J Hockey
Biographic Data
| ID | 11075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Hockey |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hockey |
| SIGNATURE | HOCKEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gloucestershire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5826-8005 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 447 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Slow learners: Body pedagogics and learning slow ways in sport and physical cultures
This article addresses recent calls for sociological investigation into the embodied incorporation of non-normative cultures, employing the emergent conceptualization of 'slow' in sports and physical cultures. In contrast to sports that valorize quantification and maximization of performance via speed, skill and/or endurance, the concept of slow helps analytically explore the pleasures and benefits of slower ways of engagement with sport and phys…
Gravel cycling craft and the senses: Scenes, Sounds, Vibrations, Fatigue and Typifications on Off-Road Tracks
Although cycling has been researched at the interactional level, there is scant literature regarding embodiment, and the somatic experiences from rider-bike-ground interactions. Via an ethnographic approach using video obtained from participant observation as a “graveller” sensory practices are examined. Firstly, the research is positioned with the literature on craft studies. Secondly the domains of action namely space, place and the body are th…
Ethnography of Sport: Some observations and suggestions
Sociología del Deporte surge en 2020 en el seno de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla con el propósito de crear un espacio de reflexión y debate en torno al fenómeno deportivo desde la perspectiva de las ciencias sociales. Pretende conectar desde el rigor científico las principales teorías y corrientes de la sociología con el debate intelectual de nuestro tiempo en torno al fenómeno deportivo. Parte de la idea central de que el deporte es…
Critical thinking in the higher education classroom: Knowledge, power, control and identities
This paper examines how critical thinking is perceived and transmitted in higher education (HE) classrooms using two Vietnamese undergraduate programmes as case studies. The analysis of semi-structured interviews with teachers, supervisors and institutional leaders from both programmes reveals transmission of critical thinking is impacted upon by power relations from not only outside, in the form of cultural and political ideologies, but also wit…
Researching retired ex-servicemen: Reflections on ethnographic encounters
The opportunities and challenges that younger, female, civilian researchers can encounter when undertaking ethnographic research with predominantly male military veterans are relatively underexplored sociologically. This is despite a growing literature on reflexivity in military studies over the past decade. To address this gap, we draw on symbolic interactionist insights to examine the reflective account of a British, female researcher in her mi…
Power play: The use of space to control and signify power in the workplace
The findings of this article emerge from an eight-month study examining career identity practices amongst a select group of fitness professionals in the U.K. We examine how the inter-relationship between physical and social space can denote how power is acquired, displayed, and used by individuals interacting in a shared space. The findings show that power is signified through spatial practices as individuals negotiate through triadic space, crea…
Everyday Routines as Transformative Processes: A Sporting Case
Currently, there is scant sociological research on everyday routines within sport and also upon other routines which make sporting routines themselves possible. This article adds to that very small literature, illustrating how movement between the contexts of paid employment, sport, and home is habitually accomplished. Utilizing qualitative data from a collaborative autoethnography on distance running, a case study of the routines of getting read…
You're Just Chopped Off at the End: Retired Servicemen's Identity Work Struggles in the Military to Civilian Transition
Promoting positive transition to retirement and cultural adaption for ex-service personnel has been identified as a priority for both social-science research and for public health policy in the UK. The Royal British Legion aims to provide support to service and retired service personnel, but to date the transition to retirement experiences of older (60-plus) ex-service personnel remain under-researched. In this article, we employ a symbolic inter…
The Experience of Zulu (Military) Time: An Examination of the Temporal Practices and Perceptions of UK Infantry
Organizational time remains an under-examined research area. This is particularly so in terms of analysis which combines workers temporal embodiment, temporal inter-embodiment, and collective temporal perceptions. These three social processes are portrayed using the case of the military organization and focus upon the temporal world of UK infantry via ethnographic data obtained from participant observation. Initially, the narrative examines the n…
From a Certain Point of View: Sensory Phenomenological Envisionings of Running Space and Place
