Jarred Goodwin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 110585 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jarred Goodwin |
| NOMBRES | Jarred |
| APELLIDO | Goodwin |
| FIRMA | GOODWIN J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6061-865X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 133 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Where I worked, where I lived
Purpose This paper aimed to revisit materials from legacy research projects conducted earlier in my career at two different research locations, to give the data new life, reimagine it and offer new insights by presenting them through poetic inquiry. Design/methodology/approach This is achieved by drawing on the practices of data reanimation, as outlined by authors such as Thomson and McGeeney (2024) and Mills’s (1959) advice in the sociological i…
Youth Opportunities
This article presents three thematic found poems based on reanimated data from interview transcripts, interview schedules, speeches, commentary, research ephemera, notes, and personal reflections related to school-to-work transition and youth training in 1980s Britain. This was a time of upheaval and change, with young people at the forefront of economic decline and social conflict. Rather than leaving their stories “archived,” found poetry has t…
Between the Field and Elsewhere
This article discusses the uses of collaborative autoethnography (CAE) as a tool for reflecting on fieldwork experiences conducted as part of a restudy of two ethnographic studies by Pearl Jephcott from 1954 and 1964. We approach CAE in a novel way; through 'dialogic exchange' which is presented as transcript excerpts. Through this, we demonstrate two major contributions: (a) that 'past' researchers are present, despite their contemporaneous 'abs…
What Is the Role of Imagined Futures in the Development of E-Cigarette Use among Young People
Public health 'gateway' narratives concerning young people's e-cigarette use warn against a future generation beset by escalating addiction and a possible epidemic of tobacco- and vaping-related illnesses. We argue that such imaginaries of vaping futures are in fact based in smoking pasts, which, while likely not 'real' in the sense of predicting the development of youth vaping, have real consequences through influencing the conditions of young p…
Slivers and footnotes
Back to basics? Portraits of the first Covid-19 lockdown in Portugal
In this essay, we analyse pictures taken by participants of a research study on their daily lives during the initial lockdown period in Portugal, as the result of the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic. Photographs have the power to freeze a moment in time that, despite being represented in two-dimensions, is multi-layered. These images reveal the profound impact of the pandemic on people’s lives, affecting the most basic elements of their existe…
Slower Sociologies for the Sociology of the Future
In this article the use of old photograph techniques is considered as a way of 'slowing sociology down' in order to have more thoughtful and immersive engagement within the field. This is contrasted with contemporary methods and their emphasis on speed, efficiency and perfection
A Life in Motion
In this article, we combine a number of related elements - YouTube films, autobiographical methods, diaries, letters, and walking - to explore the sociological value of the films of Nelson Sullivan (1948-1989). Sullivan was a film maker who documented New York, and elsewhere, in the mid-late 1980s; however, the films are 'vlogger style' and offer richly detailed, relational, and dialogical accounts of the ever-changing figurations between Nelson …
Co-production of knowledge reveals loss of Indigenous hunting opportunities in the face of accelerating Arctic climate change
Profound sea ice loss is rapidly transforming coupled social-ecological Arctic marine systems. However, explicit impacts to harvesting of traditional resources for coastal Indigenous communities remain largely unquantified, particularly where the primary research questions are posed by the Indigenous community as a result of emerging approaches such as knowledge co-production. Here, we directly link reduced sea ice coverage to decreasing harvesti…
From gateways to multilinear connections
Returning to YTS
Shortly after leaving Leicester for Scotland Andy Furlong began to wrestle with the complexities of school to work transitions as captured by the 1986 sweep of the British Cohort Study (BCS). His analysis was published as Schooling for Jobs. Although a relatively short text, this book was vitally important as it documented in detail, for the first time, the changes to career preparations of British secondary school children at the mid-point of a …
Methodological Uncertainty and Multi-Strategy Analysis
Sociological practitioners often face considerable methodological uncertainty when undertaking a quantitative analysis. This methodological uncertainty encompasses both data construction (e.g. defining variables) and analysis (e.g. selecting and specifying a modelling procedure). Methodological uncertainty can lead to results that are fragile and arbitrary. Yet, many practitioners may be unaware of the potential scale of methodological uncertaint…
Searching for pearls
In this paper, I outline my ongoing research into the life and work of the forgotten sociologist Pearl Jephcott (1900–1980) with three objectives in mind. First, I consider the practice ‘doing’ of biographical research into Pearl’s life and work as well as briefly discuss how researching ‘sociological biographies’ intersects with ‘genealogical’ research. I do this to give a clear overview of the biographical research process and offer some insigh…
Young People in the Labour Market
