David Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 125932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1382-4688 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 84 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 181 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 83 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Depressive symptoms but not chronic stress mediate the link between income and cognition in Latino and Black older adults
These initial results suggest that the development of interventions targeted toward depressive symptoms in Black and Latino older adults may help promote well-being and alleviate the detrimental consequences of income inequalities on cognition in older adulthood
Mattering Spiritualities
When Wajcha Meets David Mason
Ecumenica editor David Mason talks with Cláudio Carvalhaes, Professor of Worship at Union Theological Seminary, about Carvalhaes’s play When Wajcha Meets Pachamama, in which, with others, he has performed in New York City, and around the world. The play involves a clown named Wajcha who searches for the means of healing a wound that he has discovered in the earth and in himself. In the conversation, Carvalhaes articulates his ideas about the rela…
The Ramlila of Kheriya
Molly Kaushal is Professor of Performance Studies and the Mission Director of the National Mission on Cultural Mapping at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi, India. I met Professor Kaushal at a Ramlila conference at the National Centre, back in 2015, when she was head of IGNCA’s Janapada Sampada division. Molly was the principal force behind this conference, which brought scholars from all over the world to New Delhi to d…
Writing on the Wall
Not all chronicles were written in books. This article examines a widespread alternative, the tablet (table, tabula), which was a display board typically made of wood and parchment. They were once ubiquitous in churches, but today there are few extant examples. This article offers a ‘textual archaeology’, using manuscripts and antiquarian literature to reconstruct lost texts. It presents a case study at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. It examines th…
The Role of London’s Urban Foundation Legends in Late-Medieval Historical and Political Cultures
In 1442, the authorities of London issued a formal prohibition against the spread of a lie that the first and best mayor of London was a cordwainer (shoemaker) named Walsh. This article investigates the context for this story by examining contemporary uses of foundation narratives for important institutions of London life, including the city, corporation and mayoralty. These foundation legends grew from a distinctive urban ‘historical culture’. T…
Autism Diagnostic Assessments With Children, Adolescents, and Adults Prior to and During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The pandemic has potentially compounded existing bottlenecks to the autism diagnostic pathway. Future research should seek to improve timeliness, standardization, accessibility and robustness of this pathway, and the validity and reliability of telehealth autism assessments
Isurium Brigantum
" Isurium Brigantum: An Archaeological Survey of Roman Aldborough ." Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 93(1), pp. 186–187
How urbanization enhanced exposure to climate risks in the Pacific
The increasing risk of coastal flooding and water shortage in Pacific Island Countries is usually attributed to climate change hazards. This ignores other risk components, exposure and vulnerability, of which a major contributor is urbanization. We develop simplified analyses that can be applied to other PICs. By dividing climate risks into hazard and exposure components we determine how urbanization contributed to present-day risks and then pred…
Revolution and Transition in East-Central Europe
Eastern and Western Europe continue to change in their relationship to one another and in their ongoing dynamic with the post-Soviet states. Economic development, electoral upheaval, and the Bosnian crisis all color the transition from communism to democracy and from a Cold War outlook to a new global order still taking shape.In this fully revised and updated edition of his popular and critically acclaimed text, David Mason brings the revolutiona…
Social Justice and Political Change
What is chemsex and why does it matter?
