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2. Editors’ Report 2015.
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King, Andrew, Neal, Sarah, Murji, Karim, Watson, Sophie, and Woodward, Kath
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SOCIOLOGY ,PERIODICAL publishing ,ELECTRONIC journals - Abstract
The authors discuss issues related to "Sociology," including statistics on article submissions in 2014 and plans for the electronic special issues of the journal.
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- 2015
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3. Race Ends Where? Race, Racism and Contemporary Sociology.
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Meer, Nasar and Nayak, Anoop
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RACE ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
In this introductory article we critically discuss where the study of race in sociology has travelled, with the benefit of previously published articles in Sociology supported by correspondence from article authors. We make the argument for sociologies of race that go beyond surface level reconstructions, and which challenge sociologists to reflect on how their discipline is presently configured. What the suite of papers in this collection shows is both the resilience of race as a construct for organising social relations and the slippery fashion in which ideas of race have shifted, transmuted and pluralised. It is in a spirit of recognising continuity and change that we present this collection. Some of the papers already stand as landmark essays, while others exemplify key moments in the broader teleology of race studies. This includes articles that explore the ontological ground upon which ideas of race, citizenship and black identity have been fostered and the need to develop a global sociology that is critically reflexive of its western orientation. The theme of continuity and change can be seen in papers that showcase intersectional approaches to race, where gender, nationality, generation and class offer nuanced readings of everyday life, alongside the persistence of institutional forms of discrimination. As this work demonstrates, middle-class forms of whiteness often go ‘hiding in the light’ yet can be made visible if we consider how parental school choice, or selecting where to live are also recognised as racially informed decisions. The range and complexity of these debates not only reflect the vitality of race in the contemporary period but lead us to ask not so much if race ends here, but where? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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4. 'That Was Our Little Five Minutes of Shush. . . a Kiss and Cuddle and Have Our Books': Sensory Affinities among Families during Shared Reading with Children.
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Hall, Mel
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PARENT attitudes ,FAMILIES ,SOCIOLOGY ,DATA analysis ,NARRATIVES - Abstract
This article interrogates shared reading between parents and young children, theorised as 'sensory affinities', understood through a sociological lens. I argue that reading cannot be confined to educational aspects, and towards increased prominence for relational dimensions. I explore the narratives of 29 parents/carers of reading with young children. Drawing on data on the embodied aspects of reading, Mason's concept of affinities illuminates the sensory facets of reading applied to family intimacies. Interventions have hitherto distilled literacy from the wider social context. However, an understanding of reading in the context of families from diverse backgrounds, yields insights into the sensory character of everyday family life. Findings are of significance to sociology broadly, and specifically, families and relationships. Centring families facilitates a fuller understanding of literacy practices. Finally, the focus on an everyday, tangible practice such as reading can support understandings of hidden and taken-for-granted dimensions of family life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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5. In Search of the Sociology of Work: Past, Present and Future.
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Halford, Susan and Strangleman, Tim
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SOCIOLOGY of work ,SOCIOLOGICAL research ,SOCIALISM ,FEMINISM ,SOCIAL change ,SOCIAL theory - Abstract
This paper traces relations between the study of work and the evolution of British sociology as an academic discipline. This reveals broad trajectories of marginalization, as the study of work becomes less central to Sociology as a discipline; increasing fragmentation of divergent approaches to the study of work; and -- as a consequence of both -- a narrowing of the sociological vision for the study of work. Our paper calls for constructive dialogue across different approaches to the study of work and a re-invigoration of sociological debate about work and -- on this basis -- for in-depth interdisciplinary engagement enabling us to build new approaches that will allow us to study work in all its diversity and complexity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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6. Bringing it ‘Home’? Sociological Practice and the Practice of Sociology.
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Meer, Nasar, Leonard, Pauline, Taylor, Steve, O’Connor, Henrietta, and Offer, John
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SOCIOLOGY ,DISCIPLINE -- Social aspects ,SOCIAL control ,SOCIOLOGY education ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Since Sociology was established in 1967, the journal has assumed a significant role in shaping the discipline. In the interim years it is often said that the very practice of sociology has now ‘spun out’ beyond the dedicated departments that were once the centres of sociological practice. This raises questions as to the relationship between sociology and other disciplines, questions that are compelling and arguably distinct from a welcome recognition of sociology’s undoubted intellectual hybridity. The extent to which this is a productive tension or one that requires a resolution is an ongoing conversation to which this special issue speaks. In this introductory article we take what we consider to be an innovative route that is guided by the theme of ‘Bringing Sociology Home’ whilst simultaneously recognising the enormous strengths brought by the multidisciplinary developments of the last 50 volumes. We set out the terrain before introducing a mixture of short and substantive papers from contributors, as well as interviews, with scholars who have made a contribution to the study of the discipline of sociology both inside and beyond the pages of the journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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7. Exploring Trends and Challenges in Sociological Research.
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McKie, Linda and Ryan, Louise
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ELECTRONIC journals ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIOLOGISTS ,SOCIOLOGICAL research ,DEBATE ,SOCIAL media - Abstract
This is the first e-special issue for the journal Sociology and its chosen focus is the article ‘The coming crisis of empirical sociology’ by Savage and Burrows (2007). This article challenged sociologists with a variety of questions about the role, relevance and methodological opportunities for sociological research in the 21st century. On publication it stoked the already charged debates on a public sociology (Burawoy, 2004), the role of publicly funded research (ESRC, 2009) and relevance of sociological research in an age of burgeoning social media (Brewer and Hunter, 2006). This e-special provides a reprise of these debates and explores relevant papers in Sociology, as well as alerting readers to recurring themes and new directions on the topic of methods and social research. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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8. The anomalous beasts: Hooligans and the sociology of education.
