Richard Startup
Biographic Data
| ID | 282740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Startup |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Startup |
| SIGNATURE | STARTUP R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8951-6155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Theory of the Selfish Gene Applied to the Human Population
In a study drawing from both evolutionary biology and the social sciences, evidence and argument is assembled in support of the comprehensive application of selfish gene theory to the human population. With a focus on genes giving rise to characteristically-human cooperation (“cooperative genes”) involving language and theory of mind, one may situate a whole range of patterned behaviour—including celibacy and even slavery—otherwise seeming to pre…
The decline of a liberal mainstream church: Issues and problems for the church in Wales (UK)
Outlines some of the main issues in declining membership facing the Anglican Church in Wales including doctrine, clergy, laity, evangelism and variety in worship. Considers the growth of charismatic churches and the success of those with stricter codes. Concludes that many look to the church for occasional offices such as birth, marriage and death but little else. Advocates an element of strictness in order that the individual can see a differenc…
Researching a traditional territorial organisation: Analogy, verstehen and the sociological imagination
Reports on a study of the state of the (Anglican) Church in Wales, which investigated the Church in Wales as a sociological institution through attitudes held by the clergy and lay members of the Church. Asserts that churches are institutional associational groups with rational‐bureaucratic forms of administration, rather than organizations, but that it helps to conceptualize the church as if it were an organization. Outlines some of the problems…
Elements of religious belief and social values among the laity of the church in Wales
This paper explores the relationship between religious beliefs and secular attitudes of lay people within a single church, the Anglican Province of Wales (UK). The origins of the data are described and findings as to the distinctive social characteristics of the laity reported. Results of the analysis of the interrelationship between different dimensions of religious belief are reported and discussed. The secular attitudes of the laity are compar…
Peer Group Culture and Pupil Aspirations: A Usa/Uk and Rural/Urban Comparison
This article presents findings from an investigation which had as its purpose to compare and contrast the attitudes and aspirations of British and American secondary school students as regards education and occupations. The intention was also to increase understanding of those aspirations and expectations by placing them within the context of peer group culture. It is hoped that through a comparative study insight may be gained into the relation …
Lay Characteristics and Religious Attitudes in the Church in Wales
In 1920 that part of the Church of England located in Wales was disestablished and became an autonomous and self‐governing Province of the Anglican communion. It owes its name “The Church in Wales” to two main considerations: it could not be called the Church of Wales because the argument for disestablishment was that the Welsh people were predominantly nonconformist; it could not be called the Church of England in Wales since its members were no…
New Roles for Old: The Need for Change in Nurse Socialisation
In 1984 the United Kingdom Central Council for Nurses, Midwifery and Health Visiting (UKCC) convened a project group whose terms of reference were to examine the professional preparation of nurses, to consider possible modifications of the nurse's role in the light of the anticipated health needs of the 1990's and through into the next century and to make recommendations for changes in nurse education to prepare nurses better for their future rol…
The value of computing facilities in student residences
The aims of an experimental project were to examine the advantages gained by students from the provision of computer terminals in halls of residence and a student village; also to identify any managerial and operational problems which arose. There were problems of security and in accommodating the facilities but the primary gain was greater, more economical and more widespread use of the computer. A survey suggests that a majority of those coming…
Can the Development of Mathematics Be Understood as a Process of Unfolding
Mathematics is a hybrid subject with the idea of number tending to unfold while some major geometrical innovations cannot be understood in these terms. The deployment of evolutionary, critical and non‐evolutionary structuralist conceptions in the analysis of mathematical development draws the conclusion that, in order to fully understand this development, it is necessary to consider mathematics' relations with other (artistic and scientific) conc…
The changing perspective of academic researchers, 1973-1983
How has the approach of university teachers to research and their experience of it altered in a decade? This empirical study in a provincial university notes continuities and differences in staff motivation towards research, the pressures they are under and the extent of their satisfaction with it. Academics continue to place intrinsic enjoyment and interest at the centre of their own motivation. However, their approach now more often implies a c…
