This October marks Black History Month (BHM), a moment in the academic calendar where universities (hopefully) offer a series of events to celebrate and commemorate Black life. Whilst the offerings…

This month we have five copies of The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations by Marcello Musto to give away. The planet is in deep trouble because of capitalism,…

The journal Work, Employment and Society embarks upon a new chapter in its history in the appointment of nine new editors to the team and with it a new process…

The editorial team of the British Sociological Association journal Sociology are delighted to welcome Dr Wendy Bottero and Dr Remi Joseph-Salisbury as new members of the team. Wendy is Reader…

The ongoing crisis is creating severe and unprecedented difficulties for most organisations. The BSA is far from being immune. We have had little option but to move next year’s 70th…

Watch below as Hilllary Collins and Maria Jesus Vega announce the winner of 2020’s Phil Strong Prize. Congratulations to Thomas Wadsworth of Goldsmiths, University of London for their research on Imaging…

Watch below as Professor Judith Green announces this year’s Foundation for Sociology of Health and Illness Prize. Congratulations to Ruth Holliday, Meredith Jones and David Bell, authors of Beautyscapes: Mapping…

Introduction Is the Covid-19 pandemic a social ‘watershed moment’, or one that mainly accelerates existing trends, or one of temporary or even permanent trend reversal – or perhaps some combination…

Most of us have an opinion about cars. By and large, we don’t have a problem with them or we think they are, in a nutshell, one of the main…