ABSTRACT
The BSA in its structure, organisation and pattern of activities is not just an independent body responding to its own internal concerns, but a member of a set of organisations which can be seen as making up a loosely linked system. This chapter looks at some of the more salient other organisations in the set, and how the BSA has related to them. These include other international and national organisations of sociologists, learned societies from other disciplines, and the ESRC. Other bodies with which BSA has had less continuous dealings have included national educational policy makers such as the Higher Education Funding Councils and government departments, academic trade unions, research funding bodies other than the ESRC, public examination boards and single universities when issues have been raised about individual cases (for some instances, see Chapter 7). These are mentioned in other chapters when an issue involving them is discussed.
