B Fowler
Biographic Data
| ID | 18234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Fowler |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Fowler |
| SIGNATURE | FOWLER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7224-2699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Doing Sociology Today: A book launch for Revisiting Culture and Society
Notes, index cards and reminiscences: A sociological life: Bridget Fowler in conversation with Les Back
A conversation with Bridget Fowler about her life in scholarship
The Russian Revolution and photography: The tragic paradoxes of canonisation
Bourdieu (et al.'s) Photography contends that it is the fate of photography to remain for ever 'a middlebrow art'. This is partly because its technological character is held to be inimical to canonisation as a high art-form, but also because it lacks a class willing to invest time in its reception. Here, I argue, Bourdieu has been proved wrong: photography has now been consecrated, including, ironically, his own photography. Support for this clai…
Violence, Symbolic Violence and the Decivilizing Process: Approaches from Marx, Elias and Bourdieu
Social Ageing: Fragments of an Autoanalysis
This essay originally interprets self-objectivation as utterly exceptional liberty (and privilege) of sociological observers. The author touches upon several dimensions of her social identity. Starting with the process of downward mobility undergone by her family, she goes over private issues such as her loss of faith and marital dynamics (as well as political engagement and relationship with academic institutions), linking her existential course…
Autoanalysis, with particular reflections on sociology
This article aims to contribute to a sociology of knowledge via an autoanalysis of a marginalised member of the British upper-middle class, who moved first from the South to the North of England and then from England to Scottish society as an immigrant: a 'stranger who stayed'. Written in the first person, Bridget Fowler's reflections move between different religious and political worlds, focusing especially on her reception of conflicting sociol…
Writers and politics: Gisèle Sapiro's advances within the Bourdieusian sociology of the literary field
This article undertakes a critical analysis of the work of Gisèle Sapiro, with reference to sociology of literature. From 1999 (Sapiro, 2014a), Sapiro has developed the Bourdieusian research tradition, amplifying especially Bourdieu's theory of crisis. Focusing on the antagonisms between literary 'prophets' and 'priests', she has drawn on a rich sample of 184 writers to elucidate the struggles inherent in World War II between writers from differe…
Pierre Bourdieu on social transformation, with particular reference to political and symbolic revolutions
This article challenges what is now the orthodoxy concerning the heritage of Bourdieu (1930-2002): namely, the judgement that his distinctive sociological innovation has been his theory of social reproduction, and that he has failed to provide a necessary theory of social change. Yet Bourdieu consistently claimed to offer a theory of social transformation as well as accounting for continuities of power. Indeed, he provides two substantive keys fo…
Collective Memory (Social Change)
A group's most profound images and interpretations of the past constitute its collective memory. Memory – possessed and transmitted only by individuals – is nevertheless vitally framed by various social relationships. Individuals share their recollections with members of their group and rationally reorganize their stories of the past in accordance with others' interpretations of events
Pierre Bourdieu, Social Transformation and 1960s British Drama
This article makes the controversial argument that Bourdieu's theory of practice offers both a model of transformation and social reproduction. However, it also claims that his account of cultural production is marred by two blind-spots. First, it contends that Bourdieu has neglected key forms of material support, notably, that offered, post-war, from the 'left hand of the state'. The subsequent New Wave of 1950s and 1960s British drama had autho…
The Recognition/Redistribution Debate and Bourdieu's Theory of Practice: Problems of Interpretation
This review article takes up certain key issues that are at stake in the valuable collection of essays edited by Lovell. It considers critically the argument that the adoption of Fraser's perspectival dualism implies regression to a base—superstructure theory of the social. It assesses the advantages of extending the dualism of redistribution and recognition to include also the need for participatory parity in the post-Westphalian political order…
Collective Memory (Social Change)
A group's or nation's collective memory is constituted by its images, concepts, and evaluations of the past. Although memory is only possessed and transmitted by individuals, it is shaped by group relationships. Individuals share their recollections with members of their group and rationally reorganize their stories of the past in accordance with others$@#*^%#@#rsquor; understandings of events (Coser 1992: 43)
The Obituary as Collective Memory
The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves
The Lives We Choose to Remember: A Quantitative Analysis of Newspaper Obituaries
Collective memory is intertwined with remembering the dead. Systematic forgetting affects certain ethnic groups, nationalities and classes disproportionately. This study assesses whom we choose as our heroes by commemorating them in obituaries. It is the first cross-national, historical approach to this subject. Constant structures are shown in different Western countries over time in terms of the selection of individuals for this honour. In part…
Autonomy, Reciprocity and Science in the Thought of Pierre Bourdieu
