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BSA President / Susan Halford

BSA President writes to Leicester VC on the proposed closure of Critical Management Studies and Political Economy

Dear Professor Canagarajah Subject: The proposed closure of Critical Management Studies and Political Economy I am writing on behalf of the British Sociological Association, to express our very deep concern…

Guest Authors / Damian Breen

COVID and British Muslims – facilitating voices and exploring community-led interventions

The impact of Covid-19 on black and South Asian groups in Britain has been well documented throughout the pandemic, with a wealth of statistical trends identifying clear relationships across race…

Guest Authors / Lyndsey Kramer

Reclaiming Stigma: ‘Discreditability’ and the Normal State of the Abnormal

This brief discussion uses Goffman’s (1963) concept of stigma to understand how people with a hidden feature that could incur prejudice become aware of this potential. People’s perception of their…

BSA News / British Sociological Association

Money problems make people more discontented than loneliness does during lockdown, study finds

Money problems became the chief source of discontent for people in lockdown, more so than not having close friends or living with a partner, new research says. The study also…

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Progress on diagnosing dementia stalls, despite government initiatives, study finds

England has seen a stall in progress on diagnosing dementia, despite government initiatives to boost rates of detection, new research says. A study by Dr Kamila Kolpashnikova, of the University…

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Half of women in advertising offices received unwanted sexual advances, study finds

The sexist alpha male of the 1960s advertising world as depicted in Mad Men is still alive and well and prowling the offices of today’s creatives, a new study shows….

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Top professional golfers’ mental health hurt by spending more time on the road, research says

Professional golfers are spending more time on the road, leading to loneliness and relationship difficulties, new research says. And unless they are in the top rank, the prize money for…

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Government policy on employment tribunals based on wrongly inflated figures, study finds

Official statistics on the number of claims brought to employment tribunals have been over-inflated by at least 25% because of a hidden quirk in the way they are counted, a…

BSA News / British Sociological Association

Scholarships do “remarkably little” to make private schools more socially inclusive, study finds

Private schools are building luxury facilities in an “educational arms race” while minimising the amount they spend subsiding their fees for less well-off students, research says. An in-depth study of…

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