The precise ways in which we go about the mundane, repetitive, social actions of everyday life are central concerns of ethnographers and theorists working within the traditions of the sociology of the mundane and sociological phenomenology. In this article, we utilize insights derived from sociological phenomenology and the newly developing field of sensory sociology to investigate a particular, mundane, and embodied social practice, that of trai…
Knowing the ‘Going’: The sensory evaluation of distance running
To date there has been little research into the mundane direct embodiment of sporting activity. This paper seeks to contribute to a small but developing literature by portraying how distance running training sessions are experienced in a sensory way and how that direct embodied knowledge is used to categorise and evaluate the practise of ongoing training
Feeling the way: Notes toward a haptic phenomenology of distance running and scuba diving
Along with a resurgence of interest in 'the body' within the social sciences generally over the last two decades, in recent years a corpus of sociological research specifically on sporting embodiment has started to develop. Calls have been made to analyse more fully and deeply the sensory dimension of the lived sporting body, including via phenomenological perspectives. This article contributes to this developing literature by bringing to bear in…
Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality
The Sensorium at Work: The Sensory Phenomenology of the Working Body
The sociology of the body and the sociology of work and occupations have both neglected to some extent the study of the 'working body' in paid employment, particularly with regard to empirical research into the sensory aspects of working practices. This gap is perhaps surprising given how strongly the sensory dimension features in much of working life. This article is very much a first step in calling for a more phenomenological, embodied and 'fl…
Switch on: Sensory Work in the Infantry
There has been little sociological research on work at the sensory level and the result is a largely missing foundational link in the chain of analysis connecting the phenomenological practices of doing work with theories about work. As a first step towards remedying this lacuna the article portrays the sensory work of movement, seeing, hearing, smelling and touching manifested by the occupation of infantryman
Working Out' Identity: Distance Runners and the Management of Disrupted Identity
This article contributes fresh perspectives to the empirical literature on the sociology of the body, and of leisure and identity, by analysing the impact of long-term injury on the identities of two amateur but serious middle/long-distance runners. Employing a symbolic interactionist framework, and utilising data derived from a collaborative autoethnographic project, it explores the role of 'identity work' in providing continuity of identity dur…
Grasping the Phenomenology of Sporting Bodies
The last two decades have witnessed a vast expansion in research and writing on the sociology of the body and on issues of embodiment. Indeed, both sociology in general and the sociology of sport specifically have well heeded the long-standing and vociferous calls 'to bring the body back in' to social theory. It seems particularly curious therefore that the sociology of sport has to date addressed this primarily at a certain abstract, theoretical…
Seeing the way: Visual sociology and the distance runner's perspective
Employing visual and autoethnographic data from a two?year research project on distance runners, this article seeks to examine the activity of seeing in relation to the activity of distance running. One of its methodological aims is to develop the linkage between visual and autoethnographic data in combining an observation?based narrative and sociological analysis with photographs. This combination aims to convey to the reader not only some of th…
Sensing the Run: The Senses and Distance Running
To date, there has been little research into the sensuous dimensions of sporting activity. This paper seeks to address this lacuna and to expand the literature via an examination of one specific group: distance runners. Using data from a two-year collaborative autoethnography, the paper portrays the sensuous activity experienced by two runners as they traverse their routine training routes
Identity Change: Doctoral students in art and design
For over a decade, practice-based research degrees in art and design have formed part of the United Kingdom research degree education portfolio, with a relatively rapid expansion in recent years. This route to the PhD still constitutes an innovative, and on occasion a disputed, form of research study and students embarking upon the practice-based doctorate find themselves in many ways undertaking pioneering work. To date there has been a dearth o…
Injured Distance Runners: A Case of Identity Work as Self-Help
This article examines the importance of “identity work” for the maintenance of athletic identity in the face of prolonged injury, and the part that type of work played in successful athletic rehabilitation. It is based on collaborative autoethnographic research undertaken by two middle/long distance runners during a 2-year period of injury and rehabilitation. The narrative delineates the various kinds of identity work that were crucial to the pro…
