Our deeply unequal world needs a critical and engaged sociology now more than ever.
At the heart of our work as a foundation, a charity and an academic journal is a commitment to communicating the value of sociological thinking and research, providing reflection and critique for understanding the world, and paving the way for action towards a more socially just future. Our activities and projects are intended to foster community and spaces for this critical engagement to thrive.
The Sociological Review has a reputation for challenging disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences, and thereby opening up further space for creativity and dialogue. We believe that interdisciplinary thinking broadens conceptions of sociological research and the social, and has valuable potential to disrupt taken-for-granted understandings of the world as is.
We think that the pursuit of equality, diversity, inclusivity, internationalisation and decolonisation in our work is as much a matter of intellectual honesty as of moral justice. We believe that The Sociological Review’s insights and interventions must have a global applicability and sensibility, both in terms of the issues we cover and the analytical approaches we apply.
In all we do at The Sociological Review Foundation, from the work of the authors and editors in our scholarly journal and monographs to the resources and multimedia offerings of our open-access publishing platform, our educational and public engagement initiatives, and our support for the early career scholars in whom the promise of the future resides, we aim to provide space for innovative and critical scholarly and societal engagement. As we build a place for curating, disseminating and translating knowledge, our aim is also to foster the ability to hope, to care and support, to repair and to heal.
The Sociological Review offers an invitation to do sociology as part of a community, to work to envision radical alternatives, and to journey toward the future we wish to see.