Nick Perry
Biographic Data
| ID | 188059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Perry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Perry |
| SIGNATURE | PERRY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-4986-3804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Solution-focused Practice and the Role of the Approved Mental Health Professional
The Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) has a pivotal role in a decision to detain an individual under the Mental Health Act 1983. This article is a reflective account demonstrating how a solution-focused approach can enable an AMHP to engage constructively with the person being assessed and apply the values of anti-oppressive practice. Using a solution-focused approach enables a creative and empowering discussion of risk and may lead to a…
Organizations as Total Institutions
The analysis of the characteristics of total institutions is the subject of a lengthy essay by Erving Goffman, a Canadian‐born sociologist best known for his complex and subtle contributions to the analysis of social interaction. He defined the term as “a place of residence and work where a large number of like‐situated individuals cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time together lead an enclosed formally administered rou…
Exploring Cultural Traffic
Review of:Peter Beilharz, Thinking the Antipodes: Australian Essays,Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2015ISBN 9781922235558 RRP AU$39.95 (pb
The emporium’s new clothes? The New Zealand-based ‘World of Wearable Art’ as a mobile urban imaginary
In 1987 a young artist named Susan Moncrief first organized a ‘wearable art’ show as a means of publicizing a local art gallery located in the small provincial New Zealand city of Nelson. Both the origins of the concept (clothing as art) and its practical expression were very modest, but it subsequently became an annual event, growing in size and complexity and attracting ever more elaborate and ornate contributions. It is now officially designat…
Barthes, Roland (1915–1980)
Roland Barthes is best known as a literary critic and essayist and as a member of that generation of internationally distinguished French intellectuals ( maîtres à penser ) that includes the philosopher/historian Michel Foucault, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and the anthropologist Claude Lévi‐Strauss. His relevance for sociology derives above all from the way his writings (1) served to construct linkages between semiology (the study of sign s…
Mass Culture and Mass Society
Mass culture” typically refers to that culture which emerges from the centralized production processes of the mass media. It should be noted, however, that the status of the term is the subject of ongoing challenges – as in Swingewood's (1977) identification of it as a myth. When it is linked to the notion of mass society, then it becomes a specific variant of a more general theme; namely, the relation between social meanings and the allocation o…
Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia
Is the Global Village a Company Town? Was Confucius a Jesuit Cyberpunk
Hyperreality and Global Culture
This book explores a world where the boundaries between reality and representation have become blurred, a world where LA Law is used to train lawyers. Drawing on examples from around the globe, Nick Perry presents a fascinating and entertaining analysis of both familiar objects and situations as well as the more unusual and absurd. Meals served in British pubs, motor-cycle gangs in downtown Tokyo, Australian movies, are just some examples used by…
Hyperreality and Global Culture
Hyperreality and global culture
Indecent Exposures
Whistleblowers' are defined as insiders who 'go public' in their criticism of the policy and/or conduct of powerful organizations. Their actions dramatize the more general issue of the relation between politics and truth, between power and knowledge and the institutions which sustain them. This is exemplified by those problems which arise out of the changing relation between scientific-technical expertise and the contemporary corporate system. Th…
Travelling Theory/Nomadic Theorizing
The production of theories and the reception accorded to them are shaped by context. But under conditions of globalization both theories and theorists now travel. This paper explores the implications of this cultural situation for how the texts of organization might be understood. This is undertaken through a comparison between travelling theory and nomadic theorizing, a comparison which draws upon the writings of Geertz, Kondo, Said and Spivak, …
The peculiarities of English
Peter Widdowson, Hardy in History: A Study in Literary Sociology. London and New York: Routledge, 1989. £8.95, 260 pp. Simon During, Foucault and Literature: Towards a Genealogy of Writing. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. £35.00/£10.99, 259 pp
Common Coinage— Telethon and Cultural Criticism in New Zealand
Catch, Class and Bureaucracy
The expression 'Catch 22' has become part of the language, routinely employed without further explanation in newspapers, television programmes and everyday speech, and invoked without further reference in the learned papers of both British and American authors.1 A related, but less common tendency, which serves to identify admirers of the novel, is the predisposition to see particular incidents and characters as exemplars of the world beyond its …
A Comparative Analysis of 'Paradigm' Proliferation
The Two Cultures and the Total Institution
Conflict on Board Ship
Indecent Exposures
Whistleblowers' are defined as insiders who 'go public' in their criticism of the policy and/or conduct of powerful organizations. Their actions dramatize the more general issue of the relation between politics and truth, between power and knowledge and the institutions which sustain them. This is exemplified by those problems which arise out of the changing relation between scientific-technical expertise and the contemporary corporate system. Th…
