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Title
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Ageing and Society

2

Charity Shops and Pocket Money

3

Strikes, Solidarity and South Asian Britain

4

Rethinking Sociology: Empire, Knowledge and Connection

5

Football and gambling

6

Ethics in sociological research

7

Suicide, Society and Liveability

8

Debt and Wealth Inequality

9

Extreme Sports

10

The demise of Grand Theory?

11

Gentrification in Detroit and London

12

Prison violence, sound and survival

13

The go-along research method

14

Colour in Film

15

Dogs

16

Learning Disabilities

17

The Irish in the UK

18

Russian Propaganda

19

Death

20

Objects and Stories

21

Solidarity

22

Motherhood

23

Smoking

24

Dress Culture

25

ECOLOGY

26

Crowds

27

Underwear

28

Wealth

29

Touch

30

Crime Stories

31

Playgrounds

32

Tech Workers

33

Food Systems

34

Meaning of Work

35

Sea Travelling

36

Gender and Radicalisation

37

Architecture and Hope

38

Sight and Power

39

Medical Icons

40

Coffee Culture

41

The British Elite

42

Shopping

43

The swimming pool

44

The politics of the body

45

Opioids

46

Garden Utopias

47

Richard Sennett

48

Anonymity - Self-creation

49

Capitalism

50

Traditionalism - Russian Orthodox Converts

51

THE ENGLISH

52

The Passport

53

The Power of Song

54

Hope and the 'good enough' life

55

Intersections

56

The Grave - Memorial Benches

57

Pets

58

Sugar

59

Woke

60

Guns

61

Water Ways

62

Boxing and Kickboxing

63

The Petite Bourgeoisie

64

High Finance

65

Fashion Re-imagined

66

Digital intimacy

67

Prison Abolition

68

Taste and Lifestyle

69

Dance Culture

70

Democracy

71

Poverty

72

Elite Universities - Working Class Students

73

Asylum and 'Home'

74

Museums

75

Religion of Work and Welfare

76

Parenting

77

Dirty Work

78

Self-improvement

79

The football pools - mass investment

80

The Internet - how it shapes the past and the future

81

The NHS

82

Protests

83

Gender and Alcohol

84

Futilitarianism - Extreme Pessimists

85

Rules and Order

86

Gentrification revisited

87

The Sea

88

Survival of the city

89

Package holidays and 'authentic' travel

90

Shopping

91

Ballroom dancing

92

Wealth - Plutocratic London

93

Covid and change

94

Workplace Misbehaviour

95

Psychiatry: a social history

96

Prison Protest

97

Footwear

98

Strongmen

99

The Underclass

100

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