Tim Newton
Biographic Data
| ID | 252242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Newton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Newton |
| SIGNATURE | NEWTON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7116-7786 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Stable destabilising? Rethinking images of temporality
This article explores our sense of stability and instability. For example, is contemporary life governed by uncertainty, fluidity and sociotechnical acceleration, or do relative stability or inertia still represent the predominant experience in many domains? In particular, can stabilities and instabilities represent symbiotic processes, the one interwoven with the other? Furthermore, are theories conventionally treated as antagonistic more intima…
Status Fixity and Dirty Workers' Experiences of Recognition
Based on interviews with waste management workers, this study focuses on changes in low-paid/low-status workers' experiences of recognition during and after the pandemic. In this article, we explore these developments, drawing on the work of Honneth, Fraser, Neckel and Reckwitz. Our analysis challenges the rather romanticised treatment of recognition that persists in existing research on dirty work. In particular, though the pandemic heightened s…
What Is Social Science? A Comparison with Biology
What is social science? This article examines this perennial question by addressing the relation between human biology and social science, exploring whether social science constitutes a 'science' in the sense conventionally denoted. In suggesting that social science is defined by a 'spatiotemporal specificity' different from life science, I will explore the historicist traditions represented by writers such as Knies, Schmoller, Weber, and Colling…
The ‘narrow self’? Developing a critical‐historical work psychology
The authors does not declare any conflict of interest. Data sharing not applicable - no new data generated, or the article describes entirely theoretical research
Psychology: Where history, culture, and biology meet
This article argues that the same epistemological assumptions cannot be confidently applied in the transition from the biological to the social arenas of psychology, as a consequence of the sociocultural instability resulting from human linguistic and technological flair. To illustrate this contention, reference is made to historicist theses within critical and sociocultural psychology, the work of Ian Hacking and Norbert Elias, the centrality of…
When Two Worlds Collide: The Role of Affect in ‘Essential’ Worker Responses to Shifting Evaluative Norms
Concerns about devaluation and misrecognition are central for understanding the experiences of workers in stigmatised occupations. Yet contemporary approaches have been criticised for over-simplifying workers’ responses to mis/recognition. Povinelli’s concepts of ‘trembling of recognition’ and ‘social tense’ offer a useful starting point for extending existing understandings of mis/recognition by highlighting the contextual importance of temporal…
New' Social Theory? Abbott and Social Studies of Finance
This article uses an analysis of social studies of finance to explore Andrew Abbott's ideas about how we construct 'new' social theory. Drawing on Abbott, it is argued that social studies of finance tend as much towards the recycling of existing conjecture as the presentation of markedly novel argument. Yet Abbott's position also questions such potential critique by suggesting that theoretical recycling and recombination represent 'normal', and o…
The turn to biology: The turn to biology
This article firstly discusses social science reference to animal studies. The latter remain important in engagement with life science because of their frequent deployment and because of increased calls to re-examine animal research among sociologists and other social scientists. Extending from this discussion, it is argued that social scientists still tend to exhibit a questionable selectivity in their treatment of life-science research. In addi…
The Turn to Biology
This article firstly discusses social science reference to animal studies. The latter remain important in engagement with life science because of their frequent deployment and because of increased calls to re-examine animal research among sociologists and other social scientists. Extending from this discussion, it is argued that social scientists still tend to exhibit a questionable selectivity in their treatment of life-science research. In addi…
Social relationships and health related behaviors among older US adults
Social relationships of older Americans were independently associated with different health-related behaviors, even after adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic determinants. Availability of emotional support did not however mediate these associations. More research is needed to assess if strengthening social relationships would have a significant impact on older people's health behaviors and ultimately improve their health
Income inequality, disinvestment in health care and use of dental services
This study shows an inverse relationship between income inequality and use of dental services. Of the two indicators of disinvestment in health care assessed, only dentist-to-population ratio was associated with income inequality and use of dental services
Social Relationships and Oral Health Among Adults Aged 60 Years or Older
