John Eldridge is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow. He has published extensively in the fields of industrial sociology and the sociology of the mass media.

• Overview 1 The new positivity 2 Sociology and its audience(s): changing perceptions of sociological argument 3 For sociology, Gouldner’s and ours 4 For postdisciplinary studies: sociology and the curse of disciplinary parochialism and Imperialism 5 For a sociological feminism 6 Bourdieu and methodological polytheism: taking sociology forward in the twenty-first century 7 Work and its narratives 8 Sociology and the Third Way 9 Memory, violence and identity 10 Science, technology and the relevance of sociology 11 The coming biological challenge to social theory and practice 12 Putting sociology on the bioethics map

John Eldridge is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow. He has published extensively in the fields of industrial sociology and the sociology of the mass media.

• Overview 1 The new positivity 2 Sociology and its audience(s): changing perceptions of sociological argument 3 For sociology, Gouldner’s and ours 4 For postdisciplinary studies: sociology and the curse of disciplinary parochialism and Imperialism 5 For a sociological feminism 6 Bourdieu and methodological polytheism: taking sociology forward in the twenty-first century 7 Work and its narratives 8 Sociology and the Third Way 9 Memory, violence and identity 10 Science, technology and the relevance of sociology 11 The coming biological challenge to social theory and practice 12 Putting sociology on the bioethics map

John Eldridge is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow. He has published extensively in the fields of industrial sociology and the sociology of the mass media.

• Overview 1 The new positivity 2 Sociology and its audience(s): changing perceptions of sociological argument 3 For sociology, Gouldner’s and ours 4 For postdisciplinary studies: sociology and the curse of disciplinary parochialism and Imperialism 5 For a sociological feminism 6 Bourdieu and methodological polytheism: taking sociology forward in the twenty-first century 7 Work and its narratives 8 Sociology and the Third Way 9 Memory, violence and identity 10 Science, technology and the relevance of sociology 11 The coming biological challenge to social theory and practice 12 Putting sociology on the bioethics map