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…

Robert Frost’s poem is particularly apposite to the issue of class discrimination. Those of us from a rich and diverse range of working class heritages, and who are academics and…

Congratulations to Samuel Fitzpatrick from Salesian School, who has won the BSA Young Sociologist of the Year competition for his essay on the consequences of war and conflict. Sociology teacher,…

This year, to mark the 70th anniversary of the Association which we were unable to celebrate in style in 2021 due to the pandemic, the trustees agreed to award several…

A “sophisticated and complex” book that offers new insights into the way that central banks work has won this year’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Central Banks in Organizational Networks: Entangled…

Middle class UK graduates produce more CO2 emissions in their daily activities than non-graduates and their ecological commitment is primarily “symbolic”, new research says. Dr Robert Dorschel, of Tilburg University…