R W Connell
Biographic Data
| ID | 119403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R W Connell |
| GIVEN NAMES | R W |
| FAMILY NAME | Connell |
| SIGNATURE | CONNELL R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 85 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3212 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 85 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Research, Politics, Social Change: Research, Politics, Social Change
Gender as a Social Practice
Gender is a way in which social practice is ordered. In gender processes, the everyday conduct of life is organized in relation to a reproductive arena, defined by the bodily structures and processes of human reproduction. Social practice is creative and inventive, but not inchoate. It responds to particular situations and is generated within definite structures of social relations. With growing recognition of the interplay between gender, race a…
Southern Theory
Making The Difference: Schools, Families and Social Division
First published in 1982, Making the Difference has become a classic in the study of education and of Australian society. Hailed on publication as 'certainly the most interesting book written about Australian schools in a very long time [and] arguably the most important', it has since been recognised as one of the 10 most influential works of Australian sociology, 'not just a major argument, and a 'classic' point of reference, [but] an event, an i…
Masculinities
When it was first published over a decade ago, R.W. Connell's ground-breaking text on the nature and construction of masculine identity rapidly became a classic. In Masculinities Connell argues that there is not one masculinity, but many different masculinities, each associated with different positions of power. In a world gender order that continues to privilege men over women, but also raises difficult issues for men and boys, her account is mo…
Der gemachte Mann: Konstruktion und Krise von Männlichkeiten
Gemachte Mann: Konstruktion und Krise Von Männlichkeiten
Gemachte Mann: Konstruktion und Krise Von Männlichkeiten
Gender
Globalization, Imperialism, and Masculinities
Southern Theory: Social Science And The Global Dynamics Of Knowledge
Southern Theory: Social Science And The Global Dynamics Of Knowledge
Southern theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science
Core activity: Reflexive intellectual workers and cultural crisis
Contemporary discussions of cultural change and crisis in the role of intellectuals require a sociology of intellectual labour. Life-history interviews were undertaken with a group of Australian intellectual workers whose jobs require them to deal reflexively with culture. Their careers are conditioned by global marginality and changing gender relations. Their labour process is partly collectivized, with a wide spectrum of engagement with technol…
Growing up Masculine: Rethinking the Significance of Adolescence in the Making of Masculinities
Adolescence is not a fixed stage in a life-cycle, so much as a terrain of encounters between growing persons and the adult world. International research on youth shows the importance of a relational approach. Masculinities are constructions within a gender order; but gender orders are neither simple nor static. Projects of masculinity formation reflect social diversity and inequality. Developing bodies are re-interpreted and challenged in new pra…
Work/Life Balance, Gender Equity and Social Change
‘Work/life balance’ as a contemporary issue is fundamentally linked with gender justice. The issue emerged from historical transformations of the gender order, in which masculinities and femininities were attached to distinct spheres of home and workplace; but this institutional division has been weakening. Current dilemmas are documented in a field study of gender equity issues in ten public sector worksites. Because domestic labour is still pre…
Masculinities
This is a new edition of R.W. Connell's text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. Connell argues that there is not one masculinity, but many different masculinities, each associated with different positions of power. In a world gender order that continues to privilege men over women, but also raises difficult issues for men and boys, his account is more pertinent than ever before." "This second ed…
Are we postmodern yet? The cultural politics of Australian intellectual workers
Intellectuals are often thought strategic in social change, but theories of postmodernity and globalisation call traditional accounts of the intelligentsia into question. A survey of 500 intellectual workers in Australia explored these questions. Two dimensions in cultural politics were identified, and indices of 'Support of Market' and 'Cultural Optimism' constructed. Bivariate and multivariate relations with demographic background, labour proce…
Globalization and Business Masculinities
The idea of 'transnational business masculinity' is explored in life-history interviews with Australian managers. Their world is male-dominated but has a strong consciousness of change. An intense and stressful labor process creates multiple linkages among managers and subjects them to mutual scrutiny, a force for gender conservatism. In a context of affluence and anxiety, managers tend to treat their life as an enterprise and self-consciously ma…
Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept
The concept of hegemonic masculinity has influenced gender studies across many academic fields but has also attracted serious criticism. The authors trace the origin of the concept in a convergence of ideas in the early 1980s and map the ways it was applied when research on men and masculinities expanded. Evaluating the principal criticisms, the authors defend the underlying concept of masculinity, which in most research use is neither reified no…
The Global Connections of Intellectual Workers: An Australian Study
The sociology of intellectuals, long focused on the metropole, needs to move to a world scale. Study of global connections in the intellectual labour process is the most promising way. In this article, a method is developed for defining the intellectual labour force and studying its international participation. Results are presented from a survey of 500 Australian intellectual workers. Within this workforce, international connections are common a…
Change among the Gatekeepers: Men, Masculinities, and Gender Equality in the Global Arena
Working‐class parents' views of secondary education
Parents of upper‐secondary students in public schools in New South Wales, Australia, gave accounts of their experience of education and their wider thinking about educational issues. Working‐class families are bearers of educational histories which are often difficult or truncated, leaving parents with little familiarity with upper‐secondary or post‐school pathways. General views of education are strongly positive, sometimes diffuse and sometimes…
Encounters with structure
A discussion of poststructuralism may be helped by reflecting on the trajectory of ideas and practices that produced it. Structuralism as an intellectual movement has had a bad press and doubtless some of that is deserved. But structuralism was more diverse and creative, and structural analysis as a procedure in social science is more important, than many now acknowledge. In this paper the author takes as data his own experience as a social scien…
Masculinities, Change, and Conflict in Global Society: Thinking about the Future of Men's Studies
Contemporary men's studies arises from a history of debates about gender relations, men, and masculinities, yet represents a new departure based on social analysis of gender and close-focus empirical work. This approach is now becoming worldwide and has found important practical applications in areas such as education and health. Problems are increasingly recognized in the field, including dilemmas of research method and debates about ways of the…
Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept
The concept of hegemonic masculinity has influenced gender studies across many academic fields but has also attracted serious criticism. The authors trace the origin of the concept in a convergence of ideas in the early 1980s and map the ways it was applied when research on men and masculinities expanded. Evaluating the principal criticisms, the authors defend the underlying concept of masculinity, which in most research use is neither reified no…
Why Is Classical Theory Classical
The familiar canon embodies an untenable foundation story of great men theorizing European modernity. Sociology actually emerged from a broad cultural dynamic in which tensions of liberalism and empire were central. Global expansion and colonization gave sociology its main conceptual framework and much of its data, key problems, and methods. After early‐20th‐century crisis, a profoundly reconstructed American discipline emerged, centered on diffe…
A Very Straight Gay: Masculinity, Homosexual Experience, and the Dynamics of Gender
I develop a conceptual approach to changes in that emphasizes the dynamics of the gender order as a whole. Homosexual is an important locus of these dynamics. After a critique of conventional discourses of I develop a theorized lifehistory method for researching gender. Analysis of eight life histories from an Australian gay communityfinds (1) initial engagement with hegemonic masculinity, (2) sexuality as the key site of difference, and (3) grad…
The big picture: Masculinities in recent world history
Masculinities and Globalization
Recent social science research has made important changes in our understanding of masculinities and men's gender practices, emphasizing the plurality and hierarchy of masculinities, and their collective and dynamic character. These gains have been achieved mainly by close-focus research methods. But in a globalizing world, we must pay attention also to very large scale structures. An understanding of the world gender order is a necessary basis fo…
The state, gender, and sexual politics: Theory and appraisal
Globalization and Business Masculinities
The idea of 'transnational business masculinity' is explored in life-history interviews with Australian managers. Their world is male-dominated but has a strong consciousness of change. An intense and stressful labor process creates multiple linkages among managers and subjects them to mutual scrutiny, a force for gender conservatism. In a context of affluence and anxiety, managers tend to treat their life as an enterprise and self-consciously ma…
Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture
Change among the Gatekeepers: Men, Masculinities, and Gender Equality in the Global Arena
Political Socialization in the American Family: The Evidence Re-Examined
Journal Article POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION IN THE AMERICAN FAMILY: THE EVIDENCE RE-EXAMINED Get access R. W. CONNELL R. W. CONNELL Lecturer in Government University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 3, FALL 1972, Pages 323–333, https://doi.org/10.1086/268014 Published: 01 January 1972
Theorising Gender
A social theory of gender is implied and required by current sexual politics. Its scope cannot be defined a priori, but can be defined practically by the reach of a network of arguments generated by feminism, gay liberation, psychoanalysis and some branches of academic sociology and psychology. Two main types of theory have emerged: one emphasising attitudes and social expectations, centring on the idea of 'sex roles'; the other presupposing the …
On hegemonic masculinity and violence: Response to Jefferson and Hall
This chapter presents to raise important issues about men and violence by Tony Jefferson and Steve Hall. The concept of 'hegemonic masculinity' appeared in the 1980s as a convergence of ideas from three main sources: women's political experience and research on gender hierarchy; gay men's political experience and theorizing of oppression; and empirical research with boys and men in locales such as schools and workplaces. Gender processes, and the…
Which way is up?: Essays on Sex, Class, and Culture
Gender Relations in Secondary Schooling
S. Kessler, D. J. Ashenden, R. W. Connell, G. W. Dowsett, Gender Relations in Secondary Schooling, Sociology of Education, Vol. 58, No. 1, Critical Sociology of Education: International Studies (Jan., 1985), pp. 34-48
New directions in gender theory, masculinity research, and gender politics
Gender must be understood as a domain of social practice with its own structure and dynamics. An outline of a relational account of gender is given, emphasizing the multiple structures of gender and the way bodies are drawn into social practice. Emerging research on masculinity can best be understood through such an approach, which allows the multiplicity of masculinities, and their interrelations, to be traced. Two case studies are outlined: the…
Masculinities, Change, and Conflict in Global Society: Thinking about the Future of Men's Studies
Contemporary men's studies arises from a history of debates about gender relations, men, and masculinities, yet represents a new departure based on social analysis of gender and close-focus empirical work. This approach is now becoming worldwide and has found important practical applications in areas such as education and health. Problems are increasingly recognized in the field, including dilemmas of research method and debates about ways of the…
Sexuality in the aids crisis: Patterns of sexual practice and pleasure in a sample of Australian gay and bisexual men
AIDS prevention work needs an understanding of the full spectrum of sexuality. A survey of sexual practices was conducted among gay and bisexual men in New South Wales, Australia. Interviews with 535 men indicate that the repertoire of sexual expression appears to be diminishing under the impact of the AIDS crisis. Particular sexual practices can be grouped into several clusters or factors, and scales can be constructed which focus on anal, oral/…
Globalization and scientific labour: Patterns in a Life-History Study of Intellectual Workers in the Periphery
Sociological theories about intellectuals need to be rethought in relation to globalization. The interplay between intellectual work and globalization is studied via life-history interviews with 18 Australians involved in natural science. Centre-periphery relations are important in their careers, an interactive process not a simple domination. Quasi-globalization rather than full globalization is the main pattern of internationalization of scienc…
Gender
Work/Life Balance, Gender Equity and Social Change
‘Work/life balance’ as a contemporary issue is fundamentally linked with gender justice. The issue emerged from historical transformations of the gender order, in which masculinities and femininities were attached to distinct spheres of home and workplace; but this institutional division has been weakening. Current dilemmas are documented in a field study of gender equity issues in ten public sector worksites. Because domestic labour is still pre…
The Global Connections of Intellectual Workers: An Australian Study
The sociology of intellectuals, long focused on the metropole, needs to move to a world scale. Study of global connections in the intellectual labour process is the most promising way. In this article, a method is developed for defining the intellectual labour force and studying its international participation. Results are presented from a survey of 500 Australian intellectual workers. Within this workforce, international connections are common a…
