Michael Shiner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 265176 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Shiner |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Shiner |
| FIRMA | SHINER M |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 217 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Suicide and Its Nexus
In Indonesia, suicide research has largely overlooked structural factors at the meso and macro levels, whether as primary causes, contributing factors, or considerations for prevention strategies. The dominance of psychological and psychiatric approaches has marginalized sociological perspectives, limiting a more holistic understanding of suicide. Existing heuristic models primarily frame suicide as a consequence of mental health disorders or eco…
Caught in a Vicious Cycle
Police in England and Wales are invested with specific legal powers to detain a person—who is not under arrest—and search them or their vehicle for unlawful items. The exercise of this coercive power has long been a source of tension and mistrust, particularly among minoritised and other marginalised communities, and has been repeatedly implicated among the causes of serious public disorder. Although concerns about the misuse of stop and search h…
Drug policy reform and the reclassification of cannabis in England and Wales
Why are you applying there?’
Despite entering higher education in good numbers, candidates from some black and minority ethnic groups are concentrated in less prestigious institutions. A similar pattern is evident in candidates’ applications, raising important questions about the role of ‘self-exclusion’. Statistical analysis confirms that candidates from some minority ethnic groups tend to target lower-ranking institutions, but these differences are almost entirely explaine…
Drug use and social control
British Drug Policy and the Modern State
Recent developments in the drug field have prompted claims that criminal justice has displaced health from its formerly dominant position and have also been used to support general claims about the criminalisation of social policy. This article critically assesses such claims and offers an alternative interpretation, arguing that British drug policy has been shaped and reshaped by the broader workings of the modern state. Early controls reflected…
Sociological autopsy
This paper's main aim is to argue the methodological case for a particular approach to researching the sociology of suicide. By way of illustrating the use of this approach it also offers some brief examples of substantive findings about the gendered character of men's suicides. The first half of the article explains and justifies the research approach. This is a qualitatively-driven mixed method and dual paradigm study of individual suicides. It…
Suicide Notes as Social Documents
In this chapter our focus is on the suicide notes that nearly half of the files contained. In keeping with the sociological autopsy approach we treat the notes not as straightforward indicators of mental illness, but as culturally-specific artefacts that bring into relief the role of social relationships in instances of suicide. We will approach the notes as a means of connection, as well as drawing attention to their content, structure and mater…
Suicide Case Files as Sites of Identity Creation
In this chapter we want to use the artefacts that constitute the inquest file to draw out some of the assumptions inherent in the inquest process regarding documents and identities. Specifically, we are concerned with relationships: how they extend into documents and how they constitute different kinds of persons and identities, during someone’s lifetime and beyond. We will do so by drawing on recent ethnographic approaches to the study of docume…
The Sociology of Suicide — A Critical Appreciation
There is currently little dialogue between sociology and suicide studies, which may seem surprising given the central role that Durkheim’s (2002 [1897]) Suicide played in the construction of sociology as a distinct discipline. Although a series of influential studies followed in the wake of Durkheim’s, emanating from various schools of thought, suicide has ceased to be of much interest to mainstream sociology. While contemporary sociologists have…
Repertoires of Action
The previous two chapters have both shown how the contents of suicide files are shaped by the broader social context in which the suicide occurs. Our focus in this chapter shifts as we begin to use the contents of the files to explore the lived experiences of suicidal individuals and the circumstances in which suicides take place. Ultimately we hope to be able to say something about causality though, in so doing, we will retain our interest in me…
What is a Sociological Autopsy?
The dichotomies and oppositions that permeate the sociology of suicide have given rise to very different research strategies, though quantitative approaches in the Durkheimian tradition remain dominant. Our emphasis on the need to transcend artificial divisions in understanding, whether they be based on agency and structure, the individual and the social, psychology and sociology, carries over into the methodological realm. The central problem he…
Lessons for Prevention
Our aim in writing this book was to disseminate both the method and the findings of the sociological autopsy study. We begin this final chapter by summarising what we see as the book’s contribution and then we address the question of suicide prevention, including the ways in which our sociological autopsy study can potentially inform prevention. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keyw…
When Things Fall Apart — Suicide and the Life-Course
In this final empirical chapter we offer a more objectivist reading than has been provided so far. Detailed quantitative analysis of the 100 cases included in our sociological autopsy is presented alongside a more general assessment of the demography of suicide in England and Wales. What we say here should be read in light of what we have already said in earlier chapters, not least because this should guard against the dangers of reifying the rel…
Understanding Suicide
Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy
Drug Use and Social Change
This book locates the rise of illicit drug use within the historical development of late industrial society and challenges the prevailing view. Highlighting key areas of continuity and the on-going va
The legacy of 'normalisation
When things fall apart
Regulating stop and search
Help or Hindrance? Higher Education and the Route to Ethnic Equality
Upward social mobility has been evident among British ethnic minority communities since the 1960s, and education appears to have had a key role in this process. Despite this, social scientists have been slow to consider the link between education, ethnicity and social stratification. The role of higher education has been particularly neglected. Although there has been some suggestion of an ethnic bias in the allocation of university places, previ…
