Globalisation and Social Change: Editorial Introduction

The papers in this special issue of Sociological Research Online were all presented at the 50th Anniversary British Sociological Association conference held at the Manchester Metropolitan University in April 2001. This is the first time that the papers presented at the BSA Conference have been published in a journal rather than as an edited book (or books), and as members of the organising committee, and guest editors of this special issue of Sociological Research Online, we are delighted with the result. In this short introduction we explain how we chose nine papers out of the 72 that were submitted in written form, and briefly explore the intellectual context for the special issue as a whole