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It has been 20 years since Raewyn Connell published The Men and the Boys (2000a), which can be seen as the foundational text of boyhood studies. This journal is a [...]

Monica Jones was not only ridiculed in Lucky Jim. She appeared as an equally negative grotesque in Eating People Is Wrong, Malcolm Bradbury's Leicester-based novel (see Kyra Piperides's review of [...]

This paper presents some of the findings from two national research projects which focussed on Ph.D. research in Britain. Through interviews with graduate students, supervisors and department heads, it explores the characteristic structures which index natural science and social science doctoral study in both single and multi/inter-disciplinary fields. By comparing and contrasting a 'research group approach' to Ph.D. research with the 'one-to-one' model, the research findings highlight ways in which doctoral study can be organised to minimise some of the problems routinely faced by graduate students. Key words: research, Ph.D., discipline, natural science, social sciences, supervision.

SHEILA ALLEN University of Bradford Debates in Sociology is an edited volume discussing articles published in the BSA journal Sociology since it was first published in 1967. The editors characterise [...]

To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01947.x Byline: Sara Delamont (*) Author Affiliation: (*)Cardiff University

A collection of scarey stories told to pupils facing transfer to secondary school is analysed. Five major themes can be found in the stories, which are discussed and explicated. Boys and girls hear and tell different stories, while males and females feature in contrasting roles in them. An analysis focusing on the messages about sex roles in secondary school transmitted by these stories is presented.

To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2008.00781_3.x Byline: Sara Delamont (1) Author Affiliation: (1)SOCSI, Cardiff University

This paper aruges that the existing sociological literature on the learned professions and on scientific occupations has developed in ways that are now theoretically unproductive. One symptom of thid dead-end is the failure of sociologists of the professions on include research on scientists in their discussions and vice versa. A second sympton is the lack of attention to the implications of the work of Jamous, Peloille, and Bourdieu in both the sociology of scientists and of professions. The thirs symptom of the malaise is the failure to generate sociologically plausible explanations for the marginalisation of female entrants to science and the professions. The paper agues that a anovel direction for sociological argument can be derived by remedying the three symptoms simultaneously.

Two sociologists, one a practitioner, the other a sedentary observer, collaborate to study what attracts students outside Brazil to capoeira, which is the Brazilian dance and martial art, done to the music of the berimbau, a stringed instrument. The way it is taught to non-Brazilians, and how the classes and social events are enacted and understood, are well explained and also, the dualities of the collaborative and contrastive engagements are explored, which focuses on how to do fieldwork on an embodied skill.

The citation patterns of schools of researchers studying social mobility in Britain are examined, and systematic neglect by each school of the work of the others demonstrated.

Byline: Sara Delamont (1) Author Affiliation: (1) University of Wales, Cardiff, UK Article History: Registration Date: 03/10/2004

The latest accounts of ethnography have tended to suggest a discipline that is in upheaval and becoming increasingly divorced from its intellectual roots. However, ethnographic research has always contained within it a variety of perspectives and, as a whole, has never been totally subsumed within a framework of orthodoxy and objectivism. It ought to be conceptualized in terms of continuing tensions rather than as a developmental model.