Working to return to employment: The case of UK social science contract researchers
Contract researchers constitute a marginal occupational group within the UK higher education system, and they manifest a high degree of turnover, in terms of leaving employment and returning to it. This article, which is based on qualitative interviews, examines some of the informal work which social science contract researchers engage in as they attempt to return to employment within academia. First, by examining the vocabularies of motive held …
Art and Design Practice-Based Research Degree Supervision: Some empirical findings
Little is known empirically about the supervision of practice-based research degree students in Art and Design. Drawing on qualitative interview data with 50 supervisors, this article portrays some of their routine practices, conceptualizing them as an ongoing craft, which, whilst theoretically informed, is foremost a practical activity learned by trial and error. The article concludes by stressing the essentially tacit nature of these craft prac…
Occupational time: The case of UK social science contract researchers
Studies of how people experience and deal with occupational time within the higher education sector are limited. Drawing on material from the sociology of time and qualitative interviews, this paper examines how a group of UK social science contract researchers do so. Initially, the paper outlines two different kinds of time which order researchers working lives: linear and cyclical. This is followed by a portrayal of how researchers perceive the…
Capturing Contracts: Informal activity among contract researchers
Contract researchers constitute an expanding occupational group in UK higher education and contribute significantly to national research output. Despite recent concern and debates over their marginal status and inferior conditions of employment, little is known about the actual complexities of contract researchers’ working lives. Drawing upon qualitative interviews, an attempt is made to remedy this lacuna, by portraying certain kinds of occupati…
Feeling the way: Notes toward a haptic phenomenology of distance running and scuba diving
Along with a resurgence of interest in 'the body' within the social sciences generally over the last two decades, in recent years a corpus of sociological research specifically on sporting embodiment has started to develop. Calls have been made to analyse more fully and deeply the sensory dimension of the lived sporting body, including via phenomenological perspectives. This article contributes to this developing literature by bringing to bear in…
Working Out' Identity: Distance Runners and the Management of Disrupted Identity
This article contributes fresh perspectives to the empirical literature on the sociology of the body, and of leisure and identity, by analysing the impact of long-term injury on the identities of two amateur but serious middle/long-distance runners. Employing a symbolic interactionist framework, and utilising data derived from a collaborative autoethnographic project, it explores the role of 'identity work' in providing continuity of identity dur…
Grasping the Phenomenology of Sporting Bodies
The last two decades have witnessed a vast expansion in research and writing on the sociology of the body and on issues of embodiment. Indeed, both sociology in general and the sociology of sport specifically have well heeded the long-standing and vociferous calls 'to bring the body back in' to social theory. It seems particularly curious therefore that the sociology of sport has to date addressed this primarily at a certain abstract, theoretical…
The Sensorium at Work: The Sensory Phenomenology of the Working Body
The sociology of the body and the sociology of work and occupations have both neglected to some extent the study of the 'working body' in paid employment, particularly with regard to empirical research into the sensory aspects of working practices. This gap is perhaps surprising given how strongly the sensory dimension features in much of working life. This article is very much a first step in calling for a more phenomenological, embodied and 'fl…
Sensing the Run: The Senses and Distance Running
To date, there has been little research into the sensuous dimensions of sporting activity. This paper seeks to address this lacuna and to expand the literature via an examination of one specific group: distance runners. Using data from a two-year collaborative autoethnography, the paper portrays the sensuous activity experienced by two runners as they traverse their routine training routes
Switch on: Sensory Work in the Infantry
There has been little sociological research on work at the sensory level and the result is a largely missing foundational link in the chain of analysis connecting the phenomenological practices of doing work with theories about work. As a first step towards remedying this lacuna the article portrays the sensory work of movement, seeing, hearing, smelling and touching manifested by the occupation of infantryman
From a Certain Point of View: Sensory Phenomenological Envisionings of Running Space and Place
The precise ways in which we go about the mundane, repetitive, social actions of everyday life are central concerns of ethnographers and theorists working within the traditions of the sociology of the mundane and sociological phenomenology. In this article, we utilize insights derived from sociological phenomenology and the newly developing field of sensory sociology to investigate a particular, mundane, and embodied social practice, that of trai…