OBJECTIVE: This study assessed associations between social relationships and oral health outcomes and whether these associations were explained by demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors, and physical health. METHODS: We used the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2004) data on 4014 adults aged 60 years or older. Oral health outcomes were edentulism, number of decayed teeth, root decay, number of sound or filled tee…
Need of minimal important difference for oral health‐related quality of life measures
Demand and use for oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) instruments have increased in recent years in both research and clinical settings. These instruments can be used to measure patient's health status or detect changes in a patient's health status in response to an intervention or changes in disease trajectory. Ensuring universal acceptance of these measures requires easy interpretation of its scores for clinicians, researchers, and pa…
Neuroscience and subjectivity
An exploratory study into whether self‐monitoring improves adherence to daily flossing among dental patients
A brief behavioral intervention enhances adherence to dental flossing, regardless of participants' stage of change. Keeping a flossing diary can increase dental flossing and reduce plaque and bleeding scores in patients with periodontal disease, in the short term
Life Times
Organizations and the Natural Environment
Patterns of dental service use among homeless people using a targeted service
While the small sample limits the findings in this study, it is hypothesized that the presence of the dental service promoted uptake of dental care. Flexible attendance tended to result in multiple visits and delayed outcomes, which themselves could have acted as barriers to care
The Social Validation of Pharmacological Approaches to the Management of Dental Anxiety in Adults: Impact of Treatment Urgency, Method of Intervention and Treatment Outcome
One hundred and twenty-eight adult patients attending a clinic at a United Kingdom dental hospital rated vignettes describing the management of an adult who was severely dentally anxious. There were 8 vignettes, which varied systematically along three dimensions: treatment urgency (presence or absence of pain), method of intervention (psychological approach versus use of sedation) and treatment outcome (good outcome – individual overcame dental a…
Internal Consistency, Factor Structure, and Concurrent Validity of the Treatment Evaluation Inventory
The Treatment Evaluation Inventory (TEI) is a commonly used 19-item measure of treatment acceptability. It yields a total score and Patient Progress and Acceptability subscales. The internal consistency and factor structure of the TEI were assessed in two samples, 218 members of the general public and 131 dental students. The total and both subscales had very high internal consistency (alpha for total scale = .96 and .94 in the two samples; alpha…
Nature and Sociology
1. Recovering Nature 2. Knowing Nature 3. Beyond Anti-Dualism? 4. Time 5. Language and Technology 6. Temporality and Realism 7. Genomics 8. Transgression 9. Neurological Adventures
The Working Practices and Job Satisfaction of Dental Hygienists in New Zealand
While many hygienists take career breaks and work part time, most have a high level of career satisfaction, actively participate in continuing education, and are satisfied with their remuneration
A Comparison of the Impact of Information from a Clinician and Research‐based Information on Patient Treatment Choice in Dentistry
Dental patients' willingness to engage in treatment is influenced by the dentist's clinical recommendation and the importance of oral health to the patient
The Sociology of Norbert Elias
Perceptions of the Use of Compulsory Detention in Treatment of People with Eating Disorders
To examine the perceived acceptability of compulsory detention in treatment of an individual with severe anorexia nervosa amongst a sample of members of the general population, 151 participants read vignettes describing the compulsory detention of a female patient with a Body Mass Index of 12.4. The vignettes systematically varied along three dimensions: patients' reaction, immediate outcome (psychological state), and long-term outcome (attendanc…
Nature and Sociology
1. Recovering Nature 2. Knowing Nature 3. Beyond Anti-Dualism? 4. Time 5. Language and Technology 6. Temporality and Realism 7. Genomics 8. Transgression 9. Neurological Adventures
Power, Subjectivity and British Industrial and Organisational Sociology: The Relevance of the Work of Norbert Elias
This paper links the ideas of Norbert Elias to the conceptualisation of power and subjectivity that has developed in British industrial and organisational (I/O) sociology. It examines the relevance of power and subjectivity to British I/O sociology and reviews theoretical positions that have influenced this field. Elias's work is examined in some detail, exploring his approach to power, agency, the self, individualisation and discourse. His work …
Truly Embodied Sociology: Marrying the Social and the Biological
This paper explores the relation between sociology and biology through an examination of issues relating to the sociology of the body, emotion and health. Arguments for a 'biological', and yet social, body are considered before developing a critique of work on the sociology of the biological body. It is argued that there are a number of difficulties with this latter project. Writers working in this area can be seen to have used rather emotional p…
