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These are the Special Sections previously published in Sociological Research Online. The contents of this page will be regularly updated as new material is published. If you are interested in guest editing a Special Section which will be published alongside a general issue, please see the Special Section Policy

• Quality of Work in Prostitution and Sex Work, Guest Edited by Stef Adriaenssens, Giulia Garofalo Geymonat and Laura Oso (November 2016)
• Visualization in Mixed-Methods Research on Social Networks, Guest Edited by Alessio D'Angelo, Louise Ryan and Paola Tubaro (May 2016)
• Linking Emotions: Emotions as the Invisible Threads That Bind People Together, Guest Edited by Natàlia Cantó-Milà (February 2016)
• Gender, Intimacy, Equality: (Un)comfortable Bedfellows?, Guest Edited by Katherine Twamley and Charlotte Faircloth (November 2015)
• The Matter of Race, Guest Edited by Nasar Meer, Anoop Nayak and Raksha Pande (August 2015)
• The Political Sociologies of Sport, Guest Edited by Paul Gilchrist, Russell Holden and Peter Millward (May 2015)
• Research Ethics and Moral Dilemmas of Social Research in Post-Socialist Europe and Beyond, Guest Edited by Ulrike Ziemer and Anton Popov (November 2014)
• Mass Observation as Method, Guest Edited by Emma Casey, Fiona Courage and Nick Hubble (August 2014)
• Happiness Studies, Guest Edited by Mark Cieslik and David Bartram (May 2014)
• Attitudes - Ontology, Methodology, Impact, Guest Edited by Mark Elliot, David Voas and Alison Park (February 2014)
• Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects - Reflections, Repercussions and Reverberations, Guest Edited by Kim Allen, Sumi Hollingworth, Ayo Mansaray and Yvette Taylor (November 2013)
• Modern Girlhoods, Guest Edited by Heather Mendick, Fiona Cullen, Pam Alldred and Simon Bradford (May 2013)
• The Marginalised Mainstream: Making Sense of the 'Missing Middle' of Youth Studies, Guest Edited by Steven Roberts and Robert MacDonald (February 2013)
• Young People, Education and Inequality, Guest Edited by Rachel Brooks (August 2012)
• Visualising Changing Landscapes of Work and Labour, Guest Edited by Phillip Mizen and Carol Wolkowitz (May 2012)
• Special Issue on Visual Methods, Guest Edited by Ross Coomber and Gayle Letherby (February 2012)
• Critical Concepts - Families, Intimacies and Personal Relationships, Guest Editored by Jacqui Gabb and Elizabeth Silva (December 2011)
• 60 Years of Impact - reflecting on 60 years of the BSA and British Sociology Articles, Guest Edited by John D Brewer and Jennifer Platt (August 2011)
• Food - Representations and Meanings, Guest Edited by Wendy Wills (June 2011)
• Friendship and Emotions, Guest Edited by Mary Holmes and Silvana Greco (February 2011)
• Changing Parenting Culture, Guest Edited by Charlotte Faircloth and Ellie Lee (November 2010)
• Dynamics of epistemic Communities, Guest Edited by Morgan Meyer and Susan Molyneux-Hodgson (May 2010)
• Charles Tilly: Narratives from Major to Minor: On Resisting Binaries in Favour of Joined up Thinking: Guest Edited by Liz Stanley (November 2009)
• The East End of London - New Research on Racism and Multiculturalism, Guest edited by Max Farrar and Shamser Sinha (September 2008)
• Methodology and LGBT people, Guest edited by Bob Cant (March 2008)
• Pierre Bourdieu: A Critical Tribute in Times of Uncertainty, Guest Edited by Michalis Lianos (January 2008)
• Gender, Sleep and the Life Course: A Sociological Approach, Guest edited by Sara Arber, Jenny Hislop and Simon Williams (September 2007)
• Reusing Qualitative Data, Guest edited by Niamh Moore, Mike Savage, Elizabeth B. Silva (May 2007)
• Politics, Responsibility and Risk: Guest edited by Elizabeth Ettorre and Alison Anderson (March 2007)
• Changing Femininities, Changing Masculinities: Guest edited by Elisabetta Ruspini (January 2007)
• Intimacy beyond the Family, Guest edited by Lynn Jamieson, David Morgan, Graham Crow and Graham Allan (September 2006)
• Families, Intimacy and Social Change, Guest edited by Alison Anderson and Elizabeth Ettorre (July 2006)
• 'Social Futures? The Sociology of Substance and Shadow', Guest edited by Dave Morland, Diane Nutt, Steve Taylor, Andrea Abbas and Tony Chapman (November 2005)
• Consumption and Waste (a Collection from the 2003 BSA Conference 'Social Futures: Desire, Excess and Waste': The Consumption and Waste Stream),: Guest edited by Andrea Abbas, Steve Taylor, Tony Chapman, Dave Morland and Diane Nutt (July 2005)
• Working Visually: Guest edited by Susan Halford and Caroline Knowles (2005)