Caroline New
Biographic Data
| ID | 298555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline New |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | New |
| SIGNATURE | NEW C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bath Spa University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Clinician’s digest: Clinically oriented article summaries for Volume 12, Issue 4
Making realism work, from second wave feminism to extinction rebellion: An interview with Caroline New
Caroline New is an energetic activist who has interpolated critical realist ideas into the front-line of political activism. In this wide-ranging interview, she begins by reflecting on her life and how she became a realist and her account is illustrated with personal anecdotes recalling memories of well-known philosophers and activists from the time. She discusses how her position set her apart from other feminists and she examines the interactin…
Gender at Critical Realism Conferences
This paper reports the findings of a case study of recent IACR conferences where subtle, but significant, (negative) gender differences in conference participation were observed. It goes on to use notions of gender order, agency and structure, styles and genres to explain the key causal factors that generate these differences. It concludes with some suggestions about how these gender differences could be minimised in future conferences.
Gender at Critical Realism Conferences
This paper reports the findings of a case study of recent IACR conferences where subtle, but significant, (negative) gender differences in conference participation were observed. It goes on to use notions of gender order, agency and structure, styles and genres to explain the key causal factors that generate these differences. It concludes with some suggestions about how these gender differences could be minimised in future conferences
Taking Relativism Seriously
Taking relativism seriously
Methodological triangulation and realist research: An Indian exemplar
Triangulation is widely recommended as a way of doing social research (Bryman 1996; Bryman, 2003; Denzin 1970; Flick 1992; Gilbert 1993). It involves looking at the research question from several viewpoints rather as mappers will place instruments on three hilltops to get overlapping data sets concerning the valley or plain below. The most well known form of triangulation, data triangulation, uses multiple data types (e.g. qualitative and quantit…
Oppressed and Oppressors? The Systematic Mistreatment of Men
This paper argues for a structural definition of oppression as systematic mistreatment. Using the work of Connell and other theorists, I discuss the implications of the proposed definition for the oppression of women and suggest that men, too, are systematically mistreated and therefore oppressed in modern societies. This structural concept of men's oppression is compared with the idea developed in the men's movement of the 1970s that men are opp…
Seizing the ecofeminist moment
Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern, by Ariel Salleh, London and New York: Zed Books, 1997, 208 pages, £39.95 cloth, £14.95 pb
Realism, Deconstruction and the Feminist Standpoint
Feminist Standpoint Theory claims that by virtue of their social positioning women have access to, or can achieve, particular and/or better knowledge of gendered social relations. The epistemology, various versions of which are reviewed in the paper, has been criticised for over homogenising women. In its simplest form this critique claims that women’s diversity rules out communality and collective interests, and that FST unawarely takes white mi…
Man Bad, Woman Good? Essentialisms and Ecofeminisms
Can socialists, radical environmentalists and feminists from other traditions safely dismiss ecofeminism? In this paper I offer both a critique of ecofeminism and a modified defence. On the one hand, I argue, ecofeminism is riddled with essentialism, and open to all the philosophical critiques levelled at any position
Educating the Pre‐schoolers of Europe
Sociology and the Case for Realism
It is argued that in the present era of ecological threat we need a critical sociology, which requires a realist ontology. Using Beck's Risk society as an example, I maintain that to the extent that postmodernist sociology rejects realism, its critical and substantive potential is compromised. The second half of the article argues that realism must extend also to moral positions, which are assessed in terms of knowledge of the natural and social …
Structure, Agency and Social Transformation
Revisiting the structure/agency debate, the article puts forward the broad position shared by Giddens’structuration theory and Bhaskar's transformational model. It defends Giddens’concept of structure as‘rules and resources’against charges of idealism, arguing that its strength is its focus on the interface of structure and agency. But both Giddens and Bhaskar emphasise social reproduction as an unintended consequence of social action. Taking iss…
A plea for linguistics
One type of ‘linguistic’ philosophy is primarily an attempt to discriminate the uses of related expressions in what is vaguely called ‘ordinary language’ — that is, educated, non-technical English. The most authoritative and detailed exposition of the aims and methods of this kind of analysis is contained in J. L. Austin’s celebrated paper ‘A Plea for Excuses’ (Chapter V above). The aims have aroused a good deal of more or less inconclusive contr…
Ardal on Promises as Statements
Árdal on Promises as Statements Get access C. G. New C. G. New University of Hongkong Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 75, April 1969, Pages 159–160, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217685 Published: 01 April 1969
Realism, Deconstruction and the Feminist Standpoint
Feminist Standpoint Theory claims that by virtue of their social positioning women have access to, or can achieve, particular and/or better knowledge of gendered social relations. The epistemology, various versions of which are reviewed in the paper, has been criticised for over homogenising women. In its simplest form this critique claims that women’s diversity rules out communality and collective interests, and that FST unawarely takes white mi…
Oppressed and Oppressors? The Systematic Mistreatment of Men
This paper argues for a structural definition of oppression as systematic mistreatment. Using the work of Connell and other theorists, I discuss the implications of the proposed definition for the oppression of women and suggest that men, too, are systematically mistreated and therefore oppressed in modern societies. This structural concept of men's oppression is compared with the idea developed in the men's movement of the 1970s that men are opp…
Structure, Agency and Social Transformation
Revisiting the structure/agency debate, the article puts forward the broad position shared by Giddens’structuration theory and Bhaskar's transformational model. It defends Giddens’concept of structure as‘rules and resources’against charges of idealism, arguing that its strength is its focus on the interface of structure and agency. But both Giddens and Bhaskar emphasise social reproduction as an unintended consequence of social action. Taking iss…
