Jason Hughes (sociologist)

Jason Hughes is currently a professor and head of the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at University of Leicester. Previously, he worked as a senior lecturer at Brunel University in West London.[1]

For the Welsh actor of the same name, see Jason Hughes (actor). For the british racing driver of the same name, see Jason Hughes (auto racing).
Jason Hughes
Born
Jason Hughes

Uk
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Leicester
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Leicester
Main interestsSociology
WebsiteProfile page

Hughes' research interests include problematised consumption; drugs, addiction and health; emotions, work and identity; figurational sociology and sociological theory; methods and methodology; moral panics; regulation, and lately, tea culture. His first book was Learning to Smoke[2] More recently he has completed, together with Eric Dunning, a study of the work of Norbert Elias entitled Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process.[3] He has also published a number of edited books, including Visual Methods[4] and Internet Research[5] and co-edited books, including, together with John Goodwin, Documentary and Archival Research[6] together with Chas Critcher, Julian Petley and Amanda Rolloff, Moral Panics in the Contemporary World[7] and, together with Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin, Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives[8]

References
  1. "Profile page: Professor Jason Hughes". Department of Sociology, University of Leicester.
  2. "Learning to Smoke". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 2015-10-19.
  3. "Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 2015-10-19.
  4. "SAGE Visual Methods | SAGE Publications Ltd". uk.sagepub.com. Retrieved 2015-10-19.
  5. "SAGE Internet Research Methods | SAGE Publications Ltd". uk.sagepub.com. Retrieved 2015-10-19.
  6. (Sage, 2014)
  7. (Bloomsbury, 2013)
  8. (Routledge, 2007)
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