Michael Erben
Biographic Data
| ID | 260462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Erben |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Erben |
| SIGNATURE | ERBEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6125-5670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Autobiographical Experience and Relative Deprivation: Anxiety and Pain in the Lives of the Post-war British Middle Class, 1945–1951
This article is concerned, in terms of relative deprivation, with the diminution of the middle-class style of life in Britain during the six years after the Second World War. The classic work by the eminent sociologist W. G. Runciman, Relative Deprivation and Social Justice: A Study of Attitudes to Social Inequality in Twentieth-Century England (1972), lends itself well to the theorisation of such an analysis. A useful contextual examination of t…
Biography and Education: A Reader
1. Research methodology for a biography Michael Erben 2. Understanding life backwards and leading it forwards: adolescent girls reflect on educational choices Christine Mann 3. Perspectives on learning difficulties through biographies Hilary Dickinson 4. The story of the self: 1ducation, experience and autobiography Robin Usher 5. Student drop-out: collecting biographies in the further education context on missing population Michelene Page 6. Voi…
Stories of Selfhood
The Problem of other Lives: Social Perspectives on Written Biography
The study of biography as an exercise in sociology has been under-used. The early proponents of a sociology of biography-most notably Wilhelm Dilthey-have not had their work greatly developed. However, with the emergence of Paul Ricoeur's work on the nature of narrativity, time and interpretation, plus the developing influence of the work of others, a hermeneutics of biography has now begun. This paper explores this development, and, further, bri…
Genealogy and Sociology: A Preliminary Set of Statements and Speculations
The intention of this paper is to establish the importance for sociology of genealogy. Genealogy has been a practice in many cultures and throws light upon the way in which families have conducted themselves in the past. It additionally demonstrates the cultural and ideological importance of the establishment of pedigrees and descents for particular families, subcultures and societies. Further, genealogy is becoming an increasingly popular and hi…
Technical Culture’ and Technical Education in France: A consideration of the work of Claude Grignon and its relevance to British further education curricula
This paper examines Claude Grignon's empirical study of lower levels of vocational education in France. The concepts of technical culture and the morality of technical processes are explored. Grignon argues that the hidden curriculum of the Lycee for vocational education (Lycee d'Enseignement Professionel) socialises students into a worldview in which social relations are conflated with technical relations, and take on the appearance of the certa…
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
Preface to the Second Edition - Pierre Bourdieu Foreword - Tom Bottomore PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF A THEORY OF SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE PART TWO: KEEPING ORDER Cultural Capital and Pedagogic Communication The Literate Tradition and Social Conservation Exclusion and Selection Dependence through Independence Appendix The Changing Structure of Higher Education Opportunities Redistribution or Translation
Scaling the Ivory Tower: Merit and Its Limits in Academic Careers
Meaning in Context: Notes towards a Critique of Ethnomethodology
A characteristic feature of much recent debate between ethnomethodologists and others has concerned respective claims to knowledge about the social world which has resulted in a certain mystification and confusion concerning fundamental issues which have important bearing on that social world as experienced. It is suggested that one aspect of such mystification has been the 'perspectives' controversy which has arisen between competing schools of …
The Problem of other Lives: Social Perspectives on Written Biography
The study of biography as an exercise in sociology has been under-used. The early proponents of a sociology of biography-most notably Wilhelm Dilthey-have not had their work greatly developed. However, with the emergence of Paul Ricoeur's work on the nature of narrativity, time and interpretation, plus the developing influence of the work of others, a hermeneutics of biography has now begun. This paper explores this development, and, further, bri…
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
Preface to the Second Edition - Pierre Bourdieu Foreword - Tom Bottomore PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF A THEORY OF SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE PART TWO: KEEPING ORDER Cultural Capital and Pedagogic Communication The Literate Tradition and Social Conservation Exclusion and Selection Dependence through Independence Appendix The Changing Structure of Higher Education Opportunities Redistribution or Translation
Genealogy and Sociology: A Preliminary Set of Statements and Speculations