Methodological triangulation and realist research: An Indian exemplar
Triangulation is widely recommended as a way of doing social research (Bryman 1996; Bryman, 2003; Denzin 1970; Flick 1992; Gilbert 1993). It involves looking at the research question from several viewpoints rather as mappers will place instruments on three hilltops to get overlapping data sets concerning the valley or plain below. The most well known form of triangulation, data triangulation, uses multiple data types (e.g. qualitative and quantit…
Sociology and the Case for Realism
It is argued that in the present era of ecological threat we need a critical sociology, which requires a realist ontology. Using Beck's Risk society as an example, I maintain that to the extent that postmodernist sociology rejects realism, its critical and substantive potential is compromised. The second half of the article argues that realism must extend also to moral positions, which are assessed in terms of knowledge of the natural and social …
Man Bad, Woman Good? Essentialisms and Ecofeminisms
Can socialists, radical environmentalists and feminists from other traditions safely dismiss ecofeminism? In this paper I offer both a critique of ecofeminism and a modified defence. On the one hand, I argue, ecofeminism is riddled with essentialism, and open to all the philosophical critiques levelled at any position
Ardal on Promises as Statements
Árdal on Promises as Statements Get access C. G. New C. G. New University of Hongkong Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 75, April 1969, Pages 159–160, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217685 Published: 01 April 1969
A plea for linguistics
One type of ‘linguistic’ philosophy is primarily an attempt to discriminate the uses of related expressions in what is vaguely called ‘ordinary language’ — that is, educated, non-technical English. The most authoritative and detailed exposition of the aims and methods of this kind of analysis is contained in J. L. Austin’s celebrated paper ‘A Plea for Excuses’ (Chapter V above). The aims have aroused a good deal of more or less inconclusive contr…
Structure, Agency and Social Transformation
Revisiting the structure/agency debate, the article puts forward the broad position shared by Giddens’structuration theory and Bhaskar's transformational model. It defends Giddens’concept of structure as‘rules and resources’against charges of idealism, arguing that its strength is its focus on the interface of structure and agency. But both Giddens and Bhaskar emphasise social reproduction as an unintended consequence of social action. Taking iss…
Educating the Pre‐schoolers of Europe
Sociology and the Case for Realism
It is argued that in the present era of ecological threat we need a critical sociology, which requires a realist ontology. Using Beck's Risk society as an example, I maintain that to the extent that postmodernist sociology rejects realism, its critical and substantive potential is compromised. The second half of the article argues that realism must extend also to moral positions, which are assessed in terms of knowledge of the natural and social …
Man Bad, Woman Good? Essentialisms and Ecofeminisms
Can socialists, radical environmentalists and feminists from other traditions safely dismiss ecofeminism? In this paper I offer both a critique of ecofeminism and a modified defence. On the one hand, I argue, ecofeminism is riddled with essentialism, and open to all the philosophical critiques levelled at any position
Realism, Deconstruction and the Feminist Standpoint
Feminist Standpoint Theory claims that by virtue of their social positioning women have access to, or can achieve, particular and/or better knowledge of gendered social relations. The epistemology, various versions of which are reviewed in the paper, has been criticised for over homogenising women. In its simplest form this critique claims that women’s diversity rules out communality and collective interests, and that FST unawarely takes white mi…
Seizing the ecofeminist moment
Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern, by Ariel Salleh, London and New York: Zed Books, 1997, 208 pages, £39.95 cloth, £14.95 pb
Oppressed and Oppressors? The Systematic Mistreatment of Men
This paper argues for a structural definition of oppression as systematic mistreatment. Using the work of Connell and other theorists, I discuss the implications of the proposed definition for the oppression of women and suggest that men, too, are systematically mistreated and therefore oppressed in modern societies. This structural concept of men's oppression is compared with the idea developed in the men's movement of the 1970s that men are opp…
Methodological triangulation and realist research: An Indian exemplar
Triangulation is widely recommended as a way of doing social research (Bryman 1996; Bryman, 2003; Denzin 1970; Flick 1992; Gilbert 1993). It involves looking at the research question from several viewpoints rather as mappers will place instruments on three hilltops to get overlapping data sets concerning the valley or plain below. The most well known form of triangulation, data triangulation, uses multiple data types (e.g. qualitative and quantit…
Taking Relativism Seriously
Taking relativism seriously
Gender at Critical Realism Conferences
This paper reports the findings of a case study of recent IACR conferences where subtle, but significant, (negative) gender differences in conference participation were observed. It goes on to use notions of gender order, agency and structure, styles and genres to explain the key causal factors that generate these differences. It concludes with some suggestions about how these gender differences could be minimised in future conferences.
Gender at Critical Realism Conferences
This paper reports the findings of a case study of recent IACR conferences where subtle, but significant, (negative) gender differences in conference participation were observed. It goes on to use notions of gender order, agency and structure, styles and genres to explain the key causal factors that generate these differences. It concludes with some suggestions about how these gender differences could be minimised in future conferences
Making realism work, from second wave feminism to extinction rebellion: An interview with Caroline New
Caroline New is an energetic activist who has interpolated critical realist ideas into the front-line of political activism. In this wide-ranging interview, she begins by reflecting on her life and how she became a realist and her account is illustrated with personal anecdotes recalling memories of well-known philosophers and activists from the time. She discusses how her position set her apart from other feminists and she examines the interactin…
Clinician’s digest: Clinically oriented article summaries for Volume 12, Issue 4
Sociology (13 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Realism (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)