Crossing the Great Divide: Time, Nature and the Social
This article addresses perceived difference in temporal pace within nature and considers how epistemological debate is conditioned by such difference, drawing on the work of Norbert Elias. The first part of the article debates the equivalence of 'natural time' and 'social time'. The acceleration of human social pace is also explored, along with the human capacity for plasticity and change, and the contrast which such plasticity presents in relati…
Coping with Work-Related Stress
This study examined the coping behavior of a sample of young professional engineers in response to stress “incidents” experienced at work. Subjects were specifically asked to limit their recall to an incident occurring within the preceding 14 days. A primary analysis was made of the coping behavior exhibited, from which five classes of coping behavior were derived. Coping behavior was then examined in relation to the subjective appraisal of the s…
Occupational Stress and Coping with Stress: A Critique
This paper considers problems in the conceptualization and operationalization of four concepts in occupational stress research: stress, strain, coping behavior, and coping style. The paper argues that a lack of conceptual and operational clarity in each of these areas has led to confusion in both the conduct and the interpretation of occupational stress and coping research, citing examples from the literature to support and illustrate this argume…
Stressful events, stressors and psychological strains in young professional engineers
Credit and civilization
This paper analyses financial credit in order to re‐examine the work of Norbert Elias, particularly his association of interdependency complexity with social discipline, and his approach to contradiction. Following a discussion of these issues, the paper examines Elias's writing on money and explores the emergence of financial credit networks in early modern England. Attention is paid to credit networks and social discipline, to credit and the st…
Organization: The Relevance and the Limitations of Elias
In this introductory paper, I use a quotation from Elias's (1992) essay on time in order to introduce some key Eliasian concepts. I then explore the relation between power, interdependency and subjectivity through reference to Elias's oft-cited studies of court society as well as his less known analyses of time. Drawing on these referents, I discuss the relation of Elias to current organization theory focusing on Foucauldian work, Marx and labour…
Agency and Discourse: Recruiting Consultants in a Life Insurance Company
This paper applies the work of Callon in attempting to explore the relation between discourse and agency in an analysis of the hiring of management consultants by a large life insurance organisation, 'Lifeco'. The data focus on the recruitment and deployment of management consultants within Lifeco, and explore the actor network relevant to this process. As well as examining the 'moments' of translation within the network, attention is paid to the…
The Moderating Effect of the Type A Behavior Pattern and Locus of Control upon the Relationship Between Change in Job Demands and Change in Psychological Strain
This paper examines (1) the relationship between changes in job demands and changes in psychological strain across time, and (2) the moderating effect of the Type A behavior pattern (TABP) and locus of control, or internality-externality (I-E) on this relationship. TABP and I-E were hypothesized to moderate job demands because they appear as factors likely to affect the longer-term coping patterns of individuals, or coping styles. Among the job d…
New' Social Theory? Abbott and Social Studies of Finance
This article uses an analysis of social studies of finance to explore Andrew Abbott's ideas about how we construct 'new' social theory. Drawing on Abbott, it is argued that social studies of finance tend as much towards the recycling of existing conjecture as the presentation of markedly novel argument. Yet Abbott's position also questions such potential critique by suggesting that theoretical recycling and recombination represent 'normal', and o…
Stable destabilising? Rethinking images of temporality
This article explores our sense of stability and instability. For example, is contemporary life governed by uncertainty, fluidity and sociotechnical acceleration, or do relative stability or inertia still represent the predominant experience in many domains? In particular, can stabilities and instabilities represent symbiotic processes, the one interwoven with the other? Furthermore, are theories conventionally treated as antagonistic more intima…
Status Fixity and Dirty Workers' Experiences of Recognition
Based on interviews with waste management workers, this study focuses on changes in low-paid/low-status workers' experiences of recognition during and after the pandemic. In this article, we explore these developments, drawing on the work of Honneth, Fraser, Neckel and Reckwitz. Our analysis challenges the rather romanticised treatment of recognition that persists in existing research on dirty work. In particular, though the pandemic heightened s…
The Turn to Biology
This article firstly discusses social science reference to animal studies. The latter remain important in engagement with life science because of their frequent deployment and because of increased calls to re-examine animal research among sociologists and other social scientists. Extending from this discussion, it is argued that social scientists still tend to exhibit a questionable selectivity in their treatment of life-science research. In addi…