The Two Cultures and the Total Institution
A Comparative Analysis of 'Paradigm' Proliferation
The peculiarities of English
Peter Widdowson, Hardy in History: A Study in Literary Sociology. London and New York: Routledge, 1989. £8.95, 260 pp. Simon During, Foucault and Literature: Towards a Genealogy of Writing. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. £35.00/£10.99, 259 pp
Common Coinage— Telethon and Cultural Criticism in New Zealand
The Two Cultures and the Total Institution
Conflict on Board Ship
A Comparative Analysis of 'Paradigm' Proliferation
Catch, Class and Bureaucracy
The expression 'Catch 22' has become part of the language, routinely employed without further explanation in newspapers, television programmes and everyday speech, and invoked without further reference in the learned papers of both British and American authors.1 A related, but less common tendency, which serves to identify admirers of the novel, is the predisposition to see particular incidents and characters as exemplars of the world beyond its …
Common Coinage— Telethon and Cultural Criticism in New Zealand
The peculiarities of English
Peter Widdowson, Hardy in History: A Study in Literary Sociology. London and New York: Routledge, 1989. £8.95, 260 pp. Simon During, Foucault and Literature: Towards a Genealogy of Writing. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. £35.00/£10.99, 259 pp
Travelling Theory/Nomadic Theorizing
The production of theories and the reception accorded to them are shaped by context. But under conditions of globalization both theories and theorists now travel. This paper explores the implications of this cultural situation for how the texts of organization might be understood. This is undertaken through a comparison between travelling theory and nomadic theorizing, a comparison which draws upon the writings of Geertz, Kondo, Said and Spivak, …
Hyperreality and Global Culture
Hyperreality and global culture
Indecent Exposures
Whistleblowers' are defined as insiders who 'go public' in their criticism of the policy and/or conduct of powerful organizations. Their actions dramatize the more general issue of the relation between politics and truth, between power and knowledge and the institutions which sustain them. This is exemplified by those problems which arise out of the changing relation between scientific-technical expertise and the contemporary corporate system. Th…
Is the Global Village a Company Town? Was Confucius a Jesuit Cyberpunk
Hyperreality and Global Culture
This book explores a world where the boundaries between reality and representation have become blurred, a world where LA Law is used to train lawyers. Drawing on examples from around the globe, Nick Perry presents a fascinating and entertaining analysis of both familiar objects and situations as well as the more unusual and absurd. Meals served in British pubs, motor-cycle gangs in downtown Tokyo, Australian movies, are just some examples used by…
Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia
Barthes, Roland (1915–1980)
Roland Barthes is best known as a literary critic and essayist and as a member of that generation of internationally distinguished French intellectuals ( maîtres à penser ) that includes the philosopher/historian Michel Foucault, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and the anthropologist Claude Lévi‐Strauss. His relevance for sociology derives above all from the way his writings (1) served to construct linkages between semiology (the study of sign s…
Mass Culture and Mass Society
Mass culture” typically refers to that culture which emerges from the centralized production processes of the mass media. It should be noted, however, that the status of the term is the subject of ongoing challenges – as in Swingewood's (1977) identification of it as a myth. When it is linked to the notion of mass society, then it becomes a specific variant of a more general theme; namely, the relation between social meanings and the allocation o…
The emporium’s new clothes? The New Zealand-based ‘World of Wearable Art’ as a mobile urban imaginary
In 1987 a young artist named Susan Moncrief first organized a ‘wearable art’ show as a means of publicizing a local art gallery located in the small provincial New Zealand city of Nelson. Both the origins of the concept (clothing as art) and its practical expression were very modest, but it subsequently became an annual event, growing in size and complexity and attracting ever more elaborate and ornate contributions. It is now officially designat…
Exploring Cultural Traffic
Review of:Peter Beilharz, Thinking the Antipodes: Australian Essays,Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2015ISBN 9781922235558 RRP AU$39.95 (pb
Organizations as Total Institutions
The analysis of the characteristics of total institutions is the subject of a lengthy essay by Erving Goffman, a Canadian‐born sociologist best known for his complex and subtle contributions to the analysis of social interaction. He defined the term as “a place of residence and work where a large number of like‐situated individuals cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time together lead an enclosed formally administered rou…
Solution-focused Practice and the Role of the Approved Mental Health Professional
The Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) has a pivotal role in a decision to detain an individual under the Mental Health Act 1983. This article is a reflective account demonstrating how a solution-focused approach can enable an AMHP to engage constructively with the person being assessed and apply the values of anti-oppressive practice. Using a solution-focused approach enables a creative and empowering discussion of risk and may lead to a…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works)