Shorter Notices
Sociological Approaches to Mathematics
Some sociologists are more interested in using quantification as a source of legitima‐tion than in confronting mathematics as a central element of culture. Yet mathematics may be viewed as an institution with a normative core developing alongside experience of the physical world, susceptible of both “internalist” and “externalist” program‐mes of investigation
The Evolution of Number
How is the historical development of mathematics to be understood sociologically? The writings of Mannheim and Wittgenstein suggest two contrasting approaches which may be evaluated through a detailed analysis of the development of the number concept. Five main number systems can be distinguished of which the most basic is the system of whole numbers and, given that importance attaches to generalizing power, there can be shown to be a tendency fo…
The University Teacher and His World: A Sociological and Educational Study
Sources of Variation in the Role Performance of University Teachers
Based on data collected in a British provincial university this article examines the structural, material and ideal elements which are the sources of variation in academic activity. Teaching was influenced jointly by pedagogic and disciplinary perspectives, with the latter providing the major source of variation. Not only the style of research but also the pattern of research relationships could also be seen to vary with the theoretical character…
Material resources and the academic role
Academics frequently require material resources and this leads to the use of ancillary staff. This empirically based study includes an examination of how resources shape academic activity and a consideration of the character of the relationship between academics and ancillary staff. There are sources of difficulty in this relationship. A basically instrumental link may need to be supplemented by ‘integrative ̊s elements. Sometimes problems stem f…
Staff experience of lectures and tutorials
What happens in lectures and tutorials and how does this vary depending upon lecturer and discipline? This empirical study is an examination of what staff are doing in their classes, the difficulties they encounter and the way in which they judge their effectiveness. There are various kinds of lecture and tutorial. Some lecturers are givers of expositions, while others are teachers (or instructors). It is the members of the latter category who ar…
The role of the departmental head
(1976). The role of the departmental head. Studies in Higher Education: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 233-243
How Students see the Role of University Lecturer
This paper examines the normative expectations which university students have of their lecturers. These expectations clearly centre on the teaching activities of staff, but research and other professional activities are seen to have their place. In many ways, student requirements of their lecturers are being met, yet it is clear that there are felt problems. What underlies student dissatisfaction? There are indeed the oft-referred to problems of …
A Sociology of Migration
IT IS hard to disagree with J. A. Jackson when he writes in a recently published volume of papers concerned with migration: It is clear that it may still not be possible to provide a completely satisfactory sociological model of migration which can adequately embrace its various types and implications (Jackson, 1969:10). Though a vast amount of empirical work has been produced on such topics as rural-urban migration, international migratory movem…
Migration
How Students see the Role of University Lecturer
This paper examines the normative expectations which university students have of their lecturers. These expectations clearly centre on the teaching activities of staff, but research and other professional activities are seen to have their place. In many ways, student requirements of their lecturers are being met, yet it is clear that there are felt problems. What underlies student dissatisfaction? There are indeed the oft-referred to problems of …
Researching a traditional territorial organisation: Analogy, verstehen and the sociological imagination
Reports on a study of the state of the (Anglican) Church in Wales, which investigated the Church in Wales as a sociological institution through attitudes held by the clergy and lay members of the Church. Asserts that churches are institutional associational groups with rational‐bureaucratic forms of administration, rather than organizations, but that it helps to conceptualize the church as if it were an organization. Outlines some of the problems…
Elements of religious belief and social values among the laity of the church in Wales
This paper explores the relationship between religious beliefs and secular attitudes of lay people within a single church, the Anglican Province of Wales (UK). The origins of the data are described and findings as to the distinctive social characteristics of the laity reported. Results of the analysis of the interrelationship between different dimensions of religious belief are reported and discussed. The secular attitudes of the laity are compar…
Lay Characteristics and Religious Attitudes in the Church in Wales