It needs to become a public health priority
Video Games, Theater, and the Paradox of Fiction
The Date of the Tomb of Clytemnestra
The construction date of the Tomb of Clytemnestra at Mycenae is disputed, opinion being divided over whether the tomb was erected at the end of Late Helladic IIIA or towards the end of Late Helladic IIIB. The article attempts to resolve this debate by examining all of the dating evidence for the tomb. It stresses that the most valuable clues to the date of the tomb come from the excavations that were carried out in 1952 and 1953 on either side of…
Byzantium
Among the Ottomans
Building Library 3.0
Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World
Islam, Democracy and Dialogue in Turkey
Evolving UK Policy on Diversity in the Armed Services
Reflecting a generally multiculturalist rhetoric, UK policy in this area has hitherto focussed on enhancing the degree to which the armed services represent or reflect the ethnic makeup of the UK population. Ambitious targets have been set and some progress made in moving towards them. However, the dynamics of population change, together with the diverse preferences of ethno-religious minorities, have meant that the goal of representativeness has…
Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey
Britain and the Middle East
Museums and the culture of new media
Despite the recent growth of virtual museums, we lack detailed research on the intersection of museums and new media. This study presents the results of a survey of websites of New Zealand museums and heritage organisations using an idealised model of the basic functionality required in a well-defined professional sector. When this empirical model was compared with actual websites, it was found that many functions were not fully implemented. Inte…
Tormented by History
Mediterranean Crossings
The Theory and Practice of Equal Opportunities Policies
This paper explores the conceptual confusions characteristic of the practice of equal opportunities policies the workplace. The differences between 'liberal' and 'radical' approaches to policy making are identified and described. It is argued that, while these are conceptually distiner from one another, in practice they are routinely confused and conflated. In particular the preferred procedures of the liberal approach are widely assumed to resul…
Modes of Discrimination in the Recruitment Process
Equal opportunities policies, and other programmes for the elimination of racial and sexual discrimination at work, frequently place great store by the formalisation of the recruitment process. This article suggests that such recommendations fail to take account of the nature of recruitment to most occupations. This point is developed by the presentation of both a typology of modes of discrimination in the recruitment process and an empirical cas…
Call Centre Employees' Responses to Electronic Monitoring
There is a growing literature on employment in call centres, much of which suggests that they are characterised by high levels of work intensification and surveillance. Recently, a debate has emerged about the nature of surveillance in such workplaces and the level and character of employee resistance (Bain and Taylor 2000; Fernie and Metcalf 1998; Mulholland 1999) with some, such as Bain and Taylor, claiming that the argument is characterised by…
On the Dangers of Disconnecting Race and Racism
The paper critically reviews some recent contributions to the debate about the nature of race and racism. It questions the analytic and empirical divorce between race and racism for which Floya Anthias and others have argued. It suggests that disconnecting race and racism while insisting on the retention of a concept of race could well give rise to a view that race is, after all, a valid scientific concept denoting a real biological division of t…
Race’, equal opportunities policies and employment practice
This article attempts to take stock of some of the research evidence on ethnic minority employment and equal opportunities issues, gathered by the authors over a period of some ten years. It reviews some of the implications for equal opportunities of major changes in business organisation and employment practice which began in the 1980s. It continues by identifying a number of trends, both of potential benefit and threat to equal opportunities, t…
Diversifying the Uniform? The Participation of Minority Ethnic Personnel in the British Armed Services
This article considers the pressures on the British armed services to increase the participation of minority ethnic groups and assesses recent government policy on this issue. Limited progress has been made toward the realization of current goals, which are framed largely in terms of the concept of 'equal opportunities.' The authors argue that while the concept of diversity appears to provide a more sociologically well-founded basis for future go…
Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations
Race relations, group formation and power
1982). Race relations, group formation and power: A framework for analysis. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 421-439
The feeling of exclusion
This article first looks at the relationship between museums and art galleries and their potential audiences and, in particular, the under-represented sector of young visitors. It examines the main findings from the limited research available on young visitors, and goes on to discuss theories delineating the differences between the cultures, identities and values of culture consumers and culture providers. The second part of the article looks at …
Race', Employment and Equal Opportunities
