Robert Holton
Biographic Data
| ID | 207565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Holton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Holton |
| SIGNATURE | HOLTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Jarring Witnesses: Modern Fiction and the Representation of History
Jarring Witnesses begins by surveying the problem of point of view as a formal, cognitive and cultural determinant in narrative historiography, particularly in the way certain dominant forms of 'legitimate' history have necessitated the suppresson of the voices of 'jarring witnesses'. The theory is explored in relation to Pierre Bourdieu's theories of doxa and heterodoxy, Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia, and postmodernism. With this theoretica…
Jarring Witnesses
Key Sociological Thinkers
The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies: Second edition
The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural changes in globalization. The handbook examines many negative aspects new wars, slavery, illeg…
Max Weber on Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1989, this re-issue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times. The book outlines key tenets of Weber's sociology and points to the valuable legacy of Weber's thought in contemporary intellectual debate, particularly with regard to secularization and rationalization of global cultures, the crisis of Marxism, the rise of the New Right and the emergence of post-modernism. Thi…
The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies
Key Sociological Thinkers: Second Edition
From the Publisher: This second edition of a popular and successful text offers an easily understood introduction to the theorists who have made a key contribution to the discipline of sociology. Its carefully formulated structure places the writers' passions in their social and intellectual context, summarizes the central issues dealt with in their work and sketches out the intellectual legacy they have left behind them. With four new chapters o…
Power: A Note on Talcott Parsons and the Brown University Conversations
Professor Holton offers his impressions of the recently discovered transcriptions of the seminar Parsons participated in at Brown University on March 10, 1973
Making Globalisation
This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new to the topic. It deals even-handedly with all the various dimensions of globalization - political, economic, social and cultural - and particularly draws attention to the role of people in processes of globalization. The book's historical dimension and its multicultural focus ensure that globalizat…
The inclusion of the non-European world in international society, 1870s-1920s: Evidence From Global Networks
This article is envisaged as a contribution to the historical sociology of globalization. In it I investigate the idea that from the 1870s peoples beyond Europe were increasingly included into international society. The discussion explores theoretical issues around intercultural engagement, arguing against those who see inclusion in terms of simple co-option into Western modernity, and in favour of a more subtle co-production of modern processes …
Personal orientations towards Australian national identity among British-born residents
An area of long-standing interest in sociological studies of nationalityand ethnicity has been the implications of widespread cross-bordermovements of peoples for cultural identity. One important stream ofresearch has been concerned with peoples who have moved to a newcountry that is culturally different from their homeland. Yet, far lessattention has typically been given to those who shift to a country that isculturally alike. The study examines…
Max Weber and the Interpretative Tradition
Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction (review)
James T. Jones. Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999. 278 pp. ISBN 0-8093-2263-3, $34.95
Social exchange, reciprocity and amoral familism: Aspects of Italian chain migration to Australia
This paper examines new evidence on Italian chain migration to Australia. General theories stressing social and cultural differences between Northern and Southern Italians are challenged. The argument is in two parts. The first involves a critique of the idea of Southern Italian amoral familism, based on evidence of convergence between Northern and Southern patterns of chain migration and settlement. This finding is corrosive both of Banfield's w…
Globalization's Cultural Consequences
Globalization has been associated with a range of cultural consequences. These can be analyzed in terms of three major theses, namely, homogenization, polarization, and hybridization. The homogenization thesis proclaims that global culture is becoming standardized around a Western or American pattern. While some evidence supports this view, the presence of cultural alternatives and resistance to Western norms suggests that polarization provides a…
Talcott Parsons
Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) is regarded by some as the leading American sociologist of the twentieth century, by others as a theorist whose work is deeply flawed. What few scholars dispute is that Parsons took up the challenge of tackling the central questions posed by nineteenth-century sociology, while at the same time responding to contemporary intellectual and political issues. From the earlier period he took up the problem of social order, s…
Globalization, Refugee Crisis and the Work of International Non-Government Organisations
The author suggests that increasing economic rationalism in the post-Cold War era has engendered a retreat from public moral responsibility along with the hardening of attitudes to refugees. While deconstructing the international refugee system, he focuses on the roles played by non-government organisations within it, arguing that the existence of NGOs does exert a moral influence on nation-states with respect to treatment of refugees. The author…
