Ian Varcoe
Biographic Data
| ID | 262608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Varcoe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Varcoe |
| SIGNATURE | VARCOE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Historical and Comparative Methods
Among the classical figures, Max Weber stands out from the others in his devotion to comparative historical sociology. His lifelong quest was to find through the study of “rationalization processes” what sets the West off from the non‐western civilizations. Concretely, the concern was with modern, rational, or bourgeois capitalism, its origins and development. This series of studies is “macro” and it deals with changes over long stretches of time
Science
Sociological frameworks used in the study of science move between two epistemological extremes. First, it is held that nature is recorded by science provided that the latter is in a fit state as a social institution to do so. Second, it is held that science is a social construction and in this sense in principle no different than any other part of culture
Culture, Modernity and Revolution: Essays in Honour of Zygmunt Bauman
In Culture, Modernity and Revolution a group of distinguished sociologists and social philosophers reflect upon the major concerns of Zygmunt Bauman. Their essays not only honour the man, but provide important contributions to the three interlinked themes that could be said to form the guiding threads of Bauman's life work: power, culture and modernity. Culture, Modernity and Revolution is both a remarkable sociological commentary on the problems…
Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution: The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity
Identity and the Limits of Comparison: Bauman's Reception in Germany
The reception of Zygmunt Bauman in Germany can be understood against the background of the two great public debates that have dominated post-war West German cultural, political and intellectual life, that over the Sonderweg thesis, and the Historikerstreit. This reception is analysed. It was in terms of the questions those debates had raised and the positions taken by the participants in them that Bauman's writings on modernity and postmodernity,…
Three Appreciations of Zygmunt Bauman
This article provides background material to help readers appreciate three speeches printed in this issue, given by Stefan Morawski, Dennis Smith and Hans Joas on the occasion of the presentation to Zygmunt Bauman of a Festschrift in March 1996 in Leeds. The article describes: (1) relevant details of Polish history concerning cultural patriotism, anti-state attitudes, the role of Jews in the communist state apparatus and anti-Semitism, focusing o…
Deciphering Science and Technology: The Social Relations of Expertise
The centrality of science and technology, Ian Varcoe and Steven Yearley the State, war and technical innovation in Great Britain, 1930-50 - the contrasts of military and civil industry, David Edgerton who gets science education?, Alison Kelly conceptions of British employment re-structuring in the 1980s, Anne Pollert Unhealthy displays? - trade unions, VDUs and the social construction of a health hazard, Peter Glasner and David Travis new technol…
Robert K. Merton: Consensus and Controversy
Part 1 Editorial introduction: Robert K. - consensus and controversy, Jon Clark et al general introduction: Robert as sociologist, Jon Clark Robert as teacher, James S. Coleman polished pebbles, pretty shells - an appreciation of OTSOG, Stephen Jay Gould. Part 2 Consensus and controversy: systematic social theory - R.K. Merton's theoretical systems - an overview, Piotr Sztompka Merton's systematic theory, Robert Bierstedt interchange - Sztompka r…
The New Reproductive Technologies
Deciphering Science and Technology: The Social Relations of Expertise
As science and technology have pervaded modern life to an ever greater degree, social scientists have been led to find questions of the causes and consequences of 'expert' knowledge arising in places
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Scientists as an inferior class
Scientists, government and organised research in Great Britain 1914?16: The early history of the DSIR
Scientists, government and organised research in Great Britain 1914?16: The early history of the DSIR
Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution: The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity
Identity and the Limits of Comparison: Bauman's Reception in Germany
The reception of Zygmunt Bauman in Germany can be understood against the background of the two great public debates that have dominated post-war West German cultural, political and intellectual life, that over the Sonderweg thesis, and the Historikerstreit. This reception is analysed. It was in terms of the questions those debates had raised and the positions taken by the participants in them that Bauman's writings on modernity and postmodernity,…
Three Appreciations of Zygmunt Bauman
This article provides background material to help readers appreciate three speeches printed in this issue, given by Stefan Morawski, Dennis Smith and Hans Joas on the occasion of the presentation to Zygmunt Bauman of a Festschrift in March 1996 in Leeds. The article describes: (1) relevant details of Polish history concerning cultural patriotism, anti-state attitudes, the role of Jews in the communist state apparatus and anti-Semitism, focusing o…
Scientists, government and organised research in Great Britain 1914?16: The early history of the DSIR
Scientists as an inferior class
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Deciphering Science and Technology: The Social Relations of Expertise
As science and technology have pervaded modern life to an ever greater degree, social scientists have been led to find questions of the causes and consequences of 'expert' knowledge arising in places
The New Reproductive Technologies
Deciphering Science and Technology: The Social Relations of Expertise
The centrality of science and technology, Ian Varcoe and Steven Yearley the State, war and technical innovation in Great Britain, 1930-50 - the contrasts of military and civil industry, David Edgerton who gets science education?, Alison Kelly conceptions of British employment re-structuring in the 1980s, Anne Pollert Unhealthy displays? - trade unions, VDUs and the social construction of a health hazard, Peter Glasner and David Travis new technol…
Robert K. Merton: Consensus and Controversy
Part 1 Editorial introduction: Robert K. - consensus and controversy, Jon Clark et al general introduction: Robert as sociologist, Jon Clark Robert as teacher, James S. Coleman polished pebbles, pretty shells - an appreciation of OTSOG, Stephen Jay Gould. Part 2 Consensus and controversy: systematic social theory - R.K. Merton's theoretical systems - an overview, Piotr Sztompka Merton's systematic theory, Robert Bierstedt interchange - Sztompka r…
Identity and the Limits of Comparison: Bauman's Reception in Germany
The reception of Zygmunt Bauman in Germany can be understood against the background of the two great public debates that have dominated post-war West German cultural, political and intellectual life, that over the Sonderweg thesis, and the Historikerstreit. This reception is analysed. It was in terms of the questions those debates had raised and the positions taken by the participants in them that Bauman's writings on modernity and postmodernity,…
Three Appreciations of Zygmunt Bauman
This article provides background material to help readers appreciate three speeches printed in this issue, given by Stefan Morawski, Dennis Smith and Hans Joas on the occasion of the presentation to Zygmunt Bauman of a Festschrift in March 1996 in Leeds. The article describes: (1) relevant details of Polish history concerning cultural patriotism, anti-state attitudes, the role of Jews in the communist state apparatus and anti-Semitism, focusing o…
Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution: The Jacobin Dimension of Modernity
Culture, Modernity and Revolution: Essays in Honour of Zygmunt Bauman
In Culture, Modernity and Revolution a group of distinguished sociologists and social philosophers reflect upon the major concerns of Zygmunt Bauman. Their essays not only honour the man, but provide important contributions to the three interlinked themes that could be said to form the guiding threads of Bauman's life work: power, culture and modernity. Culture, Modernity and Revolution is both a remarkable sociological commentary on the problems…
Historical and Comparative Methods
Among the classical figures, Max Weber stands out from the others in his devotion to comparative historical sociology. His lifelong quest was to find through the study of “rationalization processes” what sets the West off from the non‐western civilizations. Concretely, the concern was with modern, rational, or bourgeois capitalism, its origins and development. This series of studies is “macro” and it deals with changes over long stretches of time
Science
Sociological frameworks used in the study of science move between two epistemological extremes. First, it is held that nature is recorded by science provided that the latter is in a fit state as a social institution to do so. Second, it is held that science is a social construction and in this sense in principle no different than any other part of culture
Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)