Just who is sociology for? At Undisciplining II, academics and educators, artists and activists, and thinkers and doers across many fields will come together to consider that question. Discounted early bird tickets are on sale now.
Applications are now open for the 2024-25 Sociological Review Fellowship, a one-year fixed-term appointment based at Keele University.
Lively, listenable and sociologically informed, Uncommon Sense insists that sociology is for everyone. Returning on 15 March for its third season, the acclaimed podcast’s ten new episodes will feature special guests in conversation with hosts Rosie Hancock and Alexis Hieu Truong as they take a closer look at issues that touch us all, from privilege to paperwork and burnout to joy.
Concurrent with the launch of the third season of the Sociological Review Foundation’s flagship podcast, a fundraising campaign will give listeners the opportunity to support future Uncommon Sense episodes via one-off or regular donations.
Each month on our Instagram channel we present a selection of works from a visual artist that responds to our current theme.
“How have clothing inventors attempted to change the world stitch by stitch?” asks sociologist Kat Jungnickel, lead researcher of Politics of Patents, a research project exploring acts of citizenship and gendered resistance to sociopolitical norms via historical wearable inventions.
Patent illustrations of historic wearable tech.
Copyright 2024 Politics of Patents and the European Patent Office. All rights reserved.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.
In The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade, Jared D. Margulies accompanies a group of plant collectors interested in succulents, especially rare cacti, across four continents. In doing so, he reveals relationships between humans and plants that will be new to many of us.
Seeing our world afresh through the eyes of sociologists, Uncommon Sense questions taken-for-granted ideas about society. Hosted by Rosie Hancock in Sydney and Alexis Hieu Truong in Ottawa, and featuring a different guest each episode, this monthly podcast insists that sociology is for everyone.
The Thanks for Typing Podcast is part of Ros Edwards’ and Val Gillies’ research journey uncovering the hidden impact of social researchers’ wives. In this six-episode podcast series, they explore how wives helped to shape classic works that set foundations for how modern sociology was thought of and carried out including investigations of communities, class and family life.
Sociologist Imogen Tyler meets inspirational activists, academics and frontline workers to talk about stigma – how it’s created, how it divides us, who it serves and how we might resist. Intimate and urgent conversations on poverty and power, racism and resistance, solidarity and hope. From one of the UK’s leading activist scholars.
Spatial Delight is a ten-part podcast about space, society and power inspired by British geographer Doreen Massey. From a London laundromat to a public park in Berlin, from a contested waterfront in Kochi to the Egyptian desert, this series seeks to inspire listeners to think about space and place as full of power, and to imagine political alternatives to the current world order. Presented, written and produced by Dr Agata Lisiak, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, and hosted by The Sociological Review.
In Politics After the Pandemic, anthropologist Erica Lagalisse looks transnationally at cultural changes in the wake of the pandemic, its impact on capitalism and other structures of oppression, and considers how social movements, educators and researchers are responding. In a three-part mini-series, she speaks with Elżbieta Drążkiewicz about “conspiracy theory” as social critique.
Discover Society is a free online magazine of social research, analysis, and commentary.
Edited by John Holmwood, Discover Society’s first issue of 2024 remembers Ranajit Guha (1923–2023), the Indian historian, scholar and founding spirit of subaltern studies who led a long life of political engagement and scholarly reflection. Contributors: Alice Corble, Adi Cooper, Sanjay Seth, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Maya Unnithan, Jane Cowan and Moushumi Bhowmik.
The Sociological Review is the home for critical sociological thinking and research in the UK and internationally. We are committed to a sociological imagination that is rigorous, critical, engaged and accountable. We hope that our website will be a source of inspiration for academics, students, policy-makers and the general public, in line with the charitable objects of the Sociological Review Foundation, whose purpose is to advance public understandings of the subject of sociology.
