✨New article alert✨In her latest piece, Alexandrina Vanke introduces an avant-garde methodology that develops multi-sited ethnography of everyday life. Curious about using drawing and sketching in research, writing ethnography and creative dissemination? Read here doi.org/10.1177/1360...

✏️ Looking for ways to take your career to the next level? ✏️ Wanting to enhance the impact of your research on society? ✏️ Unsure what issues policymakers in England are prioritising? Then, join our ADR England webinar 22 October 13:00–14:30 for insights! www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Are Interested in: 👉 Housing, 👉 Health, 👉 Youth, 👉 Work, 👉 Aging, 👉 Inequality, 👉 Climate change, or 👉 Criminal justice? If so, join the ADR England webinar 22 October 2025 (13.00-14.30) to learn about funding and knowledge exchange opportunities! www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

🚨🚨 ECF is co-hosting an informative webinar with ADR England on 22 October (13:00–14:30) about upcoming research, grant, and knowledge exchange opportunities. Admission is free to all BSA members 🚨🚨 www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

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...

Take part in our new research project on police in schools - please share 👇🏿

Are you convinced by politics? In #UncommonSense Volodymyr Ishchenko discuses how, today, #REVOLUTION often fails to bring great change – in #Ukraine and beyond. Here he describes the related “crisis of hegemony”, growing since the ‘60s. Hear more: buff.ly/vXbSbzK

A new issue of The British Journal of Sociology (@bjsociology.bsky.social‬) is out now! Find our latest articles in the #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/X8OjcVS

JOIN US for the launch of Sideways Sociology, our new #podcast mini-series on UK anti-racism. 📅 18 June, 1pm BST/UTC+1 online ➡️ With @academicdiary.bsky.social, John Narayan, Hannah Ishmael, A.S Francis ➡️ Part of the Sociological Review Foundation’s Conversations series 🎟️ buff.ly/jzuEPjV

A great opportunity! Please submit your application by 13th June to become an editorial board member of the BJSE!

🌟 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. 📍 Online & in person

Want to know about the practicalities, ethics and politics of using sociological archives? Book now for ‘Beyond the archival turn: Making and using sociological archives’, a BSA Early Career symposium, 30 June, University of Leicester tinyurl.com/yeysc5mf

Join us tonight for "Inequality in the 21st century" Professor Mike Savage, Professor Michèle 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

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/...

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/...

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". 📍 OLD.3.24, Old Building 🕡 6pm to 7.30pm #LSESociology

OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/sM4Uta3

Reminder 👇👇 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

New article from USN member Sonya Sharma, @sriucl.bsky.social @tcru-ucl.bsky.social

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.

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 sociology’s central concept ↓ www.politybooks.com/...

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/...

Are you an AI evangelist, sceptic, or agnostic? Explore AI in a research context at ‘Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Inequalities: Developing a Sociological Lens for EDI Research in the AI Era’, a BSA Early Career Regional Funded event, 13 June, Swansea tinyurl.com/5eymz7e6

Get a better understanding of the politics of journal publication – book now for ‘Demystifying the Politics of Interdisciplinary Journal Publication’, a free BSA Postgraduate Forum event, 15 May, University of Edinburgh tinyurl.com/554t7f6n #sociology

As the major driver of US demographic change, Latina/os are reshaping the social, economic, political & cultural landscape of the country. Don’t miss what Edward Telles calls “the most comprehensive & up-to-date reference on this often misunderstood population.” It’s OUT NOW ↓

📢📢 Upcoming ECF regional event at University of Leicester 📢📢 Beyond the ‘archival turn’: Making and using sociological archives 30 June 2025 (09:30-17:00 BST) Registration will open soon. britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

📢📢 Upcoming ECF regional event at Oxford University 📢📢 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...

📢📢 Upcoming ECF regional event at Swansea University 📢📢 Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Inequalities: Developing a Sociological Lens for EDI Research in the AI Era 13 June 2025 (9:30AM – 17:00) This will be an in-person event only. britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

📢📢 Upcoming ECF regional event at Newcastle University 📢📢 Academia Across Borders: Experiences and Challenges of International Academics in the UK 13 May 2025 (10AM – 15:50) The event is free to attend but registration is required. britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Coming up: @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social hosts a fascinating exhibition on 30 years of Raewyn Connell’s ground-breaking study of Masculinities BOOK: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... EXHIBIT: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id... @ucpress.bsky.social

Study Group Convenors’ Networking Lunch and a HaPS Lunch will be held at 12:30pm #britsoc25

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 ➡️ buff.ly/mR4ao5S

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👉 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. 👈

💥💥 We are hosting a masterclass on "The Problems and Potentials of Teaching and Researching the Far-Right and Extremism" at the #BSA2025Conference with Plenary Speaker Aaron Winters. 💥💥 The event is at 9AM–1030AM in Room 2.217 on 24th April. Hope to see you there!!

