The British Sociological Association

02/11/2026

SRO Sage Prize Nominees

Before the announcement of the winning paper, we would once again like to celebrate the full nominee list for SRO’s 2026 Sage Prize for Innovation and/or Excellence. Congratulations to all the nominees!

Find their papers below:
https://www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunities/sage-prize-for-innovationexcellence

02/11/2026

Get £1,000 funding to hold an event for early careers sociologists! The BSA requests expressions of interest from ECRs interested in organising an event in 2027.

Submit your proposal by this Friday, 6 November:

Early Career Regional Event Funding The British Sociological Association is requesting expressions of interest from early career sociologists interested in organising a regional event in 2027. In 2026, six early career events were accepted to be held throughout the UK. These one-day events express t...

30/10/2026

Cultural Sociology Sage Prize Nominee

Mikael Holmqvist examines the longest reigning monarch in the world today, the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf suggesting how he, through the media, has been constructed as ‘Sweden’s leader’, and expanding on how elites actively and intentionally consecrate ideologies to exercise power and influence.

Find his full article below.

29/10/2026

Cultural Sociology Sage Prize Nominee

In his study of how collective memory forms out of traumatic experience, Ronald Eyerman addresses questions about the formation of collective identity out of individual trauma through the example of Bloody Sunday.

Read the full article below.

This is a study of how collective memory forms out of traumatic experience. It addresses questions about the formation of collective identity out of individual ...

29/10/2026

Applications close today!

BSA journals Sociology and Work, Employment and Society are still accepting applications for new members to join their Editorial Boards.

Make sure to submit your application by 17:00 GMT on 29 October 2026. Details and application form can be found below.

28/10/2026

Engage with Bourdieu’s work to rethink inequalities!

Call for papers by 13 November for ‘Rethinking Educational Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender through Bourdieu’, a BSA Bourdieu Study Group International Conference, 9-11 June 2027, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Rethinking Educational Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender through Bourdieu - Reproduction, Resistance, and Transformation in Unequal Times BSA Bourdieu Study Group Annual International Conference 9-11 June 2027Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Keynote Speakers Professor Nicola Ingram, Universi...

28/10/2026

Cultural Sociology Sage Prize Nominee

Nicolás Rudas reconstructs the first six months of the number 6402’s dissemination into Colombia’s public discourse, putting forth a novel cultural sociological conceptualization of numbers as ‘fact-icons’.

Read Numbers as Fact-Icons: The Public Power of ‘6402’ in Post-War Colombia now below.

27/10/2026

Don’t miss your chance to join the Sociology or Work, Employment and Society Editorial Board!

Applications for new Editorial Board members close on Thursday 29 October. International colleagues and colleagues from under-represented voices in the UK are particularly encouraged to apply.

Details can be found below.

27/10/2026

An insightful and engaging discussion on one of the most important questions of our time: book now for ‘What does it mean to live well, and can we measure it?’, a BSA Happiness Study Group Event, 8 December, Strand Palace Hotel, London

What does it mean to live well, and can we measure it? A BSA Happiness Study Group Event 8 December 2026 (10.30am-12.00pm GMT)Strand Palace Hotel, London, UK About the Event We are delighted to welcome Professor Paul Dolan of the London School of Economics and Political Science to launch the British...

27/10/2026

Cultural Sociology Sage Prize Nominee

In Music Worlds and Event Networks: An Exposition, Nick Crossley introduces the concept of ‘event networks’ as a complement which allows one to capture much that ‘participant networks’ exclude.

Read the full article below, .

Musical activity in contemporary societies clusters in distinct ‘music worlds’, centred on such factors as style and/or locality. A number of studies have analy...