Archive for: December, 2014
Top 20 from our blog
Well, we’ve really enjoyed looking back over 50 years of Sociology at the University of Manchester on our blog this year, and we hope you have too. We’ve collected together a Top 20 list of our most popular posts, pages and videos which we’ve been counting down in December. Here […]
50. Gender and work
Equal treatment legislation was introduced in the 1970s – are there still gender inequalities in work and employment? The short answer is yes, gender imbalances in the types of jobs that men and women do (horizontal and vertical gender segregation), and how their work is valued and rewarded, remains a […]
49. Understanding ‘the sacred’ and the secular in society
It’s the time of year in Britain to traditionally start talking about how Christmas has become taken over by capitalism and lost its spirituality, but it’s worth thinking about what we mean by spirituality. In Sociology, debates about ‘the sacred’ are often framed in terms of a binary opposition between […]
48. Sheila Rowbotham: Manchester’s Dreamer
Sheila Rowbotham, the renowned socialist feminist historian, writer, and campaigner, joined the Sociology department at Manchester in 1993 and left upon retirement in 2009. As a student of the famous historians E. P Thompson and Dorothy Thompson, Rowbotham’s work takes up the task of unearthing and documenting the ‘hidden histories’ […]
Win a copy of Food Waste by David Evans
Food Waste: Home consumption, material culture and everyday life In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches. Using ethnographic […]