The Sociology of Norbert Elias
Frustration in organizations: Relationships to role stress, climate, and psychological strain
A measure of environmental frustration was constructed and administered to 401 young graduate engineers working in industry. Self‐reported frustration was associated with the dependent variables of anger reactions, latent hostility, job dissatisfaction and, to a lesser extent, work‐related anxiety. Evidence from multiple regression analysis indicated that organizational climate, role stress, and social support all contributed to the level of envi…
Stressful events, stressors and psychological strains in young professional engineers
Coping with Work-Related Stress
This study examined the coping behavior of a sample of young professional engineers in response to stress “incidents” experienced at work. Subjects were specifically asked to limit their recall to an incident occurring within the preceding 14 days. A primary analysis was made of the coping behavior exhibited, from which five classes of coping behavior were derived. Coping behavior was then examined in relation to the subjective appraisal of the s…
Work needs, sex role stereotyping and affective reactions of female professional engineers
Work difficulties and stress in young professional engineers
This longitudinal study investigated work‐related difficulties in young professional engineers after three years ( n = 380) and four years ( n = 350) work experience. Four areas of difficulty were identified as a result of factor analysis—people difficulties; information difficulties; technical difficulties; and report‐writing difficulties. Technical difficulties were less frequently mentioned than the other categories of difficulty at both time …
Occupational Stress and Coping with Stress: A Critique
This paper considers problems in the conceptualization and operationalization of four concepts in occupational stress research: stress, strain, coping behavior, and coping style. The paper argues that a lack of conceptual and operational clarity in each of these areas has led to confusion in both the conduct and the interpretation of occupational stress and coping research, citing examples from the literature to support and illustrate this argume…
Consequences of changing employers amongst young engineers
Based on a sample of young professional engineers, this investigation studied the relationship between job change, job demands and psychological strain. Job change was studied by comparing those engineers who changed their employer (over a two‐year interval) with those who remained with the same employer. Respondents changing employer reported decreases in some job demand and psychological strain levels after their change, whereas those who staye…
The Moderating Effect of the Type A Behavior Pattern and Locus of Control upon the Relationship Between Change in Job Demands and Change in Psychological Strain
This paper examines (1) the relationship between changes in job demands and changes in psychological strain across time, and (2) the moderating effect of the Type A behavior pattern (TABP) and locus of control, or internality-externality (I-E) on this relationship. TABP and I-E were hypothesized to moderate job demands because they appear as factors likely to affect the longer-term coping patterns of individuals, or coping styles. Among the job d…
Postmodernism and Action
This paper explores the growing critique of postmodernism within organization studies. It first outlines central aspects of this critique, such as the allegation that postmodernism tends towards a reactionary stance, its dubious epochal status and the incompatibility of postmodernist epistemology with `serious' organizational analysis. The paper pays particular attention to the conflict between postmodern epistemology and the need for action, sin…
Resocialising the Subject? A Re-Reading of Grey's `Career as a Project of the Self
This paper presents a re-reading of the Foucauldian analysis of professional accounting firms given by Grey in his `Career as a Project of the Self...' ( Sociology, 28,2). It argues that Grey's paper provides an exemplar of the `desocialising' tendencies observed in some Foucauldian analysis and attempts to illustrate this desocialisation through placing Grey's data in an Eliasian rather than a Foucauldian framework
Agency and Discourse: Recruiting Consultants in a Life Insurance Company
This paper applies the work of Callon in attempting to explore the relation between discourse and agency in an analysis of the hiring of management consultants by a large life insurance organisation, 'Lifeco'. The data focus on the recruitment and deployment of management consultants within Lifeco, and explore the actor network relevant to this process. As well as examining the 'moments' of translation within the network, attention is paid to the…
Green Business: Technicist Kitsch?
In this paper we present a critical analysis of current `green business' literature. We pay particular attention to the strongly evangelical language of the literature, and we consider whether such green evangelism is likely to represent an effective rhetoric strategy. We pursue this theme through exploring arguments for `environmental excellence', organizational `eco‐cultures', and for corporate environmental strategies. We suggest that current …
Theorizing Subjectivity in Organizations: The Failure of Foucauldian Studies?
