Simon Williams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3603744 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Simon Williams |
| NOMBRES | Simon |
| APELLIDO | Williams |
| FIRMA | WILLIAMS S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Wales |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2854-9946 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 437 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Why are people cosmetic skin whitening? A systematic review
Cosmetic skin whitening is a complex practice influenced by multiple behavioral factors. Findings should be used to inform theory-based interventions designed to reduce the prevalence of cosmetic skin whitening practices
Using behavioural science to design public health social media campaigns
Communicating health risks via social media is an important objective for public health organisations. Behavioural science theoretical constructs can help enhance the design, implementation and evaluation of social media campaigns. In this Practice article, we document the WHO’s experience in developing social media messaging using gist and verbatim constructs to influence risk perceptions related to measles and intentions related to measles vacc…
What Does it Mean to be Passionate about Your Job? Three Meanings of ‘Collectively Oriented Passion’ in UK Pubs
This article examines how understandings of passion shape people’s agency at work, through interviews with UK publicans. It addresses calls to rethink how ‘passion’ is conceptualised in the sociology of work. While discourses around passion are often thought to legitimise individualised working practices, the article explores more collective interpretations. It analyses how publicans exercised agency in negotiating externally imposed problems inc…
Goffman, interactionism, and the management of stigma in everyday life
This chapter considers the importance of Erving Goffman’s analysis of stigma both for his mainstream sociological concerns and for the field of medical sociology. It examines Goffman’s analysis of stigma, delineating some of the important conceptual distinctions and analytical insights and attempt to highlight how this analysis feeds into his general sociological concerns. Symbolic interactionisms began to re-emerge in the 1960s with the decline …
How might assemblages between school and community exist
This research is written in the context of sociocultural theories of learning, where understanding is a relationship between people and their environment. The paper is an examination of how the researcher generated conditions which created connections between school and the local community in rural Thailand. The research experiments with the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and an encounter with contemporary art, to problematise existing thinki…
Public attitudes towards Covid‐19 contact tracing apps
BACKGROUND: During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, one of the key components of many countries' strategies to reduce the spread of the virus is contact tracing. OBJECTIVE: To explore public attitudes to a COVID-19 contact tracing app in the United Kingdom. SETTING: Online video-conferencing. PARTICIPANTS: 27 participants, UK residents aged 18 years and older. METHODS: Qualitative study consisting of six focus groups carried out between 1st-12th May, …
Public perceptions and experiences of social distancing and social isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic
OBJECTIVE: This study explored UK public perceptions and experiences of social distancing and social isolation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. DESIGN: This qualitative study comprised five focus groups, carried out online during the early stages of the UK's stay at home order ('lockdown'), and analysed using a thematic approach. SETTING: Focus groups took place via online videoconferencing. PARTICIPANTS: Participants (n=27) were all UK resident…
Corporations’ use and misuse of evidence to influence health policy
BACKGROUND: Sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) are a major source of sugar in the diet. Although trends in consumption vary across regions, in many countries, particularly LMICs, their consumption continues to increase. In response, a growing number of governments have introduced a tax on SSBs. SSB manufacturers have opposed such taxes, disputing the role that SSBs play in diet-related diseases and the effectiveness of SSB taxation, and alleging maj…
Investigating the allocation and corroboration of individual grades for project-based learning
Key Sociological Thinkers
The biosocial
Biology: Scott and Marshall's authoritative and bestselling Dictionary of Sociology (2009) has no entry for it.There are entries for Wilfred Bion, the Kleinian psychoanalyst, or for sociometry, the almost-forgotten method of measuring social relationships.In place of biology, we find an entry for 'biological reductionism, or biologism', a pejorative term indicating the ideology of the deterministic application of biological findings to society.To…
The Biosocial
The incursion of ‘Big Food’ in middle-income countries
Public health research is only just beginning to explore the myriad ways in which the food and beverage industry, or ‘Big Food’, has sought to influence policy and increase consumption of energy-dense products high in sugar, salt, and fat in middle-income countries. In particular, very little research has focused on Asia-Pacific markets, including China and India. This article uses the soft drink sector as a case study, and focuses on The Coca-Co…
Big Food’
Global increase in the consumption of low-nutrition products, such as soft drinks and processed foods, is associated with global increases in obesity and its associated diseases, most prominently t
Pharmaceuticals and society
Sunscreen Sales, Socio-Economic Factors, and Melanoma Incidence in Northern Europe