Levels of suffering among young people have always been much higher than governments suggest. Indeed, policies aimed at young workers have often been framed in ways that help secure conformity to a new employment landscape in which traditional securities have been progressively removed. Increasingly punitive welfare regimes have resulted in new hardships, especially among young women and those living in depressed labour markets. Framed by the ide…
Norbert Elias's Lost Research
Based on the re-discovery of a lost sociological project led by Norbert Elias at the University of Leicester, this book re-visits the project: The Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles. Norbert Elias's Lost Research makes use of the interview booklets documenting the lives of nearly 900 Leicester school leavers at the time, to give a unique account of Elias's only foray into large-scale, publicly funded research. Covering…
Sociology's Fate
In this reflective piece I use Mills as a starting point for exploring the intersections between my own biography and some of the main trends in sociology since the journal Sociology was published 50 years ago. The Millsean motif of intertwined 'personal troubles' and 'developments of the epoch' can usefully be used to examine individual experiences of change and transformation in the discipline and consider key trends such as the 'flight' of the…
Contextualising the Research Process
In this paper we argue that for the secondary analysis of qualitative data to be effective, researchers need to subject any accompanying interviewer notes to the secondary analysis process. The secondary analysis of interviewer notes can provide important insight into the research process and the attitudes, experiences, and expectations of those collecting the data. Such information is essential if meaningful analyses are to be offered. Using int…
Pearl Jephcott
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 the history of our discipline and reassess the significant contributions made by 'other' researchers so that we may reappraise what can be learnt from these 'pioneer scholars…
Notions of fantasy and reality in the adjustment to retirement
During the early 1960s, Norbert Elias led a research project on the adjustment of young workers to work situations and adult roles. The data from this project, which consisted of 851 interviews with young people, were recently rediscovered and the participants, now approaching retirement, were re-interviewed as part of a restudy. In this paper we argue, that, in the context of the dramatic changes to the transition to retirement that have taken p…
Ethnicity and Clinical Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer
Beyond ‘average’ family life
This article is based on data gathered in the 1960s, which included information on household composition and family formations. We explore different family formations and structures represented in this data and the meaning attached to issues around a number of ‘unusual’ family compositions encountered by the researchers at that time. We also examine the significance attached to atypical family units by both the respondents and the interviewers
The Ethical Dilemmas of Restudies in Researching Youth
Since 2000, we have been undertaking a restudy of Elias’s ‘Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles’ project (1962–64). We experienced a number of ethical dilemmas/questions in undertaking the restudy and in this article, we outline these and discuss how we resolved them as the project developed. In doing so, we focus our discussion around three central questions: ( i) how did we reuse this data and balance the conflict betw…
Ordinary Lives
Since 2000 we have been engaged in restudies of transitions projects from the 1960s and 1980s and we have used historic data to problematise past experiences of school to work to question assumptions around complexity and linearity. Yet, in our own analyses, we have perhaps followed too closely the dominant transition discourses, concentrating only on those young people for whom transitions were not straightforward thus privileging the non-linear…
Sage Biographical Research
Revisiting Norbert Elias's Sociology of Community
Since 2001 we have been engaged in a re-study of three linked Leicester projects: The Employment of Married Women in a Leicester Factory (1959-1962), The Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles (1962-1964) and The Established and the Outsiders (1965). The three projects contain a number of striking overlaps, not least Elias's formulation of communities as figurations through which communal behavioural standards are establis…
Exploring Complex Transitions
Using data from a little known project, ' Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles', carried out in Leicester between 1962 and 1964, this article aims to re-examine the extent to which transitions during this time were complex, lengthy, non-linear and single-step and explores the assumed linearity and uncomplicated nature of school to work transitions in the 1960s. It is argued that earlier research on youth transitions has …
Norbert Elias and the Lost Young Worker Project
Forty years ago, between 1962-1964, fieldwork was carried out on the research project Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles. Using archived materials relating to the little known Norbert Elias project, this paper has two aims. First, to introduce this largely unknown aspect of Elias’s work to a wider audience. Second, to explore in detail Elias’s contributions to the project by piecing together his ideas and hypotheses fr…
Revisiting Norbert Elias's Sociology of Community
Since 2001 we have been engaged in a re-study of three linked Leicester projects: The Employment of Married Women in a Leicester Factory (1959-1962), The Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles (1962-1964) and The Established and the Outsiders (1965). The three projects contain a number of striking overlaps, not least Elias's formulation of communities as figurations through which communal behavioural standards are establis…