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Delamont, Sara
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SOCIOLOGY , *EDUCATION , *EDUCATIONAL sociology , *HOODLUMS , *WORKING class - Abstract
This paper argues that the subspecialism of sociology of education has, for a century, been ambivalent about the 'hooligan'. It has both celebrated and excoriated the anti-school working-class boy. Similarly, the mainstream of sociology has been ambivalent about sociologists of education, both relying on them and ignoring them. Thirdly, the paper speculates on the position of hooligans in Britain in 2025 and the relationship between mainstream sociology and the sociology of education in that year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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9. Re-branding Britain: Sociology, futures and futurology.
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Westwood, Sallie
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SOCIAL change , *SOCIOLOGY , *NATION-state , *UTOPIAS , *DYSTOPIAS - Abstract
This paper argues that notions of the future and social change have been central to the sociological enterprise since its inception. However, sociology developed with the modern project and the rise of nation-states. This is reflected in the way that sociology has consistently taken for granted the geography of the nation-state as a basic organising principle for the understanding of social formations, producing 'national' sociologies. Thus, while providing a view of Britain in 2025, this paper also asks questions about the imaginary that constitutes Britain and the ways in which it will be re-visioned as part of the 'global cosmopolitan society'. This re-visioning is not, however, the preserve of sociology and the paper elaborates popular imaginaries on the future of Britain. A recurring theme within visions of the future is the binary between utopias and dystopias, refrained in relation to the impact of new technologies and discussions of cyberspace. The paper examines the impact of these debates on the sociological imagination and the future of the sociological enterprise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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10. From the Home to the (Hand)bag: Negotiating Privacy in Personal Life when Living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).
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White, Lauren
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IRRITABLE colon ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL context ,MANNERS & customs ,FEMINISTS - Abstract
Securing, and negotiating, privacy with intimate bodily needs is an ordinary but often hidden feature of our personal lives. Drawing upon a UK-based qualitative study that utilised diaries and follow-up interviews to explore everyday life with the health condition irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), this article explores the navigations of privacy when anticipating or experiencing symptoms. Building upon sociological understandings of privacy and personal life, this article maps the intimate and mobile ways in which privacy is sought out – disrupted or achieved – in domestic, material and public realms. It does so by following the paths to privacy and the personal belongings carried as they move through personal life. The article demonstrates how privacy is embodied and spatially, temporally, relationally and materially shaped. In doing so, the article argues that privacy comes to shift through everyday contexts and social relations with intimate materialities in mind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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11. Social Mobility and 'Openness' in Creative Occupations since the 1970s.
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Brook, Orian, Miles, Andrew, O'Brien, Dave, and Taylor, Mark
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SOCIAL mobility ,GOVERNMENT policy ,WORKING class ,SOCIOLOGY ,CULTURAL industries - Abstract
Social mobility in the cultural sector is currently an important issue in government policy and public discussion, associated with perceptions of a collapse in numbers of working-class origin individuals becoming artists, actors, musicians and authors. The question of who works in creative occupations has also attracted significant sociological attention. To date, however, there have been no empirically grounded studies into the changing social composition of such occupations. This article uses the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study to show that, while those from more privileged social backgrounds have long dominated, there has been no change in the relative class mobility chances of gaining access to creative work. Instead, we must turn to the pattern of absolute mobility into this sector in order to understand claims that it is experiencing a 'mobility crisis'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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12. The Sociology of Utopia, Modern Temporality and Black Visions of Liberation.
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Davidson, Joe PL
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SOCIOLOGY ,LIBERTY ,AFRICAN Americans ,SOCIOLOGISTS ,UTOPIAS - Abstract
This article focuses on the relationship between the sociology of utopia and Black visions of liberation. Influential figures from Karl Mannheim to Ruth Levitas have effectively demonstrated the value of a utopian perspective for sociology. However, the African American tradition of utopianism has been largely overlooked in this literature. I argue that the Black standpoint forces a rethinking of the sociological understanding of utopia. More specifically, while most sociologists of utopia straightforwardly associate the desire for a better world with the future, the Black tradition proposes a more expansive understanding of utopia's temporality. Building on visions of new worlds advanced by WEB Du Bois and the movement for reparations for slavery, I suggest that Black utopia involves a glance backwards to the past, such that the image of a better future is accompanied by the memory of the catastrophe of slavery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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13. Powerful or Disempowering Knowledge? The Teaching of Sociology in English Schools and Colleges.
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Cant, Sarah and Chatterjee, Anwesa
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SOCIAL sciences education ,CURRICULUM planning ,SOCIAL change ,STEREOTYPES ,SOCIAL structure - Abstract
While studying sociology can be empowering and transformative, fostering criticality and reflexivity, this capacity is not being sufficiently harnessed in school/college-based delivery in England. A large survey of sociology teachers revealed that they are required to teach outdated and sometimes discredited studies, which can reinforce rather than challenge stereotypes held by the privileged and which can be disempowering for those students who cannot recognise their own experiences. This article provides a unique insight into the ways that school/college curricula reinforce inequality and contributes to important debates within the sociology of education. Specifically, the article argues that the work being undertaken to decolonise the curriculum in universities, through challenging structural and discursive operations of power, should also inform the revision of school/college specifications. The lessons from this study can be usefully applied to the teaching of sociology beyond England and indeed to other subject disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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14. WORK AND THE NEW PUBLIC SERVICE CLASS?
