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…

Professor Alan Warde has been given this year’s British Sociological Association’s Distinguished Service to British Sociology award. Professor Warde, of the University of Manchester, was given the award by the…

Fifty-year-old job seekers are up to three times less likely to be selected for interview than younger applicants with less relevant experience, a major new study shows. Research found that…

Working class people have always been much less likely to find jobs in creative industries such as acting and film making, and there was no golden age of classless meritocracy,…

Households in the UK where the woman is the sole earner are significantly poorer than those where the man is the only breadwinner, bucking the trend in western Europe. The…