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“Just another dad on his cellphone”: Evernote as Field Notebook
Really good idea for fieldnotes.
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Social Worlds in 100 Objects
See the world through fresh eyes with Social Worlds in 100 objects. Looking at everyday items, University of Leicester Social Scientists bring you their thought-provoking perspectives in this series of short articles. http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/social-worlds John Goodwin contributed an article to this initiative The cotton bobbin: symbolic of a lost heritage? http://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/social-worlds/all-articles/management/cotton-bobbin
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Second Hand Books – Jephcott
For anyone interested in marginalia the secondhand/used book market has to be an untapped source of material. The joy of buying used books is often more than just being able to get hold of an obscure text, a now deleted classic or whatever, its about the annotations, markings and notes that others add to the…
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Revisiting Norbert Elias’s Sociology of Community
We have a longstanding interest in Elias’s sociology of community. Here are a couple of links to papers that we have contribution to/written on this subject. The first is Angela Perulli’s Italian translation of Towards a Theory of Communities (1974) that contains some introductory notes on the original essay by John Goodwin. The second is paper by Henrietta O’Connor…
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Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes in Restudies of Youth Unemployment, Insecurity and Work
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Re-Read ‘Education and the Working Class’ (and other Classics)
C Wright Mills suggested that to avoid the ‘academic pose’ sociologists needed to get rid of the ‘academic prose’. Mills was an ardent advocate of clarity in writing and warned against the obfuscation of both grand theory and abstract empiricism. Mills sought criticism for his work with a view to making his writing…
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Norbert Elias: Questions to Ponder
This postcard was developed for the conference ‘From the Past to the Present and towards Possible Futures: the collected Works of Norbert Elias‘ a conference, organized by Jason Hughes and John Goodwin, to celebrate the complete publication of Elias’s works. To help structure the conference the streams were arranged around key books – such as…
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A Gun, a widow and thinking in ‘the field’!
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Pearl Jephcott: The Legacy of a Forgotten Sociological Research Pioneer
Our paper on the legacy of Pearl Jephcott is available online first: http://soc.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/05/22/0038038514530536.abstract Abstract While the lives and works of many sociologists have now been well documented, numerous sociologists at the ‘coal face’ of social research remain ignored. Consequently, beyond the contributions of those more ‘well-known’ scholars, considerably more needs to be done to examine…
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Archival Research
In our research we have found archives to be an essential source of data and material. Indeed, for our restudy of Elias’s Young Worker Project and for our on going work on Pearl Jephcott, archival research has been central to all we have done. Archives, although used by some social scientists, could be used to…