Archive for: February, 2014
8. Cultural class analysis
Cultural class analysis is a way of researching class that argues that the class you belong to does not depend solely on your job. Whilst jobs are a very important factor affecting people’s social position, if we take a wider look at ‘class’ and consider people’s education, their other cultural […]
7. Relational Sociology
The idea of ‘relational sociology’ might sound like a tautology. Surely sociology is, by definition, the study of social relations, and therefore ‘relational’? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Nick Crossley’s book Towards Relational Sociology (Routledge 2011), argues that the relationality which ought to be foundational to sociology is very often lost in a […]
6. Hamza Alavi and the post-colonial state
Hamza Alavi, who died in December 2003, was a Reader in Sociology at University of Manchester from 1977 to 1988. He had wide range of interests within the area of the political economy of South Asia. He worked on the state in post-colonial societies, on imperialism, on the peasantry and […]
5. Clyde Mitchell: Pioneer of social network analysis
James Clyde Mitchell (1918 – 1995), came to the University of Manchester in 1965 as Professor in Urban Sociology. Â He was interested in the study of social structure through the observation of regular patterns of social relations that persist over time. During his time in Rhodesia, Mitchell and colleagues used […]