Cant
Biographic Data
| ID | 41329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cant |
| FAMILY NAME | Cant |
| SIGNATURE | CANT |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canterbury Christ Church University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0644-1873 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Making up for lost time
A small‐scale qualitative case study of students at a post‐1992 university in England sought to understand the nuanced experiences of returning to face‐to‐face study following the pandemic. Whilst much has been written about the effects of studying online, much less is known about how students adapted once they returned to campus‐based delivery. Specifically, the paper focuses on student motivations to pursue higher education, and the ways that t…
Keeping streets safe at night
Purpose Keeping streets safe at night to protect users of the night-time economy (NTE) is a responsibility shared by the police and private security companies, yet little is known about this collaboration in practice. The study aims to explore the experience of both agencies to reveal examples of good practice as well as any tensions and risks that emanate from this partnership. Design/methodology/approach Focus groups with 19 police officers and…
Powerful or Disempowering Knowledge? The Teaching of Sociology in English Schools and Colleges
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 A large survey of sociology teachers revealed that they are required to teach outdated and sometimes discredited studies, which can reinforce rather than challenge stereotypes held by the privileged and which can be disempowering for those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 …
Social Polarisation at the Local Level
This article examines how intensifying inequality in the UK plays out at a local level, in order to bring out the varied ways polarisation takes place 'on the ground'. It brings a community analysis buttressed by quantitative framing to the study of economic, spatial and relational polarisation in four towns in the UK. We distinguish differing dynamics of 'elite-based' polarisation (in Oxford and Tunbridge Wells) and 'poverty-based' polarisation …
Generational Encounters with Higher Education
Generational Encounters with Higher Education
Generational Encounters with Higher Education
The 21st century has witnessed significant changes to the structures and policies framing Higher Education. But how do these changes in norms, values, and purpose shape the generation now coming of age? Employing a generational analysis, this book offers an original approach to the study of education. It explores the qualitative dimensions of the relationship between academics and students, and examines wider issues of culture and socialisation, …
Medical Pluralism, Mainstream Marginality or Subaltern Therapeutics? Globalisation and the Integration of ‘Asian’ Medicines and Biomedicine in the UK
Medical Pluralism refers to the coexistence of differing medical traditions and practices grounded in divergent epistemological positions and based on distinctive worldviews. From the 1970s, a globalised health market, underpinned by new consumer and practitioner interest, spawned the importation of ‘non-Western’ therapeutics to the UK. Since then, these various modalities have coexisted alongside, and sometimes within, biomedical clinics. Sociol…
Popular but Peripheral
This article reports the largest UK study of sociology school teachers' views of the discipline. Drawing on the sociology of the professions, we reflect on the ambivalent positioning of sociology in schools. Despite buoyant uptake, teachers claim that sociology is perceived as dated and has lower status than other elective courses, often described as a 'soft' and 'easy' subject that anyone can teach. While many students are reported to benefit fr…
Hidden in Plain Sight
Despite the increased attention given to the relationship between masculinity and health, the analysis of men’s use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is relatively underdeveloped compared with studies of female use. Through the thematic synthesis of existing research studies, this article collates and analyzes patterns of, and motivations for, male usage of CAM. We reveal that there are significant levels of male use of CAM, which c…
Hysteresis, social congestion and debt
Negotiating competency, professionalism and risk
Alternative Health Practices and Systems
Reflexivity, Ethnography and the Professions (Complementary Medicine) Watching You Watching Me Watching You (and Writing about Both of Us)
That reflexivity is a characteristic of high modernity is now a truism, but its ethical and practical implications for field research have not been explored. The article is based on research conducted among complementary medical practitioners, focusing on issues of professionalisation. This research revealed the problematic and permeable nature of boundaries in ethnographic work. For example, in the course of interviews and observation therapists…
Healing Traditions. Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions (Book)
Demarcation and transformation within homoeopathic knowledge. A strategy of professionalization
The Reluctant Profession - Homoeopathy and the Search for Legitimacy
This paper examines a group of lay homoeopaths, represented by the Society of Homoeopathy, and traces the changes that have been made to their organisation, training and knowledge as they attempt to enhance their legitimacy in the eyes of the public, government and orthodox medical profession. The group has acquired a number of `professional' properties, but in so doing have reduced levels of freedom, marginalised factions within the group and fa…
All change in the NHS? Implications of the NHS reforms for primary care prevention
The paper provides a review of the implications of the recent NHS reforms - i.e. the Griffiths Report (1983), Promoting Better Health (1987), Working for Patients (1989) and the new GP contract (1990) - for primary care prevention. Three major themes are identified as the leitmotivs running through these reforms: first, the introduction of general management into the NHS; secondly, the introduction of market principles into the NHS, and; thirdly,…
Using private health insurance. A study of lay decisions to seek professional medical help
This paper examines the decision making process associated with the use of private health insurance. In particular, it focusses on the criteria respondents draw on to decide when to use the private health sector and when not to. This is an important issue as it gives insight into how the use of the private sector relates to use of the National Health Service. It also informs the theoretical debate about help-seeking behaviour, in particular, the …
