What is the role of political imagination for social change? Where and how is political imagination practiced today? How are political alternatives imagined, performed and lived out in different contexts…

Robert Frost’s poem is particularly apposite to the issue of class discrimination. Those of us from a rich and diverse range of working class heritages, and who are academics and…

Congratulations to Samuel Fitzpatrick from Salesian School, who has won the BSA Young Sociologist of the Year competition for his essay on the consequences of war and conflict. Sociology teacher,…

This year, to mark the 70th anniversary of the Association which we were unable to celebrate in style in 2021 due to the pandemic, the trustees agreed to award several…

A “sophisticated and complex” book that offers new insights into the way that central banks work has won this year’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Central Banks in Organizational Networks: Entangled…

Middle class UK graduates produce more CO2 emissions in their daily activities than non-graduates and their ecological commitment is primarily “symbolic”, new research says. Dr Robert Dorschel, of Tilburg University…

Black and Asian people with darker skin shades can be the subject of prejudice and insults from lighter skin members of their families, new research shows. The first substantive research…

Women are more stressed than men when their employment hours are split into different sections during the day, such as with flexitime and working from home, new research shows. Zhuofei…

The amount of time parents spend with their children contributes much less to their progress in school than the family’s social class, new research shows. The study found that the…