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Webb, Janette
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WORK , *SOCIOLOGY , *CIVIL service , *LOCAL government , *PUBLIC sector - Abstract
This paper offers a critique of the argument that the category of 'work' is no longer useful in theories of society and suggests that sociology needs to be able to explain why work is not in fact being decommodified, and why the new middle classes appear unable to offer substantive challenge to alienated work and the instrumentalism of modern societies. The central focus of the paper is an examination of the extent to which public service work is subject to processes of rationalisation and degradation. Qualitative data, on the restructuring of local government, illustrates the argument. Senior officers' responses to the double-edged requirement of justifying and implementing reforms, according to a cost-quality rhetoric, are explored. The paper asks to what extent the trust relationship, embodied in the service class contract, is eroded by market principles. It suggests that divisions are emerging within the public service class between the entrepreneurial 'strategists' and the welfare professionals. It assesses the extent to which public servants continue to engage critically with processes of rationalisation and suggests that conservatism and defensiveness may be the predominant responses, particularly if expectations raised by devolution and democratic renewal are confounded by intensification and insecurity. In conclusion it contends that ongoing rationalisation and state policies to 'remoralise work' suggest that Offe (1985) and others such as Beck (1999) are over-optimistic in forecasting the demise of 'wage slavery'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1999
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15. UNIFICATION OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY BY THE RATIONAL CHOICE MODEL: CONCEIVING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY.
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Zafirovski, Milan
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SOCIAL theory , *RATIONAL choice theory , *PARADIGMS (Social sciences) , *SOCIOECONOMICS - Abstract
This paper reconsiders the possibility for unification of sociological theory by the rational choice model. This is induced by the claims of rational choice theorists that extending this model from economics to sociology can be conducive to establishing a unifying paradigm and method to be given 'paradigmatic privilege' within sociology. The outcome of such an extension of the economic approach has been 'sociological rational choice theory' or 'rational action theory for sociology'. Within sociology, such a rational choice model is regarded as a major theoretical or/and methodological innovation and thus a 'new' promise for sociology's unification. Overall, the paper suggests that these 'ecumenistic' claims of rational choice theorists cannot be taken at face value since they are predicated upon dubious views of the relations between economy and society and between economics and sociology, including inadequate interpretations of neoclassical economics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1999
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16. SOCIOLOGY AND THE REPRODUCTIVE SELF: DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITIONS AND MODERNITY.
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Van Krieken, Robert
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REPRODUCTIVE health , *SOCIOLOGY , *DEMOGRAPHIC transition , *DEMOGRAPHIC change , *SOCIAL structure , *HUMAN behavior - Abstract
This paper argues for the integration of a greater awareness of reproductive conduct into sociological theory and research. Instead of conceiving the relationship between demography and sociology as one where sociological concepts are used to illuminate demographic concerns, the paper works towards the development of a demographic perspective in sociological understandings of modern society and its historical development. The argument will be for the notion of the 'reproductive self', with a greater emphasis on understanding human identity as stretching over time and generations, rather than as self-contained, timeless and autonomous. The paper will show that such a conception of human identity enables us to improve our understanding of a range of theoretical issues, including the relation between social structure and action and the rationality of human action, as well as revealing the historical roots of a number of long-term trends which are usually treated as changes typical of the second half of the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1997
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17. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AS A SOCIAL PSYCHOSIS.
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Craib, Ian
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PSYCHOANALYSIS , *PSYCHOSES , *SOCIAL constructionism , *PHENOMENOLOGICAL sociology , *PSYCHIATRY - Abstract
The paper is written with a degree of irony: it treats a sociological approach as if it were a client presenting itself for psychoanalysis, and argues that using Melanie Klein's developmental theory the approach can be seen as a manic psychosis -- a defence against entering the depressive position. It is suggested that sociologists find it difficult to recognise the limitations of their discipline -- the depressive position -- one reason being that we do not actually exercise power over anybody; social constructionism enables us to convince ourselves that the opposite is true, that we know everything about how people become what they are, that we do not have to take account of other disciplines or sciences, but we can explain everything. The paper ends by suggesting that its own argument can be treated as a psychoanalytic version of a manic psychosis and that a non-psychotic theory is one which knows its own limitations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1997
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18. QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH IN BRITISH SOCIOLOGY: HAS IT CHANGED SINCE 1981?
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Bechhofer, Frank
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SOCIOLOGICAL research , *EMPIRICAL research , *COLLEGE students , *CURRICULUM , *TRAINING - Abstract
To provoke debate, the paper, after fifteen years, repeats and expands on an analysis of the use of empirical data and the role of quantification in articles published in some major British journals of sociology. The earlier paper argued that the training of undergraduates, and the influence and example of their teachers, tends to orient them, well before graduate education begins, towards particular kinds of research topic and, where empirical data are used, approaches employing no quantification or very simple techniques. It suggested this would be a self-reinforcing process unless there were far-reaching changes in undergraduate curricula which were unlikely to come about. It predicted that the divide between these aspects of British sociology and that practised in North America and many parts of Europe would widen further. British sociology has become somewhat more empirical over the past fifteen years, with the bulk of this expansion in the qualitative area. The more sophisticated quantitative approaches are not much more in evidence than before. This raises a number of questions which should be a matter of debate. It is worrying that the debate does not seem to be taking place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1996
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19. FEAR OF CRIME, URBAN FORTUNES AND SUBURBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: SOME REFLECTIONS FROM MANCHESTER.