Injured Distance Runners: A Case of Identity Work as Self-Help
This article examines the importance of “identity work” for the maintenance of athletic identity in the face of prolonged injury, and the part that type of work played in successful athletic rehabilitation. It is based on collaborative autoethnographic research undertaken by two middle/long distance runners during a 2-year period of injury and rehabilitation. The narrative delineates the various kinds of identity work that were crucial to the pro…
Research methods ‐‐ researching peers and familiar settings
This paper presents a review of the research methods literature examining the benefits and pitfalls of doing research in familiar settings and amongst peers, and encompasses educational literature, and material from the disciplines of anthropology and sociology within which very similar problems are encountered. The advantages of researching in familiar settings, for example the relative lack of culture shock or disorientation, the possibility of…
Identity Change: Doctoral students in art and design
For over a decade, practice-based research degrees in art and design have formed part of the United Kingdom research degree education portfolio, with a relatively rapid expansion in recent years. This route to the PhD still constitutes an innovative, and on occasion a disputed, form of research study and students embarking upon the practice-based doctorate find themselves in many ways undertaking pioneering work. To date there has been a dearth o…
Capturing Contracts: Informal activity among contract researchers
Contract researchers constitute an expanding occupational group in UK higher education and contribute significantly to national research output. Despite recent concern and debates over their marginal status and inferior conditions of employment, little is known about the actual complexities of contract researchers’ working lives. Drawing upon qualitative interviews, an attempt is made to remedy this lacuna, by portraying certain kinds of occupati…
New territory: Problems of adjusting to the first year of a social science PhD
Since 1982 there have been considerable structural changes in the funding and organisation of the social science PhD, yet what knowledge there is concerning the actual PhD process is scant. In an attempt to remedy this state of affairs, this paper examines in some depth the problems which first year social science PhD students encounter when adapting to their new status. The second half of the paper focuses upon a number of factors which influenc…
Gravel cycling craft and the senses: Scenes, Sounds, Vibrations, Fatigue and Typifications on Off-Road Tracks
Although cycling has been researched at the interactional level, there is scant literature regarding embodiment, and the somatic experiences from rider-bike-ground interactions. Via an ethnographic approach using video obtained from participant observation as a “graveller” sensory practices are examined. Firstly, the research is positioned with the literature on craft studies. Secondly the domains of action namely space, place and the body are th…
Occupational time: The case of UK social science contract researchers
Studies of how people experience and deal with occupational time within the higher education sector are limited. Drawing on material from the sociology of time and qualitative interviews, this paper examines how a group of UK social science contract researchers do so. Initially, the paper outlines two different kinds of time which order researchers working lives: linear and cyclical. This is followed by a portrayal of how researchers perceive the…
Strategies and tactics in the supervision of UK social science PhD students
While there is a literature on PhD supervision, little research has been undertaken upon the intricacies of the actual relationship between the PhD student and supervisor. One particular facet of this relationship was examined, namely the strategies supervisors choose to implement when supervising social science students at this level. Two general overarching strategies were found to exist in this context: a relatively unstructured approach, givi…
Motives and Meaning amongst PhD Supervisors in the Social Sciences
Effective supervision of research students is acknowledged to be a crucial factor in the latter's successful completion of the social science PhD. How well supervisors supervise is likely to be linked to why they choose to occupy their role. These reasons constitute the supervisor's vocabulary of motives and are examined in some detail from the perspective of interpretative social‐psychology. Three dimensions of the vocabulary are depicted: intel…
A contractual solution to problems in the supervision of PhD degrees in the UK
The process of supervising research students is not always smooth, and supervisors on occasion encounter difficult students whose research momentum is problematic. Some of the troubles supervisors experience are described, and remedies such as motivating students, issuing warnings to them and relinquishing the supervisory role are discussed. An alternative strategy is suggested, that of the negotiation of a written contract between supervisor and…
