I have been a member of the BSA since 1992, when I joined my first Sociology Department, and since then it has never occurred to me that I would not…

The British Sociological Association (BSA) is opposed in the strongest possible terms to plans recently announced by President Bolsonaro of Brazil to withdraw government funding of sociology and philosophy from…

A special BSA award has been given to Jayne Egerton and Laurie Taylor for their BBC Radio 4 programme Thinking Allowed. The Award for Services to Public Sociology was given…

This month we have five copies of What’s wrong with work? by Lynne Pettinger ready to giveaway. Why does work matter? As changes occur in how work is organised across the…

UPDATE:  The baby has been born, it’s a boy and he has been named. In this article, published before the birth, sociologist Jane Pilcher made a sociologically informed prediction that…

A strong link between the closure of heavy industry in Britain during the Thatcher era and a 20% increase in crime committed by young people over the following 20 years…

A book about Black mixed-race men’s experiences of racism has won a prestigious sociology book award. Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and ‘Post-Racial’ Resilience, by Dr Remi Joseph-Salisbury, won the Philip…

Almost all the young soccer hopefuls signed to Premier League clubs from training academies have left top-flight football within five years, new research shows. Two Sheffield Hallam University researchers found…

Women are put off using the weights sections of gyms by “an intimidatory atmosphere” among young men working out, new research says. Two University of Winchester researchers found that women…