Pearl Jephcott
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 the history of our discipline and reassess the significant contributions made by 'other' researchers so that we may reappraise what can be learnt from these 'pioneer scholars…
Continuity and change in the experiences of transition from school to work
Using previously unanalysed data from Norbert Elias’s lost study of young workers in Leicester —the Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles (1962–1964), and data from a subsequent restudy of the same respondents in 2003–2005, this paper focuses on three main themes. First, we critically examine the concept of transition as it is currently used in education and youth research. We argue that the vast majority of what is writt…
Ilya Neustadt, Norbert Elias, and the Leicester Department
The central aims of this paper are: (1) to explore the utility of using personal correspondence as a source of data for sociological investigations into the history of sociology in the UK; (2) in relation to this undertaking, to advance the beginnings of a figurational analysis of epistolary forms; and (3), to provide an empirically-grounded discussion of the historical significance of the Department of Sociology at the University of Leicester (a…
Notions of fantasy and reality in the adjustment to retirement
During the early 1960s, Norbert Elias led a research project on the adjustment of young workers to work situations and adult roles. The data from this project, which consisted of 851 interviews with young people, were recently rediscovered and the participants, now approaching retirement, were re-interviewed as part of a restudy. In this paper we argue, that, in the context of the dramatic changes to the transition to retirement that have taken p…
Searching for pearls
In this paper, I outline my ongoing research into the life and work of the forgotten sociologist Pearl Jephcott (1900–1980) with three objectives in mind. First, I consider the practice ‘doing’ of biographical research into Pearl’s life and work as well as briefly discuss how researching ‘sociological biographies’ intersects with ‘genealogical’ research. I do this to give a clear overview of the biographical research process and offer some insigh…
Sage Biographical Research
Utilizing data from a lost sociological project
In 2000 data from a little known sociological study was 're-discovered', stored in an attic office. The archived data comprised original interview schedules that documented the early work experiences of Leicester's youth in the 1960s. Forty years on, the original respondents have been traced and re-interviewed as they make the transition from work to retirement. This article examines the complex methodological issues associated with reanalysing, …
Sociology's Fate
In this reflective piece I use Mills as a starting point for exploring the intersections between my own biography and some of the main trends in sociology since the journal Sociology was published 50 years ago. The Millsean motif of intertwined 'personal troubles' and 'developments of the epoch' can usefully be used to examine individual experiences of change and transformation in the discipline and consider key trends such as the 'flight' of the…
A Life in Motion
In this article, we combine a number of related elements - YouTube films, autobiographical methods, diaries, letters, and walking - to explore the sociological value of the films of Nelson Sullivan (1948-1989). Sullivan was a film maker who documented New York, and elsewhere, in the mid-late 1980s; however, the films are 'vlogger style' and offer richly detailed, relational, and dialogical accounts of the ever-changing figurations between Nelson …
Irish Men and Work in North-County Dublin
Alongside the ever growing theoretical literature on men and masculinity, it remains important to offer accounts of men that are located within men's own experience. This paper presents evidence on men's lives and their attitudes to work in the Republic of Ireland. Recently Ireland has experienced one of the most dramatic economic transformations in Western Europe. However, regardless of the longevity of such economic change, a sizeable part of t…
Through the Interviewer's Lens
In this paper we aim to use the interviewer notes from a lost sociological project (The Young Worker Project) to answer two broad, interrelated, questions: i) how was family life documented and represented by the researchers in their interviewer notes and ii) what does analysing interviewer notes in this way add to our understanding of families and households? The answers to these questions are considered in the context of a further question - wh…
The Ethical Dilemmas of Restudies in Researching Youth
Since 2000, we have been undertaking a restudy of Elias’s ‘Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles’ project (1962–64). We experienced a number of ethical dilemmas/questions in undertaking the restudy and in this article, we outline these and discuss how we resolved them as the project developed. In doing so, we focus our discussion around three central questions: ( i) how did we reuse this data and balance the conflict betw…
Ordinary Lives
Since 2000 we have been engaged in restudies of transitions projects from the 1960s and 1980s and we have used historic data to problematise past experiences of school to work to question assumptions around complexity and linearity. Yet, in our own analyses, we have perhaps followed too closely the dominant transition discourses, concentrating only on those young people for whom transitions were not straightforward thus privileging the non-linear…
Between the Field and Elsewhere