In this ecological study, we drew upon recently published melanoma prevalence data, and compared them with historical market data and published socio-economic data to test for an association between historical sunscreen sales (1997-1999) and recent melanoma incidences (2008 and 2012) in 24 countries in Northern Europe. We also explored associations between current melanoma incidences and historical data on the following socio-demographic indicato…
Medicalization and pharmaceuticalization at the intersections
Elevations in alanine aminotransferase are associated with insulin resistance, overweight and obesity and low aerobic fitness levels in children and adolescents
Rome Awards
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Safeguarding adults at risk in the NHS through inter‐agency working
Purpose The paper aims to appraise professional practice in safeguarding vulnerable adults. It will examine the mechanisms in place and discuss how future policy will affect multi‐agency working in this field. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines recent consultations, policy development, inspectorate reports and legal guidance surrounding the issue of safeguarding adults in England and Wales, and suggests ways in which inter‐agency work…
The sociology of cognitive enhancement
To date, sociology of health and medicine has engaged in only a limited way in debates about cognitive enhancement drugs and how they might affect or change the way we live our lives. In this review we explore the implications of the development of such drugs, both now and in the future, with particular reference to the changing drivers and dynamics of medicalisation or biomedicalisation over time. Whilst both concepts shed important light on the…
A twenty-first century Citizens’ Polis
Related to ongoing debates concerning the future of “deliberative democracy” and “public sociology,” this article introduces a new approach to citizen participation in science and technology decision-making. The Citizens’ POLIS (Participatory On-Line Interactive System) is a multi-method, multi-stage, semi-structured, electronic public participation process. This pragmatic experiment is influenced by the philosophy of John Dewey and James Bohman,…
Key Sociological Thinkers
From the Publisher: This second edition of a popular and successful text offers an easily understood introduction to the theorists who have made a key contribution to the discipline of sociology. Its carefully formulated structure places the writers' passions in their social and intellectual context, summarizes the central issues dealt with in their work and sketches out the intellectual legacy they have left behind them. With four new chapters o…
Plausible uncertainty’
Policymakers in the UK (and worldwide) are preparing for what is said to be an inevitable and imminent influenza pandemic. However, aside from its inevitability, there is a considerable amount of uncertainty surrounding the pandemic. Public health policy is flexible and ad hoc, and this, the public is told, is a direct result of the natural unpredictability of the influenza virus, This article argues that we should not uncritically accept policym…
Sleep disruption and domestic violence
This paper argues that sleep disruption is both a strategy and an effect of violence and abuse which profoundly affects the lives of women and children. This paper traces the interconnections between the patterns of sleeping (not sleeping) for women and children living with and recovering from the effects of violence and abuse. It highlights the threat to the emotional and physical well‐being of children and women and provides a non‐pathologizing…
Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept
Taking as its point of departure Bury's (1982) concept of chronic illness as biographical disruption, this paper provides a critical assessment of its fortunes since that time. Having 'rescued' the concept from recent postmodern and disability critiques, the paper provides a series of further reflections on its strengths and weaknesses, including the notion of 'normal illness'; the importance of timing and context; the significance of continuity …
Media constructions of sleep and sleep disorders
Sociological imperialism and the profession of medicine revisited
This paper revisits Strong's thesis of 'sociological imperialism' some 20 years on in order to assess its relevance to present day developments within and beyond the sociology of health and illness. The thesis, it is suggested, continues to raise a number of key sociological issues of more or less abiding importance, particularly in the light of recent Foucauldian and postmodern critiques of medicine, the body and disease. This in turn paves the …
The biosocial
Biology: Scott and Marshall's authoritative and bestselling Dictionary of Sociology (2009) has no entry for it.There are entries for Wilfred Bion, the Kleinian psychoanalyst, or for sociometry, the almost-forgotten method of measuring social relationships.In place of biology, we find an entry for 'biological reductionism, or biologism', a pejorative term indicating the ideology of the deterministic application of biological findings to society.To…
The sociology of cognitive enhancement
To date, sociology of health and medicine has engaged in only a limited way in debates about cognitive enhancement drugs and how they might affect or change the way we live our lives. In this review we explore the implications of the development of such drugs, both now and in the future, with particular reference to the changing drivers and dynamics of medicalisation or biomedicalisation over time. Whilst both concepts shed important light on the…
Images of scientific medicine
