The threat and lure of the East
Islam in Britain 1558-1685
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Was Muhammad a Christian?
Foundations of Islam
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an author with a magic touch: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buend...
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Ways of all Buddhists
The Foundations of Buddhism
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Open windows of opportunity
Innovation and Adaptation in European ÌÇÐÄVlog - Changing Relationships Between ÌÇÐÄVlog and the State
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Teachers take a cue from Taco
The Digital University
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A lost era of academic endeavour
ÌÇÐÄVlog in Bengal 1919-1947
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A search for the spirit in a secular world
The Spirit of the Child
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Erudite fondler of women not words
Max Lerner
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Is autobiography good research?
Is telling stories about your own life a useful sociological research tool? In a BSA conference paper, sisters Sara and Sue Scott explore how maternal aspirations can be passed on to daughters. Their...
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Sorry, could you repeat that...?
Two typically convoluted examples from papers presented at this year's BSA conference. Roy Boyne, Durham University "What follows from this is that some of the fundamental sociological divides, such...
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The world according to Gates
Why did Bill Gates, the world's richest man, take time off from building his fortune and fighting the US Justice Department to lecture to a bunch of London students? Kam Patel went to find out. A...
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How we can engineer an independent genetics body
Mary Warnock, the woman who chaired the influential inquiry into test-tube babies in the 1980s, makes the case for a Royal Commission on the future of genetic engineering. There has been much talk in...
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Fruitless divisions
Among the variety of subjects encroaching on the borders of sociology, the most intriguing challenge comes from cultural studies, which appears to offer the kind of exciting "activism" in its student...
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Is sociology lost or is it just misunderstood?
As Tony Blair struggles to reshape society, many of those who should be advising him are stuck in a mire of navel-gazing and philosophical jargon. Alison Utley reports. Next week, sociologists from...