Archive for: November, 2014
47. Family practices and David Morgan
Professor David Morgan, in honour of whom the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives has been named, was one of the original staff members of the Sociology department at the University of Manchester in 1964. David is now Professor Emeritus in Sociology and continues to be actively involved in […]
46. Purifying ‘the social’
There has been a longstanding tendency in sociology either to think of society as a certain kind of ‘thing’ or to think of ‘the social’ as a domain made up of uniquely ‘social’ stuff. This traces back to the origins of the discipline and its attempts to define itself vis-à -vis […]
Win a copy of Social Networks and Music Worlds
Social Networks and Music Worlds edited by Nick Crossley, Siobhan McAndrew and Paul Widdop Social networks are critical for the creation and consumption of music. This edited collection introduces students and scholars of music in society to the core concepts and tools of social network analysis. The collection showcases the use of […]
45. Kinship
For many years, sociologists were more interested in studying households, marriage and ‘the family’ than kinship. Despite some important ‘community’ studies that looked at informal and kinship ties in the 1950s,1960s and early 1970s, for the most part ‘kinship’ was seen as the domain of anthropologists documenting kinship systems. However, […]
44. Social movements
Social movements consist of organisations, groups or individuals engaged in collective action with common social or political aims designed to challenge, resist or facilitate social change. Social movements have a long and proud tradition in Greater Manchester with both Marx and Engels writing some of their most significant works here […]