This article addresses the increasingly widespread view that Bourdieu's sociological analysis is flawed by excessive determinism and thus is anti-rationalist in its socio-political implications. Against this contention, it argues that works such as Distinction should be viewed as critiques of an absolutist universalism rather than of universalism as such. Moreover, Bourdieu's logic of practice, it is claimed, caters not only for a degree of auton…
Collective Memory and Forgetting: Components for a Study of Obituaries
This article explores the cultural form of the obituary as a contribution to 'collective memory'. In order to assess the value of viewing the obituary through this lens, it is necessary to look at how memory and collective memory have been conceptualized in various authors, especially in the classic works of Bergson, Halbwachs and Benjamin. Tension emerges between those who think that such social forms of memorizing, like tradition, are declining…
Women Architects and Their Discontents
The article critically investigates recent assumptions that professional women are en route to equality with professional men by assessing the field of architecture as a case study. It addresses the poorer completion rates for women architectural students, together with the lower proportions of professionally registered and promoted women architects.The article explores, in particular, Bourdieu’s theories of gender divisions and higher profession…
Mapping the Obituary: Notes towards a Bourdieusian Interpretation
An important strand of feminist practice has been the reconstruction of women's experience historically, using auto/biographical sources. This process has gone under the metaphorical banner of retrieving the hidden from history, bringing the invisible into visibility, giving voices to the silenced. One social mechanism that has been significant as a first stage towards remembering individuals has been the publication of an obituary on their death…
A Note on Nick Zangwill's `Against the Sociology of Art
Zangwill's recent article offers a provocative and compelling account of the alleged deficiencies of the sociology of art. However, his main targets—christened, respectively, `production and skepticism' and `consumption skepticism'—are, in fact, only decontextualised and one-sided caricatures of the leading theories in this area. Zangwill has misrepresented some of the discipline's leading theorists including Bourdieu, Eagleton, Pollock and Wolff…
The parliamentary elections in Hungary, April 2002
Reading Pierre Bourdieu's Masculine Domination: Notes Towards an Intersectional Analysis of Gender, Culture and Class
This article analyses Bourdieu's late work on masculine domination, in the context of his wider theory of practice. It assesses the logic of his argument and focuses particularly on the wide-ranging case he makes for women's complicity with such gender domination, alongside their opposition to it. The question of whether Bourdieu's sociology is unacceptably pessimistic about the possibilities for social transformation is then considered, taking u…
A Militant Sociology: The Political Commitment of Pierre Bourdieu
A Sociological Analysis of the Satanic Verses Affair
Bourdieu's work on modern cultural production has certain omissions. It fails to raise the possibility that authors such as Salman Rushdie, either writing from peripheral nations or from powerless minorities within a powerful nation, might be called 'heroic modernists'. This would differentiate them from the routinized form of late 20th-century modernist avantgardism, which operates within the logic of the laws of the 'restricted literary field' …
Bourdieu's Turn to La Domination Masculine
Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory: Critical Investigations
Reading Pierre Bourdieu's Masculine Domination: Notes Towards an Intersectional Analysis of Gender, Culture and Class
This article analyses Bourdieu's late work on masculine domination, in the context of his wider theory of practice. It assesses the logic of his argument and focuses particularly on the wide-ranging case he makes for women's complicity with such gender domination, alongside their opposition to it. The question of whether Bourdieu's sociology is unacceptably pessimistic about the possibilities for social transformation is then considered, taking u…
The Obituary as Collective Memory
The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves
Pierre Bourdieu on social transformation, with particular reference to political and symbolic revolutions
This article challenges what is now the orthodoxy concerning the heritage of Bourdieu (1930-2002): namely, the judgement that his distinctive sociological innovation has been his theory of social reproduction, and that he has failed to provide a necessary theory of social change. Yet Bourdieu consistently claimed to offer a theory of social transformation as well as accounting for continuities of power. Indeed, he provides two substantive keys fo…
An Introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's 'Understanding
No abstract available
Collective Memory and Forgetting: Components for a Study of Obituaries
This article explores the cultural form of the obituary as a contribution to 'collective memory'. In order to assess the value of viewing the obituary through this lens, it is necessary to look at how memory and collective memory have been conceptualized in various authors, especially in the classic works of Bergson, Halbwachs and Benjamin. Tension emerges between those who think that such social forms of memorizing, like tradition, are declining…
Mapping the Obituary: Notes towards a Bourdieusian Interpretation
An important strand of feminist practice has been the reconstruction of women's experience historically, using auto/biographical sources. This process has gone under the metaphorical banner of retrieving the hidden from history, bringing the invisible into visibility, giving voices to the silenced. One social mechanism that has been significant as a first stage towards remembering individuals has been the publication of an obituary on their death…
