Health and Medicine
Powering health promotion – how can sociologists support political action on health inequalities?
UK community health promotion has lost its power to bring about lasting change. Dr Katie Powell considers how sociology can help.
Applied Sociology
A ‘better world’ through applied sociology
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…
Citizenship
LGBT+ in Poland: a Wake-up Call
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…
Applied Sociology
The everyday laboratories of public sociology
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…
Applied Sociology
Sociologists: The Tech Industry Needs You!
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.
Applied Sociology
All superheroes need superpowers: putting the sociology back into social work education
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.
Applied Sociology
Applied sociology in Italy and the impact of coronavirus
Everardo Minardi and Gianluca Piscitelli describe the development of an Italian applied sociology lab, and impacts of the pandemic on applied sociologists.
Sociological Practice
We need inclusive sociological research
Applied Sociology Group member Miriam Green talks about her new book Management Scholarship and Organisational Change: Representing Burns and Stalker (Routledge, 2019).
About the Blog
Welcome to the blog
Welcome to the Applied Sociology weblog. Here you can find blogposts about the practice of applied sociology. Most posts have been written by members of the Applied Sociology Group. We welcome proposals for posts to this blog. To submit a proposal, please e-mail appsoc2018@gmail.com with a short (50 word max.) Read more…
Health and Medicine
Capitalism is the elephant in the Covid isolation room
The media coverage of the Covid19 outbreak has addressed in detail the biological and epidemiological aspects of the virus. Less attention has been paid to the social, economic and political factors that have enabled the coronavirus to produce a pandemic contagion.