John D Brewer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 167941 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John D Brewer |
| NOMBRES | John D |
| APELLIDO | Brewer |
| FIRMA | BREWER J D |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4213-5830 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 134 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 522 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 131 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1965 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Monotheism and Peacebuilding
This Element addresses the opportunities and constraints operating on monotheistic peacebuilding, focusing on the three Abrahamic faiths, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, which share a common origin. These opportunities and constraints are approached through what the volume calls 'the paradox of monotheism'. Monotheism is defined by belief in one omnipotent, benign, and loving God, but this God does not or cannot prevent violence, war, and confl…
Visiting Vesuvius
This article examines the activities of guides on the volcano Mount Vesuvius in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They worked in a double capacity—as aids to savants seeking to unlock the scientific secrets of the volcano and as the creators of a tourist infrastructure that helped visitors enjoy the sublime experience of a steadily erupting volcano. The essay examines their contribution to scientific knowledge of the volcano and their…
Tradition
Joseph A Scimecca, Christianity and Sociological Theory
The Sociology of Everyday Life Peacebuilding
The Sociology of Compromise after Conflict
The Influence of Religion and Ethnonationalism on Public Attitudes towards Amnesty
The granting of amnesties has now become a cornerstone of peacebuilding efforts in societies emerging from conflict. Yet, the impact of the role of religion and ethnicity in determining attitudes towards such arrangements has not been empirically assessed. Mindful of this omission, this article investigates the relationship between a range of religious measures — religious practices and beliefs in and about God — and ethnonationalist identity on …
Scp>MacIver,RobertMorrison (1882–1970)
Robert MacIver made a significant journey in sociology from birth on a small island off the Scottish mainland to become president of the American Sociological Association, Lieber Professor at Colombia University and president and chancellor of the New School of Social Research in New York. He was very influential for a time and the author of key textbooks
Nonviolence
Nonviolence is a catchall term to describe many types of behaviour, conduct, and attitude, all of which share, however, the principled commitment to least harm, noninjury, and nonviolence in the pursuit of personal and sociopolitical goals. It is mostly the method of the weak, but is an effective response to oppression, injustice, and unfairness when powerlessness or moral values prevent the recourse to violence
The ethics of ethical debates in peace and conflict research
This article outlines the case for peace and conflict researchers to formulate a research covenant to better shape their ethical obligations and responsibilities. This is an urgent necessity given that ethical debates have in some proponents become emotive and are not conducted in an ethical manner. In coming to this assessment, the article reviews trends in the research ethics literature and draws out some of the generic issues addressed in a re…
Peace Processes
Designing Multimethod Research
Victimisation and Attitudes Towards Former Political Prisoners in Northern Ireland
The release of ex-combatants and the mechanisms for their re-integration within society has become an increasingly controversial issue in peace settlements. Yet to date, the view of victims concerning such arrangements in post-conflict societies remains unexplored. Mindful of this omission and using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article investigates the relationship between victimisation and attitudes towards the treatment of former poli…
Imagined liberation
The Scottish Enlightenment and Scottish Social Thought c.1725–1915
Scotland may well be a nation in waiting but the greatest contribution it has made to the history and development of social science in Britain occurred just after its loss of nationhood in the 1707 Act of Union between England and Scotland, and, as we shall discuss, was not unrelated to it, and this intellectual effervescence in the eighteenth century, known as the Scottish Enlightenment, first began with an Irishman, Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746…
The Scottish Enlightenment and Scottish Social Thought c.1725â 1915
Society as a Vocation
The twentieth century witnessed the professionalisation of social science by making science its vocation. The twenty-first century must see social science become normative, with society its vocation. The paradox of neoliberalism is that its attack on the public university has forced social science to advance its public value and the grounds on which it is a public good in its own right, the outcome of which is that we must shift from science to s…
Forum
According to Michel de Certeau, distance is the indispensable prerequisite for historical knowledge and the very characteristic of modern historiography. The historian speaks, in the present, about the absent, the dead, as Certeau labels the past, thus emphasizing the performative dimension of historical writing: “the function of language is to introduce through saying what can no longer be done .” As a consequence, the heterogeneity of two non-c…
Victimhood and Attitudes towards Dealing with the Legacy of a Violent Past
