Category Culture & Identity

Investigate how culture, norms, and values shape personal and collective identities. Explore subcultures, globalisation, and the ever-changing landscape of social belonging.

Quiet Neurodivergence, Spoons, and the Sociology of Invisible Struggle

Quietly Neurodivergent

This article develops quiet neurodivergence as a way of naming how some neurodivergent people appear to cope in education, work and civic life while absorbing hidden costs in masking, energy use and burnout. Drawing on neurodiversity, spoon theory, stigma and camouflaging research, and critical disability studies, it argues that quiet neurodivergence is produced by neuronormative institutions and patterned by class, race, gender and access to diagnosis.

Is Durkheim Still Relevant? Social Facts, Solidarity and Culture Wars

Durkheim Explainer

Durkheim never saw a social media pile-on, but he worried about what holds societies together and how they draw moral boundaries. This article introduces his ideas on social facts, solidarity, crime and anomie, and uses them to analyse contemporary “culture wars” over statues, values and offence – and to show where his framework now needs updating.

Is Marx Still Relevant? Marxism, Class and the Gig Economy

Marx and the Gig Economy

Marx wrote about factories and nineteenth-century class conflict, not delivery apps or algorithmic ratings. So how far can his ideas take us today? This article introduces Marx’s core concepts and tests them against platform capitalism and the gig economy, showing what still works, what does not, and where later theorists extend his framework.