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2018
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December
- Relaunched Social Mobility Commission includes a sociologist for the first time
- New Sociology of Consumption Study Group: Calls for Expressions of Support
- Membership Renewals – Now Open!
- Book Giveaway - The Right Amount of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom for Safety
- Sociologists Go to Whitehall
- Seeing Black History as British History: reflections on the roles of academic routes, creative methods and ‘shadows work’ in mainstreaming the history of mixed race Britain
- Frank Bechhofer (1935-2018)
- Snobbery today ‘more likely to be about Christmas decorations and other cultural tastes’, says book
- Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home
- November
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October
- What does Black History Month have to do with Sociology?
- The Future Lasts a Long Time - 50 Years After Enoch Powell
- Who are we? Where are we going?
- ‘New’Scots? (Re)Writing Somali Histories in Scotland
- Seeing Black History as British History: recognising mixed race Britain
- Book Giveaway - White privilege: The myth of a post-racial society
- Membership Deal
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September
- A response to the REF consultation on the draft Sociology criteria
- REF consultation – follow the conversation here!
- Degrees from non-elite universities worsen job prospects for privileged women, research says
- Low-paid workers are moving into better employment despite loss of jobs through automation
- Legislation on increasing flexible working has failed, research says
- ‘Little improvement for UK gig economy workers’ since major report highlighted their plight
- People in most deprived areas more likely to die alone at home, research says
- People living in areas of wealth disparity are more sympathetic to disability, says research
- Retirement brings health gains, with workaholics benefiting the most, research says
- Men enjoy their jobs less than they do housework on average, research says
- Thinking Sociologically in Turbulent Times
- Ordinarily Incredible Women: Getting by in Austerity
- Sociology and self-injury
- REF2021: Last chance to comment
- Book Giveaway - Self-Injury, Medicine and Society: Authentic Bodies
- Be part of next year’s Conference!
- Free BSA membership
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August
- Call for nominations for membership of the BSA Medical Sociology Study Group Committee
- FSHI Book Prize 2018 Shortlist Announced
- BSA President writes to Hungarian Prime Minister
- Get Involved with the BSA’s Journals!
- BSA consultation on 2021 REF
- The first response to the REF consultation is here
- “A brown face in a sea of white…”* - Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh, a Sikh suffragette
- The BSA PG Forum welcomes two new convenors
- Have your details changed?
- Where is ‘race’ and ethnicity within the history of feminism?: a response to Vote100 by Sheila Quaid
- Submit your abstracts for 2019!
- Book Giveaway - Winning the Vote for Women: The Irish Citizen newspaper and the suffrage movement in Ireland
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July
- Changing men and masculinities in the wake of #MeToo
- Barbara Wootton: eminent, influential and (almost) forgotten social scientist
- Countering radicalisation: Rethinking the role of communities
- Soundbite Sociology and the Media Maze
- Introducing the ‘New Materialisms’ Study Group
- What Does Vote 100 Mean to Me?
- Book Giveaway - Little Quick Fix – SAGE Series
- BSA Youth Study Group: Call for Convenors
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June
- Robert Fine (1945-2018)
- Two New Special Issues from BSA Journals
- Brexit
- Multicultural Nationalism?
- Vote 100: Reflecting on Women’s Representation
- Work-life balance policies… ‘What about me?’
- Supporting the marginalised with applied sociology: the case of transgender health
- Book Giveaway - British Social Theory: Recovering Lost Traditions before 1950
- Your New Board of Trustees
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May
- Being young, disabled and LGBT+
- Michael Banton (1926-2018)
- Contesting #stopIslam: The dynamics of online counter-narratives against hate speech
- Anti-Abortion Activism in Britain
- Applied sociology curriculum launched
- Event Report - BSA-funded workshop for early career researchers about ‘Getting ethics’
- Vote 100
- Sociological musings on running, physical activity and commissioned research
- When Communities are under stress, more research is the panacea
- A hostile environment?