Bourdieu and Common Sense
roots go back to the Greek terms koinos nous (common mind-the mental equipment we all, presumably, bear), koine aisthesis (common perceptual sense, on which I will elaborate below), and koine ennoia (common notions, beliefs or ideas). The Latin term sensus communis uneasily combines all these senses, a fact that accounts perhaps for some of the continuing vagueness of its definitions (Bugter 83-84). In one form or another, the phrase has never go…
Debate and Pseudo-Debate in Class Analysis: Some Unpromising Aspects of Goldthorpe and Marshall's Defence
A propos de la difficulte theorique inherente a une construction des categories de classes sociales en dehors de toute agregation avec les professions ou tout autre characteristique d'emploi. D'un cote les classes sociales sont sur-identifiees par une mesure en terme de profession qui se fait au depend de dimensions plus larges du pouvoir economique et de l'action sociale et a pour effet de reduire la classe sociale a un agregat statistique. Mais…
Schumpeter: A Biography.Richard Swedberg
The Social Organisation of Knowledge and Social Policy. A Review Article
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Stevedores and Dockers. A Study of Trade Unionism in the Port of London, 1870-1914
Globalization's Cultural Consequences
Globalization has been associated with a range of cultural consequences. These can be analyzed in terms of three major theses, namely, homogenization, polarization, and hybridization. The homogenization thesis proclaims that global culture is becoming standardized around a Western or American pattern. While some evidence supports this view, the presence of cultural alternatives and resistance to Western norms suggests that polarization provides a…
Max Weber on Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1989, this re-issue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times. The book outlines key tenets of Weber's sociology and points to the valuable legacy of Weber's thought in contemporary intellectual debate, particularly with regard to secularization and rationalization of global cultures, the crisis of Marxism, the rise of the New Right and the emergence of post-modernism. Thi…
Personal orientations towards Australian national identity among British-born residents
An area of long-standing interest in sociological studies of nationalityand ethnicity has been the implications of widespread cross-bordermovements of peoples for cultural identity. One important stream ofresearch has been concerned with peoples who have moved to a newcountry that is culturally different from their homeland. Yet, far lessattention has typically been given to those who shift to a country that isculturally alike. The study examines…
Social exchange, reciprocity and amoral familism: Aspects of Italian chain migration to Australia
This paper examines new evidence on Italian chain migration to Australia. General theories stressing social and cultural differences between Northern and Southern Italians are challenged. The argument is in two parts. The first involves a critique of the idea of Southern Italian amoral familism, based on evidence of convergence between Northern and Southern patterns of chain migration and settlement. This finding is corrosive both of Banfield's w…
Debate and Pseudo-Debate in Class Analysis: Some Unpromising Aspects of Goldthorpe and Marshall's Defence
A propos de la difficulte theorique inherente a une construction des categories de classes sociales en dehors de toute agregation avec les professions ou tout autre characteristique d'emploi. D'un cote les classes sociales sont sur-identifiees par une mesure en terme de profession qui se fait au depend de dimensions plus larges du pouvoir economique et de l'action sociale et a pour effet de reduire la classe sociale a un agregat statistique. Mais…
Bourdieu and Common Sense
roots go back to the Greek terms koinos nous (common mind-the mental equipment we all, presumably, bear), koine aisthesis (common perceptual sense, on which I will elaborate below), and koine ennoia (common notions, beliefs or ideas). The Latin term sensus communis uneasily combines all these senses, a fact that accounts perhaps for some of the continuing vagueness of its definitions (Bugter 83-84). In one form or another, the phrase has never go…
The inclusion of the non-European world in international society, 1870s-1920s: Evidence From Global Networks
This article is envisaged as a contribution to the historical sociology of globalization. In it I investigate the idea that from the 1870s peoples beyond Europe were increasingly included into international society. The discussion explores theoretical issues around intercultural engagement, arguing against those who see inclusion in terms of simple co-option into Western modernity, and in favour of a more subtle co-production of modern processes …
Stevedores and Dockers. A Study of Trade Unionism in the Port of London, 1870-1914
The Social Organisation of Knowledge and Social Policy. A Review Article
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Schumpeter: A Biography.Richard Swedberg
Debate and Pseudo-Debate in Class Analysis: Some Unpromising Aspects of Goldthorpe and Marshall's Defence
A propos de la difficulte theorique inherente a une construction des categories de classes sociales en dehors de toute agregation avec les professions ou tout autre characteristique d'emploi. D'un cote les classes sociales sont sur-identifiees par une mesure en terme de profession qui se fait au depend de dimensions plus larges du pouvoir economique et de l'action sociale et a pour effet de reduire la classe sociale a un agregat statistique. Mais…
Globalization, Refugee Crisis and the Work of International Non-Government Organisations
The author suggests that increasing economic rationalism in the post-Cold War era has engendered a retreat from public moral responsibility along with the hardening of attitudes to refugees. While deconstructing the international refugee system, he focuses on the roles played by non-government organisations within it, arguing that the existence of NGOs does exert a moral influence on nation-states with respect to treatment of refugees. The author…
