We are delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize is Professor Alison Pilnick (pictured right) for her book, Reconsidering…

The BSA is sad to hear of the death of Howard S Becker. Howard was perhaps best known for his research and writings on the sociology of deviance, and his…

In April 2020, the UN secretary general, António Guterres cautioned that COVID-19 started as a public health emergency, but it was rapidly turning into a “human rights crisis.” The Covid-19…

The theory that many people feel the work they do is pointless because their jobs are ‘bullshit’ has been confirmed by a new study. The research found that people working…

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…