- Book Giveaway - Making sense of Brexit
- Michael Banton - funeral details
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April
- ‘The Sociology of Striking and Protesting’ – Durham Sociology UCU Teach Out
- Failing to match parents’ educational achievements among men can be as distressing as being divorced
- Footballers’ frequent transfers leave their wives and children feeling lonely
- Baby apps leave parents feeling guilty and pressured, research says
- Almost a third of fathers lack access to flexible work arrangements
- British Asian footballers ignored by scouts from professional clubs, research says
- Many young East Europeans have experienced more racism and xenophobia since the Brexit vote
- Distinguished Service to Sociology Award given to Warwick researcher
- Britons less satisfied with restaurant food and their dining companions
- Philosophical debate helps make maximum security prisoners less macho and more tolerant
- Most young Syrian refugees are in work or studying, research says
- Black people put off cultural events by insensitive white audience, research says
- Book on asylum seekers wins top Sociology Prize
- Book on how people in rural China cope with pollution wins BBC/British Sociological Association Ethnography Prize
- Correction Notice
- Book Giveaway - Sexuality and Citizenship
- BSA Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness 2018
- Professor Olive Banks (1923-2006)
- Diane Richardson on Sexuality and Citizenship
- Courage calls to Courage Everywhere
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March
- Sociology and the USS Strike
- BSA supports members affected by strike
- Recent Weather was intrinsically Social as well as Environmental
- 100 years of votes for women: why I am not celebrating yet
- Everyone a Winner?
- Book Giveaway - Prostitution - Sex Work, Policy & Politics
- Legal update on BSA & donating to UCU
- Equality and Diversity and the REF Panel Constitution
- 11 days to go until the BSA Annual Conference
- Laura Gueriane joins the BSA
- The Thinking Allowed/BSA Ethnography Award for 2018 – Shortlist
- From the Suffrage Movement to Brexit – an unlikely connection
- Book Giveaway - The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism
- February
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January
- Engaging with Future Social Scientists: BSA Youth Assembly, February 2018
- Call for help – RSVP by 25 January
- A New Editorial Team for Work, Employment and Society
- Brexit vote was a ‘scream of protest’ against the hijacking of democracy by the rich, says book
- New BSA book on Higher Education and Social Inequalities published
- 2018 a year to remember
- Book Giveaway - Higher Education and Social Inequalities: University admissions, experiences and outcomes
- The BSA has moved!!
- Meet Sociology’s New Editorial Team
- Seeking 3 BSA Trustees
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December
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2017
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November
- REF 2021 Sub-Panel Membership Nominations
- The Colour of Scholarship
- ‘YouTube has become a really important place’: Black Women’s Self-Representation and Solidarity Online
- The state Education is in
- Membership Renewal 2018
- Book Giveaway - Miseducation
- ‘What is Sociology for?’ New videos explore the scope of the journal
- New North American Editor for Cultural Sociology
- Supporting Impact
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October
- Nature ‘adds health value’
- ‘Working class children are damaged by the English education system,’ says Cambridge professor
- ‘You still end up with nothing’: First hand testimony exposes the reality of In Work Poverty
- Twitter character limit increase, why bother? What does it mean for those on the receiving end of abuse?
- SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence - 2017 Winning Articles Announced
- What is the message in Doctor Foster’s bottle?
- 'This letter should probably not have been sent'. Universities minister, Jo Johnson
- Book Giveaway - Within and Beyond Citizenship
- Mary Evans Equality Lecture: Highlights
- Membership Renewals – Now Open!
- Postgraduate event to focus on Innovative Methods for Researching Societal Inequalities
- England was ‘divided along educational lines’ at Brexit vote, research says
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September
- Launch event held for Cultural Sociology journal special issue on inequality and the cultural sector
- Next BSA President Elected
- Changing Patterns of Death
- Membership Demographic Survey coming soon
- REF 2021 sub-panel chairs and members
- Book Giveaway - Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship: An Ethnography of Academia
- Membership Offer - up to 3 months free!
- Girl-Kind event to explore growing up as a girl in the North East
- Mapping ongoing research in the youth justice field via The Youth Justice Resource Hub
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August
- Academy Calls for Evidence
- Food Study Group is seeking co-convenor/s
- Announcing Work, Employment and Society’s new Editorial Team for 2018-2020
- Sociological Research Online (SRO) to be published by BSA and SAGE
- Sociology as the Post-Truth Science
- We're all Screenagers now!
- Book Giveaway - Victims, Crime and Society
- Sociology to showcase archive and encourage cross-generational discussions
- Unprecedented number of luminaries in the running for next BSA President
- Promotion ‘makes women much less satisfied with their new job’
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July
- Call for nominations for BSA President 2018-2020
- BSA Welcomes Three New Staff Members
- Your BSA Membership
- Plenary speakers confirmed for 2018 Annual Conference
- Book Giveaway - The Sociology of Early Childhood: Critical Perspectives
- 50 Years of Decriminalization? Still Queer After All These Years
- Have You Got Time to Help the Association?
