Pamela Abbott
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3597412 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Pamela Abbott |
| NOMBRES | Pamela |
| APELLIDO | Abbott |
| FIRMA | ABBOTT P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5013-343X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 441 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Space to see the future”? A political economy analysis of child and adolescent mental health and well-being in Ethiopia including routes for change
The government's tendency to formulate national programs and strategies is positive, but lack of regional funding and support limit effectiveness. Schools and healthcare environments can play powerful roles supporting mental health, however, experience considerable challenges related to resourcing, and lack spaces and processes for multisectoral working. There is a pressing need to resource and support implementation and collaboration capabilitie…
The impact of Covid-19 on the debate on open science
This study is an analysis of the international debate on open science that took place during the pandemic. It addresses the question, how did the COVID-19 pandemic impact the debate on open science? The study takes the form of a qualitative analysis of a large corpus of key articles, editorials, blogs and thought pieces about the impact of COVID on open science, published during the pandemic in English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. The findin…
A protocol for a critical realist synthesis of school mindfulness interventions designed to promote pupils’ mental wellbeing
Introduction The review described in this protocol will be the first critical realist review of the literature reporting on the impact of school-based mindfulness interventions on the mental wellbeing of pupils. Mindfulness interventions are increasingly being introduced into schools to promote children’s (and teachers’) wellbeing. Findings from impact evaluations, including systematic reviews and metanalysis, suggest that school-based mindfulnes…
Developing Statements of Compliance for UK protected areas and 'other effective area-based conservation measures'
The Protected Areas Working Group of the IUCN National Committee for the UK assessed 23 types of designation of land and sea for biodiversity conservation against IUCN definitions of 'protected area' and 'other effective area-based conservation measures'. This assessment supersedes Statements of Compliance published in 2014, reassigns several categories on the basis of new information and understanding, and provides guidance to UK and devolved go…
Literacy and quality of life
This article explores the quality of life of adults with poor literacy capabilities (reading, writing and numeracy) in western Rwanda. A concurrent mixed methods research design was used. Data was collected from respondents aged 18 years and over through a survey and focus group discussions. Quantitative results from linear regression analysis indicate a clear relationship between literacy and life satisfaction in that literacy has a direct and i…
Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations
A recently published dataset of Middle East and North Africa (MENA)–focused scholarship in journals selected to represent the disciplinary “core” of political science sheds empirical light on key publishing trends, from the balance between quantitative and qualitative studies to the growth in experimental and “large-N” statistical methods. Cammett and Kendall’s (2021) analysis shows that between 2001 and 2019, MENA-focused studies declined as a s…
State-steered smartmentality in Chinese smart urbanism
This study explores the socio-political shaping of Chinese smart urbanism by examining the power relations between the government (national and municipal), private firms and citizens embedded in smartmentality. Our exploration begins with teasing out key analytical standpoints of Alberto Vanolo’s concept of smartmentality applied in neoliberal practices of smart urbanism. Through this analytical framework, we conceptualise Chinafied smartmentalit…
Strangers in plain sight
Open access via Taylor & Francis read and publish agreement Funder: Seventh Framework Programme Funding This work was supported by the EU’s 7 th Framework Programme (grant number 320214). We alone remain responsible for the final version
Building back fairer in public health policy requires collective action with and for the most vulnerable in society
The authors gratefully acknowledge the inputs of Professor Tim Carey Director of the Institute of Global Health Equity Research at the University for Global Health Equity to earlier drafts
The Sociology of the Caring Professions
Professionals, professionalism and the caring professions, Pamela Abbot and Liz Meerabeau social work, nursing and midwifery - a history, Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace nursing - will the idea of vocation survive?, Lesley Mackay the case in social work - psychological assessment and social regulation, David McCallum Project 2000 and the nature of nursing knowledge, Liz Meerabeau evidence-based practice - dilemma for health visiting, Kate Robins…
Failing adult learners
Beyond elections
The Arab Uprisings in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia
The tide that failed to rise
The story of the ‘Arab Spring’ as a revolt of young people against autocracy does not stand up to survey analysis at country level. Data from the Arab Transformations Survey show that young people were over-represented as participants, but it is necessary to stretch the concept of ‘youth’ into middle age in some countries to say this, there were plenty of older participants, and the protests were aimed less at political rights and more at social …
Gender Equality and Mena Women's Empowerment in the Aftermath of the 2011 Uprisings
The Decent Society
The search for ‘the Decent Society’ – a fit place in which to live – has informed policy at both governmental and international level. This book analyses its nature and devises a consistent way of measuring the concept world-wide on the basis of a coherent theory of agency within social structure. Influenced by classical sociology and by the economist Amartya Sen, the book posits that societies need to create (a) economic security, (b) social coh…