This paper attempts to provide a broad overview of the recent history of equal opportunities, particularly of work-place policies and programmes directed towards ethnic minorities. It identifies three main stages in the recent history of equal opportunities at the work-place and seeks to connect these with an analysis of the economic arrangements and dominant political philosophies characteristic of each phase. The paper concludes by noting that …
The British Armed Services and the Participation of Minority Ethnic Communities
This paper examines the commitments enshrined in the Strategic Defence Review White Paper to make the armed forces more genuinely representative of the British population, notably with respect to ethnicity. It identifies some conceptual problems associated with the way in which those commitments are presented and with the arguments usually deployed in support of their pursuit. It suggests that a fundamental re-assessment is required of the concep…
Equal opportunities and positive action in the British National Health Service
The National Health Service [NHS] remains one of the most significant employers of minority ethnic groups. However, evidence suggests that members of such groups are significantly disadvantaged in NHS employment. In this article we present research evidence about the recruitment of minority ethnic groups into nursing and midwifery. In case studies of nurse education centres we identified few positive action provisions which were part of a systema…
Evolving UK Policy on Diversity in the Armed Services
Reflecting a generally multiculturalist rhetoric, UK policy in this area has hitherto focussed on enhancing the degree to which the armed services represent or reflect the ethnic makeup of the UK population. Ambitious targets have been set and some progress made in moving towards them. However, the dynamics of population change, together with the diverse preferences of ethno-religious minorities, have meant that the goal of representativeness has…
Fear of success
Industrialisation, race and class conflict in South Africa
1980). Industrialisation, race and class conflict in South Africa: Towards a sociological resolution of a reopened debate. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 140-155
Themes and issues in the teaching of race and ethnicity in sociology
This article reviews trends in the teaching of race and ethnicity in sociology over the last thirty years or so. Using as its primary sources of evidence specialist texts as well as more general undergraduate introductions to sociology, it points to contrasts and similarities in developments on both sides of the Atlantic. It identifies a number of influences on the teaching of race and ethnicity lying inside and outside the academy. These include…
Nationalism and the process of group mobilisation
Equal opportunities policies at the workplace and the concept of monitoring
(1984). Equal opportunities policies at the workplace and the concept of monitoring. New Community: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 124-136
The concept of minority and intergroup conflict in Africa
The undifferentiated use of the concept of minority when considering intergroup conflict in Africa masks the fact that minority status and the differentials of power which accompany it are relational matters. This is not to minimize the significance of oppression in Africa but rather to emphasize that many factors give rise to conflict there and that not all situations of dominance are the same
The Location of the Treasury of Atreus
The Treasury of Atreus, the largest and most impressive of the nine tholos tombs found at Mycenae, stands by itself at the southern edge of a bowl in the east slope of the Panagia ridge. This paper argues that the tomb was constructed on this particular spot so that it would be seen from the trackways/roads that led to Mycenae from the east, south‐east and south‐west and from the main pathway to the palace. The view of the acropolis hill and Mt. …
Britain and the Middle East
Disempowerment and resistance in the print industry? Reactions to surveillance–capable technology
This article offers a critique of recent characterisations of the effects of electronic technologies in the workplace. It presents detailed case study evidence that calls into question a number of common theoretical assumptions about the character of surveillance at work and the responses of employees to it
Activities and Appointments
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China’s Four Modernizations
Despite a series of setbacks and subsequent revisions of targets, priorities, and programmatic strategies, China's Four Modernizations program has so far retained acceptance as the foundation upon which China's current development policies are being constructed. Yet, a number of recent studies make it clear that-within the bounds of agreement on the general need to modernize-elite consensus on a number of more specific though equally critical iss…
The Registration of Transitivity in the Guerrero Aztec Verb
Industrialisation, race and class conflict in South Africa
1980). Industrialisation, race and class conflict in South Africa: Towards a sociological resolution of a reopened debate. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 140-155
The Registration of Transitivity in the Guerrero Aztec Verb
Short reviews
Ernest Cashmore, RASTAMAN: THE RASTAFARIAN MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1979, 263 pp., £10.00 (h.b), £3.95 (p.b.). Jeffrey Butler, Robert I. Rotberg and John Adams, THE BLACK HOMELANDS OF SOUTH AFRICA: THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BOPHU‐THATSWANA AND KWAZULU, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977, 250 pp., £9.35 Newell M. Stultz, TRANSKEI'S HALF LOAF: RACE SEPARATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, New Haven, Yale Uni…
Short reviews
