Author details Stockholm Centre for Health and Social Change (SCOHOST), Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden. European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (ECOHOST), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Department of Human Ecology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Departmen...

While welfare reform matters for workers and workplaces, it is peripheral in English-language sociology of work and industrial relations research. This article’s core proposition is that active labour market policies (ALMPs) are altering the institutional constitution of the labour market by intensifying market discipline within the workforce. This re-commodification effect is specified drawing...

Organizational sociology is, by most standards, a fundamental part of the discipline— after all, figuring out how to collectively organize ourselves is a core problem of any society—but many have wondered if it’s a subfield on the brink of irrelevance. Blog posts and a recent ASA session have been dedicated to this question: what is the future of organizational sociology? There are numerous ins...

george bernard shaw's masterpiece pygmalion deals with the social function of language and reveals that linguistic competence is one of the markers of social status. it presents the story of the social transformation of a flower girl into a ‘lady’ through linguistic retraining. this work has been analyzed from a variety of perspectives such as freudian psychology and sociolinguistic perspective...