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Taylor, Ian
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SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL movements , *SOCIAL history , *CRIME prevention , *PREVENTION - Abstract
Seen as a corrective to the continuing preoccupations of the sociology of social movements with progressive organisations and movements, this paper offers an analysis of the defensive crime prevention initiatives emerging in the suburbs of South Manchester (and, undoubtedly, elsewhere) as a vital contemporary social movement, taking a very specific organisational form. The paper also attempts to show how the movements taking place around crime ought to be linked, analytically, to other local suburban initiatives on Quality of Life issues and, in particular, following Molotch and Logan's pioneering work on the political economy of post-industrial cities, to interest-governed campaigns around the positioning of the larger city in national and international competition. The angry commitment informing all such connected social movements in the suburbs is ignored by progressive social movement analysis at its own peril. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1996
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20. RESOCIALISING THE SUBJECT? A RE-READING OF GREY'S `CAREER AS A PROJECT OF THE SELF . . .'
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Newton, Tim
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ACCOUNTANTS , *DISCOURSE , *SOCIOLOGY , *SUBJECTIVITY , *PHILOSOPHY - Abstract
This paper presents a re-reading of the Foucauldian analysis of professional accounting firms given by Grey in his 'Career as a Project of the Self...' (Sociology, 28,2). It argues that Grey's paper provides an exemplar of the 'desocialising' tendencies observed in some Foucauldian analysis and attempts to illustrate this desocialisation through placing Grey's data in an Eliasian rather than a Foucauldian framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1996
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21. EMOTIONS AND `SOCIOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM': A REJOINDER TO CRAIB.
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Williams, Simon J. and Bendelow, Gillian A.
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SOCIOLOGY of emotions , *SOCIOLOGY , *PSYCHOANALYSIS , *SOCIAL structure , *SOCIAL interaction - Abstract
This article reacts to Ian Craib' response to papers by Stevi Jackson and by Jean Duncombe and Dennis Marsden devoted to emotions in the May 1993 issue of Sociology. First, Craib suggests that sociological commentary on the emotions is as crass and insensitive as psychoanalytic discussions of society, and that a sociology of emotions might restrict rather than extend people's understanding of emotional life. Secondly, the present authors relate that although they recognize that Craib's main charge is directed at the two specific papers mentioned, he is nonetheless in danger of treating these as representative of the sociology of emotions more generally. They note that Craib is guilty of a methodological sin: namely that one cannot simply generalize from two case studies to the field as a whole. The present authors' next point concerns the issue of stereotypes--a criticism which is especially directed at Duncombe and Marsden's paper. The present authors relate that on the one hand they agree with Craib that stereotypes are not particularly helpful in characterizing (post)modern social life. Fourthly, Craib asserts that whilst sociological concepts such as work, power or equality might be extremely useful for thinking about the economy, or political or social structures, it still has to be established that they are appropriate for talking about emotional life.
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- 1996
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22. RESEARCH IN UK DEPARTMENTS OF SOCIOLOGY: AN ANALYSIS BASED UPON THE 1992 RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE DATABASE.
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Taylor, Jim
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SOCIOLOGICAL research , *SOCIAL indicators , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
This article presents a research in British Departments of sociology. The aims of this paper are twofold. First, a set of quantitative indicators of research outputs and research inputs is constructed for all sixty-seven British sociology departments that were assessed in the 1992 Research Assessment Exercise so that individual departments can see how their own research profile compared with that of other departments during the assessment period. Secondly, this paper examines the statistical relationship between the research ratings awarded to departments of sociology and the various indicators of research inputs and research outputs that can be constructed from the 1992 Research Assessment Exercise database. Specifically, the aim is to discover the extent to which variations in the research rating between departments of sociology can be explained by these research input and research output indicators. This paper has shown that some interesting and potentially useful research indicators can be constructed at department level from the 1992 Research Assessment Exercise. In particular, it is possible for individual departments of sociology in Great Britain to compare their own research activity across a range of research output and research input indicators with the research activity of other departments.
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- 1995
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23. THE SOCIOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION OF SCIENCE WITHOUT NATURE.
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Murphy, Raymond
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SCIENCE , *NATURE , *CONSTRUCTIVISM (Psychology) , *ECOLOGY , *RELATIVITY , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper critically examines the constructivist, relativist trend in the sociology of science and exposes its internal contradictions. It concludes that such a sociology has fabricated a science without nature. This has obscured the importance of nature in science, has glossed over the manipulation of nature, and has, therefore, muddled one of the most significant features of the contemporary world. The paper argues in favour of transcending such pre-ecological sociology by incorporating into the analysis the unique learning curve of science, which results in both its utility and its danger, and by explicitly examining the embeddedness of social action in the processes of nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1994
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24. ON THE DANGERS OF DISCONNECTING RACE AND RACISM.
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Mason, David
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RACE , *ETHNOLOGY , *RACISM , *DIFFERENTIAL psychology , *ETHNICITY , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The paper critically reviews some recent contributions to the debate about the nature of race and racism. It questions the analytic and empirical divorce between race and racism for which Floya Anthias and others have argued. It suggests that disconnecting race and racism while insisting on the retention of a concept of race could well give rise to a view that race is, after all, a valid scientific concept denoting a real biological division of the human species. This paper argues, instead, for a focus on race as a social relationship rather than a category of human being. It suggests that race and racism are inextricably linked and that, moreover, recently discovered new racisms depend for their power on the continued influence of biologically determinist modes of conceptualising human difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1994
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25. THE PROMISING FUTURE OF CLASS ANALYSIS: A RESPONSE TO RECENT CRITIQUES.
