A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about
social life, Sociology: The Basics has been translated into six languages. The volume is …

Convict criminology is the criminology of prisoners or ex-prisoners who combine their prison
experience with a higher degree in criminology. It has been associated with the carceral …

From the vantage point of forty years in social research and the study of families, Julia
Brannen offers an invaluable account of how research is conducted and 'matters' at …

As authors, we have worked together. Paul Thompson organised and first drafted Chapters
1, 2, 9 and the Voices; Ken Plummer Chapters 3, 4, 6 and 7; and Neli Demireva Chapter 5 …

Using data from 15 semi-structured interviews with UK-based early/mid-career academics,
this paper offers an empirically informed assessment of how lecturers teaching/researching …

In this reflective piece I use Mills as a starting point for exploring the intersections between
my own biography and some of the main trends in sociology since the journal Sociology was …

In this chapter we assert the need for a transformative approach to conducting research on
sport. The transformative approach, which we call Critical Proactivism, insists upon the …

Este texto es un primer intento de reflexión sobre la práctica de investigación, y las teorías
implicadas en la misma, de su autor a lo largo de los últimos treinta y tantos años. Una …

The study presented in this thesis explores how professional sociologists view the nature
and function of their discipline. Specifically, the research has developed as a result of …

Through an ethnographic study of two beauty salons in London owned, run and frequented
by first-generation migrant women from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Afghanistan, this thesis …