Sam Porter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 260640 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sam Porter |
| NOMBRES | Sam |
| APELLIDO | Porter |
| FIRMA | PORTER S |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6950-9388 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 112 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Exploring Whether and How People Experiencing High Deprivation Access Diagnostic Services
Accounting for complexity in critical realist trials
Background: Randomized controlled trials have been criticized for their inability to identify and differentiate the causal mechanisms that generate the outcomes they measure. One solution is the development of realist trials that combine the empirical precision of trials' outcome data with realism's theoretical capacity to identify the powers that generate outcomes. Main Body: We review arguments for and against this position and conclude that cr…
The uncritical realism of realist evaluation
This article is a response to Ray Pawson’s critique of critical realism, the philosophy of science elaborated by Roy Bhaskar. I argue with Pawson’s interpretation of critical realism’s positions on both natural and social science and his charges concerning its totalizing ontology, its arrogant epistemology and its naive methodology. The differences between critical realism and realist evaluation are not as significant as Pawson contends. The main…
General practitioners' management of the long-term sick role
Indoor Air Quality Survey of Nail Salons in Boston
Employees in nail salons, largely Vietnamese immigrant women in Boston, are exposed to a range of volatile organic chemicals from the products used in salons, including solvents, glues and polishes. Some of these chemicals have the potential to cause short and long-term adverse health effects. Only limited research has been performed on assessing occupational exposures. This project aimed to characterize total volatile organic compound (TVOC) and…
Stakeholders and Perspectivism in Qualitative Policy Evaluation
This paper examines the epistemological bases for the inclusion of stakeholders in policy research. While it concedes that the input of stakeholders provides essential expert and experiential knowledge for the understanding of complex policies and programmes, it contends that the approach which assumes that all interpretations of policy including those of stakeholders should be afforded equal validity, which we term relativist perspectivism, unde…
The patient and power
In contemporary community health care, practitioners are encouraged to view clients as rounded individuals who have the right to participate in health care decisions. This broader and more egalitarian view is termed here ‘holistic care’. It is contended that such an approach is at least partially a response to sociological critiques of earlier, more authoritarian and bio-reductionist forms of professional-client interaction. This paper examines h…
Turning Agreement to Process
In this article we examine the northern Irish peace process and the 1998 Belfast Agreement to ask whether they provide the basis for radical change of that society. We analyse the problems of ethnic and class inequality in the north, and the associated need for the regeneration of economically marginalised areas. Two questions are examined in this regard. First, does the peace process provide a basis for the social changes that will be necessary …
Feminist Theory and the Sociology of Childbirth
Feminist theory and the sociology of childbirth
Feminist theory and the sociology of childbirth
Hubris or Humanism? A Reply to Susan White
I would like to thank Susan White (1997) for the interest she has taken in my paper, and indeed for her partial endorsement of my thesis. However, she raises a number of serious objections to my analysis which require response. As my allotted space is very limited, I must apologise in advance (not least to Sue White) for my brisk, blunt, skeletal and selective approach. Probably the most serious error that I am charged with is that I 'inadvertent…
Contra-Foucault
The primary purpose of this paper is to challenge the assumptions that lie behind the Foucauldian concepts of power and surveillance. The argument is made in two stages. The first stage, concentrating on Foucault's general theory of power, attempts to demonstrate that his nominalism, in combination with his contention that power is ubiquitous, leads to analytic confusion if applied to substantive instances. First, the structural determinates of p…
Sociology and the nursing curriculum
This paper is a response to Keith Sharp's (1994) argument in the Journal of Advanced Nursing that sociology cannot in principle provide a knowledge base for nursing work The aim here is to reassert the appropriateness of including sociology in the nursing curriculum Three arguments put forward by Sharp are engaged with First, he questions nursing's need for any theoretical basis at all This hypothesis is rejected on the grounds that any occupatio…
Northern Nursing
