Hollyoaks writer Jayshree Patel talks to Juliette Wilson-Thomas about the sociological ideas underpinning her hard-hitting storylines – and how sociology helped her make sense of her own life.
Introducing the June issue, our magazine’s editors Iris Pissaride and Juliette Wilson-Thomas ask how we can maintain public discourse in sociology at a time when understanding society – and each other – is crucial.
As universities increasingly focus on quantifiable metrics, Les Back considers the support and structures we need to nurture a deep and rounded sociological life.
In the face of climate change, Valentina Ausserladscheider examines the economic futures of alpine communities and the conflicts emerging over sustainable practices.
When I worked in factories and catering as a youth, the levels of respect were lower than the pay. Now, I support trade unionists and activists in challenging workplace deregulation, says Bob Jeffery.
Through maps, interviews and social media analysis, Karim Murji explores the London Is Open campaign and the challenge of representing a capital city’s complex reality. Part of our Sociology at Work series of resources for A-Level sociology students and teachers.
Speculating on the end of the world is not only for climate change activists. Joe P. L. Davidson on what society can learn from dystopian reflections.
Editor-in-Chief Carin Runciman shares insights from The Sociological Review’s editors about how they choose the scholarship that shapes the Journal.
Being interviewed can be nerve-racking, but don’t let that stop you getting your message across to a wider audience. Here are Alice Bloch’s tips for effective media engagement.
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.
This special series introduces three key anti-racist activists in the UK – Ambalavaner Sivanandan, Gerlin Bean and Len Garrison – illuminating how they show us what Anti-Racism means and how their work and ideas speak to sociology.
Les Back and Nirmal Puwar’s landmark 2012 work Live Methods is the focus of a collection of eight new papers published in The Sociological Review journal as a Special Section.
The podcast that casts a sociological lens on our lives, our world, our crises. Monthly, with an expert guest, hosts Rosie and Alexis grab hold of a commonplace notion – ANXIETY! DESIRE! BURNOUT! FAT! – and flip it around to see it differently, more critically, more sociologically. A jargon-free space to question assumptions – and imagine better ways of living, together.
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 collage of maps from the Ruptured Domesticity project. Materials: Layered media, photographs and fragments of GIS maps.
Copyright 2023 Sana Murrani. All rights reserved.
Who leads the UK? With the ejection of Rishi Sunak from Downing Street in May 2024, the UK saw the end of 14 years of rule by what sociologists Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman identify in Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite as members of the British wealth elite, who possess both positional power and generational wealth.
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.
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?”
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is an urgent issue. It exemplifies matters of power, inequality, and the destruction of social worlds.
