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When I was a young academic, my maternal grandfather, a seasoned scholar, used to ask me to describe my research. After listening patiently to my recitation, he would puff on his pipe and ask, “But when are you going to tackle the Big Questions?” His own scholarship was very much focused on Big Questions, such as whether socialism was a more humane economic system than capitalism, and whether competing governments were likely to blow up the world in the next few years.
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Gamoran, A. (2016). Striving Towards the Big Questions. In: Sadovnik, A.R., Coughlan, R.W. (eds) Leaders in the Sociology of Education. Leaders in Educational Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-717-7_7
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