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Goldthorpe, John H. and Marshall, Gordon
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MARXIAN school of sociology , *CLASS analysis , *SOCIOLOGY , *CRITICISM , *MARXIST analysis , *RESEARCH - Abstract
Class analysis has recently been criticised from a variety of standpoints. In this paper we argue that much of this criticism is misplaced and that, as a research programme, the promise of class analysis is far from exhausted. The first part of the paper clarifies the nature and purpose of class analysis, as we would understand it, and in particular distinguishes it from the class analysis of Marxist sociology. The second part then makes the case for the continuing relevance of class analysis, in our conception of it, by reviewing findings from three central areas of current research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1992
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26. THE MISMANAGEMENT OF INNOVATION.
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Webb, Janette
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SOCIOLOGY , *MANAGEMENT , *MICROSOCIOLOGY , *HUMAN capital , *BUSINESS failures , *WORK environment - Abstract
The paper argues the need for a sociology of management which relates the micro-sociology of management activities to the economic performance of the firm and to debates about power relations and the distribution of wealth. The substance of the paper is a study of a medium-sized British company in the computer components industry. The research focuses on the relationships between development engineers and managers, and analyses the structural reasons for the failure to innovate. In particular it shows that management, in attempting to pursue an instrumental rationality, undermined the achievement of their own objectives. The contradiction between the logic of short-term instrumental controls and the espoused organic, human resources model of management produced a damaging pattern of workplace relations characterised by distrust and defensiveness. The result was a motivational crisis over the management of innovation, which contributed to the eventual failure of the business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1992
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27. MEASURING THE QUALITY OF LIFE: A SOCIOLOGICAL INVENTION CONCERNING THE APPLICATION OF ECONOMICS TO HEALTH CARE.
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Mulkay, Michael, Ashmore, Malcolm, and Pinch, Trevor
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QUALITY of life , *MEDICAL care , *SOCIOLOGY , *MEDICAL economics , *ECONOMISTS , *SOCIAL scientists - Abstract
The paper which follows takes the form of a dialogue between a sociological voice and an unidentified, questioning voice. The two voices explore some of the tasks involved in, and difficulties generated by, the attempt to apply social science to practical issues. The discussion focuses on the area of health economics and, particularly, on recent efforts to provide measures of the quality of life that can be used to solve administrative problems within the NHS. Beginning from close examination of a particular text, the sociological voice claims to reveal some of the background assumptions of health economics as a social practice and to identify some of the ways in which the production and application of economic knowledge are socially contingent. The sociological voice also contrasts the textual form of the present paper with the 'scientific' format normally employed by economists and most other applied social scientists. S/he may be read as asserting that the dialogic character of the present text is in some way more suited to a more collaborative use of social science expertise in the realm of practical action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1987
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28. DEBATE: PINCH AND CLARK'S PATTER MERCHANTING AND THE CRISIS OF SOCIOLOGY.
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Cherrington, Ruth, Tomlinson, Dylan, and Watt, Paul
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SOCIOLOGY , *METHODOLOGY , *ETHICS , *ECONOMIC history , *ECONOMIC structure , *ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
This paper discusses Pinch and Clark's recent article on the strategies of market pitchers for managing local economic reasoning. We suggest that their research is illustrative of the lack of seriousness and relevance to social issues of a small proportion of sociological studies. In developing this argument, the paper considers the methodology, ethical issues and substantive content of the article. We conclude by noting that, whilst the study of the work of market pitchers is clearly an important research topic, such study should have regard to local social and economic conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1987
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29. SOURCES OF CROS-NATIONAL VARIATION IN MOBILITY REGIMES: ENGLISH, FRENCH AND SWEDISH DATA REANALYSED.
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Breen, Richard
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INTERNAL migration , *SOCIOLOGY of knowledge , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences , *FRENCH people , *BRITISH people - Abstract
This paper presents a reanalysis of the British, French and Swedish mobility data first presented by Erikson et al. (1979). A descriptive model is specified and used to identify precisely where the differences in the relative openness of the three societies are located. In doing this the paper seeks both to synthesize previous findings and to extend our knowledge of the mobility processes at work in the three societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1987
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30. LIMITATIONS OF CLASS THEORY AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF STATUS: THE PROBLEM OF THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS.
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Barbalet, J.M.
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MIDDLE class , *SOCIAL classes , *CAPITALISM , *CLASS differences , *WORKING class , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Through a brief examination of neo-Marxist and neo-Weberian arguments it is demonstrated that the class nature of the new middle class has yet to be established. The paper goes on to show that as well as differences arising out of material conditions (i.e. class differences), inequalities based on expectations of entitlement or norms are also significant in capitalist society. Weber's treatment of status has not encouraged an adequate understanding of the concept, and an alternative is outlined. The paper then argues that the differences between the so-called new middle class and the working class are reasonably understood on a number of criteria as differences between status groups which form part of a single class. Not only does this approach remove a number of difficulties from accounts of the salariat, it also helps explain the different political alignments of social collectivities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1986
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31. GERMAN DEVELOPMENTS IN ROLE THEORY: 1958-1980.
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Winnubst, Jacques A. M. and ter Heine, Egbert J. H.
