Mike Savage Reviews Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’
Read Mike Savage’s Sociological ruminations on Piketty at the Stratification Culture Research Network blog here.
View ArticleInsights On Inequality: Danny Dorling’s lecture on ‘Inequality and the 1%:...
By Tara Lai Quinlan Danny Dorling gave a thought-provoking and insightful lecture, Inequality and the 1%: What Goes Wrong When the Rich Become Too Rich, to a packed house at LSE’s Old Theatre on 7...
View ArticleBritish Journal of Sociology Special Issue on Piketty’s ‘Capital’
Possibly the most talked about book of 2014, Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the subject of the December 2014 issue of the British Journal of Sociology. This special Symposium edition...
View ArticleThe Mirage of Self-Finance in UK Higher Education, or How To Keep Non-Elites Out
By MSc student Sociology, Leonor Prata Castelo Given recent events, namely the student march against the UK Government’s cut in maintenance grants and cuts in education, and a consultation paper...
View ArticleStigmatising Beliefs About People in Poverty: a cross-national perspective
LSE Sociology doctoral candidate, Daniel McArthur, describes his MSc research Open any edition of the most widely read British newspapers and you will see viciously stigmatising stereotypes about...
View ArticleShould Sociologists Care About #OscarsSoWhite?
by Ronda Daniel – @rondaemily_ Initially, when I saw #OscarsSoWhite trending, referring to the fact that none of the nominations for this year’s Oscars feature performers of colour for the second...
View ArticleCathy Come Home: why it is still relevant 50 years on and why the world needs...
by Ronda Daniel – @rondaemily_ TV play Cathy Come Home was broadcast for the first time in 1966. Why, in 2016, is it still relevant? With Stand By Me playing in the background, the play begins with...
View ArticleFood Banks, Community Gardens and ‘I, Daniel Blake’
By Helen Traill – @TraillHelen My research into community growing projects and the film I, Daniel Blake seem initially to have little in common. Yet they both engage with a critique of the way our...
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