Research on modern slavery and anti-slavery movements seem to have become bogged down in institutional and legal definitions of modern slavery, neglecting ‘the decisive role of circumstantial necessities and perspectives…

That meaningful waged work matters was never in doubt. Not in doubt before, during and after industrialization. At least not in doubt by workers and unions, and rarely questioned by…

In my research career thus far, I have interviewed just shy of 100 sperm and egg donors. When others learn this, their first question is nearly always, ‘why do they…

In April, the BBC Storyville documentary, Deborah James: Bowelbabe in Her Words, was broadcast. Since reality television celebrity Jade Goody’s very public dying a decade earlier, James is the latest…

As Members of the Board of the BSA, we express solidarity and concern for our fellow sociologists involved in UCU-led Action-Short-Of-A-Strike (ASOS), the national marking boycott and localised strike action…

Dear Professor Humphris and Professor Maddison, We are writing on behalf of the British Sociological Association, to express our very deep concern about the proposed redundancies in the subject areas…

Keeping in touch via video, phone and instant messaging was little help in preventing a rise in people’s anxiety and depression during the pandemic lockdowns, a major new UK study…

The BSA is greatly saddened to learn of the death of Margaret Archer yesterday (21 May). Professor Archer was a leading social theorist and had been given the BSA’s Lifetime…

What is the role of political imagination for social change? Where and how is political imagination practiced today? How are political alternatives imagined, performed and lived out in different contexts…