The British Sociological Association (BSA) is opposed in the strongest possible terms to plans recently announced by President Bolsonaro of Brazil to withdraw government funding of sociology and philosophy from…

A special BSA award has been given to Jayne Egerton and Laurie Taylor for their BBC Radio 4 programme Thinking Allowed. The Award for Services to Public Sociology was given…

This month we have five copies of What’s wrong with work? by Lynne Pettinger ready to giveaway. Why does work matter? As changes occur in how work is organised across the…

A strong link between the closure of heavy industry in Britain during the Thatcher era and a 20% increase in crime committed by young people over the following 20 years…

A book about Black mixed-race men’s experiences of racism has won a prestigious sociology book award. Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and ‘Post-Racial’ Resilience, by Dr Remi Joseph-Salisbury, won the Philip…

Almost all the young soccer hopefuls signed to Premier League clubs from training academies have left top-flight football within five years, new research shows. Two Sheffield Hallam University researchers found…

Women are put off using the weights sections of gyms by “an intimidatory atmosphere” among young men working out, new research says. Two University of Winchester researchers found that women…

Professor Alan Warde has been given this year’s British Sociological Association’s Distinguished Service to British Sociology award. Professor Warde, of the University of Manchester, was given the award by the…

Fifty-year-old job seekers are up to three times less likely to be selected for interview than younger applicants with less relevant experience, a major new study shows. Research found that…