Tag: Sociology

Beyond Sacred and Profane: Design, the Absolute Other and the Study of Religion

19 March 2026 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Krzysztof Nawratek, Series Editor of Anthem Studies in Religion, Space and Design When people hear ‘religion and architecture’, they usually think of churches, temples, mosques, perhaps a shrine hidden somewhere in the forest if they are feeling slightly adventurous. In other words: buildings. Objects....

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Life as an Endless Gig: How Platforms Turn Us into Performers

24 November 2025 Author Interviews

This is an author interview with Slavko Splichal, the author of The Gig Public Q: ‘The Gig Public’ is an unusual title. Some might say it sounds more like a book about precarious work than about public life. Why insist on the word ‘gig’? A: That tension is exactly the...

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Play and the vitality of cities

5 September 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Duncan McDuie-Ra, author of Insurgent Play: Social Worlds of Urban Disruption   Play is intrinsic to human existence and to some non-human animals too. We can think of play in different ways; as creative and destructive, as individual and collective, as production and consumption,...

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The fourth school on power

30 June 2024 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Waqas M Awan, author of Power of Sage: An Antithesis to Machiavellian Prince Since the cognitive revolution in humanity about 70,000 years ago, humans have mastered the art of cooperation on a massive scale. No species on Earth has the tendency to form as...

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Reinventing Mary Wollstonecraft for the twenty-first century by Brenda Ayres

3 December 2023 Guest Post

In 2017, I wrote Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, identifying the disparities between 18 major biographies that reinvented Mary Wollstonecraft with each retelling of her life. In that book, I alluded to 16 other biographies as well with their diverging views on Wollstonecraft. To date, there are...

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How Do We Avoid Becoming Numb to the Crisis in Afghanistan? by Christina Lux, Mohabbat Ahmadi, and Ignacio López-Calvo

How Do We Avoid Becoming Numb to the Crisis in Afghanistan? by Christina Lux, Mohabbat Ahmadi, and Ignacio López-Calvo

14 November 2022 Guest Post

When we see body counts rise, the human capacity to respond often becomes frozen. “The more who die, the less we care,” as highlighted in a recent article published in Risk Analysis, which follows up on Paul Slovic’s earlier work on psychic numbing. We have all seen this happen with...

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A Critical Hope Is the Foundation to #BuildBackBetter

A Critical Hope Is the Foundation to #BuildBackBetter

25 June 2020 Guest Post

The guest authors of this post are Julian Dobson and Rowland Atkinson. They are the authors of Urban Crisis, Urban Hope out June 2020. In the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, the hashtag #BuildBackBetter became a rallying cry on social media for those who saw the need and opportunity to...

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Sociology: New Series Announcements

8 December 2015 Uncategorized

Anthem Press is pleased to announce the launch of five new Sociology series, each highlighting a compelling area of research. The first of these is the Anthem Law and Society Series, which delves into the role of law and legal institutions in everyday modern societies in order to understand and...

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November Book of the Month: “The Spirit of Luc Boltanski”

November Book of the Month: “The Spirit of Luc Boltanski”

28 November 2014 Author Interviews

  “This is a book that is needed to understand the ideas and research dynamics of one of the greatest contemporary sociologists. This impressive collection of essays provides not only an introduction to his work, but also insightful analyses of its reception, critical discussions on its wider significance, and reflexive...

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