This paper examines the promise of Foucault as a vehicle for addressing subjectivity and organizations. It questions the supposed non-essentialism and nondualism of Foucauldian work, and argues that such work has difficulties in theorizing agency, and the relation between self and discourse. Though the paper is critical of previous attacks on the anti-materialistic stance of Foucauldian work, it nevertheless suggests that Foucauldian studies have…
Power, Subjectivity and British Industrial and Organisational Sociology: The Relevance of the Work of Norbert Elias
This paper links the ideas of Norbert Elias to the conceptualisation of power and subjectivity that has developed in British industrial and organisational (I/O) sociology. It examines the relevance of power and subjectivity to British I/O sociology and reviews theoretical positions that have influenced this field. Elias's work is examined in some detail, exploring his approach to power, agency, the self, individualisation and discourse. His work …
Elias and Organization: Preface
Patients' Perceptions of General Dental Practitioners: The Influence of Ethnicity and Sex of Dentist
A total of 126 participants were asked to select, from a series of photographs, the dentist which they perceived as: most caring, most competent, and which they would wish to have as their own dentist. White European male dentists were most likely to be chosen as the respondents' general dental practitioner. Men were generally perceived as more competent than women. Women were more likely to be chosen as the most caring dentists. It is concluded …
Organization: The Relevance and the Limitations of Elias
In this introductory paper, I use a quotation from Elias's (1992) essay on time in order to introduce some key Eliasian concepts. I then explore the relation between power, interdependency and subjectivity through reference to Elias's oft-cited studies of court society as well as his less known analyses of time. Drawing on these referents, I discuss the relation of Elias to current organization theory focusing on Foucauldian work, Marx and labour…
The Civilized Organization: Norbert Elias and the future of organization studies
This book brings a major new resource to organization studies: the work of Norbert Elias. By applying his ideas in a critical but sympathetic way, the authors provide a new perspective on the never-ending stream of management fads and fashions. Standing back and taking a more detached perspective, inspired by the work of Norbert Elias (1897-1990), it becomes clear that many 'new' types of organizations are often variations on an old theme.Elias g…
Truly Embodied Sociology: Marrying the Social and the Biological
This paper explores the relation between sociology and biology through an examination of issues relating to the sociology of the body, emotion and health. Arguments for a 'biological', and yet social, body are considered before developing a critique of work on the sociology of the biological body. It is argued that there are a number of difficulties with this latter project. Writers working in this area can be seen to have used rather emotional p…
Crossing the Great Divide: Time, Nature and the Social
This article addresses perceived difference in temporal pace within nature and considers how epistemological debate is conditioned by such difference, drawing on the work of Norbert Elias. The first part of the article debates the equivalence of 'natural time' and 'social time'. The acceleration of human social pace is also explored, along with the human capacity for plasticity and change, and the contrast which such plasticity presents in relati…
Credit and civilization
This paper analyses financial credit in order to re‐examine the work of Norbert Elias, particularly his association of interdependency complexity with social discipline, and his approach to contradiction. Following a discussion of these issues, the paper examines Elias's writing on money and explores the emergence of financial credit networks in early modern England. Attention is paid to credit networks and social discipline, to credit and the st…
Development of a Short Form of the Treatment Evaluation Inventory for Acceptability of Psychological Interventions
The Treatment Evaluation Inventory of Kazdin, French, and Sherick is a 19-item measure of the perceived acceptability of behavioural treatments. Development of two brief forms was based on data from two sources. For Study 1, data from 218 completed questionnaires were used to develop internally consistent brief scales. In Study 2 internal consistency and the validity of the brief forms were estimated for a set of 131 questionnaires. Item reductio…
Perceptions of the Use of Compulsory Detention in Treatment of People with Eating Disorders
To examine the perceived acceptability of compulsory detention in treatment of an individual with severe anorexia nervosa amongst a sample of members of the general population, 151 participants read vignettes describing the compulsory detention of a female patient with a Body Mass Index of 12.4. The vignettes systematically varied along three dimensions: patients' reaction, immediate outcome (psychological state), and long-term outcome (attendanc…
The Working Practices and Job Satisfaction of Dental Hygienists in New Zealand
While many hygienists take career breaks and work part time, most have a high level of career satisfaction, actively participate in continuing education, and are satisfied with their remuneration
A Comparison of the Impact of Information from a Clinician and Research‐based Information on Patient Treatment Choice in Dentistry
Dental patients' willingness to engage in treatment is influenced by the dentist's clinical recommendation and the importance of oral health to the patient
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