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SOCIAL role , *POSITIVISM , *SOCIAL psychology , *PHILOSOPHY , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper gives an overview of developments in the area of role theory which took place in West Germany between 1958 and 1980. We differentiate three periods. The first is characterized by a discussion of Dahrendorfs Homo Sociologicus, of which we highlight only the essentials. This discussion took place in the early `60s. For the second period, in the late '60s - early 70s, the role theory discussion went into a different phase as a result of the so-called `positivism debate' in German sociology. The various points of view explored in this discussion seem to have converged since the mid '70s; the contours of an integrated role theory are becoming apparent. The paper closes with an overview of both positive and negative sides of the developments outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1985
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32. SOCIAL LIFE AS BOOTSTRAPPED INDUCTION.
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Barnes, Barry
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MANNERS & customs , *SOCIAL interaction , *STATISTICAL bootstrapping , *SELF-fulfilling prophecy , *NATURAL history , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
How people refer and how they infer are key empirical questions for the sociology of knowledge. In the present paper, I suggest that in the course of social interaction much referring activity is self-referring, and much inference self-validating. This occurs to the extent that our inductive inferences become permeated with feedback-loops or `bootstraps': I offer a simple general form of representation to assist in thinking about bootstrapped induction. In the second half of the paper I indicate some of the interesting consequences of the existence of bootstrapped induction: I cite the self-fulfilling prophesy as a special case where the induction is destructive, but emphasize the role of bootstrapped induction in constituting stable institutional forms. Finally I raise the question as to how far the bootstraps can be eliminated from patterns of inference: I suggest that this problem might be best attacked by sociologists of natural science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1983
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33. BRAVERMANIA AND BEYOND: RECENT THEORIES OF THE LABOUR PROCESS.
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Littler, Craig R. and Salaman, Graeme
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WORK , *SOCIOLOGY , *LABOR process , *CAPITALISM , *PRODUCTION (Economic theory) , *SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Braverman and his followers have been useful and influential in reviving a sociology of work. However as well as stimulating debate, the Braverman model has also created impediments to further analysis. This paper discusses some of these limitations and argues that, in part, they result from a particular reading of Marx which neglects crucial Marxian categories. In part, they result from weaknesses and ambiguities in Marxian theory. The second part of the paper focuses on the concept of control, and makes a plea for a revival of interest in the pre-Braverrnan sociology of the workplace. It is suggested that such work conjoined with that of recent theorists provides a more adequate basis for theory of capitalist labour processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1982
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34. VERTICAL MOBILITY IN BRITAIN: A STRUCTURED ANALYSIS.
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Hope, Keith
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SOCIAL mobility , *UPWARD mobility (Social sciences) , *STATUS attainment , *INTERNAL migration , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Earlier work (Hope, 1974, 1975a) demonstrated 'no change' in social mobility between the Glass inquiry of 1949 and the Oxford inquiry of 1972. However the mobility investigated was that known as exchange mobility (other synonyms being pure, perfect, fluidity and circulation mobility), which is defined as departure of observed mobility from perfect mobility. When the man in the street speaks of mobility he usually means something much more specific, namely mobility up or down a vertical hierarchy. The present paper investigates the meaning of perfect mobility by disaggregating the model for it into discrete, additive components, and it shows how the vertical dimension may be represented in a mobility analysis by just one of the many degrees of freedom which are associated with exchange mobility. Implications for comparative analysis, and also for investigation of the relations between vertical and class mobility, are discussed. The theoretical developments of this paper stem from the apparently novel observation that the `additive model' of status inconsistency analysis is formally identical with the `perfect mobility' model of social mobility analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1981
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35. `CULTURAL CREATION': UNSOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF GOLDMANN'S SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE.
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McHoul, A. W.
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SOCIOLOGY , *CULTURE , *SOCIAL groups , *SOCIAL participation , *SOCIOLOGISTS - Abstract
The concern of this paper is to locate certain troubles and contradictions within Lucien Goldinann's avowedly sociological programme for the investigation of culture. It will be seen that these turn, generally, upon Goldmann's insistence on maintaining a central methodological position for the category of the subject and, more particularly, upon his conception of the subject as individual (rather than collective) subject. Part of these methodological troubles is seen to be connected with Goldmann's use of a metaphor connecting Piaget's individual/environment distinction with the distinction between social groups and history. To this degree, the paper is generally concerned with the severance of sociological studies of culture from psychologistic and belletrist preoccupations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1980
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36. VALUES, ANALYSIS AND THE STUDY OF REVOLUTION: II.
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Tristram, Robert J.
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HISTORICAL research , *REVOLUTIONS , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences , *VALUES (Ethics) , *THEORY of knowledge - Abstract
This second and concluding pan of the paper deals with a third problem area; the relationship between values and explanation. It is discussed by examining Myrdal's distinctions between valuations and value premises and between theoretical and practical research; Stretton's conception of the role of the `valuing skill' in all kinds of socio- historical research; and Maclntyre's arguments concerning categories and accounts that combine either evaluation and description or evaluation and explanation. Like the first part of the paper, it is illustrated by studies in the history and sociology of revolutions. Again, the main aim is methodological clarification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1980
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37. FROM NORMAL BABY TO HANDICAPPED CHILD: UNRAVELLING THE IDEA OF SUBNORMALITY IN FAMILIES OF MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN.
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Booth, Timothy A.
