In this essay, I draw on a professional life history to suggest how sociological knowledge is generated by encounters with changing research opportunities, here called targets of opportunity. In my ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Contemporary Sociology (CS) publishes reviews and critical discussions of recent works in sociology and in related disciplines ...

Labor and Monopoly Capital was one of the most important sociological books of its era. It revived academic interest in both the history and the sociology of workplaces setting the agenda for many ...

Dr Casey Breen, Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Department of Sociology, conducted the study, published today in Demography.

Maya researches the politics of trade union federations and in particular their support for universal public benefits. Her dissertation examined diverging trade union support for public pensions and ...

Selena Daly has received research funding from the Irish Research Council, the Fulbright Commission, and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. This article is based around a transcript of a ...

Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated audacious ideas of freedom. Following decolonisation, the challenge was to give institutional form to those ideas. Through an account of India ...

Philip Dodd debates whether the discipline of sociology still has a role to play in the 21st century. He is joined by Richard Sennett, Frank Furedi, Monika Krause and Peter Oborne. Show more For the ...