This paper draws on empirical evidence from recent survey and qualitative research to develop an analysis of lay perceptions of modern medicine and medical practice. It builds on previous exploratory work and examines lay evaluation of a range of medical procedures which include medicines and drugs; elective surgery; reproductive technology and life saving technology. Overall, there was an ambivalence to modern medicine and the criteria used to e…
Style of life and the salience of health
This paper describes results from a small scale study, using qualitative interview methods, which attempts to explain variations in health-related practices between households living in contrasting social and economic circumstances. The approach and methodology adopted put an emphasis on spontaneous, unprompted discourse, in an attempt to discover how ideas about matters of health and health-related practices are integrated into routine daily lif…
Reason, emotion and embodiment
Taking as its starting point a series of traditional divisions and debates, this paper approaches issues of 'mental' health through the specific lens of the emotions. Key themes and organising principles here include the following: (i) reason versus emotion (ii) biology versus society (iii) the micro and the macro divide, and finally (iv) the medicalisation-demedicalisation of society. Each of these divisions is critically assessed and some 'new'…
Pain and the Mind-Body Dualism
Breaking the ceremonial order
The removal of patients from general practitioners' (GPs) lists in the UK offers important sociological insights into what happens when the doctor-patient relationship 'goes wrong'. An interactionist analysis shows how removers (doctors) and removed (patients) strategically invoke 'rules of conduct' to account for difficulties in the doctor-patient relationship and for GPs' decisions to end their relationships with patients. In this paper we exte…
The Biosocial
Pharmaceuticals and society
Safeguarding adults at risk in the NHS through inter‐agency working
Purpose The paper aims to appraise professional practice in safeguarding vulnerable adults. It will examine the mechanisms in place and discuss how future policy will affect multi‐agency working in this field. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines recent consultations, policy development, inspectorate reports and legal guidance surrounding the issue of safeguarding adults in England and Wales, and suggests ways in which inter‐agency work…
Embodying and Embedding Children's Sleep
This paper, drawing on our own research findings data, explores the embodiment and embedment of sleeping in children's everyday/night lives. Key themes here include children's attitudes and feelings toward the dormant body, the processes, routines and rituals associated with going to bed and going to sleep, issues associated with bedrooms and privacy, and finally the relationship between dormancy and domicile. This in turn provides the basis, in …
The Sociology of Health and Illness at the Turn of the Century
A 'think piece' in both style and content, this article offers some thoughts and reflections on selected themes and issues which, we believe, provide some important indicators not simply of the sociology of health and illness' current status, but also of its future prospects. Four key themes have been chosen: (i) social inequalities in health; (ii) emotions and embodiment; (iii) (bio)technology, and finally; (iv) the shifting configuration of hea…
Who are you Sleeping With? the Construction of Heteronormativity in Stories about Sleep in British Newspapers
In popular British understanding the terms 'sleeping' or 'slept' are often used to mean sex, and (hetero)sex is seen as crucial to sustaining intimate relationships. This study of UK newspapers coverage shows that stories about sleep and sleeping arrangements can be seen to (re)produce heteronormativity through focusing on the (heterosexual) 'marital bed'. The 'marital bed' is constructed as both the physical and symbolic centre of successful het…
Sleep disruption and domestic violence
This paper argues that sleep disruption is both a strategy and an effect of violence and abuse which profoundly affects the lives of women and children. This paper traces the interconnections between the patterns of sleeping (not sleeping) for women and children living with and recovering from the effects of violence and abuse. It highlights the threat to the emotional and physical well‐being of children and women and provides a non‐pathologizing…
From Smart Bombs to Smart Bugs
Steve Fuller's article on the events of September 11th raises a number of important questions about the role of sociology in public discussion and debate. This brief response, in taking up this challenge, focuses on the issue of bio-terrorism. In doing so, a balance sheet is provided of the potential threat this poses, drawing both on the history of biological and chemical weapons to date, and the potential epidemics of fear they unleash in the a…
Popular Capitalism - a Selective Route To Agricultural Development
National Theaters in the Larger German and Austrian Cities
Die Meininger
The Director in the German Theater
Simon Williams, The Director in the German Theater: Harmony, Spectacle and Ensemble, New German Critique, No. 29, The Origins of Mass Culture: The Case of Imperial Germany (1871-1918) (Spring - Summer, 1983), pp. 107-131
Nach Damaskus
German Actors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The "Great Guest" Arrives
On 20 September 1776, Ackermann company under direction of Friedrich Ludwig Schr6der gave first performance of Hamlet in Hamburg. Further performances followed on 23 and 24 September, after which Hamburger AdressComptoir-Nachrichten reported on unusually unanimous response of public. At three successive performances of Hamlet in Hamburg numerous audience in playhouse was so attentive, so transported, that it seemed as if there were only one perso…
German Actors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Directions by Indirections