The Experience of Zulu (Military) Time: An Examination of the Temporal Practices and Perceptions of UK Infantry
Organizational time remains an under-examined research area. This is particularly so in terms of analysis which combines workers temporal embodiment, temporal inter-embodiment, and collective temporal perceptions. These three social processes are portrayed using the case of the military organization and focus upon the temporal world of UK infantry via ethnographic data obtained from participant observation. Initially, the narrative examines the n…
Critical thinking in the higher education classroom: Knowledge, power, control and identities
This paper examines how critical thinking is perceived and transmitted in higher education (HE) classrooms using two Vietnamese undergraduate programmes as case studies. The analysis of semi-structured interviews with teachers, supervisors and institutional leaders from both programmes reveals transmission of critical thinking is impacted upon by power relations from not only outside, in the form of cultural and political ideologies, but also wit…
Power play: The use of space to control and signify power in the workplace
The findings of this article emerge from an eight-month study examining career identity practices amongst a select group of fitness professionals in the U.K. We examine how the inter-relationship between physical and social space can denote how power is acquired, displayed, and used by individuals interacting in a shared space. The findings show that power is signified through spatial practices as individuals negotiate through triadic space, crea…
You're Just Chopped Off at the End: Retired Servicemen's Identity Work Struggles in the Military to Civilian Transition
Promoting positive transition to retirement and cultural adaption for ex-service personnel has been identified as a priority for both social-science research and for public health policy in the UK. The Royal British Legion aims to provide support to service and retired service personnel, but to date the transition to retirement experiences of older (60-plus) ex-service personnel remain under-researched. In this article, we employ a symbolic inter…
Working to return to employment: The case of UK social science contract researchers
Contract researchers constitute a marginal occupational group within the UK higher education system, and they manifest a high degree of turnover, in terms of leaving employment and returning to it. This article, which is based on qualitative interviews, examines some of the informal work which social science contract researchers engage in as they attempt to return to employment within academia. First, by examining the vocabularies of motive held …
Slow learners: Body pedagogics and learning slow ways in sport and physical cultures
This article addresses recent calls for sociological investigation into the embodied incorporation of non-normative cultures, employing the emergent conceptualization of 'slow' in sports and physical cultures. In contrast to sports that valorize quantification and maximization of performance via speed, skill and/or endurance, the concept of slow helps analytically explore the pleasures and benefits of slower ways of engagement with sport and phys…
Everyday Routines as Transformative Processes: A Sporting Case
Currently, there is scant sociological research on everyday routines within sport and also upon other routines which make sporting routines themselves possible. This article adds to that very small literature, illustrating how movement between the contexts of paid employment, sport, and home is habitually accomplished. Utilizing qualitative data from a collaborative autoethnography on distance running, a case study of the routines of getting read…
The social science PhD: A literature review
Following the Winfield Report on the social science PhD and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) response to it, this literature review examines what research has been accomplished on the process of doctoral education in the social sciences. The review encompasses the debate over whether the focus of doctoral research should be education or training. Also examined are such pertinent issues as: the postgraduate learning process, persona…
Research methods ‐‐ researching peers and familiar settings
This paper presents a review of the research methods literature examining the benefits and pitfalls of doing research in familiar settings and amongst peers, and encompasses educational literature, and material from the disciplines of anthropology and sociology within which very similar problems are encountered. The advantages of researching in familiar settings, for example the relative lack of culture shock or disorientation, the possibility of…
New territory: Problems of adjusting to the first year of a social science PhD
Since 1982 there have been considerable structural changes in the funding and organisation of the social science PhD, yet what knowledge there is concerning the actual PhD process is scant. In an attempt to remedy this state of affairs, this paper examines in some depth the problems which first year social science PhD students encounter when adapting to their new status. The second half of the paper focuses upon a number of factors which influenc…
Strategies and tactics in the supervision of UK social science PhD students
