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Dear Colleague,

I hope that you have come across Discover Society the online magazine which publishes pieces based on social science research for a wide audience – you may even have written for us – but if not do check it out at discoversociety.org

As Editors we are committed ensuring that the magazine continues to be free at the point of access and to keeping our costs low, but we want to develop the magazine further and need to cover the costs of doing so.

Discover Society is approaching its third anniversary and is definitely a success – with over 25,000 hits on the site every month, close to 9,000 followers on Twitter, and a steady stream of people wanting to write pieces. If you enjoy Discover Society/ think it is useful for getting sociological research out there and you would like to help it to flourish please support it (either individually or as a Department) by becoming a ‘Friend of Discover Society’ and donating a small amount (or larger if you like!).

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If you would like to help us to do these things, and more, please support the magazine by becoming a Friend of Discover Society via the Donate button on the front page at discoversociety.org.

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Sue Scott
John Holmwood
Gurminder K Bhambra

Managing Editors of Discover Society

Would you like to write for Discover Society?

Discover Society is a free online magazine featuring articles on social research, policy analysis and commentary. It is supported by Policy Press and endorsed by the British Sociological Association and the Social Policy Association.

We publish short (1500 word) research-based articles on a variety of topics. We also publish: ‘Viewpoints’ (on current social issues); ‘Policy Briefings’; ‘On the Frontline’, and a longer, ‘Focus’ article in each issue.

Deadlines: mid-month for publication first Wednesday each month.

Guidance for contributors, here: http://www.discoversociety.org/contribute/

Potential contributions can be discussed in advance with the editors via a short ‘pitch’ sent to: discoversociety@outlook.com

Discover Society Issue 9

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ISSUE NINE:	June 2014

Focus:
Sue Scott	On the Truth in Sex: The Times they are a-Changin’, or Not

Articles:
Ruth Holliday, David Bell, Meredith Jones & Olive Cheung	Clinical Trails: Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
Stephen Crossley	“Joining the Dots”? The Role of Research in the ‘Troubled Families’ Agenda
Naaz Rashid	Framing Integration: The New Assimilation
Navtej Purewal	The Two Iron Ladies of 1984: Remembering the Postcoloniality of Operation Blue Star Thirty Years On
Stevi Jackson	Mother/ Daughter Relationships: Cultural Difference and Modernity
Jenny van Hooff	Conscious Uncoupling: Reassessing Agency and Desire in Couple Relationships
Steve Garner	Freeze Frame? Resisting the Relevance of Films about Slavery
Maggie O’Neill	The Slow University: Work, Time and Well-Being
Susie Scott, Liz McDonnell& Matt Dawson	Asexual Lives: Social Relationships and Intimate Encounters
Noor-ul-Ain Khawaja &Muhammad Hashsham Khan	Egypt: From Mubarak to Sisi
Viewpoint:
James Hampshire	UKIP’s Fox in the Henhouse

On the Frontline:
Anonymous	Crude Power in Thailand’s 2014 Coup: Old Soldiers Almost Die

Policy Briefing:
James Wilson	Care.Data and the Future of the NHS

Managing Editors: John Holmwood (Nottingham) and Sue Scott (York)

Editorial Board: Kehinde Andrews (Newman); Lorenza Antonucci (West of Scotland);

Les Back (Goldsmiths); Ben Baumberg (Kent); Gurminder K. Bhambra (Warwick);

Mark Carrigan (Warwick); Suzanne Hall (LSE); Steve MacKay (Lincoln); David Mellor (Oxford); Katherine Smith (Edinburgh); Emma Uprichard (Warwick)

Editorial Assistant: Rachel Jones

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Digital Public Sociology at #BritSoc14

It was interesting to follow the #BritSoc14 tweeting last week. The quality and quantity of the live tweeting was quite striking relative to previous conferences. Not surprisingly, it was the digital sociology sessions that provoked the most live tweeting. If Twitter is a reliable guide, which it probably isn’t, digital sociology seemed to be one of the most high profile topics at the conference. I was a bit dismayed to have missed the session I organised on Digital Public Sociology but thankfully Huw Davies recorded the talks:

