In his critique of our 1999 article "Desensitizing Herbert Blumer's Work on Race Relations: Recent Applications of His Group Position Theory to the Study of Contemporary Race Prejudice," Jeffery Ulmer ...

This seminar provides an introduction to American and European sociological theory for graduate students. It explores the most significant developments since WWII, using seminal theoretical work and ...

I draw on Erving Goffman’s Frame Analysis and Eviatar Zerubavel’s sociology of attention to examine social movement communication as attempts to change hearts and minds by changing definitions of ...

Alex joined the university in 2012 having previously worked at the University of Salford. He took his PhD at the University of Manchester between 1996 and 1999, investigating complex decision-making ...