Occupational strategies that have been used by Western nursing entrepreneurs are divided into two broad categories: those aimed at achieving social closure and those aimed at replacing professional dominance by partnership with clients. Nursing in the north of Ireland is deeply involved in these attempts to alter the role and standing of nursing. However, it also demonstrates the limitations of idealism in nursing. The strategies of social closur…
New Left Podsnappery
Unhealthy surveillance
Critical Realist Ethnography
The purpose of this paper is to identify a philosophy for ethnography which could overcome some of the epistemological criticisms to which it has recently been subjected, notably by Martin Hammersley (1990, 1992). It is argued that Roy Bhaskar's (1989a) theory of critical realism is capable of solving many of the problems raised in relation to representational claims, theoretical focus and explanatory status. A substantive example of how critical…
Women in a women's job
The aim of this paper is to examine how the structural influence of gender affects nurses in their working lives. Gender segregation exists both within and between the occupations of medicine and nursing. It is largely founded on the social construction of a skills/caring dichotomy. An analysis of how the gender of nurses and doctors affects their interactions with co-workers reveals that the increasing proportion of female doctors has attenuated…
Critical Realist Ethnography
The purpose of this paper is to identify a philosophy for ethnography which could overcome some of the epistemological criticisms to which it has recently been subjected, notably by Martin Hammersley (1990, 1992). It is argued that Roy Bhaskar's (1989a) theory of critical realism is capable of solving many of the problems raised in relation to representational claims, theoretical focus and explanatory status. A substantive example of how critical…
Women in a women's job
The aim of this paper is to examine how the structural influence of gender affects nurses in their working lives. Gender segregation exists both within and between the occupations of medicine and nursing. It is largely founded on the social construction of a skills/caring dichotomy. An analysis of how the gender of nurses and doctors affects their interactions with co-workers reveals that the increasing proportion of female doctors has attenuated…
The uncritical realism of realist evaluation
This article is a response to Ray Pawson’s critique of critical realism, the philosophy of science elaborated by Roy Bhaskar. I argue with Pawson’s interpretation of critical realism’s positions on both natural and social science and his charges concerning its totalizing ontology, its arrogant epistemology and its naive methodology. The differences between critical realism and realist evaluation are not as significant as Pawson contends. The main…
Contra-Foucault
The primary purpose of this paper is to challenge the assumptions that lie behind the Foucauldian concepts of power and surveillance. The argument is made in two stages. The first stage, concentrating on Foucault's general theory of power, attempts to demonstrate that his nominalism, in combination with his contention that power is ubiquitous, leads to analytic confusion if applied to substantive instances. First, the structural determinates of p…
Stakeholders and Perspectivism in Qualitative Policy Evaluation
This paper examines the epistemological bases for the inclusion of stakeholders in policy research. While it concedes that the input of stakeholders provides essential expert and experiential knowledge for the understanding of complex policies and programmes, it contends that the approach which assumes that all interpretations of policy including those of stakeholders should be afforded equal validity, which we term relativist perspectivism, unde…
Feminist theory and the sociology of childbirth
The patient and power
In contemporary community health care, practitioners are encouraged to view clients as rounded individuals who have the right to participate in health care decisions. This broader and more egalitarian view is termed here ‘holistic care’. It is contended that such an approach is at least partially a response to sociological critiques of earlier, more authoritarian and bio-reductionist forms of professional-client interaction. This paper examines h…
General practitioners' management of the long-term sick role
Women in a women's job
The aim of this paper is to examine how the structural influence of gender affects nurses in their working lives. Gender segregation exists both within and between the occupations of medicine and nursing. It is largely founded on the social construction of a skills/caring dichotomy. An analysis of how the gender of nurses and doctors affects their interactions with co-workers reveals that the increasing proportion of female doctors has attenuated…
Unhealthy surveillance
Critical Realist Ethnography
The purpose of this paper is to identify a philosophy for ethnography which could overcome some of the epistemological criticisms to which it has recently been subjected, notably by Martin Hammersley (1990, 1992). It is argued that Roy Bhaskar's (1989a) theory of critical realism is capable of solving many of the problems raised in relation to representational claims, theoretical focus and explanatory status. A substantive example of how critical…
