Paul Sweetman
Biographic Data
| ID | 325441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Sweetman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweetman |
| SIGNATURE | SWEETMAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6627-6267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Structure, Agency, Subculture
Post-subcultural studies has emerged as a critical response to perceived difficulties with the previously dominant approach to subcultures associated with the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS). Alternative terms such as scene and tribe have been suggested in light of the supposedly more amorphous nature of contemporary formations. Others have defended the CCCS approach, or argued for a revised understanding of subculture …
Revealing Habitus, Illuminating Practice
Having taken taking as one of its starting points a concern to avoid fetishising method - or employing any form of method for its own sake - this paper then argues that visual methods of research may be particularly helpful in investigating areas that are difficult otherwise to verbalise or articulate. These include Bourdieu's understanding of habitus; our predisposed ways of being, acting and operating in the social environment that Bourdieu him…
Tourists and Travellers? ‘Subcultures’, Reflexive Identities and Neo-Tribal Sociality
Picturing the Social Landscape
We live in a visual culture, and visual evidence is increasingly central to social research. In this collection an international range of experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, examine their advantages and limitations, and show how they have been used alongside other research techniques. Contributors explore the following ideas: * self and identity * visualizing domestic space * visualizing urban landscapes * vis…
Twenty-First Century Dis-Ease? Habitual Reflexivity Or the Reflexive Habitus
While certain theorists have suggested that identity is increasingly reflexive, such accounts are arguably problematised by Bourdieu's concept of habitus, which - in pointing to the 'embeddedness' of our dispositions and tastes - suggests that identity may be less susceptible to reflexive intervention than theorists such as Giddens have implied. This paper does not dispute this so much as suggest that, for increasing numbers of contemporary indiv…
Everything Starts with an E
Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity
Recent years have seen a considerable resurgence in the popularity of tattooing and piercing, a development that some have dismissed as a fashionable trend. Others have argued that the relative permanence of such forms of body modification militates against their full absorption into the fashion system. Drawing on interviews with a variety of body modifiers, the article examines this debate, and notes that certain tattooees and piercees appear, i…
Twenty-First Century Dis-Ease? Habitual Reflexivity Or the Reflexive Habitus
While certain theorists have suggested that identity is increasingly reflexive, such accounts are arguably problematised by Bourdieu's concept of habitus, which - in pointing to the 'embeddedness' of our dispositions and tastes - suggests that identity may be less susceptible to reflexive intervention than theorists such as Giddens have implied. This paper does not dispute this so much as suggest that, for increasing numbers of contemporary indiv…
Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity
Recent years have seen a considerable resurgence in the popularity of tattooing and piercing, a development that some have dismissed as a fashionable trend. Others have argued that the relative permanence of such forms of body modification militates against their full absorption into the fashion system. Drawing on interviews with a variety of body modifiers, the article examines this debate, and notes that certain tattooees and piercees appear, i…
Revealing Habitus, Illuminating Practice
Having taken taking as one of its starting points a concern to avoid fetishising method - or employing any form of method for its own sake - this paper then argues that visual methods of research may be particularly helpful in investigating areas that are difficult otherwise to verbalise or articulate. These include Bourdieu's understanding of habitus; our predisposed ways of being, acting and operating in the social environment that Bourdieu him…
Structure, Agency, Subculture
Post-subcultural studies has emerged as a critical response to perceived difficulties with the previously dominant approach to subcultures associated with the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS). Alternative terms such as scene and tribe have been suggested in light of the supposedly more amorphous nature of contemporary formations. Others have defended the CCCS approach, or argued for a revised understanding of subculture …
Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity
Recent years have seen a considerable resurgence in the popularity of tattooing and piercing, a development that some have dismissed as a fashionable trend. Others have argued that the relative permanence of such forms of body modification militates against their full absorption into the fashion system. Drawing on interviews with a variety of body modifiers, the article examines this debate, and notes that certain tattooees and piercees appear, i…
Everything Starts with an E
Twenty-First Century Dis-Ease? Habitual Reflexivity Or the Reflexive Habitus
While certain theorists have suggested that identity is increasingly reflexive, such accounts are arguably problematised by Bourdieu's concept of habitus, which - in pointing to the 'embeddedness' of our dispositions and tastes - suggests that identity may be less susceptible to reflexive intervention than theorists such as Giddens have implied. This paper does not dispute this so much as suggest that, for increasing numbers of contemporary indiv…
Tourists and Travellers? ‘Subcultures’, Reflexive Identities and Neo-Tribal Sociality
Picturing the Social Landscape
We live in a visual culture, and visual evidence is increasingly central to social research. In this collection an international range of experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, examine their advantages and limitations, and show how they have been used alongside other research techniques. Contributors explore the following ideas: * self and identity * visualizing domestic space * visualizing urban landscapes * vis…
Revealing Habitus, Illuminating Practice
Having taken taking as one of its starting points a concern to avoid fetishising method - or employing any form of method for its own sake - this paper then argues that visual methods of research may be particularly helpful in investigating areas that are difficult otherwise to verbalise or articulate. These include Bourdieu's understanding of habitus; our predisposed ways of being, acting and operating in the social environment that Bourdieu him…
Structure, Agency, Subculture
Post-subcultural studies has emerged as a critical response to perceived difficulties with the previously dominant approach to subcultures associated with the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS). Alternative terms such as scene and tribe have been suggested in light of the supposedly more amorphous nature of contemporary formations. Others have defended the CCCS approach, or argued for a revised understanding of subculture …
Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)