Simon Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9876-9982 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The softness of hard data: Discursive psychology, conversation analysis, and psychological science
Qualitative methods are sometimes criticized on the grounds that they do not provide “hard” data. However, on inspection, hard data turn out to be produced by unavoidably “soft” human interaction and activities. That means that psychologists must work directly with what people do and say and either transform it into abstractions—with potential distortions along the way—or stay with the raw events to see what questions they may answer. We argue fo…
Weird but Also Inconsistent: An Analysis of the Reporting Practices of Participant Samples Across Five Areas of Psychology
1293). As expected, we found an over-reliance on Western perspectives: Participants from Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa made up 8.7% of samples combined. However, we also found substantial variation in whether and where participants' gender, race, SES indicators, and education were reported across different areas of Psychology, as well as different norms in the use of students and crowd-sourcing platforms. Given the ch…
Global distribution of prognostically significant pulmonary pressure indicative of pulmonary hypertension
Background: There remains a paucity of data to describe how many people worldwide are affected by pulmonary hypertension (PH), an insidious condition associated with adverse vascular remodelling, progressive heart failure, and death without proactive diagnosis and management. Methods: We combined data on the population rate of echocardiographic investigations with tricuspid regurgitant velocity (TRV) levels observed within a clinical cohort of >5…
Stranger Views: Researching Marginality and (Non)Belonging Among Migrants Experiencing Homelessness in the UK
With reference to Simmel's work, this article puts forward the notion of 'stranger views', which are expressive on the one hand, of the experiences of those who occupy a marginal position in society characterised by experiences of belonging and non-belonging, and on the other, of our own position as researchers, probing spaces of non-belonging and hearing stories that are then rearticulated for an academic audience. In doing so, it provides a ref…
Projected burden and distribution of elevated blood pressure levels and its consequence among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa
Background: There is minimal data on the number of adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with elevated blood pressure (BP) at increased risk of future cardiovascular events. Combining country-specific population data with data derived from two previously conducted meta-analyses (one African-specific, one based on international cohorts), we sought to address this knowledge deficit. Methods: We used meta-analysis data from 37 926 adolescents part…
Enduring Borders: Precarity, Swift Falls and Stretched Time in the Lives of Migrants Experiencing Homelessness in the UK
In this article, we draw attention to the border and border governance as key mechanisms of class and 'race-making' in the context of an increasingly hostile immigration environment. Focusing on the life story narratives of migrants experiencing homelessness, we extend the reach of analysis beyond the experiences of asylum seekers to gain a stronger understanding of migrant experiences more broadly. In our analysis, we reveal the temporal continu…
Culture(s) on the Margins: An Introduction
Sociologists and those working in related disciplines have often found more of interest on the margins than in the centre. It is where innovation takes place, where the new replaces the outmoded, where ‘outsider’ or heterodox voices challenge the orthodoxy, and where culture creators are most able to follow the laws inherent to their specific region of the cultural field. The margins are where you will find ‘underground’ or ‘cutting edge’ scenes.…
Cultivated invisibility and migrants' experiences of homelessness during the Covid-19 pandemic
The UK government's Everyone In scheme, announced in March 2020, required local authorities to temporarily house all homeless individuals in their area regardless of immigration status. In providing support through safe and secure accommodation, Everyone In also provided a crucial moment of visibility for migrants experiencing homelessness. Yet, just as it provided life-changing opportunities for some, the scheme was not straightforwardly a celeb…
Weather Trumps Festivity? More Cardiovascular Disease Events Occur in Winter than in December Holidays in Queensland, Australia
Objective: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of hospitalisations and deaths in Australia. This study estimates the excess CVD hospitalisations and deaths across seasons and during the December holidays in Queensland, Australia. Methods: The study uses retrospective, longitudinal, population-based cohort data from Queensland, Australia from January 2010 to December 2015. The outcomes were hospitalisations and deaths categorised as …
Excess mortality at Christmas due to cardiovascular disease in the Hunt study prospective population-based cohort in Norway