🚨The ECF will be holding a meet and greet during the BSA Conference 2025 at the The Grosvenor Manchester 23 April 5–9PM. We'll be in the upstairs longue. No need to make a reservation. Bring a friend! 🚨 grosvenormanchester.co.uk

🚨We're looking for the sentences that inspire, provoke thought, or have profoundly influenced your sociological journey! Submit yours here 👉 Best Sentence in Sociology ECF Quiz Submissions or use the QR code below. You could even win a BSA t-shirt at this year's conference!🚨

Join us for a talk by Dr Lydia Dixon, as she discusses her long-term ethnographic research with midwives in Mexico, culminating in her book Delivering Health: Midwifery and Development in Mexico. Seminar is open to UoY Sociology staff and PGRs on 23rd April at 3:30pm. buff.ly/VmhF71V

CONTRIBUTE! Editors Iris Pissaride and @juliettephd.bsky.social are accepting pitches until 9 May for The Sociological Review magazine’s September issue. Find out more about regular features including Sociology at Work and Private Troubles, Public Issues. thesociologicalreview.org/publish-with...

Sociologists: So. Many. Questions. If you've got some answers to go with all those thorny conundrums, join us Wednesday night in Manchester for Untaken-for-Granted! A Sociological Pub Quiz. With @manchester_university_press @manmetcrimsoc & @officialuom sociology Book your spot: buff.ly/cBkXp6q

Looking forward to the @britsoci.bsky.social conference this week. l'll be giving the plenary 'What Can Sociology Say about Right-Wing Extremism & the Mainstreaming of Racism & the Far-Right?' and @bsaecf.bsky.social masterclass 'Teaching & Researching the Far-Right & Extremism' tinyurl.com/bdhcmhhp

Looking forward to being at the BSA annual conference next week, where I'll be presenting some of my PhD work on how racialisation is evolving in response to the rise of the platform (or 'gig') economy. Come along to Room 1.218 at 1:30pm next Thursday :') @britsoci.bsky.social @bsaecf.bsky.social

🚨We're looking for the sentences that inspire, provoke thought, or have profoundly influenced your sociological journey! Submit yours here 👉 Best Sentence in Sociology ECF Quiz Submissions or use the QR code below. You could even win a BSA t-shirt at this year's conference!🚨

🚨The ECF will be holding a meet and greet during the BSA Conference 2025 at the The Grosvenor Manchester 23 April 5–9PM. We'll be in the upstairs longue. No need to make a reservation. Bring a friend! 🚨 grosvenormanchester.co.uk

💥💥 We are hosting a masterclass on "The Problems and Potentials of Teaching and Researching the Far-Right and Extremism" at the #BSA2025Conference with Plenary Speaker Aaron Winters. 💥💥 The event is at 9AM–1030AM in Room 2.217 on 24th April. Hope to see you there!!

🚨 We are hosting a Sociology Quiz at the #BSA2025Conference! If you want a fun start to the conference with other ECF members, drop into Room 1.219 at 9AM–1030AM on 23rd April! See you there! 🚨

👉 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. 👈

We're hosting a conference next month to mark 25 years of human rights at LSE! Register to join the plenary sessions featuring Basil Farraj, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Lina Attalah, Mohammed el-Kurd, Dilar Dirik, John Narayan and Lola Olufemi. Register here ➡️ buff.ly/2AVP589

WRITE FOR US! We’re now accepting pitches for the September issue of The Sociological Review magazine. Deadline: Friday 9 May. Find out more about contributing to regular features including Sociology at Work and Private Troubles, Public Issues. ➡️ thesociologicalreview.org/publish-with...

Over 50 job opportunities on our Sociology Vacancies Board! See tinyurl.com/nyeswn2h for the latest fellowships, lectureships, professorships and other posts in sociology and allied disciplines #sociology