Jason Hughes (sociologist)

Jason Hughes (born 21 October 1943) is currently a professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at University of Leicester. Previously, he worked as a Senior Lecturer at Brunel University in West London.^[1]

Hughes' research interests include problematised consumption; drugs, addiction and health; emotions, work and identity; figurational sociology and sociological theory; methods and methodology; moral panics and regulation. His first book, Learning to Smoke^[2] was winner of the 2006 Norbert Elias prize.^[3] More recently he has completed, together with Eric Dunning, a major study of the work of Norbert Elias entitled Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process.^[4] He has also published a number of edited books, including Visual Methods^[5] and Internet Research^[6] and co-edited books, including, together with John Goodwin, Documentary and Archival Research^[7] together with Chas Critcher, Julian Petley and Amanda Rolloff, Moral Panics in the Contemporary World^[8] and, together with Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin, Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives^[9]

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