Title: ‘Work in a time of ecological crisis’ Speaker: Lynne Pettinger, University of Warwick Chair: Rachel Cohen, Head of Department, Sociology We live ‘In Catastrophic Times’ (Stengers, 2015). Ecological crisis is central to that catastrophe, made through a capitalism that takes for granted the extraction of value from ‘nature’. This matters in lots of ways….
A new article by Jordan Frith and Michael Saker, entitled ‘Understanding Yik Yak: Location-based sociability and the communication of place’, has just been published in First Monday. Yik Yak was a location-based social application that allowed users to anonymously create, read, and respond to posts made within a few miles radius. Frith and Saker report…
The European Social Survey (ESS) is pleased to pre-announce the call for multi-national teams of researchers to submit applications for modules of questions to be fielded as part of Round 10 of the survey.
Dr Matt Barnes and Dr Eric Harrison conducted new research for the Department for Education Children with special educational needs (SEN) are significantly more likely to be unhappy with their secondary school than those without SEN, according to a new study by researchers at City, University of London. Almost one in five UK secondary-school children…
Click for more information. – A study of the implications of the UK’s projected withdrawal from the EU. – Simon Susen (2017) ‘No Exit from Brexit?’, in William Outhwaite (ed.) Brexit: Sociological Responses, London: Anthem Press, pp. 153-182.
Dr Stephanie Alice Baker has devised a 15-step questionnaire to measure community spirit levels across the UK. The research, which included over 4000 participants, unveiled York as the UK city with the highest level of community spirit and Wolverhampton with the least. The questionnaire was devised to assess social and civic attachments, participation and…
Michael James Walsh and Stephanie Alice Baker have published a new article in Information, Communication & Society. Drawing upon Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical approach, this paper situates the phenomenon of the ‘selfie’ in light of increasing concerns about privacy. The ‘selfie’ is a contemporary form of self-portraiture, representing a photographic image of the human face. Images…
Liza Schuster explains the background to the Joint Way Forward agreement imposed on the This agreement allows EU member states to deport Afghans back to a countrAfghan government. still in conflict, already in crisis as battles in Kunduz and Lashkar Gar have increased the number of internally displaced to 1.3 million, and 1000s are deported daily from…
Click for more information. – “The ‘Postmodern Turn’ in the Social Sciences presents an authoritative treatment of a significant phenomenon. Simon Susen’s book is a real tour de force: it is remarkably comprehensive, analytically rigorous, and it develops a thorough critique of postmodern thought.” – Patrick Baert, University of Cambridge, UK “Simon Susen has done a…
Click for more information. – L’objet principal de cette réflexion est d’examiner de manière approfondie la conception bourdieusienne de la « distinction sociale ». À partir d’une analyse détaillée de La distinction. Critique sociale du jugement (1979), cet essai passe au crible les forces et les faiblesses des explications élaborées par Pierre Bourdieu à propos des processus…