In 1920 that part of the Church of England located in Wales was disestablished and became an autonomous and self‐governing Province of the Anglican communion. It owes its name “The Church in Wales” to two main considerations: it could not be called the Church of Wales because the argument for disestablishment was that the Welsh people were predominantly nonconformist; it could not be called the Church of England in Wales since its members were no…
New Roles for Old: The Need for Change in Nurse Socialisation
In 1984 the United Kingdom Central Council for Nurses, Midwifery and Health Visiting (UKCC) convened a project group whose terms of reference were to examine the professional preparation of nurses, to consider possible modifications of the nurse's role in the light of the anticipated health needs of the 1990's and through into the next century and to make recommendations for changes in nurse education to prepare nurses better for their future rol…
The changing perspective of academic researchers, 1973-1983
How has the approach of university teachers to research and their experience of it altered in a decade? This empirical study in a provincial university notes continuities and differences in staff motivation towards research, the pressures they are under and the extent of their satisfaction with it. Academics continue to place intrinsic enjoyment and interest at the centre of their own motivation. However, their approach now more often implies a c…
A Sociology of Migration
IT IS hard to disagree with J. A. Jackson when he writes in a recently published volume of papers concerned with migration: It is clear that it may still not be possible to provide a completely satisfactory sociological model of migration which can adequately embrace its various types and implications (Jackson, 1969:10). Though a vast amount of empirical work has been produced on such topics as rural-urban migration, international migratory movem…
Migration
A Sociology of Migration
IT IS hard to disagree with J. A. Jackson when he writes in a recently published volume of papers concerned with migration: It is clear that it may still not be possible to provide a completely satisfactory sociological model of migration which can adequately embrace its various types and implications (Jackson, 1969:10). Though a vast amount of empirical work has been produced on such topics as rural-urban migration, international migratory movem…
How Students see the Role of University Lecturer
This paper examines the normative expectations which university students have of their lecturers. These expectations clearly centre on the teaching activities of staff, but research and other professional activities are seen to have their place. In many ways, student requirements of their lecturers are being met, yet it is clear that there are felt problems. What underlies student dissatisfaction? There are indeed the oft-referred to problems of …
The role of the departmental head
(1976). The role of the departmental head. Studies in Higher Education: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 233-243
Staff experience of lectures and tutorials
What happens in lectures and tutorials and how does this vary depending upon lecturer and discipline? This empirical study is an examination of what staff are doing in their classes, the difficulties they encounter and the way in which they judge their effectiveness. There are various kinds of lecture and tutorial. Some lecturers are givers of expositions, while others are teachers (or instructors). It is the members of the latter category who ar…
Sources of Variation in the Role Performance of University Teachers
Based on data collected in a British provincial university this article examines the structural, material and ideal elements which are the sources of variation in academic activity. Teaching was influenced jointly by pedagogic and disciplinary perspectives, with the latter providing the major source of variation. Not only the style of research but also the pattern of research relationships could also be seen to vary with the theoretical character…
Material resources and the academic role
Academics frequently require material resources and this leads to the use of ancillary staff. This empirically based study includes an examination of how resources shape academic activity and a consideration of the character of the relationship between academics and ancillary staff. There are sources of difficulty in this relationship. A basically instrumental link may need to be supplemented by ‘integrative ̊s elements. Sometimes problems stem f…
The University Teacher and His World: A Sociological and Educational Study
Sociological Approaches to Mathematics
Some sociologists are more interested in using quantification as a source of legitima‐tion than in confronting mathematics as a central element of culture. Yet mathematics may be viewed as an institution with a normative core developing alongside experience of the physical world, susceptible of both “internalist” and “externalist” program‐mes of investigation
The Evolution of Number
How is the historical development of mathematics to be understood sociologically? The writings of Mannheim and Wittgenstein suggest two contrasting approaches which may be evaluated through a detailed analysis of the development of the number concept. Five main number systems can be distinguished of which the most basic is the system of whole numbers and, given that importance attaches to generalizing power, there can be shown to be a tendency fo…