While there is a literature on PhD supervision, little research has been undertaken upon the intricacies of the actual relationship between the PhD student and supervisor. One particular facet of this relationship was examined, namely the strategies supervisors choose to implement when supervising social science students at this level. Two general overarching strategies were found to exist in this context: a relatively unstructured approach, givi…
Motives and Meaning amongst PhD Supervisors in the Social Sciences
Effective supervision of research students is acknowledged to be a crucial factor in the latter's successful completion of the social science PhD. How well supervisors supervise is likely to be linked to why they choose to occupy their role. These reasons constitute the supervisor's vocabulary of motives and are examined in some detail from the perspective of interpretative social‐psychology. Three dimensions of the vocabulary are depicted: intel…
A contractual solution to problems in the supervision of PhD degrees in the UK
The process of supervising research students is not always smooth, and supervisors on occasion encounter difficult students whose research momentum is problematic. Some of the troubles supervisors experience are described, and remedies such as motivating students, issuing warnings to them and relinquishing the supervisory role are discussed. An alternative strategy is suggested, that of the negotiation of a written contract between supervisor and…
Capturing Contracts: Informal activity among contract researchers
Contract researchers constitute an expanding occupational group in UK higher education and contribute significantly to national research output. Despite recent concern and debates over their marginal status and inferior conditions of employment, little is known about the actual complexities of contract researchers’ working lives. Drawing upon qualitative interviews, an attempt is made to remedy this lacuna, by portraying certain kinds of occupati…
Occupational time: The case of UK social science contract researchers
Studies of how people experience and deal with occupational time within the higher education sector are limited. Drawing on material from the sociology of time and qualitative interviews, this paper examines how a group of UK social science contract researchers do so. Initially, the paper outlines two different kinds of time which order researchers working lives: linear and cyclical. This is followed by a portrayal of how researchers perceive the…
Art and Design Practice-Based Research Degree Supervision: Some empirical findings
Little is known empirically about the supervision of practice-based research degree students in Art and Design. Drawing on qualitative interview data with 50 supervisors, this article portrays some of their routine practices, conceptualizing them as an ongoing craft, which, whilst theoretically informed, is foremost a practical activity learned by trial and error. The article concludes by stressing the essentially tacit nature of these craft prac…
Working to return to employment: The case of UK social science contract researchers
Contract researchers constitute a marginal occupational group within the UK higher education system, and they manifest a high degree of turnover, in terms of leaving employment and returning to it. This article, which is based on qualitative interviews, examines some of the informal work which social science contract researchers engage in as they attempt to return to employment within academia. First, by examining the vocabularies of motive held …
Identity Change: Doctoral students in art and design
For over a decade, practice-based research degrees in art and design have formed part of the United Kingdom research degree education portfolio, with a relatively rapid expansion in recent years. This route to the PhD still constitutes an innovative, and on occasion a disputed, form of research study and students embarking upon the practice-based doctorate find themselves in many ways undertaking pioneering work. To date there has been a dearth o…
Injured Distance Runners: A Case of Identity Work as Self-Help
This article examines the importance of “identity work” for the maintenance of athletic identity in the face of prolonged injury, and the part that type of work played in successful athletic rehabilitation. It is based on collaborative autoethnographic research undertaken by two middle/long distance runners during a 2-year period of injury and rehabilitation. The narrative delineates the various kinds of identity work that were crucial to the pro…
Seeing the way: Visual sociology and the distance runner's perspective
Employing visual and autoethnographic data from a two?year research project on distance runners, this article seeks to examine the activity of seeing in relation to the activity of distance running. One of its methodological aims is to develop the linkage between visual and autoethnographic data in combining an observation?based narrative and sociological analysis with photographs. This combination aims to convey to the reader not only some of th…
Sensing the Run: The Senses and Distance Running
To date, there has been little research into the sensuous dimensions of sporting activity. This paper seeks to address this lacuna and to expand the literature via an examination of one specific group: distance runners. Using data from a two-year collaborative autoethnography, the paper portrays the sensuous activity experienced by two runners as they traverse their routine training routes
