Feminism is a theoretical perspective and social movement that seeks to reduce, and
ultimately eradicate, sexist inequality and oppression. Yet feminist research remains …

This is the first e-special issue for the journal Sociology and its chosen focus is the article
'The coming crisis of empirical sociology'by Savage and Burrows (2007). This article …

At a time where, after decades of progress in gender and sexual rights, people in many parts
of the world are facing new forms of resistance and opposition to gender equality, this timely …

Women continue to struggle to reach senior-level leadership positions in collegiate sports,
and ethnic minorities face the challenges due to their ethnicity as well. This research …

Femicide is a key global indicator of progress towards gender equality. The occurrence of
some but not all five gender dimensions in the indicators of violence used to measure …

It is difficult to under-estimate the influence of feminist theory on contemporary qualitative
research methods. A brief outline of the history of qualitative methods illuminates this, and …

Several studies, in recent years, have demonstrated what has become known as the
'quantitative deficit'in UK sociology. This deficit is primarily manifested through negative …

'Researcher| Researched'calls for a complementary research methodology by proposing
autoethnography as both a method and text that crosses the boundaries of conventional and …

This article compares methodological trends in nationally and internationally oriented
sociology using data from the articles of three Nordic sociological journals: one international …

The social, economic and political context of the 1980s in Britain shaped the contributions to
the journal, and the early part of the decade was marked by emphasis on the interrelations …