Our Prime Minister’s sexual relationships hold no interest for me, but allegations of using public office to favour friends is of considerable public and sociological interest. As Mark Granovetter observed,…

One of the most rewarding aspects of my research is calling up documents at the British Library and discovering a new collection of stories that tell me something about the…

The loss of a baby during or after pregnancy is, sadly, an everyday occurrence in the UK. According to latest figures from the NHS (2019) around 1 in 8 pregnancies…

Dear colleagues I am writing to strongly encourage you to participate in the British Sociological Association commissioned study on the place of race and ethnicity in the Sociology undergraduate curricula…

Social scientists aren’t always very good at remembering their own history. Also, their research doesn’t build as intelligently on what has gone before as research in some other disciplines. This…

This month we have five copies of the Winner of the 2019 Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an…

Youth, Place and Theories of Belonging showcases cutting-edge empirical research on young people’s lifeworlds. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, the scholars in our new book in the BSA’s Sociological Futures Book…

“The lawlessness that continues at our southern border is fundamentally incompatible with the safety, security, and sovereignty of the American people.” April 4, 2018, President Trump on why he will…

Many of us have heard the phrase ‘it gets better’. This familiar adage went viral in 2010 when, in response to several LGBTQI+ youth suicides in the US, thousands of…