Facing the Epidemic: Changes in the Sexual Lives of Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia and Their Implications for Aids Prevention Strategies
A 1986-87 field survey of 535 gay and bisexual men in Australia examined changes in social relationships and in sexual conduct in response to the HIV epidemic. Results show the framework of sexual relationships changing little, though many men have moved between types of relationships. Reducing the incidence of sexual contact and being more selective about partners are common. Widespread change towards safe sex is reported; the repertoire is cont…
Introduction and Overview
Making the Difference, Then and Now
In the mid-1970s there was political interest in questions of educational justice and an intellectual situation that allowed a 'productionist' approach to class. The intensive research method used was relatively open to new insights about class and gender, and a highly collaborative process of analysis connected the work with practical needs in school systems. The empirical side of the research stands up well. The policy context, however, has cha…
Citizenship, Social Justice and Curriculum
Social justice in education is more than a distributive question. It neccessarily concerns curriculum. Three principles of curricular justice are proposed, and their uses in education reform explored
The origins of political attitudes: An introduction
Australia: Dilemmas of sociology
The child's construction of politics
Australian Industrial Relations Systems. Kenneth F. Walker
Marxism: R. W. Connell; Wal Suchting
Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, translated by Ben Brewster, NLB (New Left Books), London 1971, pp. 229, £3.25/$A9.50
Political Socialization in the American Family: The Evidence Re-Examined
Journal Article POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION IN THE AMERICAN FAMILY: THE EVIDENCE RE-EXAMINED Get access R. W. CONNELL R. W. CONNELL Lecturer in Government University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 3, FALL 1972, Pages 323–333, https://doi.org/10.1086/268014 Published: 01 January 1972
Attitudes toward migrants among Sydney teenagers
The Child's Construction of Politics
Patterns of Social and Political Opinion among Sydney Youth
The Shape of Australian History
At long last, we have A New History of Australia.1 Twenty years after Greenwood's Australia,2 and intended to replace it, this is a volume conceived in the same unpretentious style. The sausage of Australian is cut into slices, each is allocated to a contributor to cook as he or she best can, and the result is a standard textbook. As a one-volume encyclopaedia of Australian history, it is a useful job. Most of the chapters are competent and clear…
To 20: Studies of City Youth
Ruling Class, Ruling Culture
This is a study of the Australian ruling class - the main companies, the leading political groups and the links and conflicts among them. The author also analyses class inequalities in education, the development of children's ideas about class, the role of the mass media and the way class relations are cemented culturally and psychologically. He introduces his book with a brief discussion of the literature on class theory, and a critical evaluati…
Ruling class, ruling culture: Studies of conflict power, and hegemony in Australian life
Ruling Class, Ruling Culture
Class Structure in Australian History: Documents, Narrative, and Argument
A critique of the Althusserian approach to class
Class and Secondary Schooling
Class, patriarchy, and Sartre's theory of practice
Which way is up?: Essays on Sex, Class, and Culture
Gender Relations in Secondary Schooling
S. Kessler, D. J. Ashenden, R. W. Connell, G. W. Dowsett, Gender Relations in Secondary Schooling, Sociology of Education, Vol. 58, No. 1, Critical Sociology of Education: International Studies (Jan., 1985), pp. 34-48
Theorising Gender
A social theory of gender is implied and required by current sexual politics. Its scope cannot be defined a priori, but can be defined practically by the reach of a network of arguments generated by feminism, gay liberation, psychoanalysis and some branches of academic sociology and psychology. Two main types of theory have emerged: one emphasising attitudes and social expectations, centring on the idea of 'sex roles'; the other presupposing the …
Teachers' Work
Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics
Cool Guys, Swots and Wimps: The interplay of masculinity and education
Most educational work concerned with changes in gender relations has been addressed to girls, justified on 'equal opportunity' principles, and governed by 'sex‐role' theories. This framework is not very relevant to educational work with boys, yet gender issues arise here too. The paper presents retrospective data on schooling from the life‐histories of two groups of men, drawn from a larger study of contemporary changes in masculinity. Unemployed…
The Making of Masculinities: The New Men's Studies
Sociology (59 works) · Political science (45 works) · Law (30 works) · Gender Studies (28 works) · Politics (28 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (19 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Masculinity (16 works) · Epistemology (15 works)