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Obligated to Care: Intergenerational Family Relations in Contemporary China The Sociological Review Monograph 73.4

“It is often said that the principal institution of Chinese society is the family. This is arguably as true for China today as it was for traditional China, but for different reasons.” The latest volume in The Sociological Review’s long-running Monograph series turns a sociological lens on the family in China today, and the many factors – historical, economic and cultural – that continue to shape it.

Early Career Researchers Day 2025

Application deadline: Monday 8 September 2025, 17.00 BST/UTC+1

The Sociological Review Foundation’s annual Early Career Researchers Day returns for 2025, with in-person workshops exploring the future of migration studies and ethnographic practice.

Strictly Come Writing November 2025 The Sociological Review’s residential writing retreat for early career scholars

Application deadline: Monday 1 September, 17.00 BST/UTC+1

Apply now to join the Sociological Review Foundation’s annual three-day residential writing retreat for early career scholars, which this year will be held in November at a beautiful rural location in Wales. Fourteen places will be awarded on a competitive basis to PhD students and postdocs, and the retreat is free of charge to attend.

The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025 Shahram Khosravi: How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times

Date & Times: , 18.O0–20.00 UTC+1Location: James McCune Smith Building - Room 438AB, The University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Register to attend

Acclaimed academic and author Professor Shahram Khosravi will deliver How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times, The Sociological Review’s 2025 Annual Lecture, on 27 November in Glasgow, UK.

Towards an Alternative Spatial Practice

Each month on our Instagram channel we present a selection of works from a visual artist that responds to our current theme.

“Building and destruction often happen simultaneously, and to research this nonlinear, chaotic context requires redefining rupture – not as a break alone, but as something generative too. Rupture that destroys, and rupture that makes”, says spatial researcher Sana Murrani, our Image-Maker in Residence this summer.

A long horizontal strip with segments from eight abstract maps that depict visual assemblages of city plans, pathway routes, images of places and personal items and notes.

A collage of maps from the Ruptured Domesticity project. Materials: Layered media, photographs and fragments of GIS maps.

Copyright 2023 Sana Murrani. All rights reserved.

Shaping for Mediocrity by Gibson Burrell et al

Reviewed by Steven Brown
Gibson Burrell, Ronald Hartz, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley
Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at our Universities
Zer0 Books,  2024
ISBN:  9781803417967

There is no shortage of texts critiquing the nature of the modern neoliberal university, but few land with quite the balance of emotional and intellectual force as Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at our Universities.

Connected Sociologies

The Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project is a project of The Sociological Review. It is an educational platform that provides open-access resources for students, teachers and academics who are interested in decolonising school, college and university curricula.

Toussaint Louverture by Jeanne Menjoulet licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Undisciplining II

The Lowry, Salford

10–12 September 2024

The Sociological Review Foundation’s Undisciplining II conference took place from 10 to 12 September 2024 in Salford, England. Academics and educators, artists and activists, and thinkers and doers across many fields came together to ask: “Who is sociology for?”