Steven Loyal
Biographic Data
| ID | 251707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Loyal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Loyal |
| SIGNATURE | LOYAL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bourdieu and migration studies: Strengthening the connection
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Introducing readers to the most important thinkers and schools of thought in contemporary sociological theory - from Parsons and Merton to the Frankfurt School to Foucault, Bourdieu, Giddens and Hochschild - this accessible textbook firmly locates key ideas in social, political and historical context. By doing so, it helps students understand the development of central sociological concepts and how they can help us understand the contemporary wor…
Bourdieu and Collins on the reproduction of elites
In this paper I compare and contrast the reproduction of elite strata in Randall Collins's path-breaking book, The Credential Society (1979), with Pierre Bourdieu's important discussion found in The State Nobility (1996). Although both approaches draw on Weber and Durkheim, focus on the interaction between material and cultural processes, subscribe to a relational form of analysis, and share a similar political world-view - social democrat and ra…
Introduction to special issue: The sociology of Randall Collins
This introduction to a special issue outlines the significance of Randall Collins's contribution to sociology. The first section briefly reviews Collins's main books and assesses their impact on social science. The second section offers a summary overview of the papers that comprise the special issue
Bourdieu, colonialismo e migração
Bourdieu's early work on Algeria has surprisingly been neglected, largely because of any discussion of the key the concepts that were to later define his work: habitus, capital and field.Nevertheless, this work, which was to fundamentally shape his subsequent oeuvre, developed nascent though undeveloped accounts of colonialism, racism, and migration.This paper will argue that Bourdieu's discussion of colonialism in his early work, together with a…
From the Sanctity of the Family to State Sovereignty: The Irish Supreme Court's Changing Role in Maintaining National Sovereignty
The problem that this paper seeks to address is ostensibly a simple one: why did the Irish Supreme Court dramatically reverse its long-term stance between 1990 and 2003, with regard to the sanctity of the family unit, including that of non-Irish nationals who had children in Ireland, to adopt one emphasizing the sanctity of state sovereignty? The answer, it is argued, requires looking at a complex matrix of interlocking sociological factors inclu…
The particularity of the universal: Critical reflections on Bourdieu's theory of symbolic power and the state
E lias, N orbert (1897–1990) and Established–Outsider Relations
Norbert Elias's theory of insider–outsider relations, or what he preferred to call “established–outsider relations,” was outlined in The Established and Outsiders (2008 [1965]), written with John Scotson. The book was based on a study undertaken between 1958 and 1961 of a community on the outskirts of Leicester that was then ethnically homogeneous, white, and working class. But it has proven to be highly relevant and illuminating when applied to …
Giddens, Anthony (1938–)
The State as a Self-fulfilling Prophecy - On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992 by Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Patrick Champagne, Rémi Lenoir, Franck Poupeau and Marie-Christine Ri…
The State as a Self-fulfilling Prophecy - On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992 by Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Patrick Champagne, Rémi Lenoir, Franck Poupeau and Marie-Christine Rivière, translated by David Fernbach (Cambridge, Polity, 2014) - Volume 55 Issue 3
Youth, Multiculturalism and Community Cohesion
Assessing Elias on Marx in a neoliberal age
This paper assesses Elias’s recently published critique of Marx written in the 1960swithin the contemporary context of neo-liberalism. Based on a chapter written by Elias and intended for publication in What is Sociology? (1978) it argues that although Elias’s makes some acute and penetrating points in his assessment of Marx, on occasion he caricatures Marx’s arguments, and at other times recapitulates common erroneous criticisms. It argues that …
A Land of a Hundred Thousand Welcomes? Understanding Established and Outsiders Relations in Ireland
This paper examines the discriminatory and exclusionary treatment experienced by migrants in Ireland. After outlining the tremendous socio-economic changes that have taken place in the country, it discusses the rise of ethno-racial discrimination in Ireland before examining how these discriminatory and exclusionary practices have so far been interpreted largely within a post-structuralist frame of reference. After outlining the problems inherent …
The French in Algeria, Algerians in France: Bourdieu, Colonialism, and Migration
Bourdieu's early fieldwork which included field observation, statistical analysis, and the use of photography to capture, represent, and analyse Algerian society in its complexity, took place within the unusual context of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62). A number of his photographs of Algerian life depict the physical dislocation of Algerian peasantry into shanty towns largely as the result of rapid socio-economic and cultural change i…
Eurostars and Eurocities - Adrian Favell, Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe (Oxford, Blackwell, 2008)
