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Baristas; 'People' History
Ethnography Award: The Winner
The Ethnography Award 'Short List'
British working class gardens - Why England fails (at football)
The End of Capitalism; Reforming Capitalism
Kissing; The British Hitman
Poverty and 'Shame'; Small-Scale Technology in India
Race in Police Disciplinaries; Protestant Fishermen in Scotland
Post-Katrina New Orleans; The Capitalist Personality
Elite Graduates in France and UK; Surnames and Social Mobility
Generational Divide; Webcam
The Great Indoors
Stuart Hall (1932-2014)
Numbers in Global Politics; Gay Rights and Religion in Belfast
Prostitution in the Community; Drinking and Moderation
Why Music Matters?; Bhangra and Belonging
Waiting in A&E; Faith and Doubt
Sensory Multiculturalism in an East End Market; Cultural Passions
Santa Helpers; Christmas Tradition
Couples and Chronic Illness; Fashion and Dress in Later Life
Pocket Calculator in Papua New Guinea; Chicago
Tooth Loss; Communist Utopia in a Spanish Village
Boxing in Gleason's Gym; Sport and Capitalism
The Poppy; Traveller Children in Schools
Work and Consumption; Neo-liberal Economics
Richard Hoggart; The Anti-Social Family
Sex Workers and International Migration; Poverty in Britain
Muslim Fundamentalism; Customer Abuse to Service Workers
Section 136 and Mental Health Act; BBC World Service
Twitter; Elite University Admissions
Backpacking food tourist; Touring poverty
Noodle narratives; British men dancing Capoeira
Holiday hedonism in Ibiza; White working class voters
Bohemian Soho
Drug users and enforcement; 'Militant' Liverpool
The Minutemen; 'Lay' Witnesses in Court
'Teddies' and 'Gollies'; Smart-casual dining
Food Work in Hospital Wards; The Bangladesh/India Border
Raising Middle-Class Black Children; Neon
Terrorism Studies
Northern Ireland Sectarianism and Civility; The Global Pigeon
Welfare reform; Crime in the Armed Forces
Remembering Diana; Ethnography Award
Scottish nationalism and identity; Austerity
'Long Hours' work culture; Empty labour
Multicultural Prison; Jellied Eels
Live Music - from Dance Hall to the 100 Club
Stammering and Identity; Land of Too Much
Middle Class Enclaves and Escapes
British class survey; Tribute to Geoff Pearson
English Heritage; Clergy Lives
Thrift Chic; Thatcherism
Women and the Armed Forces
Gang labour in UK; Industrial ruination
Language of food politics; Italian food market
Guatemalan cemetery; Art auctions
Drugs for Life; Subcultural Identity
Fashion, Class and Mums; Red Racisms
'Ned' Pride in Scotland; Weapon Dogs
Stan Cohen (1942 - 2013)
Rock climbing in conflict; women in Russian prisons
Class and Commuting; Engaging with Climate Change
Birth of Neo-Liberalism; Music, Race and Difference
Contagion; changing masculinity in retail
Intoxication
Female jockeys; military migrants
Children in hospitals; History, heritage and tradition in British politics
Work identity on the railway; how to be gay
Family funerals; red tape
Archaeology of homelessness; residential care revisited
Decline of the weekend; British riots of 2011
Couchsurfing - Trauma Advocacy
The UK strip and lap-dancing industry; blue jeans
Trouble at work, travellers vs tourists
Sociologists and the financial crisis - Against security
The New Arab Man, Lords Club Affiliation
Sickness Benefit Recipients - New Society 50 Years On
Race in an English village; decoding organisation
Ethnic pay gap, racial segregation
Odd couples, student drinking
Italian Family 3: Studio discussion
Italian Family 1: Milan
Italian Family 2: Naples
Breaking rules; Wall Street women
Social capital; gentrification
Jobs for the Boys
Sport under communism - Regeneration Games
Builders and Musicians
Immortality; Evil
Urban Protest
Evil; the morality of cycling
Hostility to tax; Mumbai slums
Kinship
Working class alienation - Nottingham council estate
AIDS conspiracy theories; comics
Wine tasting; US philanthropy
Why Love Hurts
Hebden Bridge; neighbours
Nationhood; recognising transgender
Raoul Moat - the media story; Indian sex workers