I’m not sure if ‘Digital Public Sociology’ is a useful expression. But it’s how I’ve come to think of a topic that’s been one of my main interests ever since the first year of my PhD when I encountered Pierre Bourdieu’s public sociology at the same time as I was starting to see the academic relevance of blogging (which had long been a fairly directionless hobby of mine). There was a great day at Warwick, organised by Michelle Kempson and Lucy Mayblin, called the Politics of Sociology which helped connect these things in my mind. But I’m finding ‘digital public sociology’ useful because it’s the first time I’ve been able to articulate my interest in a way that doesn’t feel reductive, having formerly found myself saying rather sheepishly “er I’m interesting in sociologists blogging and tweeting and stuff”.

Edited to add: the disparity in the stats between the three talks is really striking. I hadn’t actually thought about the running order (I just added them in the order I uploaded the files) but it does seem as if Deborah’s talk is much more visible as a consequence of being first in the playlist.

Discover Society #5

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ISSUE FIVE:	February 2014

Focus:
Andrew McGettigan	Managerialism, Democracy and the New Political Economy of English Higher Education

Articles:
Mary Stuart	Reconnecting and Re–Purposing the Civic Purpose of Universities
Diane Reay	From Academic Freedom to Academic Capitalism
Nick Stevenson	Wars Over English The Culture Schools
Timothy Clarke, Pojanath Bhatanacharoen & David Greatbatch	Manufacturing Management Celebrity
Malcolm James	Mark Duggan and Britain’s Postcolonial Politics of Death
Paola Tubaro	Why Online Privacy is not Dead: Negotiation and Conflict in Social Media
Michael O’Regan	The Tyrannies of Collaborative Consumption
Des Fitzgerald, Nikolas Rose, & Ilina Singh	Urban Life and Mental Health: Re-Visiting Politics, Society and Biology
Jackie Turton	Moral Panics and Youth Crime – Where are the Girls?
John Veit-Wilson	Poverty 50 Years On – But What is Poverty?

Viewpoint:
Priyamvada Gopal	The Assault on Higher Education and Democracy

On the Frontline:
Mahmoona Shah	Further Education – for other people’s children?

Policy Briefing:
John Holmwood	Whither Fees and Loans?

Managing Editors: John Holmwood (University of Nottingham) and Sue Scott (University of York)

Editorial Board: Kehinde Andrews (Newman University); Lorenza Antonucci (University of West of Scotland); Les Back (Goldsmiths); Ben Baumberg (University of Kent); Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Warwick); Mark Carrigan (University of Warwick); Suzanne Hall (LSE); Steve MacKay (University of Lincoln); David Mellor (University of Oxford); Alison Shaw (Policy Press at the University of Bristol); Katherine Smith (University of Edinburgh); Emma Uprichard (University of Warwick).

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Discover Society Issue 3: Wealth

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ISSUE Three:	December 2013
Special Issue on Wealth
Focus:
John Hills	The Distribution of Wealth: What We Think and How It Is

Articles:
Caroline Knowles	Millionaires Welcome: UK Migration and London Neighbourhoods
John Urry	The Rich-Class and Offshore Worlds
Beverley Searle	Help to Wealth-Fare
Roger Burrows	The New Gilded Ghettoes: The Geo-Demographics of the Super-Rich
Beth Breeze Mathew Bond Adam Leaver	Why Do Rich People Give? Elite Conviviality and the British Political Class Growth in Whose Interests?
Norman Stockman	In Praise of Ralph Miliband, Political Sociologist
Graham Scambler	From Power Elite to Ruling Oligarchy
Sam Hillyard	‘My Toothbrush Isn’t Foaming’: The Changing Status of the Rural Upper Class

Viewpoint:
Rajiv Prabhakar	The Case for Inheritance Tax

On the Frontline:
Rowland Atkinson	Domestic Sovereigns: Wealth and Public Space

Policy Briefing:
Matt Barnes	Home-Owners Get Richer and the Housing Ladder Gets Pulled Up

Managing Editors: John Holmwood (University of Nottingham) and Sue Scott (University of York)

Editorial Board: Kehinde Andrews (Newman University); Lorenza Antonucci (University of West of Scotland); Les Back (Goldsmiths); Ben Baumberg (University of Kent); Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Warwick); Mark Carrigan (University of Warwick); Suzanne Hall (LSE); Steve MacKay (University of Lincoln); David Mellor (University of Oxford); Katherine Smith (University of Edinburgh); Emma Uprichard (University of Warwick).

