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Ruling Mindsets

The motivation behind blogging was for me the opportunity it afforded to ‘think aloud’. It was unnecessary to be concerned about reviewers and editors. I could say what I wanted, as it were,...

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A handful of new poems

Garibaldi Square   Old men lean to each other gesticulating their opinions, each like a frustrated lover taunted by fretful minions.   The shaded seats are gone, as if permanently selected, a citizen...

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A Sociological Autobiography: 108 – Another Book?

I have over time reached the conclusion that as a teacher I communicate best with undergraduates, and that as a writer I communicate best with academic colleagues. I rarely teach now, but I have...

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Sociological Theorists: Arlie Russell Hochschild

Arlie Russell Hochschild is a pioneer of theory and research on ‘emotional labour’, in the process opening up a novel field of enquiry. Resisting any temptation to ‘reduce’ the emotions either to...

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Sociological Theorists: Stuart Hall

While Stuart Hall was not a sociologist his work has a clear and lasting relevance to practitioners of the discipline, especially to those interested in culture. Along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond...

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A Sociological Autobiography: 109 – Books Read Over Seven Years

I have increased my rate of reading since retirement. I now read a couple a week on average. For anyone with nothing better to do, here’s my reading over the last seven years. 2017 Dexter: Ted Dexter...

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A Sociological Autobiography: 110 – Getting Old(er)

I recently posted a photo of myself on Twitter/X with the caption, ’on my way to the pro-Palestinian protest in London’. Unusually for me, it solicited quite some attention, with 7.6 thousand likes and...

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Neither ‘Either’, Nor ‘Or’

The title of this blog is one I’ve always wanted to deploy. All being well, I may possibly revisit it in a future publication. The crux of the issue for now is that not only do the theoretical...

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Making Social Change Happen

In my forthcoming Healthy Societies: Policy, Practice and Obstacles, I pick up on the longstanding notion that radical change in the United Kingdom in general and England in particular is more than...

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A Sketch on Habermas and Modern Society

Jurgen Habermas was born in 1929 and raised by a father with Nazi sympathies. He was in the Hitler youth and was briefly sent to man the Western defences. The ‘liberation’ occasioned a reassessment....

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