Learning from Success
Decent Society
The Quality of Society and Life Satisfaction in China
Rwanda's potential to achieve the millennium development goals for education
Sanitation markets in urban informal settlements of East Africa
Trust in Post-Soviet Countries, Ten Years On
This paper looks at recovery from the normative collapse which followed the fall of the Soviet Union; two large-scale surveys allow comparison of levels of trust in 2001 and 2010/2011. The collapse of the Soviet Union was not just an economic event; it destroyed the normative framework and drove people back to reliance on things they could see and people they knew. The main findings are that even 20 years of building new institutions has not rest…
Overcoming poverty and inequality
Despite the 1994 genocide there has been annual growth in Rwanda every year since 2000. Poverty has decreased; while the MDG target of 23.8% is unlikely to be met by 2015, the future looks hopeful. The goal of reducing hunger is measured by underweight children – already down to target – and extreme poverty – likely to hit the target. Key to success is reducing dependency on the land, but a majority of the population still depend on their farm or…
Education at our school is not free’
As primary school enrolment rates in Rwanda near ubiquity, completion rates remain low and repetition rates remain high. This study investigates the impact of the ‘hidden costs’ of schooling in the context of Rwanda’s fee-free education policy. Using a social-science case study, focus groups and interviews were undertaken with 200 participants, including local leaders, school administrators, children and caregivers. Findings suggest children cont…
Challenges to Achieving Sustainable Sanitation in Informal Settlements of Kigali, Rwanda
Like most cities in developing countries, Kigali is experiencing rapid urbanisation leading to an increase in the urban population and rapid growth in the size and number of informal settlements. More than 60% of the city's population resides in these settlements, where they experience inadequate and poor quality urban services including sanitation. This article discusses the issues and constraints related to the provision of sustainable sanitati…
Chocs Away
This paper draws on empirical research into the recruitment, training, and management of female flight attendants, working primarily in the transatlantic business travel sector of the contemporary airline industry. We argue that whilst the `skills' which flight attendants are required to deploy are denied, being treated as somehow inherent abilities and thus neither trained nor remunerated, they are nevertheless managed in a directive way. This m…
Psychological distress, gender, and health lifestyles in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine
An Introduction to Sociology
1. Introduction: Feminism and the Sociological Imagination 2. Feminist Sociological Theory 3. Stratification and Inequality 4. Education 5. The Life Course 6. The Family and the Household 7. Health, Illness and Medicine 8. Sexuality 9. Work and Organisation 10. Crime, Deviance and Criminal Justice 11. Politics 12. Media Culture 13. Feminist Knowledge
Beyond elections
Social Quality
In this paper we suggest a way to measure the well-being of society based upon our own development of the Social Quality model. The Social Quality model has the advantage of being sociologically grounded as a measure of the well-being of society and the individuals within it. We test our model of Social Quality against life satisfaction as an indicator of how successful it is in delivering these aspirations. The model was tested on all European c…
Trust, confidence and social environment in post-communist societies
This paper looks at trust and confidence in people and institutions in eight of the countries that have undergone transformation since the breakup of the Soviet Union. While the questions are not identical to those asked in previous research in post-Soviet societies, our findings are comparable—greatest trust in relatives and friends, less in people in general and least in politicians and institutions of social control. Levels of trust are not hi…
Health lifestyles in central Asia
An Introduction to Sociology
This third edition of this best-selling book confirms the ongoing centrality of feminist perspectives and research to the sociological enterprise, and introduces students to the wide range of feminist contributions in key areas of sociological concern. Completely revised, this edition includes: new chapters on sexuality and the media additional material on race and ethnicity, disability and the body many new international and comparative examples…
An Introduction to Sociology
Introducing Sociology.2. Social Stratification.3. Social Class in Modern Britain.4. Wealth, Welfare, and Poverty.5. Gender.6. Ethnicity and Race.7. Power, Politics, Citizenship, and Protest.8. The Mass Media.9. Social Control, Deviance, and Crime.10. The Family.11. Schooling in Britain.12. Inequality in Education.13. Religion.14. Work and Leisure.15. Population.16. Health and Illness.17. Doing Sociological Research.Appendix: Reading Statistical D…
Women's Social Class Identification
Research into social stratification has tended to concentrate on working-class men; there has been little on the middle classes, and even less on women. This paper looks at the class position and class images of 342 working married women in social grade C1, drawn from a national survey of class images conducted between 1981 and 1984, to assess the extent to which these women's class identification is determined by the occupation of their husbands…
Health lifestyles and political ideology in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine
Health world views of post-soviet citizens
Trust in Post-Soviet Countries, Ten Years On
