Blackman
Biographic Data
| ID | 162749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Blackman |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackman |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKMAN |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canterbury Christ Church University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5431-6690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 267 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Beyond the Grim”: Karl Spracklen’s Northern Observations Within Working Class Subcultural Leisure Spaces
“Revolving Stages” of Primal Scream: Autoethnography, “Collective Effervescence,” Live Performance, and the Making of an Alternative Legacy Act
This article explores the evolution of the Scottish rock band Primal Scream into an alternative legacy act. It discusses the “revolving stages” of Primal Scream’s career, focused on their musical and performative development, which aligns with their ever-increasing profile and audience. The article takes an autoethnographic approach, based on memories of four concerts the authors attended between 1986 and 2010, where Durkheim’s notion of “collect…
Introduction to special issue: Youth, rural places and marginalisation
Nothing happens here, but that’s ok’: Reflexivity, immobility and staying among young people in marginalised rural locations
Research and policy analysis often presumes a ‘mobility imperative’ in respect of rural youth; to ‘get on’ they have to ‘get out’. Those who stay, therefore, tend to be depicted as socially and economically deficient, backward, lacking agency and ‘left behind’. The aim of our paper is to provide a corrective to this sort of thinking. We present new, extensive, qualitative, longitudinal research conducted with fifty young men and women who have ch…
Black Ethnographic Activists: Exploring Robert Park, Scientific Racism, The Chicago School, and FBI Files Through the Black Sociological Experience of Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier
Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier were successful Black sociologists from the 1920s to 1960s, working in an age of scientific racism and eugenics, who battled racial oppression, racist discrimination, and surveillance under the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Both struggled within and against the assimilationist paradigm, yet their ethnographic and critical insights speak out today with continuing relevance in the fight against practica…
The Subcultural Imagination: Critically Negotiating the Co-Production of 'Subcultural Subjects' through the Lens of C. Wright Mills
This article interrogates the following two concepts: the 'subcultural imagination' and the 'subcultural subject'. We explore debates surrounding the ways in which interactions between the researcher and participant produce knowledge, in order to further establish the critical contribution of subculture within sociology. This article draws upon the notion of critique and ideas of C. Wright Mills (1959) in order to demonstrate the potential of new…
Ethnography and medicine: The utility of positivist methods in research
This commentary discusses the methodological utility of ethnography within the medical space. Whilst a general consensus affirms that ethnography aligns with qualitative approaches, as identified within the existing medical literature, here, we demonstrate how quantitative [positivist] methods can also be incorporated. This paper begins by contextualising ethnographic approaches within medical contexts by demonstrating its empirical value within …
Skateboarding: From Urban Spaces to Subcultural Olympians
Skateboarding or ‘sidewalk surfing’ emerged in the late 1950’s southern California, whereby surfers were not in the sea. The aim of this special issue is to benchmark critical research on skateboarding, youth and subculture on an international basis to contribute to the field of research which explores contemporary skateboarding focusing on young people’s everyday lives from a cultural perspective. Skateboarding is a very individual thing; it is …
The Jack-Roller and the Life History Method: Notes on the Chicago School’s Clifford Shaw and Howard Becker’s Humanistic Narrative of Young Male and Female Delinquents in Different Ages
Clifford Shaw’s (1930) The Jack-Roller is a landmark study of naturalism, ethnography and crime. It is the ‘own story’ of Stanley—a young delinquent in Chicago. Shaw’s series of ethnographic studies on delinquency sought to humanize deviance in opposition to pathological understandings of delinquency. The article looks on the representation of crimes committed and punishment received by young male and female delinquents. Shaw’s argument focuses o…
Introduction to Special Issue. Distancing, Disease and Distress: The Young and Covid-19: Exploring Young People’s Experience of Inequalities and Their Resourcefulness During the Pandemic
The COVID-19 global pandemic has impacted everyone’s lives—young and old. When the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on 11 March 2020 and one country after another went into lockdown, we as editors of YOUNG and youth researchers living in five different countries naturally started to think about and reflect on what impact the pandemic would have on young people’s everyday lives, their well-being and futures acros…
Introduction to Special Issue. Distancing, Disease and Distress: The Young and Covid-19: Exploring Young People’s Experience of Inequalities and Their Resourcefulness During the Pandemic