On the margins of the medical marketplace? An exploratory study of alternative practitioners' perceptions
The aim of this paper, drawing on data from an exploratory, qualitative investigation of the perceptions of alternative practitioners, is to examine the role and position of non-orthodox medicine within the medical market. It specifically looks at how alternative practitioners firstly 'experience' their position and secondly their perceptions and images of how it should be. Clearly, one of the key issues is how the position of alternative practit…
The Social Organisation of Food Consumption
Evidence from epidemiological studies (Doll and Peto, 1981 European Atherosclerosis Society, 1987) has clearly pointed to a strong association between food consumption and disease. This association has been used to account at least in part for the relationship between social class and a range of diseases (Townsend, Davidson and Whitehead, 1988), as evidence from survey research (MAFF, 1987) suggests that patterns of food consumption and dietary i…
American Pediatrics
The Reluctant Profession - Homoeopathy and the Search for Legitimacy
This paper examines a group of lay homoeopaths, represented by the Society of Homoeopathy, and traces the changes that have been made to their organisation, training and knowledge as they attempt to enhance their legitimacy in the eyes of the public, government and orthodox medical profession. The group has acquired a number of `professional' properties, but in so doing have reduced levels of freedom, marginalised factions within the group and fa…
Demarcation and transformation within homoeopathic knowledge. A strategy of professionalization
On the margins of the medical marketplace? An exploratory study of alternative practitioners' perceptions
The aim of this paper, drawing on data from an exploratory, qualitative investigation of the perceptions of alternative practitioners, is to examine the role and position of non-orthodox medicine within the medical market. It specifically looks at how alternative practitioners firstly 'experience' their position and secondly their perceptions and images of how it should be. Clearly, one of the key issues is how the position of alternative practit…
Negotiating competency, professionalism and risk
All change in the NHS? Implications of the NHS reforms for primary care prevention
The paper provides a review of the implications of the recent NHS reforms - i.e. the Griffiths Report (1983), Promoting Better Health (1987), Working for Patients (1989) and the new GP contract (1990) - for primary care prevention. Three major themes are identified as the leitmotivs running through these reforms: first, the introduction of general management into the NHS; secondly, the introduction of market principles into the NHS, and; thirdly,…
The Social Organisation of Food Consumption
Evidence from epidemiological studies (Doll and Peto, 1981 European Atherosclerosis Society, 1987) has clearly pointed to a strong association between food consumption and disease. This association has been used to account at least in part for the relationship between social class and a range of diseases (Townsend, Davidson and Whitehead, 1988), as evidence from survey research (MAFF, 1987) suggests that patterns of food consumption and dietary i…
Popular but Peripheral
This article reports the largest UK study of sociology school teachers' views of the discipline. Drawing on the sociology of the professions, we reflect on the ambivalent positioning of sociology in schools. Despite buoyant uptake, teachers claim that sociology is perceived as dated and has lower status than other elective courses, often described as a 'soft' and 'easy' subject that anyone can teach. While many students are reported to benefit fr…
Social Polarisation at the Local Level
This article examines how intensifying inequality in the UK plays out at a local level, in order to bring out the varied ways polarisation takes place 'on the ground'. It brings a community analysis buttressed by quantitative framing to the study of economic, spatial and relational polarisation in four towns in the UK. We distinguish differing dynamics of 'elite-based' polarisation (in Oxford and Tunbridge Wells) and 'poverty-based' polarisation …
Reflexivity, Ethnography and the Professions (Complementary Medicine) Watching You Watching Me Watching You (and Writing about Both of Us)
That reflexivity is a characteristic of high modernity is now a truism, but its ethical and practical implications for field research have not been explored. The article is based on research conducted among complementary medical practitioners, focusing on issues of professionalisation. This research revealed the problematic and permeable nature of boundaries in ethnographic work. For example, in the course of interviews and observation therapists…
Using private health insurance. A study of lay decisions to seek professional medical help
This paper examines the decision making process associated with the use of private health insurance. In particular, it focusses on the criteria respondents draw on to decide when to use the private health sector and when not to. This is an important issue as it gives insight into how the use of the private sector relates to use of the National Health Service. It also informs the theoretical debate about help-seeking behaviour, in particular, the …
Hysteresis, social congestion and debt
Powerful or Disempowering Knowledge? The Teaching of Sociology in English Schools and Colleges
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 …
Hidden in Plain Sight
Despite the increased attention given to the relationship between masculinity and health, the analysis of men’s use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is relatively underdeveloped compared with studies of female use. Through the thematic synthesis of existing research studies, this article collates and analyzes patterns of, and motivations for, male usage of CAM. We reveal that there are significant levels of male use of CAM, which c…
The Social Organisation of Food Consumption
Evidence from epidemiological studies (Doll and Peto, 1981 European Atherosclerosis Society, 1987) has clearly pointed to a strong association between food consumption and disease. This association has been used to account at least in part for the relationship between social class and a range of diseases (Townsend, Davidson and Whitehead, 1988), as evidence from survey research (MAFF, 1987) suggests that patterns of food consumption and dietary i…
American Pediatrics
On the margins of the medical marketplace? An exploratory study of alternative practitioners' perceptions
