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This year we’re celebrating three awards: the Historical Insight Award, the Sociology Insights Award, and the Sociology Lens Perspective Award.

All awarded articles are now free to access for the next three months. Enjoy reading!

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Areas: historical & social/cultural history; political, economic, gender, urban, environmental, media, body, art; migration; colonial/postcolonial; religion; digital; AI. Deadline: 30 Dec 2025. Find out more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

See our the first special virtual issue collection named "Sociology of the Screen: From Cinema to Digital Media" here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Our editors have selected papers that explore how cinematic and digital screens, media practices, and visual cultures shape social life in different contexts. You can find the collection below, bringing together articles published across different issues of Sociology Lens.

Written with Bourdieu-inspired reflexivity, the article questions the epistemological boundaries of the discipline and invites readers to rethink the formal conventions of sociological writing.
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This debate examines writing practices in the social sciences through the intellectual legacy of Pierre Bourdieu, how the “methodic circle” emerged as an alternative to the standard Introduction–Methods–Results format, using materials from the archives of Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales.

Combining queer historical analysis, archival depth, and fieldwork, the authors explore visibility, belonging, and collective memory in rural life — offering a powerful contribution to contemporary queer sociology. Read the full article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Supported by the University of Wyoming, this article traces the symbolic legacy of Matthew Shepard — a student murdered in a 1998 hate crime — while amplifying the voices of LGBTQ+ youth living in rural America, a group often overlooked in the literature.

The study traces how children encountered early mass culture, reviving the social history of Direklerarası and reading Ottoman modernization through everyday life. Read the full article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...