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Culture and Identity

• Beyond Male Role Models? Gender identity in young men
• Black Country Pubs and all that jazz!
• Does Manga’s Transnational Cool Benefit Japan?
• FOCUS: When Britain Loved RasTafari
• FOCUS: Questioning memory nationalism
• Losing Culture or Finding Superdiversity?
• Multilingual Citizenship
• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: TIME TO CELEBRATE?
• SARAJEVO TERMINABLE AND INTERMINABLE
• WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? LESBIAN AND GAY YOUTH ‘AFTER EQUALITY’
• ‘Working’ For Your Laughter: The Rise of the British Comedy Snob
• Connecting through Creativity: The Power of Stories
• Robbing the People’s Bank: The plight of the Orang Asli at Tasik Chini, Pahang Malaysia
• Re-branding the Trauma of Slavery, or How to Pacify the Masses with Sites of Memory
• Black Friday: Shopping, Deviant Leisure and Hyperconformity
• Beyond Male Role Models? Gender identity in young men
• Connecting through Creativity: The Power of Stories

Young People, Families and Households

• Care leavers – hitting the target and missing the point
• Enduring Love? Couple Relationships in the 21st Century
• On the Frontline: Young Carers
• Policy Briefing: Separation dents a mum’s confidence, but can she get over it?
• The Impact of Affluence on Adolescence
• Gendered histories, memory and identity: a story about social science
• Policy Briefing: Separation dents a mum’s confidence, but can she get over it?

Work, Poverty and Welfare

• A city in thrall to capital? London, money-power and elites
• FOCUS: HARD TIMES FOR YOUTH? Food austerity from an historical perspective: Making sense of 1950s Mass Observation
• Getting the balance right? Scotland’s strengthened homelessness legislation and Growth In Whose Interests?
• homelessness prevention
• How Spare are Bedroom-Tax Rooms?
• Lone parent obligations towards paid work: misadventure and misdirection in UK policy making
• Lean and Mean: How obsessive cost-cutting destroyed job security
• Moral Panics, Jimmy Savile and Social Work: a 21st century morality tale
• Money costs more when you’re poor
• On the Frontline: Austerity Bites
• On The Frontline: Mind the Poverty Gap
• ON THE FRONTLINE: THE GROWTH OF YOUTH DEPRIVATION IN BRITAIN, 1990-2012
• POLICY BRIEFING: THE BIOLOGISATION OF POVERTY. POLICY AND PRACTICE IN EARLY YEARS INTERVENTION
• Policy Briefing: Home owners get richer and the housing ladder gets pulled up
• Speaking Back To Stigma: social housing and solidarity in East London
• VIEWPOINT: AUSTERITY THREATENS THE FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF EUROPEAN WELFARE REGIMES
• Viewpoint: Social Movements and Neoliberalism
• Voluntary unemployment and left-dominated social policy academia
• The Centre for Social Justice: Decision-Based Evidence-Making to Punish the Poor?
• The Sleep of the Nation: Problems and Prospects
• The Wrong Way to Tackle Poverty
• The Erosion of the UK Safety Net
• The New Gilded Ghettos: The Geodemographics of the Super-Rich
• Welfare Myths and their Consequences
• Why Do Rich People Give?
• Policy Briefing: The Poverty of Resilience in the Arts
• Food austerity from an historical perspective: Making sense of 1950s Mass Observation data in the contemporary era
• Policy Briefing: Ten-year-old children on the adult labour market – Bolivia breaks ground

Education

• Challenging Stereotypes: The Lived Experience of British Chinese Parenting
• Confronting a Culture of ‘Laddishness’ and ‘Riskiness’ in Higher Education
• Defending Higher Education in the Age of Neoliberal Savagery
• Education and the Prevent Agenda: Mythmaking and the Limits of Freedom
• Forcing A Smile: The Plight Of Today’s Educator
• Higher education and the reproduction of social elites
• Markets, Publics and Education: A Tale of Trojan Horses
• On The Frontline: Lecturers Are Not Counter-Terrorism Police Officers
• Operation Trojan Horse: How A Hoax Problematised Muslims And Islam
• Policy Briefing: Immigration And Higher Education – A UK Perspective
• POLICY BRIEFING: WHITHER FEES AND LOANS?
• Schools, Religious Education and the Law
• VIEWPOINT: FROM CRADLE TO COLLEGE?
• VIEWPOINT: THE ASSAULT ON HIGHER EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY
• Why Black Studies Matters
• When Concepts Cross Border?
• Viewpoint: Beyond the Spectacle of Malala. A Critique of the Bandwagon of Girls’ Education
• Academy schools: Policy evolution, Controversy and General Election 2015
• Cross-border student flows: questions of interdependence and inequality
• STORIES OF ACCESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A TRIUMPH (OR FAILURE) OF HOPE OVER EXPERIENCE?
• FROM ACADEMIC FREEDOM TO ACADEMIC CAPITALISM
• A RADICAL MANIFESTO FOR EDUCATION

Health

• Black to the Future: In Memoriam
• Focus: Dismantling Universalism: Inequality and Public Health
• Policy Briefing: Scotland’s Health – Could independence help rescue the ‘sick man of Europe’?
• HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT? UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE’S EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF HAPPINESS
• How would you like to die?
• Policy Briefing: Care.data – what should we really be worrying about?
• Policy Briefing: Scotland’s Health – Could independence help rescue the ‘sick man of Europe’?
• URBAN LIFE AND MENTAL HEALTH: RE-VISITING POLITICS, SOCIETY AND BIOLOGY
• Well-being: a valid concept or a vague panacea?
• Is honesty always the best policy for parents of donor-conceived children?
• Policy Briefing: Scotland’s Health – Could independence help rescue the ‘sick man of Europe’?
• Policy Briefing: Political Rhetoric, Corporate Responsibility and Contested Bodies

Beliefs in Society

• Culture, Class and Protestantism In Urban Belfast
• How To Think Like A Neoliberal
• Queer, Religious, Youth: Still ‘wrestling the angel of contradiction’?
• The Invisibility Of The Recording Engineer
• The limits of analogy? Comparing Islamophobia and Antisemitism
• Viewpoint: Rightwing Fascism And Intellectual Apologia In India

Technology and Mass Media

• Autism, Algorithms, Google and the Rise of the Savant Garde
• Beeb-Bashing by the Right: Is it Justified?
• Imagine… a future for the BBC in Scotland
• MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT CELEBRITY
• Policy Briefing: Trojan Horse, the media and the Ofsted inspectorate
• Strictly BBC?
• Some contradictions of the assault on the BBC
• VIEWPOINT: A MALICIOUS AND UNDEMOCRATIC ASSAULT ON THE BBC
• The Media and Child Abuse
• Tipping point online, Tripping point offline?
• Photography and the Public Sphere
• The Media and Child Abuse

Power and Politics

• After the Scottish Referendum: A Constitutional Chain Reaction Unfolds
• An Independent Immigration Policy for Scotland?
• AN INTERGENERATIONAL ELECTION
• Are Managers The New Barbarians Destroying Local And National Societies?
• CELEBRATING POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY
• Civil Rights For The Twenty-First Century: Lessons From U.S. History
• DELHI ELECTION VERDICT AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ‘REFORMS’
• Euroscepticism – what is the stance of young Germans and Britons?
• FOCUS: WHITHER THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM?
• Focus: Migration and Election 2015
• FOCUS: Scottish Independence: The Terms of the Debate
• Getting Malled in Philadelphia: The Growth Coalition and the Historic City
• How are Scotland’s Voters Reacting? Trends and Patterns in Referendum Vote intentions
• IMMIGRATION AND THE COST OF BROKEN PROMISES
• MARK DUGGAN AND BRITAIN’S POST-COLONIAL POLITICS OF DEATH
• More Farage, More Immigration
• On The Frontline: British Volunteers In The Spanish And Syrian Civil Wars
• On the Frontline: Democracy at 4am – Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement
• On the Frontline: Scottishness and me – Coming home without going back
• Outsourcing services, co-dependence and elite power
• ON THE FRONTLINE: THE LONGEST DAYS
• Policy Briefing: Citizenship, engagement and online civic conversations
• Power in Naming: Reparations, Memorials, and Chicago Police Torture
• Post-Conflict Elections In Northern Ireland
• Risk and Choice in the Scottish Independence debate
• Role Contestation & Socialization In The Debate Over Scottish Independence
• Robbing the People’s Bank: The plight of the Orang Asli at Tasik Chini, Pahang Malaysia
• Scottish Independence and the EU
• The Nakba in Israel: from contra-memory to divided memory
• Turning the European Court of Human Rights into a folk devil: the UK Conservative Party and human rights
• Things still fall apart: the politics of memory in Côte d’Ivoire
• Viewpoint: What’s wrong with Modern Slavery? Why Theresa May in Wilberforce’s Clothing won’t Appeal to All
• Viewpoint: Malcolm X, Smethwick And BME Politics
• Viewpoint: The Dangerous Politics Of Belonging
• Viewpoint: Rightwing Fascism And Intellectual Apologia In India
• Viewpoint: The Future of Human Rights in India
• VOTES BY WOMEN
• What is Performative Social Science? The Potential of Arts-based Research and Dissemination
• Young voters and the Scottish independence referendum – Just like the adults?
• You’ve Got A Text From UKBA: Technologies Of Control And Connection
• What’s war remembrance really for? To remember the fallen… Or to prepare us for the next time?
• ON THE FRONTLINE: BUILDING A GROUNDSWELL FOR YES
• Lampedusa: a cruel and corrupt system
• IS CAMERON HOIST WITH HIS OWN REFERENDUM PETARD?
• Focus: What Does ‘No’ Mean?
• General Election 2015: Who spoke for poor youth in the campaign?
• The Road to a Fairer Scotland? Reflections on the Scottish referendum, politics and society
• FOCUS: Social change in the 21st century: the new sociology of ‘wealth elites’
• CAN WE BREAK FREE OF MALE, PALE AND STALE POLITICS?
• From Power Elite to Governing Oligarchy

Crime and Deviance

• Crises in care – compassion and body work
• FIFA: World Cups, Commercialism and Corruption
• ‘I’m not some cock-hungry groupie’: women negotiating the rock groupie stereotype
• Policy Briefing: Juvenile justice in Europe from risk obsession to children first progression

Stratification and Differentiation

• A city in thrall to capital? London, money-power and elites
• ‘Bookshelfie’: book ownership, class and families
• Borders of the mind: The profound paradox of Female Genital Mutilation
• Elite Conviviality and the British Political Class
• Family Offices and the Lives of the Super-Rich
• FOCUS: RIGHTING HISTORICAL WRONGS, THE CASE FOR REPARATIONS
• Focus: The Distribution of Wealth: What We Think, and How It Is
• Gender Inequality among Political Elites
• Millionaires Welcome: UK Migration and London Neighbourhoods
• Minority Women’s Activism in Tough Times
• ‘My Toothbrush isn’t foaming’: The changing status of the rural upper class
• Negotiating place: the challenge of inclusive design?
• On the Frontline: Domestic Sovereigns, Wealth and Public Space
• Piketty’s Pessimistic Bestseller: Economic Inequality and the Twilight of Democracy
• Pride and Present: Solidarities and Selective Histories in Progressive Social Movements
• Reproducing class? Classical music education and inequality
• (Re)producing the ‘working rich’ in London’s financial district
• Rethinking elites
• Six Thousand Missing Gay Civil Servants!
• The Centre for Social Justice: Decision-Based Evidence-Making to Punish the Poor?
• The Great Meeting Place: Bradford’s City Park and Inclusive Urban Space
• WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? LESBIAN AND GAY YOUTH ‘AFTER EQUALITY’
• Why Sociologists Should Research the Increase in Top Income and Wealth Inequality
• Why Ethnic Inequalities Continue to Matter
• Policy Briefing: Conditional cash transfers in developing countries – realising rights?
• Viewpoint: The Case for Inheritance Tax
• The Full Monty? Women Customers’ Experiences at a Male Strip Show
• Painting By Numbers: Locating Missing Girls in the Sex
• SOCIAL MOBILITY: LIFT GOING UP, DOORS CLOSING. GOING DOWN, DOORS WIDE OPEN; ANY VOLUNTEERS?
• Social Change in the 21st Century: The New Sociology of ‘Wealth Elites’
• The Rich – The Elephant in the Sociology Room
• FOCUS: SOCIETY – A PARTIAL ECLIPSE

