Archive for: January, 2014
4. Sustainable practices
Sustainability is one of the most pressing societal challenges of the 21st century, connecting concerns about climate change, natural resource depletion, threats to biodiversity and the predicted expansion (and increasing affluence) of the world’s population. Reducing or changing what people consume (ie the goods we buy and the services we […]
‘Food, Consumption & Taste’ Alan Warde
Food, Consumption and Taste: culinary antinomies and commodity culture by Alan Warde (Sage Publications, 1997) Food matters. It is now a political issue, a matter of leisure and recreation, a topic of health, a resource for media industries, as well as a primary necessity of daily life. However, when Sociology […]
3. Shared living arrangements
Living with non-family members in shared accommodation has become a common experience for young people in transition to adulthood in the UK. The first UK study of young people’s shared living arrangements was conducted in the late 1990s by Sue Heath and Liz Cleaver, developing out of a broader programme […]
2. Introducing Sociology – Peter Worsley et al
Introducing Sociology is one of the first international best-sellers in British sociology.  It was first published by Penguin in 1970, and co-written by Peter Worsley (the first Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester) and colleagues at The University of Manchester (Roy Fitzheny, Clyde Mitchell, David Morgan, Valdo Pons, Bryan Roberts, […]
1. The ‘Third World’
The term ‘Third World’ was coined in 1952 by the French anthropologist Alfred Sauvy, in an article in the socialist magazine L’Observateur.  However it was Peter Worsley, first Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester, who helped define the term as a key sociological concept, and whose work popularised […]