Bourdieu and Common Sense
roots go back to the Greek terms koinos nous (common mind-the mental equipment we all, presumably, bear), koine aisthesis (common perceptual sense, on which I will elaborate below), and koine ennoia (common notions, beliefs or ideas). The Latin term sensus communis uneasily combines all these senses, a fact that accounts perhaps for some of the continuing vagueness of its definitions (Bugter 83-84). In one form or another, the phrase has never go…
Talcott Parsons
Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) is regarded by some as the leading American sociologist of the twentieth century, by others as a theorist whose work is deeply flawed. What few scholars dispute is that Parsons took up the challenge of tackling the central questions posed by nineteenth-century sociology, while at the same time responding to contemporary intellectual and political issues. From the earlier period he took up the problem of social order, s…
Globalization's Cultural Consequences
Globalization has been associated with a range of cultural consequences. These can be analyzed in terms of three major theses, namely, homogenization, polarization, and hybridization. The homogenization thesis proclaims that global culture is becoming standardized around a Western or American pattern. While some evidence supports this view, the presence of cultural alternatives and resistance to Western norms suggests that polarization provides a…
Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction (review)
James T. Jones. Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999. 278 pp. ISBN 0-8093-2263-3, $34.95
Social exchange, reciprocity and amoral familism: Aspects of Italian chain migration to Australia
This paper examines new evidence on Italian chain migration to Australia. General theories stressing social and cultural differences between Northern and Southern Italians are challenged. The argument is in two parts. The first involves a critique of the idea of Southern Italian amoral familism, based on evidence of convergence between Northern and Southern patterns of chain migration and settlement. This finding is corrosive both of Banfield's w…
Max Weber and the Interpretative Tradition
Personal orientations towards Australian national identity among British-born residents
An area of long-standing interest in sociological studies of nationalityand ethnicity has been the implications of widespread cross-bordermovements of peoples for cultural identity. One important stream ofresearch has been concerned with peoples who have moved to a newcountry that is culturally different from their homeland. Yet, far lessattention has typically been given to those who shift to a country that isculturally alike. The study examines…
Making Globalisation
This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new to the topic. It deals even-handedly with all the various dimensions of globalization - political, economic, social and cultural - and particularly draws attention to the role of people in processes of globalization. The book's historical dimension and its multicultural focus ensure that globalizat…
The inclusion of the non-European world in international society, 1870s-1920s: Evidence From Global Networks
This article is envisaged as a contribution to the historical sociology of globalization. In it I investigate the idea that from the 1870s peoples beyond Europe were increasingly included into international society. The discussion explores theoretical issues around intercultural engagement, arguing against those who see inclusion in terms of simple co-option into Western modernity, and in favour of a more subtle co-production of modern processes …
Power: A Note on Talcott Parsons and the Brown University Conversations
Professor Holton offers his impressions of the recently discovered transcriptions of the seminar Parsons participated in at Brown University on March 10, 1973
Key Sociological Thinkers: Second Edition
From the Publisher: This second edition of a popular and successful text offers an easily understood introduction to the theorists who have made a key contribution to the discipline of sociology. Its carefully formulated structure places the writers' passions in their social and intellectual context, summarizes the central issues dealt with in their work and sketches out the intellectual legacy they have left behind them. With four new chapters o…
The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies
Max Weber on Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1989, this re-issue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times. The book outlines key tenets of Weber's sociology and points to the valuable legacy of Weber's thought in contemporary intellectual debate, particularly with regard to secularization and rationalization of global cultures, the crisis of Marxism, the rise of the New Right and the emergence of post-modernism. Thi…
The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies: Second edition
The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic, economic, technological, social and cultural changes in globalization. The handbook examines many negative aspects new wars, slavery, illeg…
Key Sociological Thinkers
Jarring Witnesses: Modern Fiction and the Representation of History
Jarring Witnesses begins by surveying the problem of point of view as a formal, cognitive and cultural determinant in narrative historiography, particularly in the way certain dominant forms of 'legitimate' history have necessitated the suppresson of the voices of 'jarring witnesses'. The theory is explored in relation to Pierre Bourdieu's theories of doxa and heterodoxy, Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia, and postmodernism. With this theoretica…
Jarring Witnesses
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