The BSA is a registered charitable company (charity no: 1080235). Its charitable objective is: The advancement of public education by the promotion and diffusion of the knowledge of sociology by lectures, publications, the promotion and publication of research and encouragement of contact between workers in all relevant fields of enquiry.
Organisation
The activities of the BSA are overseen by the Board of Trustees which is the decision-making body responsible for setting and implementing strategy. An Advisory Forum, including representatives from all of the constituencies within the Association and the BSA President, provides a two-way channel for information exchange between the members of the Association and the Trustees.
An office of 10 staff members takes care of the day-to-day running of the Association.
The Association publishes a magazine, Network, for its members three times a year, Spring, Summer and Autumn.[4][5]
Awards
Philip Abrams Memorial Prize
The Philip Abrams Memorial Prize has been awarded almost every year since 1989 for "the best first and sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology".[6] Past winners include Barbara Adam (1991, for Time and Social Theory), Graeme Kirkpatrick (2005 for Critical Technology: A Social Theory of Personal Computing) and Maddie Breeze (2016, for Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby: Gender, Organization and Ambivalence).[7] The prize is named for professor Philip Abrams (1933–1981).[8]