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CHILDREN with intellectual disabilities , *EXCEPTIONAL children , *SOCIAL psychology , *SOCIAL role , *PARENT-child relationships , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper argues that the clinical perspective on mental handicap which under- pins most research and professional practice in the field does not help us to explain or understand how mentally handicapped people are valued and treated in their day-to-day dealings with others. Using material gathered in interviews with the parents of mentally handicapped children, the paper plots the unfolding of the idea of subnormality and traces the gradual transition in the child's status as he drifts from normal baby to handicapped infant. It shows how subnormality emerges as a social state, which can be defined in terms of the qualities and capacities which are ascribed to or withheld from mentally handicapped people. In this sense, it is suggested that the social roles allocated to mentally handicapped people are created and shaped from the social meanings imputed to the diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1978
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38. What Future for the Sociology of Futures? Visions, Concepts and Methods.
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Halford, Susan and Southerton, Dale
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FUTURES studies ,SOCIAL theory ,SOCIAL change ,SOCIOLOGICAL research ,EMPIRICAL research - Abstract
Questions about the future, and futurelessness, have attracted wide-ranging attention in recent years. Our article explores what Sociology offers. We reflect on the apparent contradiction that the future was bracketed off from the discipline in its early history, yet also offers rich theoretical, methodological and empirical resources for futures research. We demonstrate this through an analysis of the contributions to this Special Issue, each of which draws on explicitly Sociological theories and methods to consider futures in a range of fields. Finally, we explore further developments necessary for a Sociology of the Future. We argue that Sociology can and should be more directly involved in claiming what futures might be, should be and in materialising these claims. This means moving beyond Sociology – as a distinct set of resources – towards expansive engagement with other future-making actors. This may challenge and change Sociology but may also be key to its future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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39. Editors' Report 2016.
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King, Andrew, Neal, Sarah, Murji, Karim, Watson, Sophie, and Woodward, Kath
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SOCIOLOGY ,MANUSCRIPTS - Abstract
An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including manuscripts, sociology, and peer review process.
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- 2017
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40. Thank You to Referees.
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AUTHORS ,SOCIOLOGY - Published
- 2021
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41. Technicolour Eruptions of Light in the Darkness: An Interview with Professor Les Back.
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Back, Les and Wright, Edward J
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COMMUNITIES ,SOCIOLOGY ,GLOBALIZATION ,SUPPLY chains - Abstract
The article presents an interview with Professor Les Back talking about class and community driving the path into sociology. Topics include task of the academic practice of sociology being a kind of lay making the familiar strange; and objects to stories of globalisation, supply chains, manufacturing in the global South as well as colonialism.
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- 2022
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42. Accuracy, Critique and the Anti-Tribes in Sociology of Education: A Reply to Sara Delamont's 'Anomalous Beasts'.
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Abraham, John
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EDUCATIONAL sociology , *SOCIOLOGY , *EDUCATION , *HOODLUMS , *SOCIOLOGISTS - Abstract
This article responds to Sara Delamont's paper in the February 2000 edition of Sociology which provides an account of the relationship between the sub-discipline, sociology of education, and parent discipline, sociology. Delamont argues that the hooligan is an anomalous beast for sociologists of education, who paradoxically revere him: while the sociology of education is an anomalous beast for the parent discipline, whose practitioners reject and fear it. Essentially, according to the author, the latter part of Delamont's argument amounts to the claim that the wider discipline of sociology has neglected sociology of education. The author notes that in this article, his response is concerned with Delamont's unsatisfactory characterization of British sociology of education. According to Delamont, sociology in Great Britain has two grand narratives, both male--one derived from the political arithmetic tradition is quantitative, empirical and focused on social mobility, and the other discursive and focused on anti-heroes: the portrayal of the rebellion or resistance of the hooligan. Delamont has attempted to characterize British ethnographic studies, which include some reference to anti-school/delinquent boys, and which have been conducted by male sociologists, as falling into the same category.
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- 2001
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43. Habermas, History and Social Evolution: Moral Learning and the Trial of Louis XVI.
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How, Alan R.
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CRITICAL theory , *SOCIAL evolution , *POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy) , *MORAL development , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
In recent times, under the influence of postmodernist thought sociology has largely rejected the idea of social evolution. An exception to this trend is to be found in the work of Jürgen Habermas. Habermas's account of social evolution has received some critical attention, but in sociology wider detail of the picture is not well known. Habermas wishes to hold to the possibility that evolutionary progress can be discerned not only in the sphere of technical control, but also in the sphere of social and moral development. The paper presents Habermas's views on social evoluton within the wider context of his development of critical theory as a 'reconstructive science'. It suggests that his account has been able to resist many of the standard criticisms of evolutionary theory and that a renewal of interest in this area could provide a rich vein of new sociological knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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44. Theorising Social Constraint: The Concept of Supervenience.
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Le Boutillier, Shaun
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SOCIAL structure , *SUPERVENIENCE (Philosophy) , *REDUCTIONISM , *DUALISM , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper evaluates Kieran Healy's recent contribution to the structure-agency debate. Supervenience, I argue, has multiple uses, it entails different ontological perspectives depending on which entities it is applied to and which conditions are placed upon subvening and supervening entities. Healy's use of supervenience is unclear. On the one hand, applied to individual--society relations it does nothing more than restate the trivial truth: no people -- no society. On the other hand, if supervenience is to be applied to structure-agent relations the consequence is extreme voluntarism. In either case it simply fails to address Healy's key concern: conceptualising social constraint. I then argue that an alternative way of grasping structural constraint in the present might be to view past-tense 'activity dependence' as 'Cambridge events'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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45. Ecologising Sociology: Actor-Network Theory, Co-construction and the Problem of Human Exemptionalism.
