Why it’s always sociological….

LSE Sociology alumnus Phil Woodford on his reasons for studying sociology in the 1980s. The growth of media studies over the past 25 years was probably the best thing that could ever have happened to sociology. There always needs to be a subject which is the butt of everyone’s jokes and back in the 1980s, I guess sociology was it. Despite its reputation and associations with bearded 1960s Marxists, I was still pretty determined to study it.