Volume 61 December 2010

December 2010

A debate on the status of (British) sociology

Sociology's misfortune; disciplines, interdisciplinarity and the impact of the audit culture John Holmwood
Unpicking sociology's misfortunes Mike Savage
Sociology: a view from the diaspora Richard Rosenfeld
Not only our misfortune: reply to Rosenfeld and Savage John Holmwood

Citizenship and society

What is society? Social thought and the arts of government Mitchell Dean
The double helix of cultural assimilationism and neo-liberalism: citizenship in contemporary governmentality Willem Schinkel and Friso van Houdt

Family, identity and culture

But the kids are okay: motherhood, consumption and sex work in neo-liberal Latin America Megan Rivers-Moore
Youth masculinities: compelling male heterosexuality Diane Richardson
Reflexivity over and above convention: the new orthodoxy in the sociology of personal life, formerly sociology of the family Michael Gilding

Review Essay

Differentiating among penal states
Nicola Lacey

Comment on this page | Freedom of information | About this site | Social media

Use of this website is subject to, and implies acceptance of, its Terms of use (including Copyright and intellectual property, Privacy and data protection and Accessibility). The London School of Economics and Political Science is a School of the University of London. It is a charity and is incorporated in England as a company limited by guarantee under the Companies Acts (Reg no. 70527).The registered office address of the School is: The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK; Tel: +44 (0)20 7405 7686

Volume 61 December 2010

Contents