The British Journal of Sociology

The BJSPrize 2012 - Winner Announced
The BJS are pleased to announce that Anthony King has been awarded The BJS Prize 2012 in recognition of the outstanding contribution to increasing sociological knowledge that his article has made. Read the prize winning article The Afghan War and 'post-modern' memory: commemoration and the dead of Helmand and listen to Anthony talk about his article.

Also listen to Anthony King talk to Lawrie Taylor, Thinking Allowed, about his article.

Special Issue on Olympic and world sport and accompanying podcast
Read the latest Special Issue from The BJS on Olympic and world sport: making transnational society? and watch the accompanying podcast interview between Richard Wright, editor-in-chief of The BJS, and Susan Brownell, one of the editors of the Special Issue.

Special Issue on Varieties of second modernity: extra-European and European experiences and perspectives
Edited by Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grande

Read the 2013 BJS Debate
Occupy's predicament: the moment and the prospects for the movement
Todd Gitlin
With responses from Craig Calhoun and Todd Gitlin

Watch the interview between Richard Wright and Todd Gitlin about his BJS Public Lecture

Listento the 2012 BJS Public Lecture Podcast on Occupy Predicament: The Movement and the Prospects for Movement
Speaker: Todd Gitlin, Respondent: Craig Calhoun, Chair: Richard Wright
Recorded on Thursday 18th October at the LSE, London.

Read the 2011 BJS Public Lecture Article
Citizenship, immigration and the European social project: rights and obligations of individuality
Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal
With Comments from Ruud Koopmans, Oliver Schmidtke, Lydia Morris and Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal
Listento the 2011 BJS Public Lecture podcast

The BJS turned 60 last year. To mark this occasion the editors have chosen two articles from each of the journal's six decades that, in their view, have had a significant and enduring impact on sociology. Each of the articles is accompanied by contemporary commentary that critically assesses the legacy. To read this Anniversary Issue, please click here.

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