BJS - Shaping Sociology Over 60 Years
The BJS turns 60 this year. To mark the 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 its legacy. While the articles chosen represent just a fraction of the many path-breaking contributions published in the BJS over the years, it is our hope that they will serve to amply demonstrate the Journal's central and longstanding role in fostering the sociological imagination.
Shaping Sociology Over 60 Years
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The British Journal of Sociology at sixty
By Frances Heidensohn and Richard Wright
The 1950s
The British Journal of Sociology in the 1950s: firm foundations
By Frances Heidensohn
Democracy in private government (a case study of the International Typographical Union)
By Seymour M. Lipset
Commentaries by Pat McGovern and Robin Archer
A public language: some sociological implications of a linguistic form
By Basil Bernstein
Commentaries by Chris Jenks and Tessa Blackstone
The 1960s
The British Journal of Sociology in the 1960s: a discipline in ferment
By Richard Wright
The meaning of poverty
By Peter Townsend
Commentary by Jake Rosenfeld
The deviance of women: a critique and an enquiry
By Frances Heidensohn
Commentaries by Frances Heidensohn and Jody Miller
The 1970s
The British Journal of Sociology in the 1970s: continuity and crisis
By Fran Tonkiss
Islam, capitalism and the Weber theses
By Bryan S. Turner
Commentary by Bryan S. Turner
A world-system perspective on the social sciences
By Immanuel Wallerstein
Commentary by Michael Mann
The 1980s
The British Journal of Sociology in the 1980s: a decade of eclecticism
By Gillian Stevens
Intergenerational class mobility and the convergence thesis: England, France and Sweden
By Robert Erikson, John H. Goldthorpe and Lucienne Portocarero
Commentary by Michael Hout
Morphogenesis versus structuration: on combining structure and action
By Margaret S. Archer
Commentary by Anthony King
The 1990s
The British Journal of Sociology in the 1990s: disintegration and disarray?
By Claire Moon
Political power beyond the State: problematics of government
By Nikolas Rose and Peter Miller
Commentary by Patrick Joyce
Class analysis and the reorientation of class theory: the case of persisting differentials in educational attainment
By John H. Goldthorpe
Commentary by John Scott
The 2000s
The British Journal of Sociology in the 2000s: sociology in a new century
By Fran Tonkiss
Mobile sociology
By John Urry
Commentaries by Vincent Kaufman and Caroline Knowles
Unpacking cosmopolitanism for the social sciences: a research agenda
By Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider
Commentaries by Yasemin Nuhoğlu Soysal and Nina Glick Schiller
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