But my injunctions had little or no effects and I was left to

assume that my students had rather better things to do like playing bar football

or listening to Joy Division. So how refreshing to receive this from Stephanie Allen and Ashley Mullen.

Dear Laurie, we are Sociology undergraduate students at the University of Glasgow who took your comment a few weeks ago about

doing sociology in the real world very seriously

thought we would share our article about working for an anti-poverty charity

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