Professor Susie Scott FBA

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
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023
Honours
FBA, FAcSS

Current post

University of Sussex Professor of Sociology

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Mike Savage FBA

Historical sociology of 20th century Britain; the new middle classes, the changing nature of attachments to locality and place, the relationship between cultural inequalities and social class.

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Professor Paul Edwards FBA

Sociology of work and employment; employment relations in multinational companies; employment in small firms

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Professor Tariq Modood FBA

Theory and politics of multiculturalism, secularism, Islamophobia, racial equality; sociology of ethnic minorities in higher education and employment; with special reference to Muslims in Western Europe

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