Simon Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7034-8318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 110 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 391 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 108 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Religious delusion or religious belief
How shall we distinguish religious delusion from sane religious belief?Making this determination is not usually found to be difficult in clinical practice -but what shall be our theoretical rationale?Attempts to answer this question often try to provide differentiating principles by which the religious "sheep" may be separated from the delusional "goats."As we shall see, none of these attempts work.We may, however, ask whether the assumption unde…
Capital, fracciones de capital y Estado. Análisis ‘neomarxista’ del Estado sudafricano
Este artículo examina lo que se ha llamado el enfoque ‘neomarxista’ o, más desagradablemente, el ‘vulgar poulantziano’, enfoque del Estado. La característica típica de este enfoque es una formulación de la relación entre el capital y el Estado en términos de la lucha entre ‘fracciones del capital’ para establecer la posición de ‘fracción hegemónica’ dentro del ‘bloque de poder’. El Estado representa entonces la unidad del capital en relación con …
La teoría marxista de la sobreacumulación y la crisis
En este artículo pretendo contrastar las teorías de crisis de la década de 1970 basadas en la "tasa de ganancia decreciente" con el "subconsumismo" de la tradición marxista ortodoxa. El argumento central es que, al rechazar las teorías subconsumistas tradicionales de la crisis, el marxismo contemporáneo ha tirado al bebé junto con el agua de la bañera, con desafortunadas consecuencias teóricas y políticas. Una crítica más adecuada del subconsumis…
Compulsory Vaccination and Nozickian Rights
This article examines compulsory vaccination from the perspective of Nozick's theory of rights. It argues that the unvaccinated are a threat, even if unintended, to the rights of others. The reasons Nozick provides for when such threats may be forcibly prevented, such as the identifiability of the rights violator, general fear of the risky activity, probability of harm, and the general benefits of the activity, are examined, and it is argued that…
I Would Have Never Told You that’ – Using Rich Pictures as a Qualitative Tool to Uncover Tacit Perspectives on Leadership
Interviews and focus groups are the mainstay of qualitative research, but may not capture fully the perspectives of participants when investigating complex social phenomena. Increasingly visual elicitation techniques, including Rich Pictures, are being utilised to further explore tacit perspectives. Two key questions around Rich Pictures were considered: ‘What are the affordances and constraints of using Rich Pictures to uncover tacit perspective…
Leading schools in the face of great adversity
The study of disadvantages in education at all levels in Ireland is a well-researched field (Doyle and Keane 2019; Fleming and Harford 2021; Kellaghan 1995; Skerritt 2017; Tormey 2010). A variety of research approaches have been used by those involved in the endeavour to provide a range of valuable associated insights. We offer this paper at a time when other approaches yet again are called for as Ireland, like many other European countries, is h…
Tactical authenticity in the production of autoethnographic mad narratives
Primary School Leadership in Cambodia
Primary School Leadership in Cambodia: Context-Bound Teaching and Leading , Primary School Leadership in Cambodia: Context-Bound Teaching and Leading , کتابخانه های دانشگاه کردستان
Madhouse and the whole thing there
This article presents an autoethnography in the form of a short story of the experiences of a mental breakdown, and subsequent involuntary detainment, alongside the experiences of conducting PhD research outside the mainstream of the discipline of psychology. In response to criticisms of narrative approaches that they are methodologically solipsistic and present a socially atomised self, this narrative combines patient medical records with narrat…
Debussy's Speculative Idea
This article seeks to determine the extent to which timbral and textural concerns inform the musical substance of Debussy's Jeux . Of particular interest are passages in which foreground detail effaces itself in the interests of orchestral qualities, those where an overabundance of surface detail is preconfigured so as to maximize orchestral efficacy, and sections where a more traditional distinction between compositional content and orchestratio…
Educational Leadership and Context
The amount of empirical research on leadership of educational organisations, and especially of schools, which has stressed the importance of being sensitive to context, is not great. This paper seeks to highlight the challenge presented by this situation. First, context is defined. Second, attention is drawn to what can be learned in the area of school leadership from the emphasis in other bodies of scholarship within the broad field of education…
A Study of the Secondary School History Curriculum in Chile from Colonial Times to the Present
"The focus of this book is on the secondary school history curriculum in Chile from colonial times to the present. By way of background, attention is paid to the development of the history curriculum in the three countries which have most influenced educational developments in Chile, namely, England, the United States of America and Spain. The academic literature on the history curriculum throughout the English-speaking and Latin-speaking world, …
Knowing What to Do and Being Able to Do It
Consequential Neutrality Revivified
Liberal neutrality requires that, given the diversity of conceptions of the good life held by people, the state should be in some sense neutral between these conceptions. Just what that sense is has been a matter of debate but it seems generally accepted that neutrality is a property of the justifications for government action and not of the consequences of such action. In other words, the state must be neutral by avoiding invoking any conception…
Theories of Race and Ethnicity
How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades and what new developments have emerged? Theories of Race and Ethnicity provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of theoretically grounded and empirically informed essays. It covers a range of key issues in race and ethnicity studies, such as genetics and race, post-race debates, racial eliminativism and the legacy of Barack Obama, and mixed race i…