Autonomy, Reciprocity and Science in the Thought of Pierre Bourdieu
This article addresses the increasingly widespread view that Bourdieu's sociological analysis is flawed by excessive determinism and thus is anti-rationalist in its socio-political implications. Against this contention, it argues that works such as Distinction should be viewed as critiques of an absolutist universalism rather than of universalism as such. Moreover, Bourdieu's logic of practice, it is claimed, caters not only for a degree of auton…
Pierre Bourdieu, Social Transformation and 1960s British Drama
This article makes the controversial argument that Bourdieu's theory of practice offers both a model of transformation and social reproduction. However, it also claims that his account of cultural production is marred by two blind-spots. First, it contends that Bourdieu has neglected key forms of material support, notably, that offered, post-war, from the 'left hand of the state'. The subsequent New Wave of 1950s and 1960s British drama had autho…
The Lives We Choose to Remember: A Quantitative Analysis of Newspaper Obituaries
Collective memory is intertwined with remembering the dead. Systematic forgetting affects certain ethnic groups, nationalities and classes disproportionately. This study assesses whom we choose as our heroes by commemorating them in obituaries. It is the first cross-national, historical approach to this subject. Constant structures are shown in different Western countries over time in terms of the selection of individuals for this honour. In part…
Women Architects and Their Discontents
The article critically investigates recent assumptions that professional women are en route to equality with professional men by assessing the field of architecture as a case study. It addresses the poorer completion rates for women architectural students, together with the lower proportions of professionally registered and promoted women architects.The article explores, in particular, Bourdieu’s theories of gender divisions and higher profession…
Immigrant School Leavers and the Search for Work
Studies of immigrant school-leavers' opportunities have focused on England and on areas with low unemployment. A study of Glasgow's Asian school-leavers at a time of recession shows that in relation to a similarly qualified native control group the Asian boys' job opportunities are markedly inferior. Whereas a good proportion of native Glaswegians have access to the 'primary labour-market' through jobs with formal training and relatively good pay…
The parliamentary elections in Hungary, April 2002
A Sociological Analysis of the Satanic Verses Affair
Bourdieu's work on modern cultural production has certain omissions. It fails to raise the possibility that authors such as Salman Rushdie, either writing from peripheral nations or from powerless minorities within a powerful nation, might be called 'heroic modernists'. This would differentiate them from the routinized form of late 20th-century modernist avantgardism, which operates within the logic of the laws of the 'restricted literary field' …
The Hegemonic Work of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction: An Assessment of Pierre Bourdieu
No abstract available
Autoanalysis, with particular reflections on sociology
This article aims to contribute to a sociology of knowledge via an autoanalysis of a marginalised member of the British upper-middle class, who moved first from the South to the North of England and then from England to Scottish society as an immigrant: a 'stranger who stayed'. Written in the first person, Bridget Fowler's reflections move between different religious and political worlds, focusing especially on her reception of conflicting sociol…
Writers and politics: Gisèle Sapiro's advances within the Bourdieusian sociology of the literary field
This article undertakes a critical analysis of the work of Gisèle Sapiro, with reference to sociology of literature. From 1999 (Sapiro, 2014a), Sapiro has developed the Bourdieusian research tradition, amplifying especially Bourdieu's theory of crisis. Focusing on the antagonisms between literary 'prophets' and 'priests', she has drawn on a rich sample of 184 writers to elucidate the struggles inherent in World War II between writers from differe…
A Militant Sociology: The Political Commitment of Pierre Bourdieu
Hearth and Home: Images of Women in the Mass Media
Immigrant School Leavers and the Search for Work
Studies of immigrant school-leavers' opportunities have focused on England and on areas with low unemployment. A study of Glasgow's Asian school-leavers at a time of recession shows that in relation to a similarly qualified native control group the Asian boys' job opportunities are markedly inferior. Whereas a good proportion of native Glaswegians have access to the 'primary labour-market' through jobs with formal training and relatively good pay…
True to Me Always: An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction
This article explores the plot structures and images of society contained in the fiction of cheap magazines for women. It is suggested that the writers' world-view vacillates between heroic individualism and fatalism. There is no evidence of any sustained radical critique of society, despite the choice of the 1930S as the period from which the magazines were sampled. In the absence of any close correspondence with models from the elite nostel, at…
Hearth and Home: Images of Women in the Mass Media
The Promise of Happiness: Values and Meaning in Children's Literature
The ‘canon’ and Marxist theories of literature
No abstract available
Comparative Fate of Chemically Dispersed and Beached Crude Oil in Subtidal Sediments of the Arctic Nearshore