Beyond a broader pattern of seasonally-linked mortality characterised by excess winter deaths, the deadliest time of year in Central Norway coincides with the Christmas holidays. During this time, the pattern and frequency of cardiovascular-related mortality changes markedly; contrasting with a more stable pattern of cancer-related mortality. Pending confirmation in other populations and climates, further research to determine if these excess dea…
Culture, Conceptual Clarifications of
There is no single definition that is able to capture the complexity of the concept of culture. Therefore, to gain clarity, culture is considered as a means of human cultivation and “civilization”; as an agent of change; as a source of objective and subjective development; as an aspect of human existence on which humans confer meaning; as a way of life common to a particular group of people; as artistic practices and products; as a source of capi…
Taste
Bourdieu's research found that tastes bring people together with similar backgrounds and dispositions but they also provide a means of demarcation, highlighting inevitable differences between groups. Taste judgments are not merely subjective indicators of personal preferences. They are also a means of classifying the self and others in accordance with wider power relations. Bourdieu's sociology of taste remains the dominant model in the twenty‐fi…
Evaluative Judgments
The sociology of evaluation or evaluative judgments, which has as its focus an analysis of how we appraise things, is a relatively neglected area of inquiry. This is perhaps because, as Austin Harrington points out, sociologists have a tendency to put aside questions of value, leaving them to other disciplines. In this entry, several debates in the sociology of evaluation are outlined. These include critical sociological reflections on aesthetics…
Celebrity capital, field-specific aesthetic criteria and the status of cultural objects: The case of Masked and Anonymous
This article probes the explanatory value of the concept of celebrity capital in helping us to grasp the fate of celebrities and the cultural objects they produce when they move across to other fields. However, the article seeks to do more than this: with reference to the example of the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s incursion into the cinematic field, where he co-wrote Masked and Anonymous (2003), it contributes to debates by examining the signif…
Celebrity status and the attribution of value
The concept of status is in the background of much research on celebrity but rarely made explicit, so in this collection of articles we seek to intervene by drawing attention to the usefulness of the concept in understanding the attribution of value in celebrity culture. We consider that celebrity status derives from an accumulation of social esteem or disparagement based on the countless evaluative judgements, positive or negative, that accumula…
Making Evaluative Judgements and Sometimes Making Money: Independent Publishing in the 21st Century
Independent publishing is a sector of the cultural field that is perceived to be threatened by market forces but also one in which is buoyed by critical and commercial success and a rise in the number of small presses. The article innovates by probing the oft-neglected matter of evaluative judgements as publishers, in their role as cultural intermediaries, negotiate aesthetic, ethical, commercial and temporal considerations in deciding which book…
Comparison of the EQ-5D-3L and the SF-6D (SF-12) contemporaneous utility scores in patients with cardiovascular disease
Evaluative judgements: Ethics, Aesthetics and 'Bad Taste
Bourdieusian research demonstrates that judgements about 'bad taste' are in great part determined by negation. In seeking to extend the reach of sociological research beyond this relational account, this article theorizes the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of evaluative judgements. First, with reference to value-rational social action, it considers the ethical dimension. Relatedly, it draws attention to debates concerning the limits of what can…
Culture and the Middle Classes
Rethinking therapeutic strategies in cancer: Wars, fields, anomalies and monsters
Aesthetics and Time: Sustained and Distracted Modes of Engagement
This article considers the relation between aesthetic engagement and time. It puts forward a sociologically-based approach that considers social time and its stratifications, and it draws attention to two intersecting temporal dimensions of aesthetic engagement: the sweep of time that leads to the moment of engagement and the particular moment of engagement itself. The sweep of time needs to be explored because individuals, in common with the cul…
A Sociology of Culture, Taste and Value
This book explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value. It examines the tensions between formal and substantive rationality; between courses of action which are instrumentally rational and those which are formulated with particular cultural values in mind; between impersonal forces and creative impulses; between the logic of profit and the ambiguity of aesthetics; between a tendency to like what we are trained to like and…
Evaluating Culture: Sociology, Aesthetics and Policy
This article contends that a sociologically-informed approach to aesthetic value can be usefully connected to debates regarding cultural policy. Such an approach can encourage reflexivity on the part of policy makers and cultural arbiters, making them sensitive to their privileged position in social space and aware of the differential levels of access to culture experienced by the public they serve. Furthermore, it can inform research into the pr…
