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Drug pushing in the New Europe

23 September 2011: A new study reveals how drug reimbursement policy in Poland is leaving gaping loopholes for pharmaceutical firms to exploit, raising questions about other, post-communist, EU member states. This may be part of a broader syndrome of the prominence of informal institutions in post-communist policy-making...

Europe's forgotten 'religion'

25 August 2011: Hundreds of millions of people in Europe alone are “non-religious”, but non-religion remains an understudied field. To mark the launch of a new journal on the subject, associate editor Lois Lee discusses its significance and its role in defining the identities of the “silent majority” in Europe. A non-...

India's new brand of colonialism

25 May 2011: The plight of Binayak Sen, the Indian public health expert recently bailed from prison on controversial sedition charges, is symptomatic of the problems facing India’s adivasis (indigenous or tribal peoples), Cambridge University researchers have claimed. His arrest illustrates that the state cares more about...

G.H. Mead: A Reader

May 2011: Dr Filipe Carreira da Silva has published his new book, G.H. Mead: A Reader. Description: This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) - one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early twentieth century sociology. Mead is an exceptional case amongst sociological...

Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints

December 2010: Professor Jacqueline Scott has published a new book, Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints, edited with Professor Rosemary Crompton (City University London) and Dr Clare Lyonette (Warwick University). Description: Both women and men strive to achieve a work and...

Wealthier, but not necessarily healthier

7 July 2010: One of the most famous and influential mantras of Barack Obama’s chief economic adviser – that wealthier nations are also healthier – has been called into question by a new study. The 'wealthier is healthier' argument is the idea that if you have economic growth, you are acquiring the resources that will help...

Closing the gender gap

25 May 2010: The total amount of work done by men and women in the UK is roughly equal, but the bulk of unpaid work is still done by women rather than men. Jacqueline Scott’s research examines the societal causes and consequences of that problem and how, slowly, the situation may be changing. Men can care. The issue is...

Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond, 2nd Edition

January 2010: Professor Patrick Baert and Dr Filipe Carreira da Silva have published the 2nd edition of Patrick Baert's original book, Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond . Description: This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the...

The future of books

1 January 2010: The book publishing industry has gone through more change during the past few decades than in any comparable period in its 500-year history. Professor John Thompson examines this change and asks what impact it will have on the future of books. Despite widespread speculation about the ‘end of the book’, we...

Gender equality in modern times

1 April 2009: The largest multidisciplinary research network of its kind in the UK is investigating why gender equality is still a pressing social issue in the 21st century. Society today is witnessing an ongoing paradigm shift in gender relations Jackie Scott The Gender Equality Network (GeNet) links academics from eight...