Watch below as Professor Mark McCormack announces this year’s SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence (Sociology).  We are delighted to announce the winner of this year’s prize is Sarah Neal et…

Watch as BSA President, Susan Halford, announces this year’s winners.   We are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Owen Abbott for his book,…

During one of these quarantine-days, scrolling down my Facebook feed, I found a story about a friend in Naples. Giuseppe is an actor, theatre director and writer. He often posts…

We are delighted to announce that Professor Liz Stanley, of the University of Edinburgh, has been awarded the Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award for 2020. “It is difficult to imagine anyone…

The Conservative government’s strategy to combat the COVID 19 pandemic includes a range of measures, which have developed over time, culminating in advising the British public to stay at home…

Although the BSA Annual Conference 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic we kept you connected with a week filled with activities, culminating in the Covid-19 Sociology Symposium Webinar. …

The COVID-19 pandemic represents the tragic symptom of our social structures. Stating that humanity produced the current health emergency would be considered by many disrespectful towards many human beings who…

Since it began to gather momentum at the turn of the 21st century, the sociological study of animals and society has struggled for legitimacy. Although some sociology programs are beginning…

Drawing on my ethnographic doctoral study which analysed the UK experience of the 2009- 10 H1N1 influenza pandemic using an actor network theory (ANT) approach (Hale, 2016), there are transferrable…