Opioids and fentanyl are a drug ‘power category’
The EMCCDA and others (Duke, 2019; European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, 2019) have highlighted the rise of…
Illicit digital hybridity, market habitus and the global supply chain
Digital drug distribution has a number of effects that are not just about the market working more efficiently through digital…
Prisons have already been abolished, and the police defunded
Contemporary social movements in the West either forget past achievements made in their name or hold them in outright contempt….
Leisure zones and the intoxication context
An insight of the sociology of consumer society from Veblen onwards is the way modern societies turn free time into…
What does money mean: the market habitus
‘For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she…
Is it ever okay to override someone’s lived experience in your research? (This post discusses sexual assault)
Yes, absolutely, all the time, 100%, this is what you are here for, you must be prepared to do this…
Unit of analysis, unit of observation and what’s in your reality bag of tricks
I used to teach my students that they had to get the unit of analysis right and everything in their…
Crimetech – It’s like fintech, but not as much of a scam
Crimetech is a catch all for the technology developed by criminal enterprises to further their aims. It is the set…
Who put the literacy in digital literacy: Why is voice messaging absent in digital sociology, why are we obsessed with text, and why is this title longer than the post below?
Voice messaging sends prerecorded audio messages via messaging apps. Users can mix and match audio messages with other media such…
Disinformation – you have no idea what it is so it beats me how you plan to fix it
Just adding to the rash of ‘stop thinking disinformation is the problem’ takes out there. The high cultural capital crew…