Reflections on sociology and aesthetic value
In this article, I survey a number of existing contributions to the debate concerned with sociology and aesthetic value and in doing so make a contribution to the difficult task of formulating an alternative approach. I argue that sociologists have excelled in ‘bringing art down to earth’, but in doing so they can also have a role to play in evaluating cultural objects. Awareness of the socio-historical context in which our judgements are formula…
Reflections on sociology and aesthetic value
In this article, I survey a number of existing contributions to the debate concerned with sociology and aesthetic value and in doing so make a contribution to the difficult task of formulating an alternative approach. I argue that sociologists have excelled in ‘bringing art down to earth’, but in doing so they can also have a role to play in evaluating cultural objects. Awareness of the socio-historical context in which our judgements are formula…
Celebrity status and the attribution of value
The concept of status is in the background of much research on celebrity but rarely made explicit, so in this collection of articles we seek to intervene by drawing attention to the usefulness of the concept in understanding the attribution of value in celebrity culture. We consider that celebrity status derives from an accumulation of social esteem or disparagement based on the countless evaluative judgements, positive or negative, that accumula…
Cultivated invisibility and migrants' experiences of homelessness during the Covid-19 pandemic
The UK government's Everyone In scheme, announced in March 2020, required local authorities to temporarily house all homeless individuals in their area regardless of immigration status. In providing support through safe and secure accommodation, Everyone In also provided a crucial moment of visibility for migrants experiencing homelessness. Yet, just as it provided life-changing opportunities for some, the scheme was not straightforwardly a celeb…
Aesthetics and Time: Sustained and Distracted Modes of Engagement
This article considers the relation between aesthetic engagement and time. It puts forward a sociologically-based approach that considers social time and its stratifications, and it draws attention to two intersecting temporal dimensions of aesthetic engagement: the sweep of time that leads to the moment of engagement and the particular moment of engagement itself. The sweep of time needs to be explored because individuals, in common with the cul…
Evaluative judgements: Ethics, Aesthetics and 'Bad Taste
Bourdieusian research demonstrates that judgements about 'bad taste' are in great part determined by negation. In seeking to extend the reach of sociological research beyond this relational account, this article theorizes the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of evaluative judgements. First, with reference to value-rational social action, it considers the ethical dimension. Relatedly, it draws attention to debates concerning the limits of what can…
Enduring Borders: Precarity, Swift Falls and Stretched Time in the Lives of Migrants Experiencing Homelessness in the UK
In this article, we draw attention to the border and border governance as key mechanisms of class and 'race-making' in the context of an increasingly hostile immigration environment. Focusing on the life story narratives of migrants experiencing homelessness, we extend the reach of analysis beyond the experiences of asylum seekers to gain a stronger understanding of migrant experiences more broadly. In our analysis, we reveal the temporal continu…
Celebrity capital, field-specific aesthetic criteria and the status of cultural objects: The case of Masked and Anonymous
This article probes the explanatory value of the concept of celebrity capital in helping us to grasp the fate of celebrities and the cultural objects they produce when they move across to other fields. However, the article seeks to do more than this: with reference to the example of the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s incursion into the cinematic field, where he co-wrote Masked and Anonymous (2003), it contributes to debates by examining the signif…
Evaluating Culture: Sociology, Aesthetics and Policy
This article contends that a sociologically-informed approach to aesthetic value can be usefully connected to debates regarding cultural policy. Such an approach can encourage reflexivity on the part of policy makers and cultural arbiters, making them sensitive to their privileged position in social space and aware of the differential levels of access to culture experienced by the public they serve. Furthermore, it can inform research into the pr…
Reflections on sociology and aesthetic value
In this article, I survey a number of existing contributions to the debate concerned with sociology and aesthetic value and in doing so make a contribution to the difficult task of formulating an alternative approach. I argue that sociologists have excelled in ‘bringing art down to earth’, but in doing so they can also have a role to play in evaluating cultural objects. Awareness of the socio-historical context in which our judgements are formula…
A Sociology of Culture, Taste and Value
