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Sociology

May 2024

  • Teenagers in school uniforms in a drama class

    Fewer pupils in England studying drama and media at GCSE and A-level

  • Dennis Smith

    Other lives
    Dennis Smith obituary

April 2024

  • Evan Stark.

    Evan Stark obituary

    Sociologist whose research on coercive control led to new criminal justice responses to domestic abuse

March 2024

  • A rowdy 18th-century theatre audience portrayed in the Penny Gaff, 1872 by Gustave Doré.

    The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett review – all the world’s a stage, for better or worse

    The sociologist combines erudition with personal experience in this enjoyably meandering and timely study of the place of performance in society

February 2024

  • A panel at the Fanposium

    Taylor Swift ‘swiftposium’ kicks off in Melbourne: ‘I once got a lot of judgment in my field’

    About 400 academic papers from 78 research institutes were submitted for an event that pushes back against gendered bias to take the pop phenomenon seriously

January 2024

  • Dan Evans

    Forget everything you thought you knew about British politics. In 2024, we’re in the age of chaos

    Dan Evans
    ‘Essex man’, ‘Stevenage woman’, ‘red wall’ – labelling voters like this is completely misguided, says author Dan Evans

October 2023

  • Illustration that says Do accents still matter

    ‘We still make judgments from the way people talk’: Rob Drummond decodes accent prejudice

    As a new book explores stereotypes that are socialised into us, 11 readers also reflect on the way they speak

September 2023

  • The Shibuya pedestrian crossing in Tokyo.

    A Theory of Everyone by Michael Muthukrishna review – the laws of life

  • Uni Guide 2024 "Subject Tables"

    University Guide 2024
    Best UK universities for sociology & social policy – league table

June 2023

  • Jalna Hanmer, Brighton, 1996

    Jalna Hanmer obituary

  • David Graham

    Other lives
    David Graham obituary

March 2023

  • Simon Clarke’s work examined the 19th and 20th centuries through the lens of Karl Marx’s theory of crisis

    Other lives
    Simon Clarke obituary

    Other lives: Sociology professor who studied labour relations and trade unions in post-Soviet Russia

February 2023

  • John Eldridge

    John Eldridge obituary

    Sociologist and writer who studied the disparities in media coverage of industrial conflicts

January 2023

  • Bowling balls in a line.

    Is America suffering a ‘social recession’?

    Anton Cebalo
    Americans report having less sex, fewer friends and a loss of trust in each other and society. What’s going on?

December 2022

  • Ken Plummer

    Other lives
    Ken Plummer obituary

    Other lives: Essex University sociologist who believed that storytelling is central to the way humans act in the world

November 2022

  • Frances Fox Piven with fellow sociologist Fred Block in Boston, 1987.

    ‘The US can still become a fascist country’: Frances Fox Piven’s midterms postmortem

    The 90-year-old sociologist on ‘vengeance politics’, cruelty and climate change as she looks back on half a century of activism

September 2022

  • Guardian University Guide 2023 Online 01 Holding Image

    University Guide 2023
    Best UK universities for sociology & social policy – league table

  • MultidãoMilhares de evangélicos participam da Marcha para Jesus 2012, realizada nas ruas de São Paulo.

    University Guide 2024
    University subject profile: sociology and social policy

August 2022

  • Woman washing her face in bathroom<br>A stock image of a woman washing her face in a bathroom

    Research says that your 40s are your unhappiest age. It’s worse for millennials

    Sophie Brickman
    I was already glum about soon turning 40. Then I learned that happiness is U-shaped – it bottoms out in your 40s, then starts to inch its way up again in your 50s

June 2022

  • Ian Law

    Other lives
    Ian Law obituary

    Other lives: Sociology academic who helped universities to start acknowledging their part in slavery and colonialism
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