This article discusses the uses of collaborative autoethnography (CAE) as a tool for reflecting on fieldwork experiences conducted as part of a restudy of two ethnographic studies by Pearl Jephcott from 1954 and 1964. We approach CAE in a novel way; through 'dialogic exchange' which is presented as transcript excerpts. Through this, we demonstrate two major contributions: (a) that 'past' researchers are present, despite their contemporaneous 'abs…
Slower Sociologies for the Sociology of the Future
In this article the use of old photograph techniques is considered as a way of 'slowing sociology down' in order to have more thoughtful and immersive engagement within the field. This is contrasted with contemporary methods and their emphasis on speed, efficiency and perfection
Returning to YTS
Shortly after leaving Leicester for Scotland Andy Furlong began to wrestle with the complexities of school to work transitions as captured by the 1986 sweep of the British Cohort Study (BCS). His analysis was published as Schooling for Jobs. Although a relatively short text, this book was vitally important as it documented in detail, for the first time, the changes to career preparations of British secondary school children at the mid-point of a …
Contextualising the Research Process
In this paper we argue that for the secondary analysis of qualitative data to be effective, researchers need to subject any accompanying interviewer notes to the secondary analysis process. The secondary analysis of interviewer notes can provide important insight into the research process and the attitudes, experiences, and expectations of those collecting the data. Such information is essential if meaningful analyses are to be offered. Using int…
Ethnicity and Clinical Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer
Beyond ‘average’ family life
This article is based on data gathered in the 1960s, which included information on household composition and family formations. We explore different family formations and structures represented in this data and the meaning attached to issues around a number of ‘unusual’ family compositions encountered by the researchers at that time. We also examine the significance attached to atypical family units by both the respondents and the interviewers
Employment Equality in Northern Ireland
British Theatre Design
Towards a Greater Understanding of Economy and Work in Ireland
Employment Equality in Northern Ireland
Work and the Diaspora
Irish migrant workers still make a significant contribution to the UK labour force, but this contribution is confined to particular occupation and industry groups. This paper begins with a brief review of the literature on Irish workers employment and an argument is developed that the work of Irish-born people in Britain is still both racialised and gendered. Then, using data from the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), the work experiences …
Irish Men and Work in North-County Dublin
Alongside the ever growing theoretical literature on men and masculinity, it remains important to offer accounts of men that are located within men's own experience. This paper presents evidence on men's lives and their attitudes to work in the Republic of Ireland. Recently Ireland has experienced one of the most dramatic economic transformations in Western Europe. However, regardless of the longevity of such economic change, a sizeable part of t…
Exploring Complex Transitions
Using data from a little known project, ' Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles', carried out in Leicester between 1962 and 1964, this article aims to re-examine the extent to which transitions during this time were complex, lengthy, non-linear and single-step and explores the assumed linearity and uncomplicated nature of school to work transitions in the 1960s. It is argued that earlier research on youth transitions has …
Norbert Elias and the Lost Young Worker Project
Forty years ago, between 1962-1964, fieldwork was carried out on the research project Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles. Using archived materials relating to the little known Norbert Elias project, this paper has two aims. First, to introduce this largely unknown aspect of Elias’s work to a wider audience. Second, to explore in detail Elias’s contributions to the project by piecing together his ideas and hypotheses fr…
The transition to work and adulthood
Continuity and change in the experiences of transition from school to work
Using previously unanalysed data from Norbert Elias’s lost study of young workers in Leicester —the Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles (1962–1964), and data from a subsequent restudy of the same respondents in 2003–2005, this paper focuses on three main themes. First, we critically examine the concept of transition as it is currently used in education and youth research. We argue that the vast majority of what is writt…
Through the Interviewer's Lens
In this paper we aim to use the interviewer notes from a lost sociological project (The Young Worker Project) to answer two broad, interrelated, questions: i) how was family life documented and represented by the researchers in their interviewer notes and ii) what does analysing interviewer notes in this way add to our understanding of families and households? The answers to these questions are considered in the context of a further question - wh…
Utilizing data from a lost sociological project
In 2000 data from a little known sociological study was 're-discovered', stored in an attic office. The archived data comprised original interview schedules that documented the early work experiences of Leicester's youth in the 1960s. Forty years on, the original respondents have been traced and re-interviewed as they make the transition from work to retirement. This article examines the complex methodological issues associated with reanalysing, …
Ilya Neustadt, Norbert Elias, and the Leicester Department
