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…

Working class people have always been much less likely to find jobs in creative industries such as acting and film making, and there was no golden age of classless meritocracy,…

Households in the UK where the woman is the sole earner are significantly poorer than those where the man is the only breadwinner, bucking the trend in western Europe. The…

Premier League and other soccer players are pressured by team-mates into buying expensive clothes and cars to demonstrate how successful they are. Some who turn up to practice sessions in…

Societies in which people fail to exceed their parents’ social and economic status have a higher death rate than those where they do, in part because of factors such as…

Having been asked to write a short piece on the sociological significance of Brexit, my first thought was how do you possibly address something like this in less than 1000…

This month we have five copies of Making sense of Brexit by Victor J Seidler ready to giveaway. After the shock decision to leave the EU in 2016, what can we…

The BSA is sad to learn of the death of Professor Eric Dunning, a founder of the sociology of sport. Professor Dunning wrote or edited 14 books, among them Barbarians, Gentlemen…