Isis Giraldo On October 2, 2016, Colombians were summoned to vote in a referendum on a peace agreement between incumbent president [...]
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Category "2017"
On the Slow Pace of Culture Change and Prospects for the Improvement of Men
Alan Warde, Jennifer Whillans and Jessica Paddock Culture change is a much vaunted contemporary panacea for social ills. It is invoked [...]
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Enduring ‘Care’ and the Shifting Cultural Meanings of Convenience Food
Xiaodong Lin, Manli Zhu and Sarah Nettleton The recent McCain’s we are family (2017) potato chips advert represents a wide range [...]
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Does Brexit Mean Brexit?
Graham Taylor In the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum Teresa May, tried to calm the concerns of anxious Leave supporters [...]
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On the ‘meat edge’? Meat consumption and reduction in middle class urban China
Alison L Browne, Josephine Mylan and Zhu Di Insights from a qualitative study of meat eating in urban China suggest the [...]
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Focus: The State of Families and Relationships
Mary Holmes, Lynn Jamieson and Alison Koslowski Jane Austen’s most famous novel begins with the sentence: ‘It is a truth universally [...]
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On the Front Line: The ‘Catalan Problem’
Juan Enrique Ordóñez Arnau The philosopher Ortega y Gasset was an MP of the Second Republic in 1932 when the first [...]
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Viewpoint: Neither about Britishness, nor about Citizenship – The Life in the UK Test
Ipek Demir Since its launch in 2005, those who need to apply for British citizenship or settlement in the UK [...]
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Policy and Politics: Should regulators engage consumers in decision-making? Lessons from UK water regulation
Eva Heims and Martin Lodge This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It [...]
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More than my mother: how many parents do you have?
Alison Koslowski A few years ago when looking into Growing up in Scotland data, I discovered that some children were reporting [...]
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