One of the brutal lessons of the pandemic is that racism and racial inequality kill. The evidence for this was already there, but the impact of the virus and lockdown…

The impact of Covid-19 on black and South Asian groups in Britain has been well documented throughout the pandemic, with a wealth of statistical trends identifying clear relationships across race…

Dear Colleagues, Society needs Sociology and your Association needs you. As the national subject association for Sociology, we are the neutral hub of information for the discipline which is regularly…

This is a call from Chief Executive, Judith Mudd, for the assistance of members based in academia to help the BSA track and record the affect Covid is having on…

Introduction Is the Covid-19 pandemic a social ‘watershed moment’, or one that mainly accelerates existing trends, or one of temporary or even permanent trend reversal – or perhaps some combination…

“Fools,” said Bismarck, “Say they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by other people’s experience”[1]. The British military historian and theorist B.H. Liddell Hart began his short and thought-provoking…

The Conservatives have often been accused of being driven by an ideology that serves the interest of dominant elites rather than those who need the most help. For example, despite…

The world has dramatically changed in response to COVID-19 and along with it, our definitions of health or illness. The relative speed of these changes—in contrast to most social changes…

There are numerous stories regarding how disabled people are being ignored during the current pandemic, such as the lack of testing of disabled people in care homes, ventilators usually provided…