[Check out Mark Carrigan for commentary on the ‘committing sociology’ phrase…] I’m one of the speakers at the What is Digital Sociology? Event organised by the BSA Digital Sociology group,

An examination of definitions of power provided by the Oxford English Dictionary highlights a distinction that can easily be overlooked, along with its implications. First, power is defined as the

A first in a series of posts on power (this one based on the classic edited text Power in societies, originally published in 1970 and still relevant today) … If

Yesterday, a blog post came to my attention on Twitter. Written by ‘Angry Sociologist’, the post argues that sociology, rather than being the progressive force of popular and professional imagination,

Comments on: Michel Foucault ‘What is Enlightenment?’ In Paul Rabinow (1984) The Foucault reader. New York: Pantheon. I’ve always liked the paper What is enlightenment? as it illustrates how complex

Relationality as a concept is deeply embedded in the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. According to Willem Schinkel, ‘the notion of the relational was so central to Bourdieu that he preferred to