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ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 113/100 (Sociology)
Impact Factor: 1.473
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Welcome to BJS Online, the LSE hosted webpage for the BJS. The page enables access to the tables of contents for all the published copies of the Journal from 1950 through to the present.
Missed the BJS Public Lecture on 6 October 2009|?
Watch the Video Podcast of the BJS Lecture on 6 October 2009 - please click here|. (Lecture also available as an audio podcast , please click here.)|
READ the debate based on the lecture given by Loïc Wacquant - forthcoming in the BJS
Bringing the Penal State Back In
Speaker - Loïc Wacquant
Loïc Wacquant will draw on classical theory, social history, and a comparative analysis of the penalization of urban poverty inadvanced societies at the century's turn to argue that we need to bring the penal state back to the centre of the sociology of social inequality, public policy and citizenship
Micro-debate on 'Violence' - BJS September 2009 Issue|
Are human beings wired for violence? Randall Collins' debates his provocative book Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory with Richard B. Felson| and Mark Cooney |
BJS Prize
We are delighted to announce that the BJS Prize in 2009 has been awarded to Dr. Clare Saunders (School of Social Sciences, Southampton University) for her paper
'Double-edged swords? Collective identity and
solidarity in the environment movement'
(BJS, Vol 59, June 2009|)
This is the first BJS Prize to be awarded. It is a biennial prize given to the author of an article published in the BJS that in the opinion of the judges makes an outstanding contribution to increasing sociological knowledge.
To listen to a short podcast by Clare Saunders please click here|.
Thinking Allowed: Laurie Taylor interviews Loïc Wacquant and Nicola Lacey on the topic of Penal Policy. To link to this interview please click here|
Website for the British Journal of Sociology maintained by Jacquie Gauntlett, email j.gauntlett@lse.ac.uk|