Sociology and the nursing curriculum
This paper is a response to Keith Sharp's (1994) argument in the Journal of Advanced Nursing that sociology cannot in principle provide a knowledge base for nursing work The aim here is to reassert the appropriateness of including sociology in the nursing curriculum Three arguments put forward by Sharp are engaged with First, he questions nursing's need for any theoretical basis at all This hypothesis is rejected on the grounds that any occupatio…
Northern Nursing
Occupational strategies that have been used by Western nursing entrepreneurs are divided into two broad categories: those aimed at achieving social closure and those aimed at replacing professional dominance by partnership with clients. Nursing in the north of Ireland is deeply involved in these attempts to alter the role and standing of nursing. However, it also demonstrates the limitations of idealism in nursing. The strategies of social closur…
New Left Podsnappery
Contra-Foucault
The primary purpose of this paper is to challenge the assumptions that lie behind the Foucauldian concepts of power and surveillance. The argument is made in two stages. The first stage, concentrating on Foucault's general theory of power, attempts to demonstrate that his nominalism, in combination with his contention that power is ubiquitous, leads to analytic confusion if applied to substantive instances. First, the structural determinates of p…
Feminist Theory and the Sociology of Childbirth
Feminist theory and the sociology of childbirth
Feminist theory and the sociology of childbirth
Hubris or Humanism? A Reply to Susan White
I would like to thank Susan White (1997) for the interest she has taken in my paper, and indeed for her partial endorsement of my thesis. However, she raises a number of serious objections to my analysis which require response. As my allotted space is very limited, I must apologise in advance (not least to Sue White) for my brisk, blunt, skeletal and selective approach. Probably the most serious error that I am charged with is that I 'inadvertent…
Turning Agreement to Process
In this article we examine the northern Irish peace process and the 1998 Belfast Agreement to ask whether they provide the basis for radical change of that society. We analyse the problems of ethnic and class inequality in the north, and the associated need for the regeneration of economically marginalised areas. Two questions are examined in this regard. First, does the peace process provide a basis for the social changes that will be necessary …
The patient and power
In contemporary community health care, practitioners are encouraged to view clients as rounded individuals who have the right to participate in health care decisions. This broader and more egalitarian view is termed here ‘holistic care’. It is contended that such an approach is at least partially a response to sociological critiques of earlier, more authoritarian and bio-reductionist forms of professional-client interaction. This paper examines h…
Stakeholders and Perspectivism in Qualitative Policy Evaluation
This paper examines the epistemological bases for the inclusion of stakeholders in policy research. While it concedes that the input of stakeholders provides essential expert and experiential knowledge for the understanding of complex policies and programmes, it contends that the approach which assumes that all interpretations of policy including those of stakeholders should be afforded equal validity, which we term relativist perspectivism, unde…
Indoor Air Quality Survey of Nail Salons in Boston
Employees in nail salons, largely Vietnamese immigrant women in Boston, are exposed to a range of volatile organic chemicals from the products used in salons, including solvents, glues and polishes. Some of these chemicals have the potential to cause short and long-term adverse health effects. Only limited research has been performed on assessing occupational exposures. This project aimed to characterize total volatile organic compound (TVOC) and…
General practitioners' management of the long-term sick role
The uncritical realism of realist evaluation
This article is a response to Ray Pawson’s critique of critical realism, the philosophy of science elaborated by Roy Bhaskar. I argue with Pawson’s interpretation of critical realism’s positions on both natural and social science and his charges concerning its totalizing ontology, its arrogant epistemology and its naive methodology. The differences between critical realism and realist evaluation are not as significant as Pawson contends. The main…
Accounting for complexity in critical realist trials
Background: Randomized controlled trials have been criticized for their inability to identify and differentiate the causal mechanisms that generate the outcomes they measure. One solution is the development of realist trials that combine the empirical precision of trials' outcome data with realism's theoretical capacity to identify the powers that generate outcomes. Main Body: We review arguments for and against this position and conclude that cr…
Exploring Whether and How People Experiencing High Deprivation Access Diagnostic Services
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