{"id":1052,"date":"2012-11-12T07:58:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T07:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:15:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:15:32","slug":"kent-sociologists-key-articles-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2012\/11\/12\/kent-sociologists-key-articles-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Sociologists&#8217; &#8220;Key Articles&#8221; Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2012\/11\/BSA-60-years.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2012\/11\/BSA-60-years.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"96\" align=\"right\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1053\" \/><\/a>In celebrating their 60<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagebsa.co.uk\/code\/bsa_themes.aspx\">British Sociological Association<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2012\/11\/BSA-60-years.png\"><img align=\"right\" \/><\/a> has highlighted a selection of classic and contemporary articles (from the stable of BSA journals: Cultural Sociology; Sociological Research Online; Sociology; and Work, Employment and Society) that have been assessed by prominent members of the discipline as having made a particularly significant impact on sociology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three contributions from SSPSSR staff have been included in this select list. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Professor Frank Furedi\u2019s<\/em> \u2018From the narrative of the blitz to the rhetoric of vulnerability\u2019, published in <em>Cultural Sociology<\/em>, has been heralded in the area of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagebsa.co.uk\/code\/viewPDF.aspx?&amp;filename=Walklate_Crime.pdf\">crime and deviance<\/a> for providing a \u2018benchmark against which to think, critically, not only about the concept of fear but also about what the different theoretical perspectives currently in vogue assume about the nature of human beings and their capacity to prevent their minds from becoming \u201cfactories of fear\u201d\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2012\/11\/shilling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/files\/2012\/11\/shilling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"137\" align=\"right\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1054\" \/><\/a>In challenging the marginal place of the body in sociology, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/shilling.html\"><em>Professor Chris Shilling\u2019s<\/em><\/a> \u2018Educating the body: physical capital and the production of social inequalities\u2019, published in <em>Sociology<\/em>, has been identified as \u2018one of the most significant stimuli to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagebsa.co.uk\/code\/viewPDF.aspx?&amp;filename=Malcolm_Sport.pdf\">sociology of sport<\/a> in the last twenty years\u2019, and as representing the beginning of what has become a significant interchange between the sociology of sport and the sociology of the body.<\/p>\n<p>Also touching on issues central to our bodily being, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/shilling.html\"><em>Chris Shilling\u2019s<\/em><\/a> co-authored paper with Philip A Mellor, \u2018Modernity, self-identity and the sequestration of death\u2019, published in <em>Sociology<\/em>, has been included as an \u2018often cited landmark article\u2019 that \u2018brought the study of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagebsa.co.uk\/code\/viewPDF.aspx?&amp;filename=Walter_Death_Final.pdf\">death and dying<\/a> out of specialities such as the sociology of medicine or religion, and into the centre of social theory.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebrating their 60th anniversary, the British Sociological Association has highlighted a selection of classic and contemporary articles (from the stable of BSA journals: Cultural &hellip; 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