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
An Exceptional Sociology: Nathan Glazer and the Intransigence of Race
This comment on Nathan Glazer's essay sets it in the context of Glazer's distinguished academic career, discusses contemporary sociological thinking about American exceptionalism in race relations, and considers how the reproduction of certain beliefs and values, including diversity and inequality, can be explained sociologically
Science, Cumulative Knowledge, Secondary Involvement and Synthesis: A Reply to Our Critics
Eliasian Sociology as a 'Central Theory' for the Human Sciences
For the last three decades, sociology has been in a permanent state of theoretical and programmatic disarray. Symptoms of the crisis include ambivalence about the possible scientific status of sociological knowledge, theoretical and methodological fragmentation and ambivalence about the appropriate degree of political and ethical 'involvement' in the sociological stance, and deep-seated anxieties about the relationship between sociology and neigh…
Elias on class and stratification
Introduction Unusually for a sociologist, Elias was not prone to extended reflection on the relative theoretical merits of the ‘grand masters’ (although see Elias 1994). Nevertheless, his work does bear the imprint of both Marx and Weber, if less obviously than that of Comte and Durkheim. Like both Marx and Weber, Elias sought answers to rather big historical questions. For all three the origins and development of the patterns of social stratific…
Towards a ‘central theory’: The scope and relevance of the sociology of Norbert Elias
Introduction There were periods during the twentieth century when sociology was imbued with a certain social and intellectual prestige. Sometimes this was for the wrong reasons, as during the late 1960s when students entering the proliferating sociology departments conflated the scientific investigation of social processes with the politics of emancipation. A decade earlier, practitioners of the newly professionalized discipline of ‘systematic so…
The Sociology of Norbert Elias
Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a steady upsurge of interest in his work. Yet despite the fact that he was active for nearly sixty years from the 1920s to the 1960s it was only in the 1980s that English translations of his works became widely available and the importance of his contribution to the sociological endeavour was fully recognised in the English speaking world. This 2004 book …
The Sociology of Anthony Giddens
The political and sociological project -- Knowledge and epistemology -- Agency -- Social structure -- Time, space, and historical sociology -- Modernity -- Rationality and reflexivity -- Politics and the third way -- An alternative sociology
The Dynamics of Political Economy in Ireland: The Case of Asylum Seekers and the Right to Work
This paper is partly the outcome of research that was conducted on behalf of the Irish Refugee Council between January and July 2000.' The research was prompted by the Irish Government's decision to allow the right to work to asylum seekers who had made their applications for asylum in Ireland 12 months prior to 27 July 1999. It incorporated both qualitative and quantitative techniques and included a sample of 37 asylum seekers who had received t…
Agency” as a Red Herring in Social Theory
The central argument of this article is that there is no fact of the matter, no evidence, however tentative or questionable, that will serve adequately to identify actions “chosen” or “determined” for the purposes of sociological theory. This argument will be developed with reference to the two theorists of the greatest importance in advocating the sociological value of the concept of agency: Talcott Parsons, with his “voluntaristic theory of act…
Agency” as a Red Herring in Social Theory
The central argument of this article is that there is no fact of the matter, no evidence, however tentative or questionable, that will serve adequately to identify actions “chosen” or “determined” for the purposes of sociological theory. This argument will be developed with reference to the two theorists of the greatest importance in advocating the sociological value of the concept of agency: Talcott Parsons, with his “voluntaristic theory of act…
Eliasian Sociology as a 'Central Theory' for the Human Sciences
For the last three decades, sociology has been in a permanent state of theoretical and programmatic disarray. Symptoms of the crisis include ambivalence about the possible scientific status of sociological knowledge, theoretical and methodological fragmentation and ambivalence about the appropriate degree of political and ethical 'involvement' in the sociological stance, and deep-seated anxieties about the relationship between sociology and neigh…
A Land of a Hundred Thousand Welcomes? Understanding Established and Outsiders Relations in Ireland
This paper examines the discriminatory and exclusionary treatment experienced by migrants in Ireland. After outlining the tremendous socio-economic changes that have taken place in the country, it discusses the rise of ethno-racial discrimination in Ireland before examining how these discriminatory and exclusionary practices have so far been interpreted largely within a post-structuralist frame of reference. After outlining the problems inherent …
The particularity of the universal: Critical reflections on Bourdieu's theory of symbolic power and the state
Introduction to special issue: The sociology of Randall Collins
