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…

Premier League and other soccer players are pressured by team-mates into buying expensive clothes and cars to demonstrate how successful they are. Some who turn up to practice sessions in…

Societies in which people fail to exceed their parents’ social and economic status have a higher death rate than those where they do, in part because of factors such as…

It’s the 80km/h speed limit on country side roads and the ‘carbon tax’ raising the price of the diesel fuel that triggered the French ‘Yellow Vests’ protest last November, in…

Susan is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton. As Professor Lynn Jamieson’s successor, Susan began her term of office in January…