ICYMI: Our magazine editors explore the world, revisit the past and walk in each other’s shoes in the May magazine. We meet young people in India, mafia resisters in Italy, Black mothers of autistic children, and examine the work of sociologists in Ukraine. buff.ly/IvAo1Fb

Sociological Perspectives on the Far Right: call for expressions of interest for a forthcoming Special Section of The Sociological Review journal. Deadline: 13 August 2026 Editors: @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mirandaioss.bsky.social @jandob.bsky.social Apply now: buff.ly/8O8vYHu

Registration closes today! There are just a handful of places left for Live Methods with Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social. Don't miss this chance to join an inspiring online course exploring live methods with one of sociology's leading voices. buff.ly/LCytOtC

With a month to go until our PUBLIC LECTURE in September, @mit.edu’s Angela Saini shares her thoughts on the importance of sociology in medical research, why classifications of race and sex matter, and the links between power, knowledge and science. buff.ly/KnRoD80

Final call! Just a handful of places remain for Live Methods with Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social Registration closes at midnight on Monday 3 August. This course won't be running again for a while, so don't miss your chance to join us. buff.ly/LCytOtC

Taxi drivers schooled in #Lacan. #Strangers versed in #therapyspeak. Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas tells #Uncommonsense of her study of psychoanalytic listening in #BuenosAires - including how it confronts certain notions of selfhood and self-knowledge… #Tunein for more buff.ly/g6dTmU1

“I love the plurality of the world. Things placed side by side that are incompatible, that celebration of difference and diversity, of strangeness and oddness.” Thinking Allowed host Laurie Taylor talks to sociologist Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social in our magazine. buff.ly/6cri9pb

A family’s experience of illness and medical care, stigma and shame, care and loss is the focus of “The Wrong Disease”, a new short story in our Sociological Fiction section. Author Sylwia Męcfal is Assistant Professor in Sociology, Universit of Łódż. buff.ly/KlqM7Le

What if qualitative research didn't have to revolve around interviews? Join Professor Les Back for a two-part online workshop exploring Live Method - creative, contemporary approaches to qualitative research 📅 4 & 18 Aug 💻 Online 🎟️ Register by 1 Aug: buff.ly/csttcLH

“Burawoy’s work has travelled through time because it names a puzzle that reappears whenever labour is reorganised, revalued or made newly precarious.” Constantine Manolchev & Ryan Nolan on creating a journal special section to mark the 45th anniversary of Manufacturing Consent. buff.ly/8MnzHhj

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What if qualitative research could expand beyond the interview? Join Professor Les Back for a two-part online workshop exploring Live Methods - creative, contemporary approaches to qualitative research. 📅 4 & 18 Aug 💻 Online 🎟️ Register by 1 Aug: buff.ly/csttcLH

#BuenosAires is oft-named the world capital of #psychoanalysis. Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas tells #Uncommonsense about her study of #psychoanalytic listening there. #Tunein for tales of taxi drivers versed in #Lacan, everyday chat laced with psychosomatic awareness, and more. buff.ly/g6dTmU1

OUT NOW: our Virtual Issue of the journal, a companion to The Sociological Review Foundation Public Lecture with Angela Saini. Explore eight #freetoview papers on health disparities, introduced by editor @marjokolehmainen.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/8owh23O Book Tickets: buff.ly/EstP9Oe

What if qualitative research didn't have to revolve around interviews? Join Professor Les Back for a two-part online workshop exploring Live Method - creative, contemporary approaches to qualitative research 📅 4 & 18 Aug 💻 Online 🎟️ Register by 1 Aug: buff.ly/csttcLH

In Ukraine, “teaching and research take place under conditions of acute uncertainty, shaped by air raids, electricity shortages and precarious infrastructures.” In our May issue, ISA president @geoffreypleyers.bsky.social asks: what purpose can sociology serve in a war zone? buff.ly/yRoxKcR

Applications are now open for Strictly Come Writing 2026! 📍 Beautiful Gladstone's Library, North Wales 📅 11–13 November ⏰ Apply by 10 September Three days of focused writing, support & community for early career researchers. Apply here: buff.ly/4CeAhWs #WritingRetreat #AcademicWriting #Sociology

“Hype underscores a paradox. Capitalism seems to reward expert storytellers irrespective of the truthfulness of their projected narrative.” Konstantinos Poulis and co-authors examine hype, entrepreneurship and the concept of “worthwashing”. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/w5HJsKx

What are the challenges of carrying out a research project over a period of 50 years? Charlotte Faircloth and co-authors @sriucl.bsky.social on motherhood, ethics and the intersection between research practices and social context. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/3Z1i2Rw

ICYMI: Read the The May 2026 issue of The Sociological Review magazine! Les Back and Laurie Taylor take us to 1960s gangland London, plus we examine how Sicilians remember those killed by the mafia, sociology’s role in Ukraine, and barriers to adulthood in India. Read it here: buff.ly/rdTFWsq

What challenges do disabled young people face in the transition to adulthood? Janice McLaughlin and co-authors explore critical youth studies, normative framings of productivity and the importance of third spaces for care and recognition. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/r2RPFTw

We discuss FANON in #Uncommonsense as @juliango.bsky.social shows how the anticolonial psychiatrist and theorist is key to #sociology - and why the story of #colonialism and empire is central to that of modernity and history itself #Tunein for this and MUCH more buff.ly/wsju6A4

“When you start editing things to the point where you don’t look like yourself, that’s when it starts to really affect your self-image.” – Jacinta, Australia @juliacoffey.bsky.social on how young people experience image-editing technology. #OnlineFirst @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/ygBjvci

Blood, genes and “natural law”: the Trump era’s seemingly vacuous yet moralising right has a long, complex genealogy of scientised ideas about social order. @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social reviews Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards. buff.ly/8R4w0NI

We're excited that writer, documentary maker & Culture Wise founder @muktijaincampion.bsky.social will chair this year's Public Lecture with Angela Saini. On 2 September at SOAS for an evening of discussion, audience Q&A & the inaugural Public Sociology Awards. Book your tickets: buff.ly/Y88tPof

What does it mean to be ordinary? How can this idea be used to mask class privilege? Gaby Harris @manmetuni.bsky.social on the fashion choices of middle-class girls, the ambivalence of class categorisation and the imagined gaze. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/eu3QwmK

We're happy to support Summer School: Class, Culture & Discontents, organised by @amit-singh.bsky.social (UCL). A free two-day summer school exploring class, culture & today's social challenges through workshops and discussion. Find out more and register: buff.ly/MSeyFEG #Sociology #SummerSchool

Anticolonial psychiatrist and theorist Frantz #Fanon is celebrated in SO many #Uncommonsense episodes - so we devoted one to discussing him, with @juliango.bsky.social. Here, he describes what it was like encounter Fanon in #gradschool… #Tunein buff.ly/wsju6A4

Dalit women on caste, Deleuze on painting and Rushdie on violence; tree-planting, Bauman and Brexit; and the cute cat theory of digital activism: our Bedside Books column serves up contributors’ short, sharp takes on interesting titles. @jmwright.bsky.social buff.ly/6xg2154

Reimagining Menopause, our new Sociological Review Monograph, links menopause to broader structures of power and inequality. Edited by Shani Orgad, Belinda Steffan and Odessa Hamilton, its 10 chapters examine gender, visibility and neoliberalism. ➡️ buff.ly/2D51Icf @journals.sagepub.com