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…

This month we have five copies of Race, Taste, Class and Cars by Yunis Alam to give away. Love them or hate them, most of us have an opinion about cars….

“Fools,” said Bismarck, “Say they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by other people’s experience”[1]. The British military historian and theorist B.H. Liddell Hart began his short and thought-provoking…

The Conservatives have often been accused of being driven by an ideology that serves the interest of dominant elites rather than those who need the most help. For example, despite…