Shorter Notices
Can the Development of Mathematics Be Understood as a Process of Unfolding
Mathematics is a hybrid subject with the idea of number tending to unfold while some major geometrical innovations cannot be understood in these terms. The deployment of evolutionary, critical and non‐evolutionary structuralist conceptions in the analysis of mathematical development draws the conclusion that, in order to fully understand this development, it is necessary to consider mathematics' relations with other (artistic and scientific) conc…
The changing perspective of academic researchers, 1973-1983
How has the approach of university teachers to research and their experience of it altered in a decade? This empirical study in a provincial university notes continuities and differences in staff motivation towards research, the pressures they are under and the extent of their satisfaction with it. Academics continue to place intrinsic enjoyment and interest at the centre of their own motivation. However, their approach now more often implies a c…
The value of computing facilities in student residences
The aims of an experimental project were to examine the advantages gained by students from the provision of computer terminals in halls of residence and a student village; also to identify any managerial and operational problems which arose. There were problems of security and in accommodating the facilities but the primary gain was greater, more economical and more widespread use of the computer. A survey suggests that a majority of those coming…
New Roles for Old: The Need for Change in Nurse Socialisation
In 1984 the United Kingdom Central Council for Nurses, Midwifery and Health Visiting (UKCC) convened a project group whose terms of reference were to examine the professional preparation of nurses, to consider possible modifications of the nurse's role in the light of the anticipated health needs of the 1990's and through into the next century and to make recommendations for changes in nurse education to prepare nurses better for their future rol…
Lay Characteristics and Religious Attitudes in the Church in Wales
In 1920 that part of the Church of England located in Wales was disestablished and became an autonomous and self‐governing Province of the Anglican communion. It owes its name “The Church in Wales” to two main considerations: it could not be called the Church of Wales because the argument for disestablishment was that the Welsh people were predominantly nonconformist; it could not be called the Church of England in Wales since its members were no…
Peer Group Culture and Pupil Aspirations: A Usa/Uk and Rural/Urban Comparison
This article presents findings from an investigation which had as its purpose to compare and contrast the attitudes and aspirations of British and American secondary school students as regards education and occupations. The intention was also to increase understanding of those aspirations and expectations by placing them within the context of peer group culture. It is hoped that through a comparative study insight may be gained into the relation …
Elements of religious belief and social values among the laity of the church in Wales
This paper explores the relationship between religious beliefs and secular attitudes of lay people within a single church, the Anglican Province of Wales (UK). The origins of the data are described and findings as to the distinctive social characteristics of the laity reported. Results of the analysis of the interrelationship between different dimensions of religious belief are reported and discussed. The secular attitudes of the laity are compar…
Researching a traditional territorial organisation: Analogy, verstehen and the sociological imagination
Reports on a study of the state of the (Anglican) Church in Wales, which investigated the Church in Wales as a sociological institution through attitudes held by the clergy and lay members of the Church. Asserts that churches are institutional associational groups with rational‐bureaucratic forms of administration, rather than organizations, but that it helps to conceptualize the church as if it were an organization. Outlines some of the problems…
The decline of a liberal mainstream church: Issues and problems for the church in Wales (UK)
Outlines some of the main issues in declining membership facing the Anglican Church in Wales including doctrine, clergy, laity, evangelism and variety in worship. Considers the growth of charismatic churches and the success of those with stricter codes. Concludes that many look to the church for occasional offices such as birth, marriage and death but little else. Advocates an element of strictness in order that the individual can see a differenc…
The Theory of the Selfish Gene Applied to the Human Population
In a study drawing from both evolutionary biology and the social sciences, evidence and argument is assembled in support of the comprehensive application of selfish gene theory to the human population. With a focus on genes giving rise to characteristically-human cooperation (“cooperative genes”) involving language and theory of mind, one may situate a whole range of patterned behaviour—including celibacy and even slavery—otherwise seeming to pre…
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