Educational stratification; social mobility; education and civic values; history of education; the culture, society and politics of Scotland; quantitative methods in social science
Elected 2013
The micro-sociological perspectives of symbolic interactionism and Goffman's dramaturgy, applied to questions of self-identity, emotions, mental health and everyday life. Originator of the sociology of shyness and sociology of nothing
Public opinion and political behaviour; public attitudes to science and technology; intergenerational social mobility; survey methodology
Historical sociology and modernity; social theory, epistemology, and the intersection of postcolonial and decolonial studies; the political economy of race and colonialism