This book explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value. It examines the tensions between formal and substantive rationality; between courses of action which are instrumentally rational and those which are formulated with particular cultural values in mind; between impersonal forces and creative impulses; between the logic of profit and the ambiguity of aesthetics; between a tendency to like what we are trained to like and…
Evaluating Culture: Sociology, Aesthetics and Policy
This article contends that a sociologically-informed approach to aesthetic value can be usefully connected to debates regarding cultural policy. Such an approach can encourage reflexivity on the part of policy makers and cultural arbiters, making them sensitive to their privileged position in social space and aware of the differential levels of access to culture experienced by the public they serve. Furthermore, it can inform research into the pr…
Aesthetics and Time: Sustained and Distracted Modes of Engagement
This article considers the relation between aesthetic engagement and time. It puts forward a sociologically-based approach that considers social time and its stratifications, and it draws attention to two intersecting temporal dimensions of aesthetic engagement: the sweep of time that leads to the moment of engagement and the particular moment of engagement itself. The sweep of time needs to be explored because individuals, in common with the cul…
Culture and the Middle Classes
Rethinking therapeutic strategies in cancer: Wars, fields, anomalies and monsters
Comparison of the EQ-5D-3L and the SF-6D (SF-12) contemporaneous utility scores in patients with cardiovascular disease
Evaluative judgements: Ethics, Aesthetics and 'Bad Taste
Bourdieusian research demonstrates that judgements about 'bad taste' are in great part determined by negation. In seeking to extend the reach of sociological research beyond this relational account, this article theorizes the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of evaluative judgements. First, with reference to value-rational social action, it considers the ethical dimension. Relatedly, it draws attention to debates concerning the limits of what can…
Making Evaluative Judgements and Sometimes Making Money: Independent Publishing in the 21st Century
Independent publishing is a sector of the cultural field that is perceived to be threatened by market forces but also one in which is buoyed by critical and commercial success and a rise in the number of small presses. The article innovates by probing the oft-neglected matter of evaluative judgements as publishers, in their role as cultural intermediaries, negotiate aesthetic, ethical, commercial and temporal considerations in deciding which book…
Celebrity capital, field-specific aesthetic criteria and the status of cultural objects: The case of Masked and Anonymous
This article probes the explanatory value of the concept of celebrity capital in helping us to grasp the fate of celebrities and the cultural objects they produce when they move across to other fields. However, the article seeks to do more than this: with reference to the example of the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s incursion into the cinematic field, where he co-wrote Masked and Anonymous (2003), it contributes to debates by examining the signif…
Celebrity status and the attribution of value
The concept of status is in the background of much research on celebrity but rarely made explicit, so in this collection of articles we seek to intervene by drawing attention to the usefulness of the concept in understanding the attribution of value in celebrity culture. We consider that celebrity status derives from an accumulation of social esteem or disparagement based on the countless evaluative judgements, positive or negative, that accumula…
Culture, Conceptual Clarifications of
There is no single definition that is able to capture the complexity of the concept of culture. Therefore, to gain clarity, culture is considered as a means of human cultivation and “civilization”; as an agent of change; as a source of objective and subjective development; as an aspect of human existence on which humans confer meaning; as a way of life common to a particular group of people; as artistic practices and products; as a source of capi…
Taste
Bourdieu's research found that tastes bring people together with similar backgrounds and dispositions but they also provide a means of demarcation, highlighting inevitable differences between groups. Taste judgments are not merely subjective indicators of personal preferences. They are also a means of classifying the self and others in accordance with wider power relations. Bourdieu's sociology of taste remains the dominant model in the twenty‐fi…
Evaluative Judgments
The sociology of evaluation or evaluative judgments, which has as its focus an analysis of how we appraise things, is a relatively neglected area of inquiry. This is perhaps because, as Austin Harrington points out, sociologists have a tendency to put aside questions of value, leaving them to other disciplines. In this entry, several debates in the sociology of evaluation are outlined. These include critical sociological reflections on aesthetics…
Weather Trumps Festivity? More Cardiovascular Disease Events Occur in Winter than in December Holidays in Queensland, Australia