This paper looks at recovery from the normative collapse which followed the fall of the Soviet Union; two large-scale surveys allow comparison of levels of trust in 2001 and 2010/2011. The collapse of the Soviet Union was not just an economic event; it destroyed the normative framework and drove people back to reliance on things they could see and people they knew. The main findings are that even 20 years of building new institutions has not rest…
Rising Economic Prosperity and Social Quality the Case of New Member States of the European Union
The specter of post-communism
Learning from Success
Cultural Trauma and Social Quality in Post—Soviet Moldova and Belarus
This article looks at influences on the social quality of the lives of the citizens of Belarus and Moldova in the context of the traumatic shock—economic, political, and social—experienced after 1991. It argues that lived experience— how people evaluate their condition—is as significant an influence on their welfare as the actual circumstances in which they live. The majority of respondents perceive the post-1991 economic and political changes ne…
Women and Work
State-steered smartmentality in Chinese smart urbanism
This study explores the socio-political shaping of Chinese smart urbanism by examining the power relations between the government (national and municipal), private firms and citizens embedded in smartmentality. Our exploration begins with teasing out key analytical standpoints of Alberto Vanolo’s concept of smartmentality applied in neoliberal practices of smart urbanism. Through this analytical framework, we conceptualise Chinafied smartmentalit…
The Quality of Society and Life Satisfaction in China
Explaining Economic and Social Transformations in Post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
This paper looks at the impact of the economic collapse of the former Soviet Union on the lives of ordinary people in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus using qualitative as well as quantitative data. We argue that to understand the impact of the transformation it is necessary to take a sociological approach. To provide a framework for our analysis we use the Social Quality model which enables us to consider the recursive relation between agency and str…
Patterns of Participation in the Formal and Informal Economies in the Commonwealth of Independent States
The article investigates whether patterns of participation in the informal economy in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is similar to that identified previously in a study of Central and Eastern Europe through analysis of a survey carried out in 2001 in eight CIS countries: Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, and Georgia. We find that, as in the previous study, countries where economic development is hig…
Living on the Margins
This article argues that in both policy and economic debates the specifically local experiences of older people living in deprived neighbourhoods have been ignored. It describes research undertaken in an area of material deprivation and low access to ‘social capital’, on the margins of Middlesbrough both geographically and socially. A health and lifestyle survey of older people in the area was supplemented by Community Futures Workshops at which …
Education at our school is not free’
As primary school enrolment rates in Rwanda near ubiquity, completion rates remain low and repetition rates remain high. This study investigates the impact of the ‘hidden costs’ of schooling in the context of Rwanda’s fee-free education policy. Using a social-science case study, focus groups and interviews were undertaken with 200 participants, including local leaders, school administrators, children and caregivers. Findings suggest children cont…
Class Identification of Married Working Women
This paper reports on an analysis of the subjective class identification of married women in paid employment, based on the People in Society Survey data-base; in part it replicates earlier American work by Ritter and Hargens (1975). The overall conclusion is that the occupational class of these women is not an important determinant of their self-assigned class, but that educational variables tend to be, if anything, more important than husband's …
Class Identification of Married Working Women
This paper reports on an analysis of the subjective class identification of married women in paid employment, based on the People in Society Survey data-base; in part it replicates earlier American work by Ritter and Hargens (1975). The overall conclusion is that the occupational class of these women is not an important determinant of their self-assigned class, but that educational variables tend to be, if anything, more important than husband's …
Women's Social Class Identification
Research into social stratification has tended to concentrate on working-class men; there has been little on the middle classes, and even less on women. This paper looks at the class position and class images of 342 working married women in social grade C1, drawn from a national survey of class images conducted between 1981 and 1984, to assess the extent to which these women's class identification is determined by the occupation of their husbands…
Women and Mental Health Policy (Book)
Women and Work
Women and Social Class
The authors of this text set out to review current perspectives in social class analysis and also to demonstrate that research cannot be valid without the inclusion of data on women
New Directions in the Sociology of Health
An Introduction to Sociology
1. Introduction: Feminism and the Sociological Imagination 2. Feminist Sociological Theory 3. Stratification and Inequality 4. Education 5. The Life Course 6. The Family and the Household 7. Health, Illness and Medicine 8. Sexuality 9. Work and Organisation 10. Crime, Deviance and Criminal Justice 11. Politics 12. Media Culture 13. Feminist Knowledge
The Social Mobility of Women
Origins and destinations, Pamela Abbott and Geoff Payne women's social mobility - the conventional wisdom reconisdered, Pamela Abbott and Geoff Payne the mobility of women and men, Tony Chapman a re-examination of the The Theses Re-examined, Pamela Abbott the changing pattern of early career mobility, Geoff Payne, Judy Payne and Tony Chpaman gender and intergenerational mobility, Robert Miller and Bernadette Hayes the career mobility of women and…