Introduction: Songs that Sing the Crisis: Music, Words, Youth Narratives and Identities in Late Modernity
In this special edition on popular music, we seek to explore Simon Frith’s (1978, The sociology of rock, London, UK: Constable, p. 39) argument that: ‘Music’s presence in youth culture is established but not its purpose’. ‘Songs that sing the crisis’ captures contemporary accounts, which build upon popular music’s legacy, courage and sheer determination to offer social and cultural critique of oppressive structures or political injustice as they …
He enjoyed it more than I did’: Young British Sikh women negotiating safe sex in heterosexual encounters
Sex education and relationship strategy of the U.K. allows parents to withdraw their children from sex education, which has left many young people especially those from Black Minority and Ethnic communities with low or no sex education. Similarly, the government's policy environment enables faith schools to teach these subjects under the tenets of their faith. This empirical research was carried out in South-West London using 12 qualitative inter…
Sociologist as Hero'? Robert Park, the Chicago School, and the Origin and Destination of Sociology
From niche to stigma—Headshops to prison: Exploring the rise and fall of synthetic cannabinoid use among young adults
Subculture Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Assessment of the Concept for Understanding Deviance
Subcultures attract attention in culture, society, and the media because they have been theorized as not merely distinct from, but also in opposition to, the dominant culture. In the United States and the United Kingdom the concept of subculture has been a major explanatory tool for sociology and criminology to understand deviant behavior. For nearly a hundred years the concept has been at the center of academic struggle for superiority between r…
Model Girls in Magazine Culture: Young Women, Feminism and the American Dream
Drug War Politics: Governing Culture Through Prohibition, Intoxicants as Customary Practice and the Challenge of Drug Normalisation
This article on the American administration’s war on drugs policy uses an interdisciplinary approach to assess the assumptions of drug prohibition. It applies a historical and contemporary analysis to the issue of drugs in society. It will explore new ways of thinking about drug war politics, aiming to address drugs as a source of political state repression. American foreign policy has sought to use the war on drugs to reduce human suffering; but…
Youth subcultures, normalisation and drug prohibition: The politics of contemporary crisis and change
Young people, class and place
This collection focuses on issues of class and place in respect of young people’s lives. \nThe contributions derive, at least in part, from a one-day British Sociological \nAssociation Youth Study Group seminar that was hosted by the Youth Research \nGroup at the University of Teesside in September 2008. What is special or important about the social scientific study of \nyouth? One answer is that the youth phase provides a privileged vantage poin…
Hidden Ethnography: Crossing Emotional Borders in Qualitative Accounts of Young People's Lives
In sociology, the movement towards acceptance of emotion within research has been a slow process. Often referred to as the 'reflexive' turn (Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1992), this development has enabled qualitative research to put forward more realistic fieldwork accounts. Drawing upon ethnographic studies on young people, this article explores the idea of a 'hidden ethnography', that is, empirical data not previously published because it may be con…
Youth Subcultural Theory: A Critical Engagement with the Concept, its Origins and Politics, from the Chicago School to Postmodernism
Initially, I will suggest that the postmodernist understanding of youth subculture relies on a determinist interpretation of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) position, which denies the immense diversity in the CCCS theorization that draws on Barthes, Gramsci, Althusser, Levi-Strauss and Lacan. I shall critically examine the development of postmodern subcultural theory, which is premised on the work of three key social theorists…
Research Partnership and an Issues Framework: A review of the methodology of an overarching project on competence funded by the Further Education Unit and the Training Agency
This article reports on the structure and the methodology of a national overarching project funded by the Training Agency and the Further Education Unit. The project sought to investigate the impact and implications of competence‐led curricula in the further education sector in England and Wales. The article outlines how the project evolved through a two‐phase process, the research methodology adopted and the management approach applied. Finally,…
Youth Subcultural Theory: A Critical Engagement with the Concept, its Origins and Politics, from the Chicago School to Postmodernism
Initially, I will suggest that the postmodernist understanding of youth subculture relies on a determinist interpretation of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) position, which denies the immense diversity in the CCCS theorization that draws on Barthes, Gramsci, Althusser, Levi-Strauss and Lacan. I shall critically examine the development of postmodern subcultural theory, which is premised on the work of three key social theorists…
Subculture Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Assessment of the Concept for Understanding Deviance