Career Paths and Choices in a Highly Differentiated Profession
Differences in the working lives of solicitors have become increasingly marked in recent years. Growing numbers of lawyers are employed in the public and corporate sectors and, with the increasing size and wealth of City of London commercial firms, there are significant differences between these firms and those ‘high‐street’ firms that serve local communities. These differences impact on lawyers throughout training and beyond, both in terms of ri…
Definitely, maybe not? The Normalisation of Recreational Drug use amongst Young People
Increasing numbers of social scientists, policy makers and other social commentators suggest that drug use has become a relatively common form of behaviour among young people who accept it as a 'normal' part of their lives. Although there is quite strong empirical evidence that the proportion of young people using drugs at some point in their lives is growing, there is little evidence to support the contention that it is so widely accepted as to …
Adding insult to injury
This qualitative study considers why homeless people in the least secure forms of accommodation make little use of the primary health care services provided by the National Health Service. Current approaches to this question have tended to develop in a sociological vacuum, unaffected by relevant developments in medical sociology and broader social theory. An approach informed by Alfred Schutz's phenomenology has been used in this article to devel…
The legacy of 'normalisation
Sociological autopsy
This paper's main aim is to argue the methodological case for a particular approach to researching the sociology of suicide. By way of illustrating the use of this approach it also offers some brief examples of substantive findings about the gendered character of men's suicides. The first half of the article explains and justifies the research approach. This is a qualitatively-driven mixed method and dual paradigm study of individual suicides. It…
Definitely, maybe not? The Normalisation of Recreational Drug use amongst Young People
Increasing numbers of social scientists, policy makers and other social commentators suggest that drug use has become a relatively common form of behaviour among young people who accept it as a 'normal' part of their lives. Although there is quite strong empirical evidence that the proportion of young people using drugs at some point in their lives is growing, there is little evidence to support the contention that it is so widely accepted as to …
Understanding Suicide
Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy
When things fall apart
Help or Hindrance? Higher Education and the Route to Ethnic Equality
Upward social mobility has been evident among British ethnic minority communities since the 1960s, and education appears to have had a key role in this process. Despite this, social scientists have been slow to consider the link between education, ethnicity and social stratification. The role of higher education has been particularly neglected. Although there has been some suggestion of an ethnic bias in the allocation of university places, previ…
Regulating stop and search
Why are you applying there?’
Despite entering higher education in good numbers, candidates from some black and minority ethnic groups are concentrated in less prestigious institutions. A similar pattern is evident in candidates’ applications, raising important questions about the role of ‘self-exclusion’. Statistical analysis confirms that candidates from some minority ethnic groups tend to target lower-ranking institutions, but these differences are almost entirely explaine…
Adding insult to injury
This qualitative study considers why homeless people in the least secure forms of accommodation make little use of the primary health care services provided by the National Health Service. Current approaches to this question have tended to develop in a sociological vacuum, unaffected by relevant developments in medical sociology and broader social theory. An approach informed by Alfred Schutz's phenomenology has been used in this article to devel…
Drug use and social control
British Drug Policy and the Modern State
Recent developments in the drug field have prompted claims that criminal justice has displaced health from its formerly dominant position and have also been used to support general claims about the criminalisation of social policy. This article critically assesses such claims and offers an alternative interpretation, arguing that British drug policy has been shaped and reshaped by the broader workings of the modern state. Early controls reflected…
Career Paths and Choices in a Highly Differentiated Profession
Differences in the working lives of solicitors have become increasingly marked in recent years. Growing numbers of lawyers are employed in the public and corporate sectors and, with the increasing size and wealth of City of London commercial firms, there are significant differences between these firms and those ‘high‐street’ firms that serve local communities. These differences impact on lawyers throughout training and beyond, both in terms of ri…
Caught in a Vicious Cycle
Police in England and Wales are invested with specific legal powers to detain a person—who is not under arrest—and search them or their vehicle for unlawful items. The exercise of this coercive power has long been a source of tension and mistrust, particularly among minoritised and other marginalised communities, and has been repeatedly implicated among the causes of serious public disorder. Although concerns about the misuse of stop and search h…
Adding insult to injury
This qualitative study considers why homeless people in the least secure forms of accommodation make little use of the primary health care services provided by the National Health Service. Current approaches to this question have tended to develop in a sociological vacuum, unaffected by relevant developments in medical sociology and broader social theory. An approach informed by Alfred Schutz's phenomenology has been used in this article to devel…
Definitely, maybe not? The Normalisation of Recreational Drug use amongst Young People
Increasing numbers of social scientists, policy makers and other social commentators suggest that drug use has become a relatively common form of behaviour among young people who accept it as a 'normal' part of their lives. Although there is quite strong empirical evidence that the proportion of young people using drugs at some point in their lives is growing, there is little evidence to support the contention that it is so widely accepted as to …
Career Paths and Choices in a Highly Differentiated Profession
Differences in the working lives of solicitors have become increasingly marked in recent years. Growing numbers of lawyers are employed in the public and corporate sectors and, with the increasing size and wealth of City of London commercial firms, there are significant differences between these firms and those ‘high‐street’ firms that serve local communities. These differences impact on lawyers throughout training and beyond, both in terms of ri…
