Sociology Call for Full Papers: Normative Turn in Sociology
This special issue seeks to explore normativity as a constitutive dimension of social life and sociological research. Submit your paper by 22 January 2026. Read full Call for Papers below:
https://www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunities/publications-opportunities/#_soc
Sociology Call for Full Papers: Normative Turn in Sociology
This special issue seeks to explore normativity as a constitutive dimension of social life and sociological research. Submit your paper by 22 January 2026. Read full Call for Papers below:
www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie...
23.06.2025 08:14 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Take part in our new research project on police in schools - please share ๐๐ฟ
24.06.2025 08:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Are you convinced by politics? In #UncommonSense Volodymyr Ishchenko discuses how, today, #REVOLUTION often fails to bring great change โ in #Ukraine and beyond. Here he describes the related โcrisis of hegemonyโ, growing since the โ60s. Hear more: buff.ly/vXbSbzK
24.06.2025 08:53 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A new issue of The British Journal of Sociology (@bjsociology.bsky.socialโฌ) is out now!
Find our latest articles in the #BJS โก๏ธ buff.ly/X8OjcVS
24.06.2025 09:01 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
JOIN US for the launch of Sideways Sociology, our new #podcast mini-series on UK anti-racism.
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18 June, 1pm BST/UTC+1 online
โก๏ธ With @academicdiary.bsky.social, John Narayan, Hannah Ishmael, A.S Francis
โก๏ธ Part of the Sociological Review Foundationโs Conversations series
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05.06.2025 13:06 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A great opportunity! Please submit your application by 13th June to become an editorial board member of the BJSE!
05.06.2025 15:08 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ Join us on Monday for a seminar by Dr Benjamin Abrams!
His work explores a new theoretical model of resistance movements as a distinctive object of social scientific study.
๐ Online & in person
05.06.2025 15:34 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Want to know about the practicalities, ethics and politics of using sociological archives? Book now for โBeyond the archival turn: Making and using sociological archivesโ, a BSA Early Career symposium, 30 June, University of Leicester tinyurl.com/yeysc5mf
Want to know about the practicalities, ethics and politics of using sociological archives? Book now for โBeyond the archival turn: Making and using sociological archivesโ, a BSA Early Career symposium, 30 June, University of Leicester tinyurl.com/yeysc5mf
06.06.2025 08:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Inequality in the 21st century
Join us to discuss global wealth and income inequality with Professor Mike Savage.
Join us tonight for "Inequality in the 21st century"
Professor Mike Savage, Professor Michรจle Lamont and Professor Gurminder K Bhambra join us to reflect on how we can use the sociological imagination to make sense of contemporary challenges and illuminate our current lives.
#LSESociology
06.06.2025 09:02 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This is a book about justice, but not as we know it...
To do justice to our planet, justice must be thought of as hydrojustice.
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos's 'Hydrojustice' is out now.
www.politybooks.com/...
23.05.2025 14:33 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Chang Kyung-Sup is one of the most distinguished sociologists in Korea. His penetrating analysis of the risks and consequences of rapid modernization in Asia is out now.
www.politybooks.com/...
23.05.2025 16:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Suspect citizenship: rethinking belonging and non-belonging in plural societies
Free LSE public event in exploring citizenship with Dr Jean Beaman and Dr Kristin Surak.
Join us tonight for "Suspect citizenship: rethinking belonging and non-belonging in plural societies". We'll be joined by Dr Jean Beaman as she discusses her original framework of "suspect citizenship".
๐ OLD.3.24, Old Building
๐ก 6pm to 7.30pm
#LSESociology
27.05.2025 09:02 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited
Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.socialโฌ and Nirmal Puwarโs Live Methods and its clarion call for more โartful and craftyโ sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.socialโฌ โช& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.socialโฌ
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27.05.2025 10:09 โ ๐ 31 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 9
Reminder ๐๐
We invite expressions of interest from individuals or teams to join the current co-convening team in July 2025, with the expectation that the newly appointed convenors would take over the leadership of the group from July 2026.
#Sociology #AcademicChatter #SocialTheory #Theory
27.05.2025 13:21 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
New article from USN member Sonya Sharma, @sriucl.bsky.social @tcru-ucl.bsky.social
12.05.2025 10:50 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
We're keen to ensure a smooth transition by passing on what we've learnt over the past 3 years. We invite expressions of interest from individuals or teams to join the current team in July, with the expectation that the newly appointed convenors would take over the group's leadership from July 2026.
12.05.2025 11:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
However brilliant the ideas and social theories we read about and are inspired by, there is a glaring gap, surely.
What does sociology mean by social structure?
Jon Eastwood here offers a much-needed, thoroughgoing and accessible account of sociologyโs central concept โ
www.politybooks.com/...
02.05.2025 15:53 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
In autumn 1962 Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture on fighting antisemitism to the German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, a lecture that remains as topical and urgent today as it was in the 1960s.
Now published in English:
www.politybooks.com/...