This introduction to a special issue outlines the significance of Randall Collins's contribution to sociology. The first section briefly reviews Collins's main books and assesses their impact on social science. The second section offers a summary overview of the papers that comprise the special issue
The French in Algeria, Algerians in France: Bourdieu, Colonialism, and Migration
Bourdieu's early fieldwork which included field observation, statistical analysis, and the use of photography to capture, represent, and analyse Algerian society in its complexity, took place within the unusual context of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62). A number of his photographs of Algerian life depict the physical dislocation of Algerian peasantry into shanty towns largely as the result of rapid socio-economic and cultural change i…
From the Sanctity of the Family to State Sovereignty: The Irish Supreme Court's Changing Role in Maintaining National Sovereignty
The problem that this paper seeks to address is ostensibly a simple one: why did the Irish Supreme Court dramatically reverse its long-term stance between 1990 and 2003, with regard to the sanctity of the family unit, including that of non-Irish nationals who had children in Ireland, to adopt one emphasizing the sanctity of state sovereignty? The answer, it is argued, requires looking at a complex matrix of interlocking sociological factors inclu…
Eurostars and Eurocities - Adrian Favell, Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe (Oxford, Blackwell, 2008)
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
Science, Cumulative Knowledge, Secondary Involvement and Synthesis: A Reply to Our Critics
The Dynamics of Political Economy in Ireland: The Case of Asylum Seekers and the Right to Work
This paper is partly the outcome of research that was conducted on behalf of the Irish Refugee Council between January and July 2000.' The research was prompted by the Irish Government's decision to allow the right to work to asylum seekers who had made their applications for asylum in Ireland 12 months prior to 27 July 1999. It incorporated both qualitative and quantitative techniques and included a sample of 37 asylum seekers who had received t…
Agency” as a Red Herring in Social Theory
The central argument of this article is that there is no fact of the matter, no evidence, however tentative or questionable, that will serve adequately to identify actions “chosen” or “determined” for the purposes of sociological theory. This argument will be developed with reference to the two theorists of the greatest importance in advocating the sociological value of the concept of agency: Talcott Parsons, with his “voluntaristic theory of act…
The Sociology of Anthony Giddens
The political and sociological project -- Knowledge and epistemology -- Agency -- Social structure -- Time, space, and historical sociology -- Modernity -- Rationality and reflexivity -- Politics and the third way -- An alternative sociology
Elias on class and stratification
Introduction Unusually for a sociologist, Elias was not prone to extended reflection on the relative theoretical merits of the ‘grand masters’ (although see Elias 1994). Nevertheless, his work does bear the imprint of both Marx and Weber, if less obviously than that of Comte and Durkheim. Like both Marx and Weber, Elias sought answers to rather big historical questions. For all three the origins and development of the patterns of social stratific…
Towards a ‘central theory’: The scope and relevance of the sociology of Norbert Elias
Introduction There were periods during the twentieth century when sociology was imbued with a certain social and intellectual prestige. Sometimes this was for the wrong reasons, as during the late 1960s when students entering the proliferating sociology departments conflated the scientific investigation of social processes with the politics of emancipation. A decade earlier, practitioners of the newly professionalized discipline of ‘systematic so…
The Sociology of Norbert Elias
Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a steady upsurge of interest in his work. Yet despite the fact that he was active for nearly sixty years from the 1920s to the 1960s it was only in the 1980s that English translations of his works became widely available and the importance of his contribution to the sociological endeavour was fully recognised in the English speaking world. This 2004 book …
An Exceptional Sociology: Nathan Glazer and the Intransigence of Race
This comment on Nathan Glazer's essay sets it in the context of Glazer's distinguished academic career, discusses contemporary sociological thinking about American exceptionalism in race relations, and considers how the reproduction of certain beliefs and values, including diversity and inequality, can be explained sociologically
Science, Cumulative Knowledge, Secondary Involvement and Synthesis: A Reply to Our Critics
Eliasian Sociology as a 'Central Theory' for the Human Sciences
For the last three decades, sociology has been in a permanent state of theoretical and programmatic disarray. Symptoms of the crisis include ambivalence about the possible scientific status of sociological knowledge, theoretical and methodological fragmentation and ambivalence about the appropriate degree of political and ethical 'involvement' in the sociological stance, and deep-seated anxieties about the relationship between sociology and neigh…
Eurostars and Eurocities - Adrian Favell, Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe (Oxford, Blackwell, 2008)
