Jason Hughes (sociologist)

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Jason Hughes is currently a professor and head of the School of Media, Communication and 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; regulation, and lately, tea culture. His first book was Learning to Smoke^[2] More recently^[when?] he has completed, together with Eric Dunning, a study of the work of Norbert Elias entitled Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process.^[3] He has also published a number of edited books, including Visual Methods^[4] and Internet Research^[5] and co-edited books, including, together with John Goodwin, Documentary and Archival Research^[6] together with Chas Critcher, Julian Petley and Amanda Rolloff, Moral Panics in the Contemporary World^[7] and, together with Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin, Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives^[8] His hobbies include collecting antique clocks.

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