Subcultures attract attention in culture, society, and the media because they have been theorized as not merely distinct from, but also in opposition to, the dominant culture. In the United States and the United Kingdom the concept of subculture has been a major explanatory tool for sociology and criminology to understand deviant behavior. For nearly a hundred years the concept has been at the center of academic struggle for superiority between r…
Hidden Ethnography: Crossing Emotional Borders in Qualitative Accounts of Young People's Lives
In sociology, the movement towards acceptance of emotion within research has been a slow process. Often referred to as the 'reflexive' turn (Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1992), this development has enabled qualitative research to put forward more realistic fieldwork accounts. Drawing upon ethnographic studies on young people, this article explores the idea of a 'hidden ethnography', that is, empirical data not previously published because it may be con…
Young people, class and place
This collection focuses on issues of class and place in respect of young people’s lives. \nThe contributions derive, at least in part, from a one-day British Sociological \nAssociation Youth Study Group seminar that was hosted by the Youth Research \nGroup at the University of Teesside in September 2008. What is special or important about the social scientific study of \nyouth? One answer is that the youth phase provides a privileged vantage poin…
Youth subcultures, normalisation and drug prohibition: The politics of contemporary crisis and change
Introduction to Special Issue. Distancing, Disease and Distress: The Young and Covid-19: Exploring Young People’s Experience of Inequalities and Their Resourcefulness During the Pandemic
The COVID-19 global pandemic has impacted everyone’s lives—young and old. When the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on 11 March 2020 and one country after another went into lockdown, we as editors of YOUNG and youth researchers living in five different countries naturally started to think about and reflect on what impact the pandemic would have on young people’s everyday lives, their well-being and futures acros…
Black Ethnographic Activists: Exploring Robert Park, Scientific Racism, The Chicago School, and FBI Files Through the Black Sociological Experience of Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier
Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier were successful Black sociologists from the 1920s to 1960s, working in an age of scientific racism and eugenics, who battled racial oppression, racist discrimination, and surveillance under the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Both struggled within and against the assimilationist paradigm, yet their ethnographic and critical insights speak out today with continuing relevance in the fight against practica…
Skateboarding: From Urban Spaces to Subcultural Olympians
Skateboarding or ‘sidewalk surfing’ emerged in the late 1950’s southern California, whereby surfers were not in the sea. The aim of this special issue is to benchmark critical research on skateboarding, youth and subculture on an international basis to contribute to the field of research which explores contemporary skateboarding focusing on young people’s everyday lives from a cultural perspective. Skateboarding is a very individual thing; it is …
Nothing happens here, but that’s ok’: Reflexivity, immobility and staying among young people in marginalised rural locations
Research and policy analysis often presumes a ‘mobility imperative’ in respect of rural youth; to ‘get on’ they have to ‘get out’. Those who stay, therefore, tend to be depicted as socially and economically deficient, backward, lacking agency and ‘left behind’. The aim of our paper is to provide a corrective to this sort of thinking. We present new, extensive, qualitative, longitudinal research conducted with fifty young men and women who have ch…
The Subcultural Imagination: Critically Negotiating the Co-Production of 'Subcultural Subjects' through the Lens of C. Wright Mills
This article interrogates the following two concepts: the 'subcultural imagination' and the 'subcultural subject'. We explore debates surrounding the ways in which interactions between the researcher and participant produce knowledge, in order to further establish the critical contribution of subculture within sociology. This article draws upon the notion of critique and ideas of C. Wright Mills (1959) in order to demonstrate the potential of new…
The Jack-Roller and the Life History Method: Notes on the Chicago School’s Clifford Shaw and Howard Becker’s Humanistic Narrative of Young Male and Female Delinquents in Different Ages
Clifford Shaw’s (1930) The Jack-Roller is a landmark study of naturalism, ethnography and crime. It is the ‘own story’ of Stanley—a young delinquent in Chicago. Shaw’s series of ethnographic studies on delinquency sought to humanize deviance in opposition to pathological understandings of delinquency. The article looks on the representation of crimes committed and punishment received by young male and female delinquents. Shaw’s argument focuses o…
Introduction to Special Issue. Distancing, Disease and Distress: The Young and Covid-19: Exploring Young People’s Experience of Inequalities and Their Resourcefulness During the Pandemic
Introduction: Songs that Sing the Crisis: Music, Words, Youth Narratives and Identities in Late Modernity
