Sociology

‘Heteropessimism’ didn’t spring from nowhere | Letters
Letters: Josephine Grahl advises looking at the labour burden placed on women and how social structures enforce this. Brid Connolly recalls Marge Piercy’s novel Body of Glass
03, Apr, 2025 @4:53 PM

Alice Searle obituary
Other lives: Teacher of English and sociology who spent much of her spare time campaigning on community issues
Leonie Cooper
31, Mar, 2025 @6:45 PM

Lou Kushnick obituary
Other lives: American Studies and sociology lecturer with a specialism in race relations
John Kushnick
17, Mar, 2025 @6:10 PM

Alan Carling obituary
Other lives: Respected professor of sociology at the University of Bradford
Graeme Kirkpatrick
22, Jan, 2025 @4:45 PM

Maureen Henderson obituary
Other lives: Leader of the childcare and family social work course at the Polytechnic of North London in the 1970s
Hugh Kerr
12, Jan, 2025 @5:24 PM

Dorothy Whiston Jones obituary
Other lives: PE and sociology teacher who taught Shirley Bassey and the Manic Street Preachers
Philippa Jones
03, Oct, 2024 @2:43 PM

Best UK universities for sociology & social policy – league table
The study of political, economic and social problems and the policy responses to them
07, Sep, 2024 @6:57 AM

Leah Moyle obituary
Other lives: Academic expert on criminology whose special interest was people who have been coerced into drug dealing
Ross Coomber
05, Aug, 2024 @4:41 PM

Fewer pupils in England studying drama and media at GCSE and A-level
Figures show statistics, computing, physics and maths have risen in popularity and languages bouncing back
Sally Weale Education correspondent
30, May, 2024 @3:48 PM

Dennis Smith obituary
Other lives: Sociology professor who explored how the dynamics of humiliation enter politics, relationships and war
Penny Smith
12, May, 2024 @6:28 PM

Evan Stark obituary
Sociologist whose research on coercive control led to new criminal justice responses to domestic abuse
Cassandra Wiener
07, Apr, 2024 @4:00 PM

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
Rowan Moore
03, Mar, 2024 @1:00 PM
1 / 17 pages