Examining fast and slow effects for alcohol and negative emotion in problem and social drinkers
Attentional bias (AB) for alcohol-related stimuli has been consistently demonstrated in social and problem drinkers. The aims of this study were to: investigate whether AB for alcohol-related stimuli could be described as a slow effect as well as a fast effect; how these effects relate to drinking behaviour; and the influence of the experimental procedure on priming effects. Two experiments were designed. In experiment 1, problem drinkers in trea…
Line and Colour
This essay subjects Adorno's historical dialectic of musical material, as it pertains to instrumentation, to Bataille's economic reading of dialectics (and latterly, to Derrida's reading of Bataille). There is a certain excess, an accumulation of waste, that cannot be jettisoned in Adorno's musicology; the problems that arise pertain directly to a musical work's ontological status as transcendental ‘thing in itself’, score, and/or performance. Th…
Preparing for principalship from the crucible of experience
This paper examines the theories of organisation that have informed our understanding of schools as complex social worlds and the practice of school leadership that seems to be required in such environments. This understanding has, in turn, determined the research approach we have adopted for investigating principals’ work and for ascertaining the utility of existing approaches to their initial preparation. The paper argues that the extent to whi…
White Identities
Balancing Environmental and Cultural Impact against the Strategic Need for Wind Power
Wind power is seen by many as a key industry for the future: an environmentally benign renewable energy to replace fossil fuels. The Northern and Western Isles, with their high average wind speeds, would seem to be well placed to exploit this rapidly emerging demand. As well as meeting a global need, to reduce output of greenhouse gases and a national need for security of supply into the twenty‐first century, wind power promises an economic futur…
Culture and Identity
I. `I Don't Think That's Normal
Home, Identity and Community Cohesion
Development of Capitalism in Russia
"This book provides a broad survey of the development of capitalism in Russia from the collapse of the soviet economic system to the present, and includes the results of substantial new research on the working practices of a wide range of Russian enterprises. It surveys, briefly, the old soviet system, and goes on to chart progress through the early post-soviet period, when neo-liberal theorists' 'shock therapy' did not lead to the immediate deve…
Editors' Introduction to Commentaries on State Regulation of Psychoanalysis
The Myth of the Urban Peasant
This paper explores, the ‘myth of the urban peasant’, the widespread belief that urban Russian households are surviving the collapse of employment and money incomes by turning to subsistence agriculture. On the basis of the analysis of official and survey data the paper shows that although many urban households grow food in their garden plots, those with low money incomes are the least likely to do so, while subsistence production is a complement…
Theory and Practice
Over the past few years there has been an increasing interest in the use of psychoanalytic ideas within a sociological framework. These ideas have been largely developed within sociological theory rather than practice. There does, however, seem to be a new frame of thought and practice emerging which we could term psycho-social studies, perhaps even a new discipline in its own right. In this article I will discuss the development of the use of ps…
Overaccumulation, class struggle and the regulation approach
This timely article builds on the recent discussion of French regulation theory in Capital & Class. Aglietta's seminal work is subject to careful critical scrutiny and is shown to have major historical and theoretical limitations. The author calls for a non-structuralist/functionalist analysis of the present crisis
Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology
Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology offers an original interpretation of Marx's critique of political economy as the basis of a critique of modern economics and sociology. The core of the book is a
Capital, Fractions of Capital and the State
This paper examines what has been called the 'neo-Marxist' or, more unkindly, the 'vulgar Poulantzian', approach to the state. The typical feature of this approach is a formulation of the relation between capital and the state in terms of the struggle between 'fractions of capital' to establish the position of 'hegemonic fraction' within the 'power bloc'. The state then represents the unity of capital in relation to the proletariat and the domina…
Marxism, Sociology and Poulantzas' Theory of the State
Political developments in the last ten years have led to a very considerable renewal of interest in Marxist economic and political analysis, and to a concerted attempt to reinvigorate Marxist theory as a revolutionary force. The focus of this
Post-socialist trade unions
This paper identifies the constraints and opportunities facing trade unions in post-socialist societies through a comparison of the Russian and Chinese cases. The paper charts the changing role of trade unions in the integration of state-socialist economies into global capitalism and argues that this presents the trade unions with a dilemma: whether to reconstitute their traditional role through collaboration with management and the state apparat…
Constructing ‘the eating disordered patient’1
In this study 39 participants who had all been hospitalized, either in Britain or Australia, at least once for anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia, were interviewed about their experiences of treatment for an eating disorder. Each interview lasted approximately 1 hour and was semi‐structured in nature covering: (i) the beginning of participants' problems and their initial diagnosis; (ii) their history of previous interventions; (iii) their current in…
Kremlin Capitalism
Crise do fordismo ou crise da social-democracia
Learning from experience
