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The Applied Sociology Blog

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 Read more…

By bsa-soa, 5 months5 months ago
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 Read more…

By bsa-soa, 1 week1 week ago
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.

By bsa-soa, 2 weeks1 week ago
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.

By bsa-soa, 4 months4 months ago
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.

By bsa-soa, 4 months4 months ago
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).

By bsa-soa, 4 months4 months ago
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.

By bsa-soa, 5 months2 weeks ago
Applied Sociology

Is the Sociological Clinic Open for Business?

Sociology has much to say about the grand problems facing contemporary society, from climate change to migration to wealth and health inequalities, as readers of Discover Society know. But sociologists are also addressing the smaller problems of everyday life, ranging from improving urban spaces to enhancing work and productivity.

By bsa-soa, 5 months4 months ago
Inequalities

Sociologists should stop talking about social class

Once upon a time it meant something when we talked about social class. But the turn towards cultural and symbolic approaches to class in recent sociology has made ‘social class’ increasingly meaningless and empirically unhelpful.

By bsa-soa, 5 months4 months ago
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