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Murdoch, Jonathan
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SOCIAL networks , *SOCIAL constructionism , *ECOLOGY , *ENVIRONMENTAL sociology , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
While various attempts have been made to link nature and society more closely together within environmental sociology, it now appears as though there is a general acceptance of rather traditional divisions between these two domains. Yet ecology specifies that natural and social entities are bound together in complex interrelations. Why then does sociology insist on sifting out the social from the natural? The paper takes this question as its starting point and seeks to identify what environmental sociology might gain and lose from a shift towards ecological thinking. It does so by examining the case of actor-network theory, an approach that, in significant respects, closely approximates a kind of 'ecological sociology'. Actor-network theory is 'co-constructionist': it seeks to identify how relations and entities come into being together. Critics have focused on the problems of co-constructionism: they have argued that human actors generally possess powers of reflection (through language) and that these powers of reflection provide motive forces for action. Thus some form of social analysis is still necessary. Any ecological sociology will thus need to bring these two perspectives together so that humans and non-humans can be considered within the same frame of reference but so the distinctions that generally hold between the two can also be assessed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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46. The Subjectivist-Objectivist Divide: Against Transcendence.
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Mouzelis, Nicos
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SOCIAL structure , *OBJECTIVITY , *SUBJECTIVITY , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
On the basis of a fourfold typology referring to different definitions of the social-structure concept, and of a critique of Giddens's and Bourdieu's strategies for transcending the divide between objectivist and subjectivist sociologies, this paper argues that rapprochement rather than transcendence is the way to overcome the existing fragmentation and for bringing closer together structural/structuralist and interpretative paradigms in the social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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47. Consumption Caught in the 'Cash Nexus'.
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Dant, Tim
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MATERIAL culture , *CONSUMPTION (Economics) , *CONSUMER goods , *COMMERCIAL products , *MONEY , *CULTURE , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
During the last thirty years 'consumption' has become a major topic in the study of contemporary culture within anthropology, psychology and sociology. For many authors it has become central to understanding the nature of material culture in the modern world, but this paper argues that the concept is, in British writing at least, too concerned with its economic origins in the selling and buying of consumer goods or commodities. It is argued that to understand material culture as determined through the monetary exchange for things--the cash nexus--leads to an inadequate sociological understanding of the social relations with objects. The work of Jean Baudrillard is used both to critique the concept of consumption as it leads to a focus on advertising, choice, money and shopping and to point to a more sociologically adequate approach to material culture that explores objects in a system of models and series, 'atmosphere', functionality, biography, interaction and mediation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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48. Some Meanings of 'the Private' in Sociological Thought.
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Bailey, Joe
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INTIMACY (Psychology) , *SELF , *SUBCONSCIOUSNESS , *SUBJECTIVITY , *DUALISM , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The public/private distinction has been an important, generative but relatively unexplicated and unstable background assumption in sociological thinking. This paper describes some of the significances of this dualism in the context of a contemporary anxiety about the public sphere and a turn to the private, the subjective and the individual, not least for sociology. Popular and materialistic meanings of 'the private' are distinguished from possible sociological analytical uses. The increasing sociological interest in various forms of subjectivity is taken to be one characteristic version of the private within the current public/private dualism. A range of well-known formative sociological theorising is described, which provides implicit versions of the relation between the private and the public. These are a resource for rethinking what the private might now refer to in sociology. Three dimensions of the sociological private are proposed -- intimate relationships, the self and the unconscious -- as marking the sociological terrain of the private now and as directions for research. It is sugguested that the hitherto secondary quality of the private within a sociology which has traditionally privileged the public realm may now be changing and that discourses of the private are affecting the public agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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49. On Ambivalence and Risk: Reflexive Modernity and the New Human Genetics.
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Kerr, Anne and Cunningham-Burley, Sarah
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GENETICS , *MODERNITY , *AMBIVALENCE , *RISK , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This critical examination of theories of reflexive modernity with respect to the new human genetics draws on a range of empirical studies and conceptual critiques. In it we explore the ways in which genetic knowledge and testing technologies offer new choices, construct new risks and generate public and professional ambivalence. We contrast this with the processes of ordering, reduction and control suffusing these developments. We argue that reductionism and determinism continue to infuse genetic theories and methods, that scientific and social progress are collapsed anew, and that certitude and surveillance remain powerful guiding principles. Within this context, the reflexive potential of individual choice, personal responsibility and risk estimation is seriously undermined. Indeed, in the case of the new human genetics, it seems that reflexive modernisation promotes, rather than curtails, a new modern/counter-modern eugenics. This occurs through the privatisation of lay ambivalence and professionals' successful institutional reflexivity. The paper concludes with a consideration of the implications of our reflections for sociology and participatory democracy more broadly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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50. Interpretivism and Generalisation.
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Williams, Malcolm
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SOCIOLOGY , *GENERALIZATION , *RESEARCH , *PLURALISM , *METHODOLOGY - Abstract
This article is concerned with the status of generalisation in interpretive sociology. The case made is that generalisation is inevitable, desirable and possible. It is held that interpretivism must employ a special kind of generalisation, characterised here as moderatum. However, an acknowledgement that such generalisations can be made must bring us to specify the limits of generalisation in interpretive research. These limits are the limits of interpretivism itself and the paper concludes that this implies the adoption of methodological pluralism in order to realise the full potential of the method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000
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