Research Highlights and Abstract Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article provides the first nationally representative and systematic study of victims' views on how to deal with the past; Focusing specifically on Northern Ireland, it both investigates and provides a comprehensive account of the marked divisions between the various religious groupings—Protestants, Catholics and the non-affiliated—in terms of a range of truth recovery m…
Victims as moral beacons of humanitarianism in post-conflict societies
This paper reports on interview data amongst victims of conflict and organised violence. Despite their victimhood, they evince a level of forgivingness, civility and tolerance that constructs in the very acts of atrocity that portend its demise, a form of humanitarianism which enables victims to be moral beacons in post-conflict societies that otherwise are largely devoid of any a moral or sacred canopy. Data cover victims in Sri Lanka, South Afr…
Ex-Combatants, Religion, and Peace in Northern Ireland
Studies of Northern Ireland's ex-combatants ignore religion, while advocates of religious interventions in transitional justice exaggerate its influence. Using interview data with ex-combatants, this
The Public Value of the Social Sciences
What is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in the twenty-first century? The social sciences are under threat from two main sources. One is external, reflected in a global university crisis that imposes the marketization of higher education on the ancient practice of scholarship. The other, internal threat is social science's withdrawal from publicly–engaged teachi…
Victimhood Status and Public Attitudes towards Post-conflict Agreements
The rights and needs of victims have become an increasingly controversial issue in post-conflict societies. Yet to date, the views of victims concerning the new political arrangements in post-conflict settlements remain unexplored. Mindful of this omission and using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article investigates the relationship between victimhood status and attitudes towards the new political arrangements of devolved government in N…
Religion, Civil Society, and Peace in Northern Ireland
This study is written by three ‘insiders’ to church peacebuilding in Northern Ireland, who are also sociologists and bring to their analysis a wealth of experience and analytic insight, based on four years of qualitative interviewing amongst church leaders and rank‐and‐file members of political parties, prime ministers, paramilitary organizations, community development, and civil society groups, as well as government politicians and advisors. It …
Contentious rituals
Microhistory and the Histories of Everyday Life
This article examines microhistories and the histories of the everyday both in the context of developments in social and cultural history since the 1960s, and in the light of political and social change in post-war European society. Moving beyond debates about historical narrative, it emphasizes issues of perspective, space, size and historical distance in shaping historical interpretation. This historiographical trend, it argues, emanates from t…
The A-Z of Social Research
Sectarianism and racism, and their parallels and differences1
Based on a discussion of some of the literature on conflict and inequality in Northern Ireland, this article attempts to define the concept of sectarianism, which is very under-theorized compared to that of racism, and identifies the points of continuity and difference between the two terms
Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland
Anti-Catholicism forms part of the dynamics to Northern Ireland's conflict and is critical to the self-defining identity of certain Protestants. However, anti-Catholicism is as much a sociology proces
Policing under Fire
The Public Value of the Social Sciences
What is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing humanity in the twenty-first century? The social sciences are under threat from two main sources. One is external, reflected in a global university crisis that imposes the marketization of higher education on the ancient practice of scholarship. The other, internal threat is social science's withdrawal from publicly–engaged teachi…
Victims as moral beacons
Victim’ and ‘perpetrator’ are problematic legal, moral and political categories, and public policies towards them are complicated by their contested status. This is particularly the case in Northern Ireland where conceptions of perpetrators and victims, including the right to the label ‘victim’, has caused much division and debate. Despite this controversy, to date previous research in relation to this issue has been extremely limited and this is…
The Public and Private in C.Wright Mills's Life and Work
Charles Wright Mills revitalized sociology's focus on the public-private distinction and this article offers a biographical reading of these writings by locating them in the turmoil of his private life. The article thus looks at the public-private distinction as it manifested in the public writings and private life of one of the major theorists of this theme. Its central argument is that we need to reposition Mills's intellectual biography by loc…
ImaginingThe Sociological Imagination
Charles Wright Mills's arguments inThe Sociological Imaginationare very popular and this paper focuses on the biographical context in which his programmatic statements were occasioned. This breaks new ground by locatingThe Sociological Imaginationand earlier programmatic statements in the professional and personal travails that motivated them. This approach is adopted in order to display the intersection between biography and sociology in Mills's…