Help or Hindrance? Higher Education and the Route to Ethnic Equality
Upward social mobility has been evident among British ethnic minority communities since the 1960s, and education appears to have had a key role in this process. Despite this, social scientists have been slow to consider the link between education, ethnicity and social stratification. The role of higher education has been particularly neglected. Although there has been some suggestion of an ethnic bias in the allocation of university places, previ…
Regulating stop and search
Drug Use and Social Change
This book locates the rise of illicit drug use within the historical development of late industrial society and challenges the prevailing view. Highlighting key areas of continuity and the on-going va
The legacy of 'normalisation
When things fall apart
Suicide Notes as Social Documents
In this chapter our focus is on the suicide notes that nearly half of the files contained. In keeping with the sociological autopsy approach we treat the notes not as straightforward indicators of mental illness, but as culturally-specific artefacts that bring into relief the role of social relationships in instances of suicide. We will approach the notes as a means of connection, as well as drawing attention to their content, structure and mater…
Suicide Case Files as Sites of Identity Creation
In this chapter we want to use the artefacts that constitute the inquest file to draw out some of the assumptions inherent in the inquest process regarding documents and identities. Specifically, we are concerned with relationships: how they extend into documents and how they constitute different kinds of persons and identities, during someone’s lifetime and beyond. We will do so by drawing on recent ethnographic approaches to the study of docume…
The Sociology of Suicide — A Critical Appreciation
There is currently little dialogue between sociology and suicide studies, which may seem surprising given the central role that Durkheim’s (2002 [1897]) Suicide played in the construction of sociology as a distinct discipline. Although a series of influential studies followed in the wake of Durkheim’s, emanating from various schools of thought, suicide has ceased to be of much interest to mainstream sociology. While contemporary sociologists have…
Repertoires of Action
The previous two chapters have both shown how the contents of suicide files are shaped by the broader social context in which the suicide occurs. Our focus in this chapter shifts as we begin to use the contents of the files to explore the lived experiences of suicidal individuals and the circumstances in which suicides take place. Ultimately we hope to be able to say something about causality though, in so doing, we will retain our interest in me…
What is a Sociological Autopsy?
The dichotomies and oppositions that permeate the sociology of suicide have given rise to very different research strategies, though quantitative approaches in the Durkheimian tradition remain dominant. Our emphasis on the need to transcend artificial divisions in understanding, whether they be based on agency and structure, the individual and the social, psychology and sociology, carries over into the methodological realm. The central problem he…
Lessons for Prevention
Our aim in writing this book was to disseminate both the method and the findings of the sociological autopsy study. We begin this final chapter by summarising what we see as the book’s contribution and then we address the question of suicide prevention, including the ways in which our sociological autopsy study can potentially inform prevention. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keyw…
When Things Fall Apart — Suicide and the Life-Course
In this final empirical chapter we offer a more objectivist reading than has been provided so far. Detailed quantitative analysis of the 100 cases included in our sociological autopsy is presented alongside a more general assessment of the demography of suicide in England and Wales. What we say here should be read in light of what we have already said in earlier chapters, not least because this should guard against the dangers of reifying the rel…
Understanding Suicide
Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy
Sociological autopsy
This paper's main aim is to argue the methodological case for a particular approach to researching the sociology of suicide. By way of illustrating the use of this approach it also offers some brief examples of substantive findings about the gendered character of men's suicides. The first half of the article explains and justifies the research approach. This is a qualitatively-driven mixed method and dual paradigm study of individual suicides. It…
British Drug Policy and the Modern State
Recent developments in the drug field have prompted claims that criminal justice has displaced health from its formerly dominant position and have also been used to support general claims about the criminalisation of social policy. This article critically assesses such claims and offers an alternative interpretation, arguing that British drug policy has been shaped and reshaped by the broader workings of the modern state. Early controls reflected…
Drug policy reform and the reclassification of cannabis in England and Wales
Why are you applying there?’
Despite entering higher education in good numbers, candidates from some black and minority ethnic groups are concentrated in less prestigious institutions. A similar pattern is evident in candidates’ applications, raising important questions about the role of ‘self-exclusion’. Statistical analysis confirms that candidates from some minority ethnic groups tend to target lower-ranking institutions, but these differences are almost entirely explaine…
Drug use and social control
Suicide and Its Nexus
In Indonesia, suicide research has largely overlooked structural factors at the meso and macro levels, whether as primary causes, contributing factors, or considerations for prevention strategies. The dominance of psychological and psychiatric approaches has marginalized sociological perspectives, limiting a more holistic understanding of suicide. Existing heuristic models primarily frame suicide as a consequence of mental health disorders or eco…
Caught in a Vicious Cycle
Police in England and Wales are invested with specific legal powers to detain a person—who is not under arrest—and search them or their vehicle for unlawful items. The exercise of this coercive power has long been a source of tension and mistrust, particularly among minoritised and other marginalised communities, and has been repeatedly implicated among the causes of serious public disorder. Although concerns about the misuse of stop and search h…
Sociology (17 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Criminology (9 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (7 obras) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 obras) · Public relations (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras)