The Sociological Review Foundation’s flagship podcast Uncommon Sense returns this month with Season 4’s first episode, as sociologist Ellen T. Meiser looks at SCARS – along with kitchen culture and its academic equivalents, Anthony Bourdain and The Bear, and perseverance and pain.
Join us for an evening of light-hearted competition at the Sociological Review Foundation’s first-ever post-conference pub quiz, taking place Wednesday 23 April at 7:30pm at the Salutation Arms in Manchester. It’s the perfect opportunity to unwind with colleagues after a day at the British Sociological Association’s annual conference.
An influential work by feminist sociologist Beverley Skeggs is the focus of a six-article Special Section in the March 2025 issue of The Sociological Review journal.
Palestine is the focus of a four-article Special Section in the March 2025 issue of The Sociological Review journal.
We are shocked and saddened by the news of Professor Michael Burawoy’s passing. As our editor-at-large, he was a staunch ally of The Sociological Review and our commitment to public sociology.
Mario Hernandez’s Bushwick’s Bohemia: Art and Revitalization in Gentrifying Brooklyn is a remarkably thorough account of one neighbourhood’s path from decline to cultural epicentre, set within the context of neoliberal urban policies.
Each month on our Instagram channel we present a selection of works from a visual artist that responds to our current theme.
“Feminist visualisations are about opening up knowledge and ways of knowing,” says visual researcher Hannah Buckler. “If someone is really treating you with care, you can make work with care,” adds illustrator Candice Purwin. “If academia disconnects itself from that world, whose interests is it really serving?” asks visual artist Juno Halina Rauber-Baio. Three feminist Image-Makers in Residence in dialogue.
Feminist visualisations: On the left: Ori, collage by Juno Halina Rauber-Baio (2024); in the centre: still from the introduction video of the project We Can Be Both by Hannah Buckler (2024); on the right: Joyce, illustration from the Teenage Kicks collection by Candice Purwin (2020).
Copyright 2020–2024 Juno Halina Rauber-Baio, Hannah Buckler and Candice Purwin. All rights reserved.The Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project is a project of The Sociological Review. It is an educational platform that provides open-access resources for students, teachers and academics who are interested in decolonising school, college and university curricula.
Monographs Editor Silke Roth is inviting expressions of interest in guest-editing one of two titles for 2027, as part of The Sociological Review’s long-running series of edited volumes.
In this one-day hybrid symposium to be held on 28 May, 2025 at the University of Cambridge, UK, the event organisers aim to bring together scholars who engage in the ethnographic method for a collective conversation around movement and method.
This event is part of the Sociological Review Seminar Series 2025 and has been funded by the Sociological Review Foundation. The grant was awarded to Damni Kain and Sneha Annavarapu.
The Lowry, Salford
10–12 September 2024
The Sociological Review Foundation’s Undisciplining II conference took place from 10 to 12 September 2024 in Salford, England. Academics and educators, artists and activists, and thinkers and doers across many fields came together to ask: “Who is sociology for?”
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is an urgent issue. It exemplifies matters of power, inequality, and the destruction of social worlds.
