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Sociology Retreat at Cumberland Lodge – Part Two
This post by doctoral researcher, Paz Concha, summarises the presentation and main discussion of the Ethnography panel chaired by Suzi Hall. Mona Sloane (first year PhD) started the session by...
View ArticleMike Savage Reviews Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Read Mike Savage’s Sociological ruminations on Piketty at the Stratification Culture Research Network blog here.
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Report Back from the ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies PhD Summer...
This summer the LSE Sociology Department and Social Policy Department jointly hosted the fifth annual Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies PhD Symposium—a unique academic network and space where...
View ArticleLSE Sociology at the forefront of the Inequalities agenda
Personal Reflections by Mike Savage It hardly needs emphasis that rising inequality within and between nations is increasingly in the public eye. The success of protest movements such as Occupy has...
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The Revolution: Is being Televised, Blogged, Tweeted, You-Tubed and Stood Up.
by Lisa McKenzie, LSE Fellow A spectre is haunting London and that spectre is the rumble of grass roots civil disobedience, activism and – dare I say – a people’s anarchism. Karl Marx originally wrote...
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Insights on Inequality: Danny Dorling’s Lecture on ‘Inequality and the 1%:...
By Tara Lai Quinlan Danny Dorling gave a thought-provoking and insightful lecture, Inequality and the 1%: What Goes Wrong When the Rich Become Too Rich, to a packed house at LSE’s Old Theatre on 7...
View ArticleBritish Journal of Sociology Special Issue on Piketty’s Capital
Possibly the most talked about book of 2014, Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the subject of the December 2014 issue of the British Journal of Sociology. This special Symposium edition...
View ArticleSuccessful Societies –“Self, Individualism and Moral Communities under...
Personal Reflections on Successful Societies meeting, London, January 30-31 2015 by Mike Savage. This blog reports on a fascinating seminar held at the end of January in London, part funded by my ESRC...
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Feeding our sociological imaginations….
Helen Traill, PhD Student, reflects on the annual Sociology retreat at Cumberland Lodge. Walking in Windsor Great Park (Photo: Paz Concha) There comes a time at the end of January when the cold...
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Suspended between Armageddon and Immortality? A Sociology for the 21st Century
The ‘Digital’ Panel (Photo: Jason Yan) by Elena Denaro, PhD Student The first evening of Cumberland Lodge kicked off to a roaring start: an inspirational opening presentation by Craig Calhoun (Director...
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Sociology opens your eyes
Sociology undergraduate, Ronda Daniel, on her reasons for studying sociology. Sociology is so very often confused with psychology. Whilst the two are closely linked, they are very different. Sociology...
View ArticleBSA Bourdieu Study Group: Capital in all its forms
On Tuesday 30th June 2015, the BSA Bourdieu Study Group held a workshop exploring Pierre Bourdieu’s extension of the traditional sociological concept of capital. It featured presentations from...
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The Personal Pull of Sociology
by Carli Ria Rowell, Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology at Warwick University. What is Sociology? What does a Sociologist do and why do you want to be one? These are just some of the...
View ArticleThe Problem With Writing
Read Katie Beswick’s post on the difficulty of writing and the limitation of words.
View ArticleBrain Waste: The Deskilling of London’s Migrant Professionals
by Riad Azar, Doctoral researcher in the LSE’s Department of Sociology “I still feel like a nurse, man.” Hugo heaved out a long sigh through his nose. We had been sitting in the kitchen of my flat for...
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‘Poor people don’t come to the LSE’: My first month at university
by Ronda Daniel, a second-year sociology undergraduate. My first month at university was very much the same, both in my first and second year. Overall, I can say so far that I’ve had an amazing time...
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Social Class in the 21st Century: An Interview with Mike Savage
by Rebecca Mansell and Ronda Daniel ‘Social Class in the 21st Century’ is a new Penguin book written by Professor Mike Savage in collaboration with a team of sociologists, including the LSE’s Lisa...
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The Lost Honour of Europe
MSc Sociology graduand, Maria-Christina Vogkli, offers her reflections on the current political situation in Europe Last week has been a dreadful week for Europe. In Portugal, a constitutional crisis...
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What now for the precariat?
Reflecting on the ‘Social Class in the 21st Century’ book launch and public lecture, by Ronda Daniel For more details about the book, and Mike Savage, please see:...
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Art, Displacement and Sociology
The aim of this post is to highlight the way in which sociological issues can be explored through art and non-textual form. The following is a selection of work from a project by Wilfred Lim, an artist...
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