03.05.2025 16:29 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Are you an AI evangelist, sceptic, or agnostic? Explore AI in a research context at โArtificial Intelligence or Artificial Inequalities: Developing a Sociological Lens for EDI Research in the AI Eraโ, a BSA Early Career Regional Funded event, 13 June, Swansea tinyurl.com/5eymz7e6
Are you an AI evangelist, sceptic, or agnostic? Explore AI in a research context at โArtificial Intelligence or Artificial Inequalities: Developing a Sociological Lens for EDI Research in the AI Eraโ, a BSA Early Career Regional Funded event, 13 June, Swansea tinyurl.com/5eymz7e6
05.05.2025 07:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Get a better understanding of the politics of journal publication โ book now for โDemystifying the Politics of Interdisciplinary Journal Publicationโ, a free BSA Postgraduate Forum event, 15 May, University of Edinburgh tinyurl.com/554t7f6n #sociology
Get a better understanding of the politics of journal publication โ book now for โDemystifying the Politics of Interdisciplinary Journal Publicationโ, a free BSA Postgraduate Forum event, 15 May, University of Edinburgh tinyurl.com/554t7f6n #sociology
05.05.2025 08:19 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
As the major driver of US demographic change, Latina/os are reshaping the social, economic, political & cultural landscape of the country.
Donโt miss what Edward Telles calls โthe most comprehensive & up-to-date reference on this often misunderstood population.โ
Itโs OUT NOW โ
05.05.2025 11:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Beyond the โarchival turnโ: Making and using sociological archives
๐ข๐ข Upcoming ECF regional event at University of Leicester ๐ข๐ข
Beyond the โarchival turnโ: Making and using sociological archives
30 June 2025 (09:30-17:00 BST)
Registration will open soon.
britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
29.04.2025 11:46 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Higher Education, Inequality and Students as Political Actors
๐ข๐ข Upcoming ECF regional event at Oxford University ๐ข๐ข
Higher Education, Inequality and Students as Political Actors
16 June 2025 (10.30am-6.30pm BST)
The event is free to attend, but registration is required due to limited space.
britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
29.04.2025 10:11 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Inequalities; developing a sociological lens for EDI Research in the AI era
๐ข๐ข Upcoming ECF regional event at Swansea University ๐ข๐ข
Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Inequalities: Developing a Sociological Lens for EDI Research in the AI Era
13 June 2025 (9:30AM โ 17:00)
This will be an in-person event only.
britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
29.04.2025 10:07 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Academia Across Borders: Experiences and Challenges of International Academics in the UK
๐ข๐ข Upcoming ECF regional event at Newcastle University ๐ข๐ข
Academia Across Borders: Experiences and Challenges of International Academics in the UK
13 May 2025 (10AM โ 15:50)
The event is free to attend but registration is required.
britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
29.04.2025 10:01 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Masculinities
An exhibition curated by Dr. Josรฉ Loureiro
Coming up: @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social hosts a fascinating exhibition on 30 years of Raewyn Connellโs ground-breaking study of Masculinities
BOOK: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
EXHIBIT: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
@ucpress.bsky.social
23.04.2025 16:28 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Study Group Convenorsโ Networking Lunch and a HaPS Lunch will be held at 12:30pm #britsoc25
24.04.2025 09:02 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This article by Oded Marom draws on an ethnography of a radical right-wing libertarian movement in the US, showing how activists highlight and downplay radical ideas to solve situationally emergent challenges of coordinating action.
#EarlyView in #BJS โก๏ธ buff.ly/mR4ao5S
24.04.2025 09:02 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
ICYMI
24.04.2025 11:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ If you're an early-career sociologist, we'd like to hear about your needs and the ways our forum can better serve you. Please use the QR Code below to access our brief survey and tell us what we can do to help. ๐
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Posting info relating to and about the BSA Medical Sociology annual conference.
UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
The American Journal of Sociology, founded in 1895 as the first journal in its discipline, is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews.
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Social Policy | Local Governance | Homelessness | Housing Justice
We are an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research in Sociology committed to public facing, theoretically strong, empirically oriented research. https://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/
Sociologist, Aberystwyth. Critical disability studies. Overthinking trauma, bodies, pain, time, sexuality, crip rage, queer joy. Knitter, sewist, reptile herder, forever exhausted. She/her. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Compost the rich.
https://linktr.ee/dremmasheppard
Associate Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths
British, US, comparative, global politics and culture
Dad; Londoner; Cypriot; Gooner ๐ดโช๏ธ
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Academic publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dion-Georgiou
Academic. Poet. Creative sociologist. Queer non-binary trans man. Spoonie. Gentletran & a scholar. Also part of the Queer Disability Studies Network snails. ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Political Ecologist/Economist at SOAS
Associate Professor of Sociology, Deputy Head of the School of Social Work at the University of East Anglia.
Vegan. Feminist. Jocund old sarcasmatron.
https://linktr.ee/katestewart
If you add me to a Starter Pack, Iโll probably block you immediately.
That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
geographer. lecturer.
research urban chickens in London, the (disappearing) birds of Morecambe Bay, and the geographies of veganism (not at the same time)
https://catherinecmoliver.com/
Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies
IG hungrytiger71
she/her
Professor of Work and Employment. Currently on secondment to the Resolution Foundation. Specialism in unions and worker voice. Promoter of social sciences. Fascinated by pretty much everything. She/her
Professor of Social Policy and LGBTQ+ Studies, University of Stirling he/him ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
Sociologist (mostly), Queen's University Belfast. Interested in social theory, emotions, power, politics, specfic/sf. RTโ E. Own views. Usually on a bus somewhere on the island of Ireland.
'Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: hail, horrors'
Professor of Civic Imagination, Engagement and Impact. Director of the Institute for Collective Place Leadership. Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange at Teesside University (UK).
Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, Kingโs College London. Come for the sex robots; stay for the eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