Northern Ireland and the politics of reconciliation
Journal Article Northern Ireland and the politics of reconciliation Get access Northern Ireland and the politics of reconciliation. Edited by Dermot Keoghand Michael H. Haltzel. Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1994. 267pp. Index. £35.00; ISBN 0 521 44430 6. Pb.: £12.95; ISBN 0 521 45933 8. John D. Brewer John D. Brewer 1The Queen’s University, Belfast Search for other works by this author on: …
Terrorism's laboratory
Journal Article Terrorism's laboratory: the case of Northern Ireland Get access Terrorism's laboratory: the case of Northern Ireland. Edited by Alan O’Day. Aldershot, Hants: Dartmouth. 1995. 255pp. Index. £37.50. ISBN 1 85521 457 1. John D. Brewer John D. Brewer 1The Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 1996, Page 381, https://doi.or…
Informal Social Control and Crime Management in Belfast
This papers examines the interplay between informal social control, civil unrest and local crime management in Belfast. Official crime management is the responsibility of the police, but where this role is contested, popular or local forms of crime management occur. The local management of crime is accomplished in certain localities in Belfast by several mechanisms that extend beyond the policing role of the paramilitaries, and popular crime mana…
The Hermeneutics Reader
C. Wright Mills and the Ending of Violence
This book has two aims: to clarify the meaning of C. Wright Mills's depiction of the sociological imagination; and to use this to develop a sociological framework that assists in understanding the pro
Policing in divided societies
The paper suggests that there are general features which distinguish policing in divided societies from that which occurs in more integrated societies, and explores the ways in which the police mediate and reflect conflict in this type of society. However, policing in divided societies is more complex than it appears from the sparse literature on this topic because of an over‐simplified view of the nature of conflict in this type of society. Oper…
Victimhood Status and Public Attitudes towards Post-conflict Agreements
The rights and needs of victims have become an increasingly controversial issue in post-conflict societies. Yet to date, the views of victims concerning the new political arrangements in post-conflict settlements remain unexplored. Mindful of this omission and using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article investigates the relationship between victimhood status and attitudes towards the new political arrangements of devolved government in N…
Understanding Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland
Anti-Catholicism is part of the dynamics of Northern Ireland's conflict and is critical to the self-defining identity of certain Protestants. However, anti-Catholicism is as much a sociological process as a theological dispute about doctrine. It was given a Scriptural underpinning in the history of Protestant-Catholic relations in Ireland, and wider British-Irish relations, in order to reinforce social divisions between the religious communities …
South Africa and the Anthropologist
Putting Adam Ferguson in his place1
This paper re-conceptualizes the relationship between Ferguson's life and work by locating him in his biographical and geographical context for the purposes of better understanding his proto-sociological writings. Ferguson's work is relatively unknown outside limited sets of literature and current representations of the link between his life and work risk misplacing him as both Scotsman and sociologist. The popular portrayal suggests there is a s…
The Ethnographic Critique of Ethnography
Ethnography has always been subject to criticism from quantitative sociologists, who accord it a minimal role, but it has recently come under attack from sociologists sympathetic to the method, who themselves have considerable experience in its use. I call this the ethnographic critique of ethnography. This critique questions the reliability of ethnographic descriptions, and shows ethnographic texts to be artefacts, skilfully manufactured in orde…
Ex-Combatants, Religion, and Peace in Northern Ireland
Studies of Northern Ireland's ex-combatants ignore religion, while advocates of religious interventions in transitional justice exaggerate its influence. Using interview data with ex-combatants, this
Will the State Bring You Back In? Policing and Democratization
Sensitivity as a Problem in Field Research
The ethics of ethical debates in peace and conflict research
This article outlines the case for peace and conflict researchers to formulate a research covenant to better shape their ethical obligations and responsibilities. This is an urgent necessity given that ethical debates have in some proponents become emotive and are not conducted in an ethical manner. In coming to this assessment, the article reviews trends in the research ethics literature and draws out some of the generic issues addressed in a re…
Crime In Ireland 1945–95
This book establishes Ireland's unique contribution to criminological research, addressing the effects on crime of its peculiar patterns of industrialisation and social change, as well as the effect on ordinary crime of a quarter of a century of civil unrest and terrorism. Crime trends are explored over a fifty-year period between 1945–95 at the national level for the two Irish countries as a whole, and at a city level for Belfast and Dublin. Tre…
The Social Science of Organizations
Managerial Behavior. Leonard R. Sayles
Individualism and Big Business. Leonard R. Sayles
Organization and Innovation.Chris Argyris
Managers, Employees, and Organizations
Formal Organization
The Human Organization
II. Party and the Double Cabinet
