Contemporary society
‘A cup of coffee and a needle’ (part 1)
Johanna Kinnock reports on an important initiative: how a harm reduction café in Copenhagen quietly provides an alternative to the war on drugs.
Contemporary society
‘A cup of coffee and a needle’ (part 2)
Johanna Kinnock continues her exploration of how a harm reduction café in Copenhagen quietly provides an alternative to the war on drugs.
Inequalities
Underlying assumptions. What Covid19 has taught us about ‘generational homogeneity’
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.
Environment
Don’t be fooled by green capitalism’s technological climate fix
As politicians and lobbyists bargain over the way to meet climate change targets, Nick J Fox questions whether ‘green capitalism’ can deliver the goods.
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.
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.