This year a new Editorial team took the helm at BSA journal Sociological Research Online and they set out their thoughts in their new editorial, ‘Sociological Research in the Digital…

Our Presidential Event on ‘Caste and its Implications for Sociologies of Inequality’ was held at the London School of Economics on Friday, 6 October 2023 and over 40 people attended…

Israel’s devastation of Gaza is a disproportionate response to the terror attack undertaken by Hamas on October 7th which killed over a thousand Israelis, migrant workers, and foreign citizens and…

The Oslo Agreement of 1993 extended a promise of self-governance to the Palestinian Authority, allowing control over aspects such as direct taxation, education, social welfare, tourism, and healthcare. This signified…

The BSA is pleased to announce that our next President will be Professor Rachel Brooks, of the University of Surrey. Professor Brooks, who is Associate Dean, Research and Innovation, in…

Dear Professor Leyser, Suspension of UKRI EDI advisory group We are writing to you as the Trustees of the British Sociological Association. The BSA is a learned society which upholds…

The law changed in 2018 to legalise cannabis prescribing in the UK – but few people know about it, and even fewer people have accessed a prescription. My own interest…

“Are you happy?” This is the question that provokes anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin’s path-forming 1961 cinéma vérité film, Chronique d’un Été. Quizzing metropolitan Parisians about their bonheur,…

Patient-centred care (PCC) is typically framed as a moral imperative, necessary to prevent a return to the outmoded medical paternalism of the past. Critical engagement with the concept is difficult,…