The historical circumstances which surround the publication of Burke's third and to that date most important pamphlet, the Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents , are familiar to every historian of George III's reign. The first decade of the young King's reign was marked (or marred) by a progressive growth in political instability. Despite the advantages enjoyed by George at his accession—the military success of his Government, the pol…
‘Is a phenomenological sociology possible? The ethnomethodological solution’
In a previous article the author has indicated the problems involved in a phenomenological sociology which took it away from an interest in real subjects' meanings. A new phenomenological programme was formulated to achieve this end but at the sacrifice of sociology's focus on interaction and intersubjectivity. It is argued here chat ethnomethodology provides solutions to these problems and demonstrates how it is possible to combine in one progra…
Is a phenomenological sociology possible? Towards a rephrasing of an old question
‘Subjective meaning’ is a nebulous phrase sociologists, since Weber, feel they must at least take some cognizance of. Phenomenological sociology, however, was formulated with the express aim of reaching and building a sociology upon this. If we define subjective meaning as reaching the subject's meaning, phenomenological sociology fails in this aim. Rather, it imposes an assumed meaning through its system of concepts, typologies and assumptions. …
Fascism and crisis
Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England
An Ungovernable People
Racial Politics and Nationalism
This paper addresses itself to the politics of race as a sub-field of the sociology of race relations. It offers a conceptual framework for use in the sub-field by formulating a new concept called 'racial politics' and reformulating the concept of nationalism to link it with racial politics as defined. This is done with a view to casting light on certain theoretical and historical issues in the study of South African race relations, including (1)…
An Ungovernable People
The Justice and the Mare's Ale
Competing Understandings of Common Sense Understanding
Common sense' is a frequently used term in the vocabulary of sociologists. There is, however, no common theoretical understanding of it. This has important empirical implications for the nature of the beliefs, maxims, ideas and types which are said to constitute 'common sense racism'. Those who use the notion of 'common sense racism' treat it primarily as a theoretical issue, providing very little empirical evidenc.e to confirm how widespread the…
Looking Back at Fascism
The purpose of this paper is to show that when former members of the British Union of Fascists give an account of their membership today, they take into consideration the common-sense hostility evoked by fascism. This is hardly surprising. However, the significance of this should not be too easily dismissed. One of the main criticisms of using oral history to explore certain kinds of events, is that actors engage in ex post facto rationalization.…
Official ideology and lay members’ beliefs in Inkatha
The size, loyalty and commitment of Inkatha's members is seen as a vital element to Inkatha's importance in current South African politics. It is claimed to strengthen Buthelezi's bargaining position with the state and to differentiate Inkatha's support from the much less committed support of affiliate‐based organizations like the United Democratic Front. Yet this assumption about Inkatha ‘s lay members cannot be taken for granted, given the pauc…
The Membership of Inkatha in Kwamashu
Journal Article THE MEMBERSHIP OF INKATHA IN KWAMASHU Get access JOHN D. BREWER JOHN D. BREWER The author is presently at the Department of Social Studies, Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 84, Issue 334, January 1985, Pages 111–135, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097661 Published: 01 January 1985
Categorization and the Moral Order
Attitudes to the Army and Pro-Nuclear Activism in Three Student Groups
The study investigated the correlates of attitudes toward the army and pro-nuclear activism among students in Australia, N. Ireland and (white) South Africa. Results showed the South Africans to be most favorably disposed toward the army and also to be most favorably disposed toward the deployment of nuclear weapons. Across the three groups those with positive attitudes toward the army were authoritarian in their attitudes, had positive attitudes…
Black Protest in South Africa's Crisis
Journal Article BLACK PROTEST IN SOUTH AFRICA'S CRISIS: A COMMENT ON LEGASSICK Get access JOHN D. BREWER JOHN D. BREWER The author is a member of the Department of Social Studies at The Queen's University of Belfast, and contributed ‘South Africa in Crisis: what route to democracy?’, African Affairs (January 1985) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 339, April 1986, Pages 283–…
Inkatha Membership in Kwamashu
Journal Article INKATHA MEMBERSHIP IN KWAMASHU: A REJOINDER TO SOUTHALL Get access JOHN D. BREWER JOHN D. BREWER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 341, October 1986, Pages 589–592, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097820 Published: 01 October 1986
Move Your Shadow
Journal Article Move Your Shadow: South Africa Black and White Get access Move Your Shadow: South Africa Black and White, by Joseph Lelyveld. Michael Joseph, London, 1986. ix + 390 pp. £14.95 hardback, ISBN 0 7181 2661 0. JOHN D. BREWER JOHN D. BREWER Queen's University of Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 85, Issue 340, July 1986, Page 476, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjourn…
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