This is a year of race related anniversaries. While it is fifty years since Enoch Powell’s infamous address to the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Association, it is seventy years…

How is history written and by whom?  These are questions that have been raised with frequency across the decolonising movement and in particular, by the Cadaan Studies movement, which has focused on…

In 1970, CLR James, the Caribbean-born British historian and philosopher, was interviewed by the journal Black Scholar. James is perhaps most well-known for the publication of Black Jacobins, his account of the…

When the publisher’s approached us to produce a third edition of Thinking Sociologically, I contacted Zygmunt and asked what he thought about the idea. He thought it was a good one,…

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to respond to our call for a response to the REF2021 Consultation.  If you haven’t already, please take a moment to read…

Self-injury – or self-harm – is increasingly known about, named, and discussed. News stories frequently frame this in dramatic language, referring to an ‘epidemic’ or ‘startling rise’ in incidence, usually…

Would you be interested three months’ free membership to the national subject association for sociologists? If so, join us for 2019! As a BSA member you can take advantage of…

It’s that time of year again! Along with the start of the new term and all of the challenges it brings, it’s also time to submit your abstract for the BSA…