In this special edition on popular music, we seek to explore Simon Frith’s (1978, The sociology of rock, London, UK: Constable, p. 39) argument that: ‘Music’s presence in youth culture is established but not its purpose’. ‘Songs that sing the crisis’ captures contemporary accounts, which build upon popular music’s legacy, courage and sheer determination to offer social and cultural critique of oppressive structures or political injustice as they …
Sociologist as Hero'? Robert Park, the Chicago School, and the Origin and Destination of Sociology
Drug War Politics: Governing Culture Through Prohibition, Intoxicants as Customary Practice and the Challenge of Drug Normalisation
This article on the American administration’s war on drugs policy uses an interdisciplinary approach to assess the assumptions of drug prohibition. It applies a historical and contemporary analysis to the issue of drugs in society. It will explore new ways of thinking about drug war politics, aiming to address drugs as a source of political state repression. American foreign policy has sought to use the war on drugs to reduce human suffering; but…
Research Partnership and an Issues Framework: A review of the methodology of an overarching project on competence funded by the Further Education Unit and the Training Agency
This article reports on the structure and the methodology of a national overarching project funded by the Training Agency and the Further Education Unit. The project sought to investigate the impact and implications of competence‐led curricula in the further education sector in England and Wales. The article outlines how the project evolved through a two‐phase process, the research methodology adopted and the management approach applied. Finally,…
Youth Subcultural Theory: A Critical Engagement with the Concept, its Origins and Politics, from the Chicago School to Postmodernism
Initially, I will suggest that the postmodernist understanding of youth subculture relies on a determinist interpretation of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) position, which denies the immense diversity in the CCCS theorization that draws on Barthes, Gramsci, Althusser, Levi-Strauss and Lacan. I shall critically examine the development of postmodern subcultural theory, which is premised on the work of three key social theorists…
Hidden Ethnography: Crossing Emotional Borders in Qualitative Accounts of Young People's Lives
In sociology, the movement towards acceptance of emotion within research has been a slow process. Often referred to as the 'reflexive' turn (Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1992), this development has enabled qualitative research to put forward more realistic fieldwork accounts. Drawing upon ethnographic studies on young people, this article explores the idea of a 'hidden ethnography', that is, empirical data not previously published because it may be con…
Young people, class and place
This collection focuses on issues of class and place in respect of young people’s lives. \nThe contributions derive, at least in part, from a one-day British Sociological \nAssociation Youth Study Group seminar that was hosted by the Youth Research \nGroup at the University of Teesside in September 2008. What is special or important about the social scientific study of \nyouth? One answer is that the youth phase provides a privileged vantage poin…
Drug War Politics: Governing Culture Through Prohibition, Intoxicants as Customary Practice and the Challenge of Drug Normalisation
This article on the American administration’s war on drugs policy uses an interdisciplinary approach to assess the assumptions of drug prohibition. It applies a historical and contemporary analysis to the issue of drugs in society. It will explore new ways of thinking about drug war politics, aiming to address drugs as a source of political state repression. American foreign policy has sought to use the war on drugs to reduce human suffering; but…
Youth subcultures, normalisation and drug prohibition: The politics of contemporary crisis and change
Model Girls in Magazine Culture: Young Women, Feminism and the American Dream
Subculture Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Assessment of the Concept for Understanding Deviance
Subcultures attract attention in culture, society, and the media because they have been theorized as not merely distinct from, but also in opposition to, the dominant culture. In the United States and the United Kingdom the concept of subculture has been a major explanatory tool for sociology and criminology to understand deviant behavior. For nearly a hundred years the concept has been at the center of academic struggle for superiority between r…
From niche to stigma—Headshops to prison: Exploring the rise and fall of synthetic cannabinoid use among young adults
Sociologist as Hero'? Robert Park, the Chicago School, and the Origin and Destination of Sociology
He enjoyed it more than I did’: Young British Sikh women negotiating safe sex in heterosexual encounters
Sex education and relationship strategy of the U.K. allows parents to withdraw their children from sex education, which has left many young people especially those from Black Minority and Ethnic communities with low or no sex education. Similarly, the government's policy environment enables faith schools to teach these subjects under the tenets of their faith. This empirical research was carried out in South-West London using 12 qualitative inter…
Introduction: Songs that Sing the Crisis: Music, Words, Youth Narratives and Identities in Late Modernity
