• Window on Research: Dave O’Brien on Cultural Consumption in Contemporary Society

• Explanatory Methodology

• Public Sociology In an Age of Austerity – Michael Burawoy and John Holmwood in Dialogue

• Was Aditya Chakrabortty right about Sociology? A work sociologist responds…

• The fate of the individual in late capitalism

• John Holmwood gets a spontaneous round of applause while talking about the future of #sociology at #britsoc12 during the @cwrightmills event

• Mike O’Donnell on “Charles Wright Mills and the (Continuing) Problem of Radical Agency”

• New NCRM funded network of methodological innovation – New social media, new social science?

• John Holmwood on “Sociology’s ‘moments’: C. Wright Mills and the critique of professionalism”

• Les Back on Sociology’s Promise

• Michael Burawoy and John Holmwood part 3: the future of sociology

• Michael Burawoy and John Holmwood part 1: Neoliberalism

• “There’s no money left in the kitty”: austerity politics and the deficit of sociological imagination (part 1)

• The Morphogenesis of the Intimate Role Array, or, Why It Is Fucking Stupid To Worry About Being a ‘Substitute Boyfriend’…

• Cheryl Frank Memorial Lecture in London May 16th

• Some thoughts on personal morphogenesis…

• Public Perceptions of the Social Sciences in a Contemporary Era of Unrest

• My new favourite quote

• University of Warwick Department of Sociology Seminar Series #warwickphd #warwickecr

• CfP:Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilisation, University of Hull 13-14 Sep 2012 (this looks fantastic)

• The government of an ‘economy’ and the emergence of a ‘bioeconomy’

• Nikolas Rose on the Reflexive Imperative and Health

• Explaining personhood in the neuroscientific age

• Nikolas Rose, “Governing Conduct in the Age of the Brain”

• The transformation of bodily normativity

• Why I dislike postmodernism/postmodernists…

• BSA Conference Event – C Wright Mills, 50 Years On

• BSA Conference Event – C Wright Mills, 50 Years On

• I read some Marx and I liked it…

• Master Tasks for Intellectuals

• Nick Crossley on Relational Sociology

• Some thoughts on socialization and personhood

• Margaret Archer – Socialization as reflexive engagement

• The foundation of relational sociology

• The idea of ’emotional purchase’

• Why I can’t take postmodernists seriously when they talk about politics…

• An introduction to Margaret Archer’s hugely under-appreciated work on culture (cannibalisation of the unpublished chapter part 2)

• Efficiency and Civilisation

• The individual and the public

• John Rex on the Politics of Social Research

• The Dark Age of Macroeconomics

• Paul Krugman on the failings of the economics profession

• Wikipedia and Social Science 2.0

• Reflexivity and CBT

• C. Wright Mills: Legacies and Prospects – 50 Years On


• “There’s no money left in the kitty”: austerity politics and the deficit of sociological imagination

• How do our brothers and sisters shape who we are?

• Becoming Who We Are

• Stuck between modernity and postmodernity? The modern history of Coventry

• C Wright Mills on the Intellectual’s Responsibility

• #UKRiots and Sociology

• GTD and Reflexivity #2 – Reflexive Technology & Teleology

• The Sociology of Productivity

• Getting Things Done & Reflexivity

• Relationality, Social Media, Dissent and Protest

• A Realist Theory of A/Sexual Categories

• Call for Papers: what does the Sociological Imagination mean today?

• If you’re going to talk about subjectification you need a theory of the subject…

• Making a case for social science

• Dave Elder-Vass on Normativity

• Domain Analysis (draft #2)

• Domain Analysis (draft #1)

• The self to itself

• Biological Determinism

• Commonality and Difference