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10am to 12pm, Thursday, 22 June 2023
Concepts and Assumptions in Sociological Research
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Room B15, Basement, Darwin Building, University College London, Darwin Walk (off Malet Street), London, WC1E 6BT
NB: You cannot enter the Darwin Building via Gower Street; this door is locked.  Please use the Darwin Walk entrance

This seminar, following the UCL Sociology Network Annual Lecture, will take the form of an interactive workshop in which participants are invited to discuss, in dialogue with Professor Atkinson, their own research projects or works in progress. Among other topics, the workshop is likely to explore:

• If and how projects might use concepts of capital or fields
• How to understand the interplay of inequalities and desires at stake
• The fundamental assumptions about the human condition that may be implicated in research 
• Whether and how research projects might benefit from dialogue across disciplines
  Please note
• This seminar is only open to UCL PhD students and post-doctoral researchers
• for the seminar

About Professor
Will Atkinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. He specialises in social class – what it is, how it works, and how it interrelates with other forms of division and domination – and has undertaken multiple research projects, using qualitative and quantitative methods, to investigate its impact on life courses, lifestyles, politics, identities, family and everyday life across numerous nations. He works closely with the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu but is determined to deepen and develop it in dialogue with empirical research and other theoretical traditions. He is the author of dozens of journal articles and eight books, including Class (Polity, 2^nd ed 2024), The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies (Routledge, 2 vols, 2020-22), Beyond Bourdieu (Polity, 2016) and Bourdieu and After (Routledge, 2020).