The British Journal of Sociology Podcasts

The 2009 British Journal of Sociology Public Lecture podcast
Loic Wacquant spoke at the recent BJS Public Lecture on Tuesday 6th October at the LSE. Loic Wacquant draws on classical theory, social history, and a comparative analysis of the penalization of urban poverty in advanced 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.

Please click here to listen to the podcast recorded at the LSE on 6th October.

The BJS Prize
To listen to a podcast by Clare Saunders, winner of the first BJS prize for her article 'Double edged swords' (Volume 59 Issue 2), please click here.

The 2008 British Journal of Sociology (BJS) Public Lecture and supporting Podcast

The first BJS podcast is an interview chaired by Professor Richard Wright (Editor-in-Chief of BJS and Curators’ Professor and Chair, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA) with two of the world’s foremost urban sociologists, Professor Rob Sampson (Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences and Department Chair of Sociology at Harvard University) and Professor Richard Sennett (Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London and the University Professor of Sociology at New York University).

On 21st October 2008, Professor Sampson delivered the annual 2008 BJS Public Lecture at the London School of Economics, entitled “Disparity, Diversity and Social (dis)order in the contemporary city”.  In that lecture he explored the link between objective conditions in the urban environment and people’s perceptions of disorder and decline.  As luck would have it, Professor Sennett was not in London at that time and could not take part in the discussion that followed that lecture.  So when the Journal heard that Professor’s Sampson and Sennett would be in New York at the same time, the BJS editorial team decided that it would be a good idea to invite them to get together to talk about the ideas presented at the BJS Lecture for this podcast.

Click here to launch Part 1'A Brief History of Disorder' of the podcast.

Click here to launch Part 2 'Getting to Grips with Disorder' of the podcast.

Click here to read BJS Vol. 60, No.1 online today - freely available to all online. This issue contains the following articles:

• Disparity and Diversity in the Contemporary City: Social (Dis)order Revisited by Rob Sampson;

• A Response by Paul Gilroy;

• and, Taking Place and Space Seriously: Reflections on “Disparity and Diversity in the Contemporary City” by Diane Davis.
  

To listen to a recording of the Lecture held at the LSE on 21st October 2008, please click here.