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
The French in Algeria, Algerians in France: Bourdieu, Colonialism, and Migration
Bourdieu's early fieldwork which included field observation, statistical analysis, and the use of photography to capture, represent, and analyse Algerian society in its complexity, took place within the unusual context of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62). A number of his photographs of Algerian life depict the physical dislocation of Algerian peasantry into shanty towns largely as the result of rapid socio-economic and cultural change i…
A Land of a Hundred Thousand Welcomes? Understanding Established and Outsiders Relations in Ireland
This paper examines the discriminatory and exclusionary treatment experienced by migrants in Ireland. After outlining the tremendous socio-economic changes that have taken place in the country, it discusses the rise of ethno-racial discrimination in Ireland before examining how these discriminatory and exclusionary practices have so far been interpreted largely within a post-structuralist frame of reference. After outlining the problems inherent …
Assessing Elias on Marx in a neoliberal age
This paper assesses Elias’s recently published critique of Marx written in the 1960swithin the contemporary context of neo-liberalism. Based on a chapter written by Elias and intended for publication in What is Sociology? (1978) it argues that although Elias’s makes some acute and penetrating points in his assessment of Marx, on occasion he caricatures Marx’s arguments, and at other times recapitulates common erroneous criticisms. It argues that …
The State as a Self-fulfilling Prophecy - On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992 by Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Patrick Champagne, Rémi Lenoir, Franck Poupeau and Marie-Christine Ri…
The State as a Self-fulfilling Prophecy - On the State: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989-1992 by Pierre Bourdieu, edited by Patrick Champagne, Rémi Lenoir, Franck Poupeau and Marie-Christine Rivière, translated by David Fernbach (Cambridge, Polity, 2014) - Volume 55 Issue 3
Youth, Multiculturalism and Community Cohesion
E lias, N orbert (1897–1990) and Established–Outsider Relations
Norbert Elias's theory of insider–outsider relations, or what he preferred to call “established–outsider relations,” was outlined in The Established and Outsiders (2008 [1965]), written with John Scotson. The book was based on a study undertaken between 1958 and 1961 of a community on the outskirts of Leicester that was then ethnically homogeneous, white, and working class. But it has proven to be highly relevant and illuminating when applied to …
Giddens, Anthony (1938–)
From the Sanctity of the Family to State Sovereignty: The Irish Supreme Court's Changing Role in Maintaining National Sovereignty
The problem that this paper seeks to address is ostensibly a simple one: why did the Irish Supreme Court dramatically reverse its long-term stance between 1990 and 2003, with regard to the sanctity of the family unit, including that of non-Irish nationals who had children in Ireland, to adopt one emphasizing the sanctity of state sovereignty? The answer, it is argued, requires looking at a complex matrix of interlocking sociological factors inclu…
The particularity of the universal: Critical reflections on Bourdieu's theory of symbolic power and the state
Bourdieu, colonialismo e migração
Bourdieu's early work on Algeria has surprisingly been neglected, largely because of any discussion of the key the concepts that were to later define his work: habitus, capital and field.Nevertheless, this work, which was to fundamentally shape his subsequent oeuvre, developed nascent though undeveloped accounts of colonialism, racism, and migration.This paper will argue that Bourdieu's discussion of colonialism in his early work, together with a…
Bourdieu and Collins on the reproduction of elites
In this paper I compare and contrast the reproduction of elite strata in Randall Collins's path-breaking book, The Credential Society (1979), with Pierre Bourdieu's important discussion found in The State Nobility (1996). Although both approaches draw on Weber and Durkheim, focus on the interaction between material and cultural processes, subscribe to a relational form of analysis, and share a similar political world-view - social democrat and ra…
Introduction to special issue: The sociology of Randall Collins
This introduction to a special issue outlines the significance of Randall Collins's contribution to sociology. The first section briefly reviews Collins's main books and assesses their impact on social science. The second section offers a summary overview of the papers that comprise the special issue
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Introducing readers to the most important thinkers and schools of thought in contemporary sociological theory - from Parsons and Merton to the Frankfurt School to Foucault, Bourdieu, Giddens and Hochschild - this accessible textbook firmly locates key ideas in social, political and historical context. By doing so, it helps students understand the development of central sociological concepts and how they can help us understand the contemporary wor…
Bourdieu and migration studies: Strengthening the connection
Sociology (21 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Social science (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (10 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (9 works) · Sociology and Norbert Elias (8 works)