The intention of this paper is to establish the importance for sociology of genealogy. Genealogy has been a practice in many cultures and throws light upon the way in which families have conducted themselves in the past. It additionally demonstrates the cultural and ideological importance of the establishment of pedigrees and descents for particular families, subcultures and societies. Further, genealogy is becoming an increasingly popular and hi…
Meaning in Context: Notes towards a Critique of Ethnomethodology
A characteristic feature of much recent debate between ethnomethodologists and others has concerned respective claims to knowledge about the social world which has resulted in a certain mystification and confusion concerning fundamental issues which have important bearing on that social world as experienced. It is suggested that one aspect of such mystification has been the 'perspectives' controversy which has arisen between competing schools of …
Technical Culture’ and Technical Education in France: A consideration of the work of Claude Grignon and its relevance to British further education curricula
This paper examines Claude Grignon's empirical study of lower levels of vocational education in France. The concepts of technical culture and the morality of technical processes are explored. Grignon argues that the hidden curriculum of the Lycee for vocational education (Lycee d'Enseignement Professionel) socialises students into a worldview in which social relations are conflated with technical relations, and take on the appearance of the certa…
Meaning in Context: Notes towards a Critique of Ethnomethodology
A characteristic feature of much recent debate between ethnomethodologists and others has concerned respective claims to knowledge about the social world which has resulted in a certain mystification and confusion concerning fundamental issues which have important bearing on that social world as experienced. It is suggested that one aspect of such mystification has been the 'perspectives' controversy which has arisen between competing schools of …
Scaling the Ivory Tower: Merit and Its Limits in Academic Careers
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
Preface to the Second Edition - Pierre Bourdieu Foreword - Tom Bottomore PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF A THEORY OF SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE PART TWO: KEEPING ORDER Cultural Capital and Pedagogic Communication The Literate Tradition and Social Conservation Exclusion and Selection Dependence through Independence Appendix The Changing Structure of Higher Education Opportunities Redistribution or Translation
Technical Culture’ and Technical Education in France: A consideration of the work of Claude Grignon and its relevance to British further education curricula
This paper examines Claude Grignon's empirical study of lower levels of vocational education in France. The concepts of technical culture and the morality of technical processes are explored. Grignon argues that the hidden curriculum of the Lycee for vocational education (Lycee d'Enseignement Professionel) socialises students into a worldview in which social relations are conflated with technical relations, and take on the appearance of the certa…
Genealogy and Sociology: A Preliminary Set of Statements and Speculations
The intention of this paper is to establish the importance for sociology of genealogy. Genealogy has been a practice in many cultures and throws light upon the way in which families have conducted themselves in the past. It additionally demonstrates the cultural and ideological importance of the establishment of pedigrees and descents for particular families, subcultures and societies. Further, genealogy is becoming an increasingly popular and hi…
The Problem of other Lives: Social Perspectives on Written Biography
The study of biography as an exercise in sociology has been under-used. The early proponents of a sociology of biography-most notably Wilhelm Dilthey-have not had their work greatly developed. However, with the emergence of Paul Ricoeur's work on the nature of narrativity, time and interpretation, plus the developing influence of the work of others, a hermeneutics of biography has now begun. This paper explores this development, and, further, bri…
Stories of Selfhood
Biography and Education: A Reader
1. Research methodology for a biography Michael Erben 2. Understanding life backwards and leading it forwards: adolescent girls reflect on educational choices Christine Mann 3. Perspectives on learning difficulties through biographies Hilary Dickinson 4. The story of the self: 1ducation, experience and autobiography Robin Usher 5. Student drop-out: collecting biographies in the further education context on missing population Michelene Page 6. Voi…
Autobiographical Experience and Relative Deprivation: Anxiety and Pain in the Lives of the Post-war British Middle Class, 1945–1951
This article is concerned, in terms of relative deprivation, with the diminution of the middle-class style of life in Britain during the six years after the Second World War. The classic work by the eminent sociologist W. G. Runciman, Relative Deprivation and Social Justice: A Study of Attitudes to Social Inequality in Twentieth-Century England (1972), lends itself well to the theorisation of such an analysis. A useful contextual examination of t…
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