Global Development

• Africa Rising (or is it?)
• Ageing, Migration and Intergenerational Relations in Rural China
• A Nuclear Deal? Can Pakistan support Saudi Arabia against Iran?
• Apocalypse When? (Not) Thinking And Talking About Climate Change
• A Country Called Europe? A Cartographic Story Of A Continent United In Diversity
• Border Control Is Out Of Control
• Bottom Of The Data Pyramid: Big Data And The Global South
• Creating Public Attitudes to Immigration by Mis-Counting
• Deport, Deprive, Extradite: On the Removal of Rights in Terrorising Times
• Is A ‘Great Gay Migration’ From Indonesia Underway?
• Nightfall over Jalan Yahudi, Penang
• On The Frontline: British Volunteers In The Spanish And Syrian Civil Wars
• On The Frontline: What Is The Real Price Of Cutting Migrants’ Rights?
• ON THE FRONTLINE: PRECARIOUS WORK-PRECARIOUS LIVES
• Paperless Lives: Understanding ‘Illegality’ Through The Experiences Of Young
• Sovereignty, Resistance, Migration
• The Enigma of Departure: What we can learn from dying migrants?
• Terroir today: The taste for the particular and the making of good taste
• Undocumented Migrants
• Viewpoint: Declaration Of Immigration – The Force Awakens
• VIOLENCE AND UNDERSTANDING: THE BRITISH BROADSHEETS’ COVERAGE OF THE “FIRST GAZA WAR”
• FOCUS: The Middle East, Hallucination, and the Cartographic Imagination
• Viewpoint: The European Commission Presidency – This Time it’s Different
• ON THE FRONTLINE: PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND DECOLONIAL HOPES IN SRI LANKA
• Help to Wealth-Fare?

Ideologies

• Are Managers the New Barbarians Destroying Local and National Societies?
• From Anti-Semitism to Islamophobia: The European Far Right’s Strategic Shift
• How To Think Like A Neoliberal
• Lean and Mean: How obsessive cost-cutting destroyed job security
• The Breivik Killings – remembering the victims, depoliticizing the crime
• Viewpoint: Rightwing Fascism And Intellectual Apologia In India
• Viewpoint: Social Movements and Neoliberalism
• The Rise of Ideological Secularism: Quebec’s Proposed Charter of Values

Theory and research methods

• Big Data Seductions and Ambivalences
• Big Data and the Politics of Discipline
• Big Data, Predictive Machines and Security: Enthusiasts, Critics and Sceptics
• Creating Public Attitudes to Immigration by Mis-Counting
• FOCUS: Complexity and the failure of quantitative social science
• FOCUS: THE EMERGING CONTOURS OF DATA SCIENCE
• FOCUS: ‘HERE BE DRAGONS!’ RECLAIMING THE ROMANCE OF RESEARCH ON THE MARGINS
• Getting the nation to talk about sex
• ON THE FRONTLINE: WHAT IS THE DATA IN BIG DATA?
• Towards an ethic of public sociology
• The Domesticated Aboutness of Big Data Types
• What is Performative Social Science? The Potential of Arts-based Research and Dissemination
• What does big data mean for official statistics?
• A Politics of Counting – Putting People Back into Big Data
• Who Owns Big Data?
• POLICY BRIEFING: Gender Matters in Research
• Big Data, Public Services and Public Acceptance. Who Benefits?