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The Sociological Review has been publishing high quality and innovative articles for over 100 years. During this time we have steadfastly remained a journal that pushes the boundaries of sociological enquiry, selecting papers of immediate and lasting significance. Our tradition extends to research that is anthropological or philosophical in orientation and analytical or ethnographic in approach. […]
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Call for Sociological Fiction
We are seeking submissions of sociological short stories that critically and creatively explore the social as well as the politics and consequences of sociology itself.
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Book Review: Very Important People by Mears
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit (2020) by Ashley Mears, published by Princeton University Press. Ashley Mears is an associate professor of sociology at Boston University and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. She researches and teaches courses on gender, culture, and economic life. In addition to Very Important People, she is […]
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Book Review: Austerity, Women, and the Role of the State by Dabrowski
Austerity, Women, and the Role of the State: Lived Experiences of the Crisis (2020) by Vicki Dabrowski, published by Bristol University Press. Vicki Dabrowski is Associate Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. Her research interests include gender, class inequality and the role of the state. She is a Website Review Editor for the […]
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Class and Materiality in Contemporary Russia
Nick J Fox and Tatiana Gavrilyuk In today’s Russia, almost four in five workers under 30 earn less than 400 US$ a month, and a third no more than 270 US$ (Gavrilyuk, 2019). These figures reflect the emergence of an unequal society (Credit Suisse, 2018). Those in managerial jobs fare best, with the wherewithal to […]
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The Contemporaneity of Class Relations
Ryan Nolan ‘Class’ is a fiendishly complex and dynamic concept. This is of course true for those working with and through class explicitly, but perhaps even more so for those of us working on social issues in general. We often hear talk of ‘the’ working class, ‘the’ middle classes, or indeed ‘the’ capitalist class, which […]
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Educating the Ritas
Sarah McLaughlin Educating the Ritas – My research into the interaction between habitus and field for working class women on an Access to Higher Education (HE) course. Willy Russell’s (1981) play ‘Educating Rita’ presents a biography of Rita – a white working class woman who returns to education as a mature student and faces conflict […]
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Always Different, Always the Same? Museums in a Global Context
Above: Illustration by Olivia Wilson, 2021 Susan Shih Chang Most people have to been to at least one museum in their lives, and most of the time the experience goes like this: You walk into an displaying room with art pieces and artifacts, touching of which is not allowed, and you engage with these objects […]
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Vinyl: Creating Meaning in an Uncertain World
Samuel Aldersley It would be an understatement to argue that 2020 has been a wild year. Not least for those employed within music and the arts, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every aspect of our lives. The ‘new normal’, features as a common cliché that we are hearing continuously in the media, on the […]
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Slavery, Indenture and the Plantation Economy
Join the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project webinar on 7th April 2021.
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Representation, Knowledge and Museum Community Engagement
Above: Illustration by Olivia Wilson Linnea Wallen We were walking through an empty museum exhibition space, talking about the photography display Clara had been a part of in creating as a museum community engagement project participant, when she said: “We decided on the topic ourselves and picked poverty in the end. Modern-day representations of poverty […]
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At the Limits of Representation
Above: Illustration by Olivia Wilson, 2021. Pierre d’Alancaisez Social practice – a prominent and growing aspect of contemporary visual art engaged in social and political realities – has claimed a significant role in bolstering cohesion, empowering communities, and encouraging solidarity between social groups in past decades. It has therefore been a disappointment that in the […]
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Book Review: The Social Structures of Global Academia by Cannizzo and Osbaldiston
The Social Structures of Global Academia (2019), edited by Fabian Cannizzo and Nick Osbaldiston. Published by Routledge. Fabian Cannizzo is a sociologist working in the fields of higher education and the creative industries. He is interested in how political economies shape the normative meaning-making and career planning of workers. He is the convenor of the […]
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Book Review: Culture Is Bad For You by Brook, O’Brien and Taylor
Culture Is Bad For You: Inequality in the cultural and creative industries (2020) by Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor. Published by Manchester University Press. Orian Brook is Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh and AHRC Creative and Digital Economy Innovation Leadership Fellow 2019-2021. She is interested in the social and spatial […]
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Virtual Art in a Time of Crisis: Ideology, Familiarity, and the Digital White Cube
Above: Illustration by Olivia Wilson, 2021 Siobhán McGuirk Over the past year, galleries, museums and art institutions worldwide have turned to virtual spaces as a means of continuing their activities during lockdowns. Many have hosted active websites for years, if not decades, but the coronavirus pandemic has prompted flurries of activity as sites became the only, […]
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Image-Maker in Residence: Laura Harris
This month’s residency features the research film Critical Focus: Study of an Arts Centre.
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Introducing March’s theme: Art and Representation
by Priya Sharma and Paul Jones. Illustration by Olivia Wilson.
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