The central aims of this paper are: (1) to explore the utility of using personal correspondence as a source of data for sociological investigations into the history of sociology in the UK; (2) in relation to this undertaking, to advance the beginnings of a figurational analysis of epistolary forms; and (3), to provide an empirically-grounded discussion of the historical significance of the Department of Sociology at the University of Leicester (a…
Sage Biographical Research
Revisiting Norbert Elias's Sociology of Community
Since 2001 we have been engaged in a re-study of three linked Leicester projects: The Employment of Married Women in a Leicester Factory (1959-1962), The Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles (1962-1964) and The Established and the Outsiders (1965). The three projects contain a number of striking overlaps, not least Elias's formulation of communities as figurations through which communal behavioural standards are establis…
Beyond ‘average’ family life
This article is based on data gathered in the 1960s, which included information on household composition and family formations. We explore different family formations and structures represented in this data and the meaning attached to issues around a number of ‘unusual’ family compositions encountered by the researchers at that time. We also examine the significance attached to atypical family units by both the respondents and the interviewers
The Ethical Dilemmas of Restudies in Researching Youth
Since 2000, we have been undertaking a restudy of Elias’s ‘Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles’ project (1962–64). We experienced a number of ethical dilemmas/questions in undertaking the restudy and in this article, we outline these and discuss how we resolved them as the project developed. In doing so, we focus our discussion around three central questions: ( i) how did we reuse this data and balance the conflict betw…
Ordinary Lives
Since 2000 we have been engaged in restudies of transitions projects from the 1960s and 1980s and we have used historic data to problematise past experiences of school to work to question assumptions around complexity and linearity. Yet, in our own analyses, we have perhaps followed too closely the dominant transition discourses, concentrating only on those young people for whom transitions were not straightforward thus privileging the non-linear…
Notions of fantasy and reality in the adjustment to retirement
During the early 1960s, Norbert Elias led a research project on the adjustment of young workers to work situations and adult roles. The data from this project, which consisted of 851 interviews with young people, were recently rediscovered and the participants, now approaching retirement, were re-interviewed as part of a restudy. In this paper we argue, that, in the context of the dramatic changes to the transition to retirement that have taken p…
Ethnicity and Clinical Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer
Contextualising the Research Process
In this paper we argue that for the secondary analysis of qualitative data to be effective, researchers need to subject any accompanying interviewer notes to the secondary analysis process. The secondary analysis of interviewer notes can provide important insight into the research process and the attitudes, experiences, and expectations of those collecting the data. Such information is essential if meaningful analyses are to be offered. Using int…
Pearl Jephcott
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 the history of our discipline and reassess the significant contributions made by 'other' researchers so that we may reappraise what can be learnt from these 'pioneer scholars…
Norbert Elias's Lost Research
Based on the re-discovery of a lost sociological project led by Norbert Elias at the University of Leicester, this book re-visits the project: The Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles. Norbert Elias's Lost Research makes use of the interview booklets documenting the lives of nearly 900 Leicester school leavers at the time, to give a unique account of Elias's only foray into large-scale, publicly funded research. Covering…
Sociology's Fate
In this reflective piece I use Mills as a starting point for exploring the intersections between my own biography and some of the main trends in sociology since the journal Sociology was published 50 years ago. The Millsean motif of intertwined 'personal troubles' and 'developments of the epoch' can usefully be used to examine individual experiences of change and transformation in the discipline and consider key trends such as the 'flight' of the…
Young People in the Labour Market
Levels of suffering among young people have always been much higher than governments suggest. Indeed, policies aimed at young workers have often been framed in ways that help secure conformity to a new employment landscape in which traditional securities have been progressively removed. Increasingly punitive welfare regimes have resulted in new hardships, especially among young women and those living in depressed labour markets. Framed by the ide…
Searching for pearls
In this paper, I outline my ongoing research into the life and work of the forgotten sociologist Pearl Jephcott (1900–1980) with three objectives in mind. First, I consider the practice ‘doing’ of biographical research into Pearl’s life and work as well as briefly discuss how researching ‘sociological biographies’ intersects with ‘genealogical’ research. I do this to give a clear overview of the biographical research process and offer some insigh…
Sociology (28 obras) · Gender Studies (13 obras) · Social science (12 obras) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (11 obras) · Data Analysis and Archiving (10 obras) · History (10 obras) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (10 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (7 obras)