Conflict over the grey areas
Policies of providing care for dependent groups including the elderly have a specific impact on women. This paper examines the conflict that has arisen between two groups of predominantly female workers (district nurses and home helps) over who should provide personal care for frail elderly people. The paper concludes that the conflict relates not so much to the professional skills needed for nursing care of frail elderly people but to the labour…
Research note
Ethnic Variation in the Female Labour Force
Dans le recensement anglais de 1991, la question sur l'origine ethnique permet d'analyser la segregation professionnelle par sexe et groupe ethnique. Cette analyse montre que les femmes Noires des Caraibes ou d'Afrique ont plus de chances d'etre economiquement actives (au travail ou a la recherche d'un emploi) que les Blanches. L'analyse confirme egalement que les femmes non-blanches ont plus de risques que les Blanches d'etre au chomage. Toutefo…
Women farmers in south-west England
There has been research on women running businesses and on women as farmers’ wives, but little is known about women farmers—women running their own businesses within the rural economy. This paper reports on long interviews with nine women farmers in the South West of England. All had become involved in farming during or as a result of marriage, but at the time of the interviews all were business‐women in their own right, running farms or substant…
An introduction to sociology
This second edition of the bestselling An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives confirms the centrality of feminist perspectives and research to the sociological enterprise and introduces students and the general reader to the wide range of feminist contributions to key areas of sociological concern. This completely revised edition includes material on new feminist theories and post-modern feminism, as well as incorporating the finding…
Chocs Away
This paper draws on empirical research into the recruitment, training, and management of female flight attendants, working primarily in the transatlantic business travel sector of the contemporary airline industry. We argue that whilst the `skills' which flight attendants are required to deploy are denied, being treated as somehow inherent abilities and thus neither trained nor remunerated, they are nevertheless managed in a directive way. This m…
Women and health checks
This paper uses British Household Panel Study data to examine the frequency of women's use of four preventive/screening health services: breast cancer screening, cervical cytology, opticians and dentists. Although the take-up rate for all four services is high, there is a relationship between material deprivation, age, social class and service use. The pattern of differential uptake is complex and demographic variables are not very successful at …
Women, Health and Domestic Violence
'Domestic' violence is a health problem for women, and not just because of the injuries they receive. It leads to acute and chronic physical injury, miscarriage, loss of hearing or vision, physical disfigurement and often depression, alcoholism and sometimes suicide. The medical and caring professions are in the best position to act as the 'front line' in helping women who are assaulted by their partners, because most of the female population vis…
Health lifestyles in central Asia
The Social Mobility Of Women
Living on the Margins
This article argues that in both policy and economic debates the specifically local experiences of older people living in deprived neighbourhoods have been ignored. It describes research undertaken in an area of material deprivation and low access to ‘social capital’, on the margins of Middlesbrough both geographically and socially. A health and lifestyle survey of older people in the area was supplemented by Community Futures Workshops at which …
An Introduction to Sociology
Introducing Sociology.2. Social Stratification.3. Social Class in Modern Britain.4. Wealth, Welfare, and Poverty.5. Gender.6. Ethnicity and Race.7. Power, Politics, Citizenship, and Protest.8. The Mass Media.9. Social Control, Deviance, and Crime.10. The Family.11. Schooling in Britain.12. Inequality in Education.13. Religion.14. Work and Leisure.15. Population.16. Health and Illness.17. Doing Sociological Research.Appendix: Reading Statistical D…
Chernobyl
The nuclear accident in Chernobyl in 1986 is a dramatic example of the type of incidents that are characteristic of a ‘risk society’. The consequences of the incident are indeterminate, the causes complex and future developments unpredictable. Nothing can compensate for its effects and it affects a broad population indiscriminately. This paper examines the lived experience of those who experienced biographical disruption as residents of the regio…
Trust, confidence and social environment in post-communist societies
This paper looks at trust and confidence in people and institutions in eight of the countries that have undergone transformation since the breakup of the Soviet Union. While the questions are not identical to those asked in previous research in post-Soviet societies, our findings are comparable—greatest trust in relatives and friends, less in people in general and least in politicians and institutions of social control. Levels of trust are not hi…
An Introduction to Sociology
This third edition of this best-selling book confirms the ongoing centrality of feminist perspectives and research to the sociological enterprise, and introduces students to the wide range of feminist contributions in key areas of sociological concern. Completely revised, this edition includes: new chapters on sexuality and the media additional material on race and ethnicity, disability and the body many new international and comparative examples…
Health lifestyles and political ideology in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine
Psychological distress, gender, and health lifestyles in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine
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