An Introduction to Sociology by Karim Murji

Karim Murji is a Professor of Social Policy at the University of West London. His studies and publications address fields such as racism, race equality and social policy, migration, and policing. Together with John Solomos and other scholars, he is currently involved in an ESRC-funded initiative on the Open City, which delves into how the city accommodates new varieties of urban existence, through the social restructuring of its spaces and locations, and examines the ways urban governance at the city-wide and borough scales mirror, promote, or limit the concept of the open city, employing London as a case study. With Sarah Neal, he serves as the Chief Editor of Current Sociology, and they previously served as the editors of Sociology.

Sarah Neal is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Sarah conducts research and writes in the fields of race, ethnicity, multiculture, community, belonging, and place. Recent publications include The Lived Experience of Multiculture: The New Spatial and Social Relations of Diversity (Routledge, 2018, co-authored by K. Bennett, A. Cochrane, and G. Mohan) and Friendship and Diversity: Ethnic and Social Relations in the City (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, with Carol Vincent and Humera Iqbal). She is the coeditor of Current Sociology and an editorial board member of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

John Solomos is a professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. His instruction concentrates on the sociology of race and racism, sociological theory, human rights and social theory, qualitative research methods, and multiculturalism and citizenship. He has overseen an extensive variety of PhD students in both his own areas of research attention and in other fields of sociology. He is enthusiastic about collaborating with PhD students and is interested in receiving informal inquiries from prospective research scholars. Currently, he supervises students focusing on various concerns, including migration and refugees, minority families and social capital, Turkish-speaking youth in London, and Cuban music and popular culture. He is an active member of the Strategic Research Board of the Economic and Social Research Council. Additionally, he serves as the co-editor alongside Martin Bulmer of the global journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, published monthly by Routledge.