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Discover Society Issue 2 Out Now

Issue 2 of online magazine of social research, policy analysis and commentary, Discover Society, out today.

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ISSUE TWO:	November 2013

Focus:
Danny Dorling	Dismantling Universalism: Inequality and Public Health

Articles:
John Brewer	Culture, Class and Protestantism in Urban Belfast
Lynn Jamieson John MacInnes and Sin Yi Cheung Tom Shakespeare	How Spare are Bedroom-Tax Rooms? Creating Public Attitudes to Immigration by Mis-Counting Day of Reckoning
Kehinde Andrews and Lisa Palmer Larry Ray	Why Black Studies Matters Photography and the Public Sphere
Momin Rahman Michael Farrelly	The Rise of Ideological Secularism: Quebec’s Proposed Charter of Values Debating Energy
Fiona McQueen Rachel Thwaites	More Equal? Still Different? What’s in a Name? Gendered Naming Practices and Identity in Britain

Viewpoint:
Julia O’Connell Davidson	What’s Wrong with Modern Slavery? Why Theresa May in Wilberforce’s Clothing Won’t Appeal to All

On the Frontline:
Saul Becker and Joe Sempik	Young Carers

Policy Briefing:
Stephen MacKay	Agency and the Child Support Agency

Managing Editors: John Holmwood (University of Nottingham) and Sue Scott (University of York)

Editorial Board: Kehinde Andrews (Newman University); Lorenza Antonucci (University of West of Scotland); Les Back (Goldsmiths); Ben Baumberg (University of Kent); Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Warwick); Mark Carrigan (University of Warwick); Suzanne Hall (LSE); Steve MacKay (University of Lincoln); David Mellor (University of Oxford); Katherine Smith (University of Edinburgh); Emma Uprichard (University of Warwick).

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CfP: Discover Society

Announcing a new monthly online magazine of social research, policy analysis and commentary

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

DISCOVER SOCIETY

Measured-Factual-Critical

http://discoversociety.org

We publish short (1500 word) research-based articles on social topics. We also publish: ‘Viewpoints’ (on current social issues); ‘Policy Briefings’; ‘On the Frontline’, and a longer, ‘Focus’ article in each issue

We welcome contributions that are research-based and meet our guidance for contributors (available online: http://bit.ly/18LEZMg)

Potential contributions can be discussed in advance with the editors via a short ‘pitch’ sent to: discoversociety@outlook.com

Managing Editors: John Holmwood (University of Nottingham) and Sue Scott (University of York)

Editorial Board: Kehinde Andrews (Newman University); Lorenza Antonucci (University of West of Scotland); Les Back (Goldsmiths); Ben Baumberg (University of Kent); Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Warwick); Mark Carrigan (University of Warwick); Emma Uprichard (University of Warwick); David Mellor (University of Oxford); Katherine Smith (University of Edinburgh).

Twitter: @discoversoc (https://twitter.com/DiscoverSoc)

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoversociety

Email: discoversociety@outlook.com

CfP: Discover Society

Announcing a new monthly online magazine of social research, policy analysis and commentary

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

DISCOVER SOCIETY

Measured-Factual-Critical

http://discoversociety.org

We welcome contributions that are research-based and meet our guidance for contributors (available online: http://bit.ly/18LEZMg)

Potential contributions can be discussed in advance with the editors via a short ‘pitch’ sent to: discoversociety@outlook.com

Managing Editors: John Holmwood (University of Nottingham) and Sue Scott (University of York)

Editorial Board: Kehinde Andrews (Newman University); Lorenza Antonucci (University of West of Scotland); Les Back (Goldsmiths); Ben Baumberg (University of Kent); Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Warwick); Mark Carrigan (University of Warwick); Emma Uprichard (University of Warwick); David Mellor (University of Oxford); Katherine Smith (University of Edinburgh).

Twitter: @discoversoc (https://twitter.com/DiscoverSoc)

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoversociety

Email: discoversociety@outlook.com