Book Review| July 01 1987 Directions by Indirections: John Barton of the Royal Shakespeare Company by Michael L. Greenwald Directions by Indirections: John Barton of the Royal Shakespeare Company. By Greenwald, Michael L.. Cranbury, N.J.: University of Delaware Press, 1986. Pp. 317. $37.50. Simon Williams Simon Williams University of California Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1987…
The Fiery Angel
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Shakespeare on the German Stage, 1586-1914
Style of life and the salience of health
This paper describes results from a small scale study, using qualitative interview methods, which attempts to explain variations in health-related practices between households living in contrasting social and economic circumstances. The approach and methodology adopted put an emphasis on spontaneous, unprompted discourse, in an attempt to discover how ideas about matters of health and health-related practices are integrated into routine daily lif…
Shakespeare on the German Stage
List of illustrations Preface 1. The literature of Shakespeare in eighteenth-century Germany 2. Seventeenth-century beginnings: the English Comedians 3. Shakespeare and the mid-eighteenth-century theatre 4. Shakespeare introduced: Schroder's Hamlet and other adaptations 5. Shakespeare at the Weimar Court Theatre 6. Shakespeare at the Vienna Burgtheater 7. Shakespeare and the German actor 8. Romantic legacy: Shakespeare and spectacle 9. Romantic l…
Images of scientific medicine
This paper draws on empirical evidence from recent survey and qualitative research to develop an analysis of lay perceptions of modern medicine and medical practice. It builds on previous exploratory work and examines lay evaluation of a range of medical procedures which include medicines and drugs; elective surgery; reproductive technology and life saving technology. Overall, there was an ambivalence to modern medicine and the criteria used to e…
Pain and the Mind-Body Dualism
The Lived Body
The Sociology of Health and Illness at the Turn of the Century
A 'think piece' in both style and content, this article offers some thoughts and reflections on selected themes and issues which, we believe, provide some important indicators not simply of the sociology of health and illness' current status, but also of its future prospects. Four key themes have been chosen: (i) social inequalities in health; (ii) emotions and embodiment; (iii) (bio)technology, and finally; (iv) the shifting configuration of hea…
Somatotype and angiographically determined atherosclerotic coronary artery disease in men
The relationship between somatotype and somatotype components with coronary artery disease (CAD) and regional adiposity was considered in 58 males (age 60.2 +/- 9.4 years) undergoing investigative coronary angiography for suspected atherosclerotic CAD. Severity of CAD was determined in terms of both the degree of stenosis and the anatomical position of the lesions on the coronary arteries (myocardial score). Six patients had negative angiographic…
Reason, emotion and embodiment
Taking as its starting point a series of traditional divisions and debates, this paper approaches issues of 'mental' health through the specific lens of the emotions. Key themes and organising principles here include the following: (i) reason versus emotion (ii) biology versus society (iii) the micro and the macro divide, and finally (iv) the medicalisation-demedicalisation of society. Each of these divisions is critically assessed and some 'new'…
Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept
Taking as its point of departure Bury's (1982) concept of chronic illness as biographical disruption, this paper provides a critical assessment of its fortunes since that time. Having 'rescued' the concept from recent postmodern and disability critiques, the paper provides a series of further reflections on its strengths and weaknesses, including the notion of 'normal illness'; the importance of timing and context; the significance of continuity …
Emotion and Social Theory
This critical account of the resurgence of emotions in social theory draws on a wide range of sources, both classical and contemporary to examine this once marginalised topic
Consumers’ views of quality in the consultation and their relevance to ‘shared decision‐making’ approaches
Background There is a recognized need to assess the effects of shared decision‐making and other communication interventions. However, the outcomes usually assessed for evidence of ‘effectiveness’ are determined by researchers and have not been based on consumers’ views. Aim This study aimed to identify the important outcomes of consultations for consumers, and to compare with those reported in the current literature. Setting and participants Fort…
From Smart Bombs to Smart Bugs
Steve Fuller's article on the events of September 11th raises a number of important questions about the role of sociology in public discussion and debate. This brief response, in taking up this challenge, focuses on the issue of bio-terrorism. In doing so, a balance sheet is provided of the potential threat this poses, drawing both on the history of biological and chemical weapons to date, and the potential epidemics of fear they unleash in the a…
Sociological imperialism and the profession of medicine revisited
This paper revisits Strong's thesis of 'sociological imperialism' some 20 years on in order to assess its relevance to present day developments within and beyond the sociology of health and illness. The thesis, it is suggested, continues to raise a number of key sociological issues of more or less abiding importance, particularly in the light of recent Foucauldian and postmodern critiques of medicine, the body and disease. This in turn paves the …
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