Objective: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of hospitalisations and deaths in Australia. This study estimates the excess CVD hospitalisations and deaths across seasons and during the December holidays in Queensland, Australia. Methods: The study uses retrospective, longitudinal, population-based cohort data from Queensland, Australia from January 2010 to December 2015. The outcomes were hospitalisations and deaths categorised as …
Excess mortality at Christmas due to cardiovascular disease in the Hunt study prospective population-based cohort in Norway
Beyond a broader pattern of seasonally-linked mortality characterised by excess winter deaths, the deadliest time of year in Central Norway coincides with the Christmas holidays. During this time, the pattern and frequency of cardiovascular-related mortality changes markedly; contrasting with a more stable pattern of cancer-related mortality. Pending confirmation in other populations and climates, further research to determine if these excess dea…
Culture(s) on the Margins: An Introduction
Sociologists and those working in related disciplines have often found more of interest on the margins than in the centre. It is where innovation takes place, where the new replaces the outmoded, where ‘outsider’ or heterodox voices challenge the orthodoxy, and where culture creators are most able to follow the laws inherent to their specific region of the cultural field. The margins are where you will find ‘underground’ or ‘cutting edge’ scenes.…
Cultivated invisibility and migrants' experiences of homelessness during the Covid-19 pandemic
The UK government's Everyone In scheme, announced in March 2020, required local authorities to temporarily house all homeless individuals in their area regardless of immigration status. In providing support through safe and secure accommodation, Everyone In also provided a crucial moment of visibility for migrants experiencing homelessness. Yet, just as it provided life-changing opportunities for some, the scheme was not straightforwardly a celeb…
Projected burden and distribution of elevated blood pressure levels and its consequence among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa
Background: There is minimal data on the number of adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with elevated blood pressure (BP) at increased risk of future cardiovascular events. Combining country-specific population data with data derived from two previously conducted meta-analyses (one African-specific, one based on international cohorts), we sought to address this knowledge deficit. Methods: We used meta-analysis data from 37 926 adolescents part…
Enduring Borders: Precarity, Swift Falls and Stretched Time in the Lives of Migrants Experiencing Homelessness in the UK
In this article, we draw attention to the border and border governance as key mechanisms of class and 'race-making' in the context of an increasingly hostile immigration environment. Focusing on the life story narratives of migrants experiencing homelessness, we extend the reach of analysis beyond the experiences of asylum seekers to gain a stronger understanding of migrant experiences more broadly. In our analysis, we reveal the temporal continu…
Global distribution of prognostically significant pulmonary pressure indicative of pulmonary hypertension
Background: There remains a paucity of data to describe how many people worldwide are affected by pulmonary hypertension (PH), an insidious condition associated with adverse vascular remodelling, progressive heart failure, and death without proactive diagnosis and management. Methods: We combined data on the population rate of echocardiographic investigations with tricuspid regurgitant velocity (TRV) levels observed within a clinical cohort of >5…
Stranger Views: Researching Marginality and (Non)Belonging Among Migrants Experiencing Homelessness in the UK
With reference to Simmel's work, this article puts forward the notion of 'stranger views', which are expressive on the one hand, of the experiences of those who occupy a marginal position in society characterised by experiences of belonging and non-belonging, and on the other, of our own position as researchers, probing spaces of non-belonging and hearing stories that are then rearticulated for an academic audience. In doing so, it provides a ref…
The softness of hard data: Discursive psychology, conversation analysis, and psychological science
Qualitative methods are sometimes criticized on the grounds that they do not provide “hard” data. However, on inspection, hard data turn out to be produced by unavoidably “soft” human interaction and activities. That means that psychologists must work directly with what people do and say and either transform it into abstractions—with potential distortions along the way—or stay with the raw events to see what questions they may answer. We argue fo…
Weird but Also Inconsistent: An Analysis of the Reporting Practices of Participant Samples Across Five Areas of Psychology
1293). As expected, we found an over-reliance on Western perspectives: Participants from Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa made up 8.7% of samples combined. However, we also found substantial variation in whether and where participants' gender, race, SES indicators, and education were reported across different areas of Psychology, as well as different norms in the use of students and crowd-sourcing platforms. Given the ch…
Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (6 works)