What is the role of social media platforms such as Instagram in the construction and production of femininity in contemporary Britain? This was the driving question behind a research study…

BSA journal Cultural Sociology is delighted to announce this year’s nominees for the SAGE prize for Innovation and Excellence. Andrew Balmer and Michael Durrant – Simmel and Shakespeare on Lying and…

BSA journal Sociological Research Online is delighted to announce this year’s nominees for the SAGE prize for Innovation and Excellence. Maria Gretzky, Julia Lerner – Students of Academic Capitalism: Emotional Dimensions…

The BSA and SAGE are seeking new Editors for the journal Sociological Research Online (SRO), for a 3-year period from January 2023 to December 2025. The current Editorial team will…

Personal names discursively index identities, including socio-cultural identities of ethnicity, nationality, language and religion (Pilcher 2016). The complexity of entanglements between names and identities means that if names are misspelt/mispronounced,…

Doctors, lawyers, and senior managers from working class families are less likely to live in prosperous areas than their counterparts from well-off backgrounds, new research shows. Family background could mean…

Introduction Young people no longer in the compulsory schooling system and yet Not in Employment, Education or Training (termed NEETs) are the focus of government attention in the United Kingdom…

Working from home can lead to fathers doing less childcare and mothers doing more, new research shows. An analysis of survey data on 1,694 parents of young children found that…

Over the past few years, the plastics industry has come under intense pressure due to public concerns about marine plastic waste, toxic pollution, and the climate crisis. One of the…