Clive Ashworth

Biographic Data

ID3975929
NAMEClive Ashworth
GIVEN NAMESClive
FAMILY NAMEAshworth
SIGNATUREASHWORTH C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Leicester
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS48
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Fragments of anarchism in higher education critical art pedagogies

    Open AccessR Wilkinson, Clive Ashworth et al.ARTICLEArts and Humanities in Higher…2025References: 9

    Higher Education (HE) continues to find itself subject to neoliberal doctrines of competition, standardisation, managerialism and marketisation. This paper presents selected findings from a grounded theory study in which creative arts practitioners working in HE institutions shared their understandings of the arts and the critical pedagogies inherent in their discipline within the context of a neoliberalised educational economy. The research show…

  • Durkheim and social realism

    Taylor, Steve Taylor et al.CHAPTERSociological Theory and Medical…2022

    The term positivism has a long and varied history and is often used loosely. The imbalance of egoism, altruism, anomie, and fatalism could not be perceived by sensory perception, but had to be penetrated by special methods. Medical sociologists do not avoid theorizing simply by claiming to reject it on the grounds that they are researchers concerned only with the real, or empirical, world. The theoretical assumptions that are made structure the s…

  • Warfare, Social Theory and West European Development

    Open AccessClive Ashworth, Christopher DandekerARTICLEThe Sociological Review1987Cited by: 5

    This paper explores the intellectual reasons for the failure of sociology to give sufficient attention to warfare and military organisation as central problems in social theory. These reasons are to be found in the dominance of liberal functionalism and Marxism as paradigms in the development of sociology. A reorientation of social theory is called for and it is suggested that writers in the neo-Machiavellian tradition provide an important correc…

  • The Structure of Social Theory. Dilemmas and Strategies

    Gilles Ferréol, Terry Johnson et al.ARTICLERevue Française de Sociologie1986

  • Capstones and Organisms

    Open AccessC E Ashworth, Clive Ashworth et al.ARTICLESociology1986References: 3

    One of the most important debates during the development of sociology has concerned the question: what were the conditions that promoted the endogenous creation of a broadly capitalist dynamic in the Occident? John Hall presents an original and brilliant analysis, the main thrust of which we agree with (Hall 1985). However, one important element of his analysis, namely the political impact of religion, and specifically the role of the Papacy, is,…

  • Subjectivism

    Open AccessTerry Johnson, Terry C Johnson et al.CHAPTERThe Structure of Social Theory1984

    This chapter examines subjectivism as a strategy in social theory. However, subjectivism should be viewed in terms of a dialogue with the competing strategies, discussed in other chapters. This is because a number of strategic tensions arise out of subjectivism’s resolution of the problems of the nature of social reality and the way we acquire knowledge about it, which force it to confront these other strategies of theorising. The strategy of sub…

  • Empiricism

    Open AccessTerry Johnson, Terry C Johnson et al.CHAPTERThe Structure of Social Theory1984

    As with other sociological perspectives considered in this book, the analysis of empiricism takes as a central theme the problem, ‘What is social structure?’ We have already indicated that this theme can be broken down into two interrelated questions: what is the nature of social reality?; and, how can we know it?

  • Rationalism

    Open AccessTerry Johnson, Terry C Johnson et al.CHAPTERThe Structure of Social Theory1984

    In this chapter we will pursue further our analysis of the four theoretical strategies identified in Chapter 1, through a detailed consideration of the work of Emile Durkheim, who, we will argue, is the major representative of the rationalist tradition in sociology. The content of this chapter is very much affected by the fact that existing sociological texts mistakenly present Durkheim as a founding father of modern positivistic sociology. 1 Bec…

  • Substantialism

    Open AccessTerry Johnson, Terry C Johnson et al.CHAPTERThe Structure of Social Theory1984

    Unlike the strategies identified in the two preceding chapters, substantialism is, in the social sciences, inextricably linked with one name: that of Marx. While it would be mistaken to assume that Marx is alone in adopting such a strategy or that Marxism, in all its various forms, is always predominantly substantialist, it suits the purpose in this chapter to confine the discussion to Marx and Marxists. First, however, we must briefly indicate t…

  • The Dialectic of Theoretical Practice

    Open AccessTerry Johnson, Christopher Dandeker et al.CHAPTERThe Structure of Social Theory1984

    In the preceding chapters we have tried to show that sociology is characterised by the co-existence of competing theoretical projects generated by four broad strategies, each arising out of alternative answers to the same questions: how is social reality constituted?; and how can we know it? We have also shown that the existence of this common structure of thinking about the social world in no way detracts from the possibility of individual theor…

  • Theoretical Sociology

    Open AccessTerry Johnson, Christopher Dandeker et al.CHAPTERThe Structure of Social Theory1984

    A decade ago it was normal practice for teachers of sociology to confront new students with the question: Is sociology a science? Apart from the implicit demand that the newcomers should commit themselves to a positive evaluation of the discipline in advance of getting to know what it was about, the question assumed that there was some unity of purpose and practice in sociology, and that there was a more or less agreed set of criteria as to what …

  • The Structure of Social Theory

    Open AccessTerry Johnson, Christopher Dandeker et al.BOOKThe Structure of Social Theory1984Cited by: 36

  • Flying Saucers, Spoon-Bending and Atlantis

    Open AccessC E Ashworth, Clive AshworthARTICLEThe Sociological Review1980Cited by: 2

  • Extended Review

    Open AccessC E Ashworth, Clive AshworthARTICLEThe Sociological Review1977

  • Levi-Strauss

    C E Ashworth, Clive Ashworth et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1977

  • Emile Durkheim

    D A Nye, C E Ashworth et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1971Cited by: 5