A three-year investigation was conducted to examine the incorporation of petroleum hydrocarbons (PHC) into subtidal sediments following experimental releases of oil during the Baffin Island Oil Spill (BIOS) Project experiments. The concentrations of PHC were determined by synchronous scanning UV/Fluorescence spectroscopy, while the composition of residual saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons was determined by gas chromatography and gas chromatogra…
Toxaphene and Other Organochlorines in Arctic Ocean Fauna: Evidence for Atmospheric Delivery
Residues of the insecticide toxaphene (polychlorinated camphenes, PCCs) and other organochlorines (OCs) were determined in air, snow, seawater, zooplankton, and benthic amphipods collected from an ice island in the Canadian Arctic. The simultaneous determination of OCs in the atmospheric, hydrologic, and biologic compartments provided evidence of an atmospheric link to polar food chains. PCCs were identified and quantified using capillary gas chr…
Jane Austen: The Fiction of Culture
Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
The Hegemonic Work of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction: An Assessment of Pierre Bourdieu
No abstract available
An Introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's 'Understanding
No abstract available
Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory: Critical Investigations
No abstract available
Bourdieu's Turn to La Domination Masculine
Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory: Critical Investigations
A Sociological Analysis of the Satanic Verses Affair
Bourdieu's work on modern cultural production has certain omissions. It fails to raise the possibility that authors such as Salman Rushdie, either writing from peripheral nations or from powerless minorities within a powerful nation, might be called 'heroic modernists'. This would differentiate them from the routinized form of late 20th-century modernist avantgardism, which operates within the logic of the laws of the 'restricted literary field' …
A Militant Sociology: The Political Commitment of Pierre Bourdieu
A Note on Nick Zangwill's `Against the Sociology of Art
Zangwill's recent article offers a provocative and compelling account of the alleged deficiencies of the sociology of art. However, his main targets—christened, respectively, `production and skepticism' and `consumption skepticism'—are, in fact, only decontextualised and one-sided caricatures of the leading theories in this area. Zangwill has misrepresented some of the discipline's leading theorists including Bourdieu, Eagleton, Pollock and Wolff…
The parliamentary elections in Hungary, April 2002
Reading Pierre Bourdieu's Masculine Domination: Notes Towards an Intersectional Analysis of Gender, Culture and Class
This article analyses Bourdieu's late work on masculine domination, in the context of his wider theory of practice. It assesses the logic of his argument and focuses particularly on the wide-ranging case he makes for women's complicity with such gender domination, alongside their opposition to it. The question of whether Bourdieu's sociology is unacceptably pessimistic about the possibilities for social transformation is then considered, taking u…
Women Architects and Their Discontents
The article critically investigates recent assumptions that professional women are en route to equality with professional men by assessing the field of architecture as a case study. It addresses the poorer completion rates for women architectural students, together with the lower proportions of professionally registered and promoted women architects.The article explores, in particular, Bourdieu’s theories of gender divisions and higher profession…
Mapping the Obituary: Notes towards a Bourdieusian Interpretation
An important strand of feminist practice has been the reconstruction of women's experience historically, using auto/biographical sources. This process has gone under the metaphorical banner of retrieving the hidden from history, bringing the invisible into visibility, giving voices to the silenced. One social mechanism that has been significant as a first stage towards remembering individuals has been the publication of an obituary on their death…
Collective Memory and Forgetting: Components for a Study of Obituaries
This article explores the cultural form of the obituary as a contribution to 'collective memory'. In order to assess the value of viewing the obituary through this lens, it is necessary to look at how memory and collective memory have been conceptualized in various authors, especially in the classic works of Bergson, Halbwachs and Benjamin. Tension emerges between those who think that such social forms of memorizing, like tradition, are declining…
Autonomy, Reciprocity and Science in the Thought of Pierre Bourdieu
This article addresses the increasingly widespread view that Bourdieu's sociological analysis is flawed by excessive determinism and thus is anti-rationalist in its socio-political implications. Against this contention, it argues that works such as Distinction should be viewed as critiques of an absolutist universalism rather than of universalism as such. Moreover, Bourdieu's logic of practice, it is claimed, caters not only for a degree of auton…
Collective Memory (Social Change)
A group's or nation's collective memory is constituted by its images, concepts, and evaluations of the past. Although memory is only possessed and transmitted by individuals, it is shaped by group relationships. Individuals share their recollections with members of their group and rationally reorganize their stories of the past in accordance with others$@#*^%#@#rsquor; understandings of events (Coser 1992: 43)
The Obituary as Collective Memory
The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves
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