- Thanks and Farewell Joan!
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June
- Reflections on the 2017 election
- Judy Wajcman wins the 2017 Ludwik Fleck prize
- The aftermath of the 2017 general election: what next for early career researchers and sociologists?
- Commentary on Contemporary Counter-Movements in the Age of Populism
- General Election 2017: A Poll of Paradoxes
- Making Parents: Reproductive Technologies and Parenting Culture Across Borders
- More educated people snack more frequently, new research says
- Announcing Sociology’s New Editorial Team for 2018-2020
- Election 2017: A Diverse Group of MPs?
- Book Giveaway: The New Sociology of Scotland
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May
- Mentoring Café: it isn't just chatting over coffee
- Sociology SAGE Prize 2017: Winning Article Announced
- Eastern Europeans, Brexit and Racism
- What of Race Equality on the Brexit Archipelago?
- Brexit, net migration and Eurochildren
- Book Giveaway: Ethnography, Diversity and Urban Space
- President's Report
- National A Level Sociology Competition 2016 Winner Announced
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April
- People who want to prevent immigration to the UK are less happy than those who welcome it
- People are less likely to attend religious services regularly if their income rises, research shows
- Rise of foodie culture leaves working class behind, research says
- £30 million UK government programme to improve Nigeria’s police force failed because of corruption
- Rape victims lose out on compensation because of convictions for minor offences such as TV licence non-payment
- Most couples remain happy with their sex lives into their 60s, research says
- ‘Instagram killed the graffiti star’ as rich kids take their art online
- The Academy of Social Sciences has conferred the award of Fellow on 47 leading social scientists
- Sara Arber wins BSA Distinguished Service to British Sociology award
- Privately educated women four times more likely to marry a man who was privately educated
- Football agents are jeopardising players’ careers by going behind their backs, research says
- Books about self-injury and an African-Caribbean football club win prestigious sociology prize
- The BSA Postgraduate Forum is looking for two new convenors to join the team
- Work, Employment and Society Announces 2017 SAGE Prize Nominees
- ESRC Grants Assessment Panel appointments 2017
- A warm and lively annual conference
- Ethics of Digital Research
- Free Book Giveaway - Football, Ethnicity and Community: The Life of an African-Caribbean Football Club
- Recovering the Social: revisiting the more than personal of personal life
- Study Groups Update
- Rosemary Crompton Memorial Lecture 2017 - Class and Work in post-crisis Britain
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March
- Call for New BSA Trustees
- The Feminization of Sports Fandom: A Sociological Study - new book publication
- Digital Sociology Study Group Seeks New Convenors
- The Realism & Social Research Study Group Need You
- BSA Theory Study Group – Call for Convenors
- Women do more housework than men even when their partners are unemployed
- Two sociologists appointed to ESRC Council
- Work, Employment and Society Reopens Call for Editors
- Campaign for Social Science is seeking a new Chair
- Special Section on Class and Christianity published in Sociological Research Online
- BSA responds to HEFCE’s REF consultation
- Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017 Shortlist Announced
- BSA member is joint winner ESRC writing competition
- New Sociological Imaginations
- Exploring new ideas and inspirations at the Annual Conference
- Recalling John Urry
- Book Giveaway: Stuart Hall – Selected Political Writings
- The Power of Association
- Philip Abrams Memorial Prize - shortlist announced
- Provocative and accessible new book series
- BSA President writes to Hungarian Government over future of Central European University
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February
- British Sociological Association - a statement on US travel and refugee bans
- Sociology of Religion Conference 2018 - call for organising team
- We're recruiting a Part-time Public Engagement Development Officer
- A sociologist in the archives - applications invited for new Early Career Fellowship
- Interested in Scottish Sociology?
- Why is BSA Membership Important to You?
- Call for Papers: Solidarities in and through Work in an Age of Extremes
- Free Book Giveaway: Gender & Sexuality
- Be Bold for Change - the importance of international campaigning and solidarity
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January
- Academy and Campaign publish briefing on Higher Education and Research Bill ahead of Lords debate
- The death of Zygmunt Bauman 9/1/17
- Vacancies: Members of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology
- The only way is ethics: free online course to tackle 'ethically unsound' research
- New Features Available on the SAGE Journals Platform
- Sociology publishes a new special issue: Global Futures and Epistemologies of the South
- Sociological Research Online is now seeking additional members for the Editorial Board!