Working Out' Identity: Distance Runners and the Management of Disrupted Identity
This article contributes fresh perspectives to the empirical literature on the sociology of the body, and of leisure and identity, by analysing the impact of long-term injury on the identities of two amateur but serious middle/long-distance runners. Employing a symbolic interactionist framework, and utilising data derived from a collaborative autoethnographic project, it explores the role of 'identity work' in providing continuity of identity dur…
Grasping the Phenomenology of Sporting Bodies
The last two decades have witnessed a vast expansion in research and writing on the sociology of the body and on issues of embodiment. Indeed, both sociology in general and the sociology of sport specifically have well heeded the long-standing and vociferous calls 'to bring the body back in' to social theory. It seems particularly curious therefore that the sociology of sport has to date addressed this primarily at a certain abstract, theoretical…
The Sensorium at Work: The Sensory Phenomenology of the Working Body
The sociology of the body and the sociology of work and occupations have both neglected to some extent the study of the 'working body' in paid employment, particularly with regard to empirical research into the sensory aspects of working practices. This gap is perhaps surprising given how strongly the sensory dimension features in much of working life. This article is very much a first step in calling for a more phenomenological, embodied and 'fl…
Switch on: Sensory Work in the Infantry
There has been little sociological research on work at the sensory level and the result is a largely missing foundational link in the chain of analysis connecting the phenomenological practices of doing work with theories about work. As a first step towards remedying this lacuna the article portrays the sensory work of movement, seeing, hearing, smelling and touching manifested by the occupation of infantryman
Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality
Feeling the way: Notes toward a haptic phenomenology of distance running and scuba diving
Along with a resurgence of interest in 'the body' within the social sciences generally over the last two decades, in recent years a corpus of sociological research specifically on sporting embodiment has started to develop. Calls have been made to analyse more fully and deeply the sensory dimension of the lived sporting body, including via phenomenological perspectives. This article contributes to this developing literature by bringing to bear in…
Knowing the ‘Going’: The sensory evaluation of distance running
To date there has been little research into the mundane direct embodiment of sporting activity. This paper seeks to contribute to a small but developing literature by portraying how distance running training sessions are experienced in a sensory way and how that direct embodied knowledge is used to categorise and evaluate the practise of ongoing training
From a Certain Point of View: Sensory Phenomenological Envisionings of Running Space and Place
The precise ways in which we go about the mundane, repetitive, social actions of everyday life are central concerns of ethnographers and theorists working within the traditions of the sociology of the mundane and sociological phenomenology. In this article, we utilize insights derived from sociological phenomenology and the newly developing field of sensory sociology to investigate a particular, mundane, and embodied social practice, that of trai…
The Experience of Zulu (Military) Time: An Examination of the Temporal Practices and Perceptions of UK Infantry
Organizational time remains an under-examined research area. This is particularly so in terms of analysis which combines workers temporal embodiment, temporal inter-embodiment, and collective temporal perceptions. These three social processes are portrayed using the case of the military organization and focus upon the temporal world of UK infantry via ethnographic data obtained from participant observation. Initially, the narrative examines the n…
You're Just Chopped Off at the End: Retired Servicemen's Identity Work Struggles in the Military to Civilian Transition
Promoting positive transition to retirement and cultural adaption for ex-service personnel has been identified as a priority for both social-science research and for public health policy in the UK. The Royal British Legion aims to provide support to service and retired service personnel, but to date the transition to retirement experiences of older (60-plus) ex-service personnel remain under-researched. In this article, we employ a symbolic inter…
Power play: The use of space to control and signify power in the workplace
The findings of this article emerge from an eight-month study examining career identity practices amongst a select group of fitness professionals in the U.K. We examine how the inter-relationship between physical and social space can denote how power is acquired, displayed, and used by individuals interacting in a shared space. The findings show that power is signified through spatial practices as individuals negotiate through triadic space, crea…
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