In this special edition on popular music, we seek to explore Simon Frith’s (1978, The sociology of rock, London, UK: Constable, p. 39) argument that: ‘Music’s presence in youth culture is established but not its purpose’. ‘Songs that sing the crisis’ captures contemporary accounts, which build upon popular music’s legacy, courage and sheer determination to offer social and cultural critique of oppressive structures or political injustice as they …
The Jack-Roller and the Life History Method: Notes on the Chicago School’s Clifford Shaw and Howard Becker’s Humanistic Narrative of Young Male and Female Delinquents in Different Ages
Clifford Shaw’s (1930) The Jack-Roller is a landmark study of naturalism, ethnography and crime. It is the ‘own story’ of Stanley—a young delinquent in Chicago. Shaw’s series of ethnographic studies on delinquency sought to humanize deviance in opposition to pathological understandings of delinquency. The article looks on the representation of crimes committed and punishment received by young male and female delinquents. Shaw’s argument focuses o…
Introduction to Special Issue. Distancing, Disease and Distress: The Young and Covid-19: Exploring Young People’s Experience of Inequalities and Their Resourcefulness During the Pandemic
The COVID-19 global pandemic has impacted everyone’s lives—young and old. When the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on 11 March 2020 and one country after another went into lockdown, we as editors of YOUNG and youth researchers living in five different countries naturally started to think about and reflect on what impact the pandemic would have on young people’s everyday lives, their well-being and futures acros…
Introduction to Special Issue. Distancing, Disease and Distress: The Young and Covid-19: Exploring Young People’s Experience of Inequalities and Their Resourcefulness During the Pandemic
Ethnography and medicine: The utility of positivist methods in research
This commentary discusses the methodological utility of ethnography within the medical space. Whilst a general consensus affirms that ethnography aligns with qualitative approaches, as identified within the existing medical literature, here, we demonstrate how quantitative [positivist] methods can also be incorporated. This paper begins by contextualising ethnographic approaches within medical contexts by demonstrating its empirical value within …
Skateboarding: From Urban Spaces to Subcultural Olympians
Skateboarding or ‘sidewalk surfing’ emerged in the late 1950’s southern California, whereby surfers were not in the sea. The aim of this special issue is to benchmark critical research on skateboarding, youth and subculture on an international basis to contribute to the field of research which explores contemporary skateboarding focusing on young people’s everyday lives from a cultural perspective. Skateboarding is a very individual thing; it is …
Black Ethnographic Activists: Exploring Robert Park, Scientific Racism, The Chicago School, and FBI Files Through the Black Sociological Experience of Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier
Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier were successful Black sociologists from the 1920s to 1960s, working in an age of scientific racism and eugenics, who battled racial oppression, racist discrimination, and surveillance under the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Both struggled within and against the assimilationist paradigm, yet their ethnographic and critical insights speak out today with continuing relevance in the fight against practica…
The Subcultural Imagination: Critically Negotiating the Co-Production of 'Subcultural Subjects' through the Lens of C. Wright Mills
This article interrogates the following two concepts: the 'subcultural imagination' and the 'subcultural subject'. We explore debates surrounding the ways in which interactions between the researcher and participant produce knowledge, in order to further establish the critical contribution of subculture within sociology. This article draws upon the notion of critique and ideas of C. Wright Mills (1959) in order to demonstrate the potential of new…
Introduction to special issue: Youth, rural places and marginalisation
Nothing happens here, but that’s ok’: Reflexivity, immobility and staying among young people in marginalised rural locations
Research and policy analysis often presumes a ‘mobility imperative’ in respect of rural youth; to ‘get on’ they have to ‘get out’. Those who stay, therefore, tend to be depicted as socially and economically deficient, backward, lacking agency and ‘left behind’. The aim of our paper is to provide a corrective to this sort of thinking. We present new, extensive, qualitative, longitudinal research conducted with fifty young men and women who have ch…
“Revolving Stages” of Primal Scream: Autoethnography, “Collective Effervescence,” Live Performance, and the Making of an Alternative Legacy Act
This article explores the evolution of the Scottish rock band Primal Scream into an alternative legacy act. It discusses the “revolving stages” of Primal Scream’s career, focused on their musical and performative development, which aligns with their ever-increasing profile and audience. The article takes an autoethnographic approach, based on memories of four concerts the authors attended between 1986 and 2010, where Durkheim’s notion of “collect…
Beyond the Grim”: Karl Spracklen’s Northern Observations Within Working Class Subcultural Leisure Spaces
Sociology (21 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works)