The aim of this paper, drawing on data from an exploratory, qualitative investigation of the perceptions of alternative practitioners, is to examine the role and position of non-orthodox medicine within the medical market. It specifically looks at how alternative practitioners firstly 'experience' their position and secondly their perceptions and images of how it should be. Clearly, one of the key issues is how the position of alternative practit…
Using private health insurance. A study of lay decisions to seek professional medical help
This paper examines the decision making process associated with the use of private health insurance. In particular, it focusses on the criteria respondents draw on to decide when to use the private health sector and when not to. This is an important issue as it gives insight into how the use of the private sector relates to use of the National Health Service. It also informs the theoretical debate about help-seeking behaviour, in particular, the …
All change in the NHS? Implications of the NHS reforms for primary care prevention
The paper provides a review of the implications of the recent NHS reforms - i.e. the Griffiths Report (1983), Promoting Better Health (1987), Working for Patients (1989) and the new GP contract (1990) - for primary care prevention. Three major themes are identified as the leitmotivs running through these reforms: first, the introduction of general management into the NHS; secondly, the introduction of market principles into the NHS, and; thirdly,…
The Reluctant Profession - Homoeopathy and the Search for Legitimacy
This paper examines a group of lay homoeopaths, represented by the Society of Homoeopathy, and traces the changes that have been made to their organisation, training and knowledge as they attempt to enhance their legitimacy in the eyes of the public, government and orthodox medical profession. The group has acquired a number of `professional' properties, but in so doing have reduced levels of freedom, marginalised factions within the group and fa…
Healing Traditions. Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions (Book)
Demarcation and transformation within homoeopathic knowledge. A strategy of professionalization
Reflexivity, Ethnography and the Professions (Complementary Medicine) Watching You Watching Me Watching You (and Writing about Both of Us)
That reflexivity is a characteristic of high modernity is now a truism, but its ethical and practical implications for field research have not been explored. The article is based on research conducted among complementary medical practitioners, focusing on issues of professionalisation. This research revealed the problematic and permeable nature of boundaries in ethnographic work. For example, in the course of interviews and observation therapists…
Alternative Health Practices and Systems
Negotiating competency, professionalism and risk
Hysteresis, social congestion and debt
Hidden in Plain Sight
Despite the increased attention given to the relationship between masculinity and health, the analysis of men’s use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is relatively underdeveloped compared with studies of female use. Through the thematic synthesis of existing research studies, this article collates and analyzes patterns of, and motivations for, male usage of CAM. We reveal that there are significant levels of male use of CAM, which c…
Generational Encounters with Higher Education
Generational Encounters with Higher Education
Generational Encounters with Higher Education
The 21st century has witnessed significant changes to the structures and policies framing Higher Education. But how do these changes in norms, values, and purpose shape the generation now coming of age? Employing a generational analysis, this book offers an original approach to the study of education. It explores the qualitative dimensions of the relationship between academics and students, and examines wider issues of culture and socialisation, …
Medical Pluralism, Mainstream Marginality or Subaltern Therapeutics? Globalisation and the Integration of ‘Asian’ Medicines and Biomedicine in the UK
Medical Pluralism refers to the coexistence of differing medical traditions and practices grounded in divergent epistemological positions and based on distinctive worldviews. From the 1970s, a globalised health market, underpinned by new consumer and practitioner interest, spawned the importation of ‘non-Western’ therapeutics to the UK. Since then, these various modalities have coexisted alongside, and sometimes within, biomedical clinics. Sociol…
Popular but Peripheral
This article reports the largest UK study of sociology school teachers' views of the discipline. Drawing on the sociology of the professions, we reflect on the ambivalent positioning of sociology in schools. Despite buoyant uptake, teachers claim that sociology is perceived as dated and has lower status than other elective courses, often described as a 'soft' and 'easy' subject that anyone can teach. While many students are reported to benefit fr…
Social Polarisation at the Local Level
This article examines how intensifying inequality in the UK plays out at a local level, in order to bring out the varied ways polarisation takes place 'on the ground'. It brings a community analysis buttressed by quantitative framing to the study of economic, spatial and relational polarisation in four towns in the UK. We distinguish differing dynamics of 'elite-based' polarisation (in Oxford and Tunbridge Wells) and 'poverty-based' polarisation …
Powerful or Disempowering Knowledge? The Teaching of Sociology in English Schools and Colleges
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 …
Making up for lost time
A small‐scale qualitative case study of students at a post‐1992 university in England sought to understand the nuanced experiences of returning to face‐to‐face study following the pandemic. Whilst much has been written about the effects of studying online, much less is known about how students adapted once they returned to campus‐based delivery. Specifically, the paper focuses on student motivations to pursue higher education, and the ways that t…
Keeping streets safe at night
Purpose Keeping streets safe at night to protect users of the night-time economy (NTE) is a responsibility shared by the police and private security companies, yet little is known about this collaboration in practice. The study aims to explore the experience of both agencies to reveal examples of good practice as well as any tensions and risks that emanate from this partnership. Design/methodology/approach Focus groups with 19 police officers and…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Public relations (6 works)