Ronald H. Bayor, NEIGHBORS IN CONFLICT: THE IRISH, GERMANS, JEWS, AND ITALIANS OF NEW YORK CITY, 1929–1941. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978, xlv, 232 pp., £9.75. Alexander Mamak and Ahmed Ali (eds), RACE, CLASS AND REBELLION IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. London, Allen & Unwin, 1979, 144pp. £10.95. (£4.95. p.b.) Bridget Brereton, RACE RELATIONS IN COLONIAL TRINIDAD: 1870–1900, Cambridge University Press, 1979, x, 251 pp., £15.00. Hubert M.…
Aggressive and Socially Disruptive Behavior among Maximum Security Psychiatric Patients
The frequency of behavior or management problems for units of differing “security” within a maximum security hospital were compared. The frequency of such behaviors reflects a selection process more than the fact that the patients are in a “controlled treatment setting,” as suggested by the authors of a previous study
After Scarman
(1982). After Scarman: A note on the concept of ‘institutional racism’. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 38-45
Race relations, group formation and power
1982). Race relations, group formation and power: A framework for analysis. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 421-439
A prophet for our times
Voluntary Nonprofit Enterprise Management
China’s Four Modernizations
Despite a series of setbacks and subsequent revisions of targets, priorities, and programmatic strategies, China's Four Modernizations program has so far retained acceptance as the foundation upon which China's current development policies are being constructed. Yet, a number of recent studies make it clear that-within the bounds of agreement on the general need to modernize-elite consensus on a number of more specific though equally critical iss…
Equal opportunities policies at the workplace and the concept of monitoring
(1984). Equal opportunities policies at the workplace and the concept of monitoring. New Community: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 124-136
The concept of minority and intergroup conflict in Africa
The undifferentiated use of the concept of minority when considering intergroup conflict in Africa masks the fact that minority status and the differentials of power which accompany it are relational matters. This is not to minimize the significance of oppression in Africa but rather to emphasize that many factors give rise to conflict there and that not all situations of dominance are the same
Fear of success
Nationalism and the process of group mobilisation
Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations
This book brings together internationally known scholars from a wide range of disciplines and theoretical traditions, all of whom have made significant contributions to the field of race and ethnic relations. As well as identifying important and persistent points of controversy, the collection reveals a complementary and multifaceted approach to theorisation. The theories represented include contributions from the perspective of sociology. These …
Short reviews
Paul Brass (ed.), ETHNIC GROUPS AND THE STATE, London and Sydney, Croom Helm, 1985, 341 pp., £17.95. Philip Mason, A THREAD OF SILK: FURTHER MEMORIES OF A VARIED LIFE, Michael Russell, 1984, London, 207 pp, £9.95. Colin Clarke, David Ley and Ceri Peach (eds), GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNIC PLURALISM, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1984, 311 pp., £8.95. Paul B. Rich, WHITE POWER AND THE LIBERAL CONSCIENCE, Manchester University Press, 1984, 192 pp., £18.50. …
Monitoring equal opportunities policies
Monitoring equal opportunities policies: A rejoinder to John Shaw." New Community, 13(1), pp. 107–108
The Theory and Practice of Equal Opportunities Policies
This paper explores the conceptual confusions characteristic of the practice of equal opportunities policies the workplace. The differences between 'liberal' and 'radical' approaches to policy making are identified and described. It is argued that, while these are conceptually distiner from one another, in practice they are routinely confused and conflated. In particular the preferred procedures of the liberal approach are widely assumed to resul…
Modes of Discrimination in the Recruitment Process
Equal opportunities policies, and other programmes for the elimination of racial and sexual discrimination at work, frequently place great store by the formalisation of the recruitment process. This article suggests that such recommendations fail to take account of the nature of recruitment to most occupations. This point is developed by the presentation of both a typology of modes of discrimination in the recruitment process and an empirical cas…
Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations
Activities and Appointments
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A rose by any other name…? Categorisation, identity and social science
The concept of Ethnic Minority
(1991). The concept of Ethnic Minority: Conceptual dilemmas and policy implications. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 191-209
Ethnic Minorities and Employment Practice
Universities and ethnic minorities
It is commonly assumed that the traditional academic ethic of individual achievement recognises no barriers other than those of merit and ability. As such, equal opportunity issues are often not considered of great relevance for universities. This article presents the findings of recent research into UK universities’ public image in relation to ethnic minorities. Fifty three general undergradute prospectuses were examined determining their textua…
Sociology (44 works) · Political science (43 works) · Law (34 works) · History (28 works) · Computer Science (24 works) · Politics (21 works) · Business (20 works) · Ethnic group (19 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Art (16 works)