For sociologists, age is one of those familiar variables we must consider, says Mary Evans. But it sometimes gets less attention than class, race, gender and sexuality.
It’s very human to create myths and stories for experiences and phenomena we don’t understand, suggests Dr Tina Basi, as she reflects on her recent research on artificial intelligence.
Lockdown forays into park-life present those of us living in mainstream ‘accommodated’ lives with daily glimpses of another culture: one of street life, suggests Sally Mann.
As politicians and lobbyists bargain over the way to meet climate change targets, Nick J Fox questions whether ‘green capitalism’ can deliver the goods.
UK community health promotion has lost its power to bring about lasting change. Dr Katie Powell considers how sociology can help.
Half-way through her studies for a Master’s degree in public sociology, Trish McCourt takes a look back at her experiences during the first year, and the impact of Michael Burawoy’s vision. I began studying for my Master’s degree in 2019, after more than 25 years as a practitioner working in Read more…
As communities across the world come together to celebrate LGBT+ history month and call for greater freedoms, Natalia Phillips reports on the challenges facing LGBT+ people in Poland. The stigmatisation of the LGBT+ community in Poland has framed them as outsiders and immorally inadequate. The creation of ‘LGBT-Free Zones’ in Read more…
Here, Dr Athanasia Chalari discusses public sociology, and the MSc programme in public sociology that she leads at the University of Northampton. In all the years I have been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate sociology classes, my first Powerpoint slide always asks students the same question: Why bother? This is a Read more…
US sociologist Iga Kozlowksa works in responsible artificial intelligence (AI) at Microsoft. Here she offers some great insight on how sociologists can positively influence the tech industry.
C. Wright Mills’ idea of a sociological imagination that frames personal troubles in the context of social structure could have been written with social workers in mind, suggests Mike Thomas.