- Nominees for the 2017 Sociology SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence Announced
- 2017 - Let's tackle this together
- Book Giveaway: Retrotopia
- Would You Like Your Work Featured on the BSA Website?
- Zygmunt Bauman: 1925-2017
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2016
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September
- Having a visible tattoo can help job seekers find employment, research says
- Unpaid internships little help in getting creative graduates good jobs, research says
- More people believe the unemployed are workshy and fiddling the system, research says
- Unemployment effects hit white men hard, research says
- Companies with fewer staff aged over 50 have higher productivity
- Being positive linked to lower chance of dying, study says
- BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2017
- Free access to Medical Sociology from Taylor & Francis
- TWO new websites for the BSA!
- Do You Have Colleagues who Aren’t Members?
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- BSA/BBC Ethnography Prize - Call for Entries
- Alternative White Paper for Higher Education
- BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize - Now Open
- BSA Youth Study Group - Call for Postgraduate Convenor
- Distinguished Service to British Sociology Award - Call for Nominations
- Teaching Group National A Level Sociology Competition for Students Now Launched
- FSHI Book Prize Winner 2016 Announced
- Announcing the WES 2016 SAGE Prize Winner!
- Invitation to Celebrate 50 Volumes of Sociology
- Free Access to Sociology during October
- Work, Employment and Society Conference Round-up
- Annual Medical Sociology Conference 2016
- New Sociology Doctorate? Tell Us!
- The Academy of Social Sciences publishes its views on the government's Higher Education and Research Bill
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April
- 'Cultural transformation' as Muslim girls out-perform boys academically, research says
- Internships no help to graduates trying to find good jobs, research says
- Forcing unemployed to do voluntary work 'unlikely' to improve their mental health, research says
- Educated Muslim women much less likely to be in professional jobs than white women
- Men on Tinder think they have a 'licence to use unattractive women as they see fit'
- Top soccer players are under-performing because of gambling, research says
- Books about the English Defence League and women's sporting roller skating win sociology prize
- Britons more likely to think they are working class than people in other countries, research says
- Social housing tenants depend on money from friends, family and neighbours to make ends meet
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2018
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September
- Degrees from non-elite universities worsen job prospects for privileged women, research says
- Low-paid workers are moving into better employment despite loss of jobs through automation
- Legislation on increasing flexible working has failed, research says
- ‘Little improvement for UK gig economy workers’ since major report highlighted their plight
- People in most deprived areas more likely to die alone at home, research says
- Retirement brings health gains, with workaholics benefiting the most, research says
- Men enjoy their jobs less than they do housework on average, research says
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April
- Failing to match parents’ educational achievements among men can be as distressing as being divorced
- Footballers’ frequent transfers leave their wives and children feeling lonely
- Baby apps leave parents feeling guilty and pressured, research says
- Almost a third of fathers lack access to flexible work arrangements
- Distinguished Service to Sociology Award given to Warwick researcher
- British Asian footballers ignored by scouts from professional clubs, research says
- Many young East Europeans have experienced more racism and xenophobia since the Brexit vote
- Britons less satisfied with restaurant food and their dining companions
- Philosophical debate helps make maximum security prisoners less macho and more tolerant
- Most young Syrian refugees are in work or studying, research says
- Black people put off cultural events by insensitive white audience, research says
- Book on asylum seekers wins top Sociology Prize
- Book on how people in rural China cope with pollution wins BBC/British Sociological Association Ethnography Prize
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2017
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April
- Rise of foodie culture leaves working class behind, research says
- People are less likely to attend religious services regularly if their income rises, research shows
- People who want to prevent immigration to the UK are less happy than those who welcome it
- £30 million UK government programme to improve Nigeria’s police force failed because of corruption
- Rape victims lose out on compensation because of convictions for minor offences such as TV licence non-payment
- Most couples remain happy with their sex lives into their 60s, research says
- Privately educated women four times more likely to marry a man who was privately educated
- Football agents are jeopardising players’ careers by going behind their backs, research says
- Books about self-injury and an African-Caribbean football club win prestigious sociology prize
- March
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2016
- October
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September
- Unpaid internships little help in getting creative graduates good jobs, research says
- Having a visible tattoo can help job seekers find employment, research says
- More people believe the unemployed are workshy and fiddling the system, research says
- Unemployment effects hit white men hard, research says
- Companies with fewer staff aged over 50 have higher productivity
- Being positive linked to lower chance of dying, study says
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May
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Growing up in rural areas leads to a lower earnings ‘pay penalty’, research says
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