These cultural tensions have driven a sense of national division — 84 per cent of Britons say the UK feels divided and 64 per ...

John Curtice receives funding from UKRI-ESRC. Tim Bale has previously received funding for research on the Conservative Party and party members from the Leverhulme Trust and from the Economic and ...

A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's'Great British Class Survey'. Social class has re-emerged as a topic of enormous scholarly and public attention. In this new book, Social ...

This article examines trends in assortative mating in Britain over the last 60 years. Assortative mating is the tendency for like to form a conjugal partnership with like. Our focus is on the ...

This resolution was adopted at the Sixth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), held from October 22 to October 25, 2022. Read the full report on the Congress here. 1. British and ...

“BUILDING SOCIAL capital will not be easy, but it is the key to making democracy work,” wrote Robert Putnam, an American political scientist, in 1993. He found that places where people trust and ...

It is an ideology that continues to grip millions, not least because of its piercing critique of capitalism. And Communism's founders, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, used the social conditions they ...

How a 1950s study of social class and mental illness in New Haven changed the way people thought about mental health.