There is a growing interest in both psychoanalytically informed theory and practice in the social sciences. Psycho-social studies and psychoanalytic studies address serious social and political issues through a critical welding of sociological and psychoanalytic perspectives. This raises the question: how do we actually use this form of analysis in the practical research environment? In this article, the author seeks to outline a psycho-social re…
Splitting Difference
In this paper I will argue that the inclusion of certain aspects of psychoanalytic theory into sociological analysis can be particularly enlightening in specific areas of social research where traditional theory and practice have failed to explain phenomena satisfactorily. This is arguably the case in the explanation of hatred and exclusion, where powerful affective forces fuel racist discourse and support structures of discimination. This is not…
Psychoanalytic Sociology and the Interpretation of Emotion
Simon Clarke, Psychoanalytic Sociology and the Interpretation of Emotion, pp. 145–163. In this paper I explore the sociological study of emotion, contrasting constructionist and psychoanalytic accounts of envy as an emotion. I seek not to contra each vis‐à‐vis the other but to establish some kind of synthesis in a psychoanalytic sociology of emotion. I argue that although the constructionist approach to emotion gives us valuable insights into the…
The Marxist Theory of Overaccumulation and Crisis
In this paper I intend to contrast the ‘falling rate of profit ’ crisis theories of the 1970s with the ‘underconsumptionism ’ of the orthodox Marxist tradition. The central argument is that in rejecting traditional underconsumptionist theories of crisis contemporary Marxism has thrown the baby out with the bathwater, with unfortunate theoretical and political consequences. A more adequate critique of traditional underconsumptionism leads not to t…
Another look at the degree results of men and women
This paper starts with a critical examination of the claims made in a recent paper by Ernest Rudd (1984) on the relative performance of men and women at degree level, and proceeds to evaluate Rudd's explanation of performance differentials before finally concluding that the most fruitful explanations are likely to be in terms of discriminatory social and institutional pressures. The first part of the paper shows that Rudd overestimates the tenden…
The Closure of the Russian Labour Market
This paper reports on recent research on the job search and placement strategies of Russian employees. Wage differentials have increased enormously in Russia, which would lead a labour economist to expect that informal methods of job search would have declined as people have to widen their search to get better jobs while employers open up competition to reduce wages. In fact the data clearly show that it has become increasingly important to have …
The New Private Sector in the Russian Labour Market
ACCORDING TO THE DOMINANT MODEL of the transition to a market economy, the leading role in transition should be played by the new private sector as entrepreneurs seize on the new opportunities opened up by the collapse of the old system. As the engine of economic growth, the new private sector should have been the creator of new jobs and employment opportunities for those displaced from traditional state enterprises and organisations. The policy …
Educational Leadership and Context
The amount of empirical research on leadership of educational organisations, and especially of schools, which has stressed the importance of being sensitive to context, is not great. This paper seeks to highlight the challenge presented by this situation. First, context is defined. Second, attention is drawn to what can be learned in the area of school leadership from the emphasis in other bodies of scholarship within the broad field of education…
The privatisation of industrial enterprises in Russia
(1994). The privatisation of industrial enterprises in Russia: Four case‐studies. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 179-214
New Utopias for old
Clarke presents an imaginative critique of post-Fordism as the latest Utopian vision of the resolution of the contradictions of capitalist production
One-Dimensional Marxism
A definition of paternalism
I define paternalism in the following way. X behaves paternalistically towards y: (1) only if x aims to close an option that would otherwise be open to y, or x chooses for y in the event that y is unable to choose for himself; and (2) to the extent that x does so in order to promote y's good. Paternalism covers both acts and omissions and may be successful or unsuccessful, and I distinguish it from benevolence. This definition is contrasted with …
Crisis of Socialism or Crisis of the state
The collapse of the state socialist regimes of Eastern Europe has been met with dumbfound silence by much of the left. This is ironic, because the harshest critics of state socialism have long been found on the left. Perhaps the main source of dismay has been that we had always held a naive hope that the overthrow of state socialism would be based on a mass popular movement calling for `true socialism'. However, this view was not based on any ser…
Market and Institutional Determinants of Wage Differentiation in Russia
Using a range of official and survey data, the author evaluates the relative success of two approaches—competitive labor market theory and industrial relations theory/institutional economics—in explaining wage determination in Russia. Following a review of the analysis of wage determination by an influential team of World Bank economists, the author shows that increased wage inequality in Russia is dominated by inequality within occupational cate…
Budgetary Management in Russian Households
This article reports the findings of a recent survey of Russian households ( N = 4023) which included questions on household budgetary management and financial decision-making. The findings are related to comparable British research on these questions. The budgetary practices of Russian households are shown to correspond to those typical of dual-earner Western households, but there is almost none of the variation according to socio-demographic ch…
Marxism, Sociology and Poulantzas' Theory of the State
Political developments in the last ten years have led to a very considerable renewal of interest in Marxist economic and political analysis, and to a concerted attempt to reinvigorate Marxist theory as a revolutionary force. The focus of this
Levi-Strauss's Structural Analysis of Myth
Books reviewed
R. W. Johnson, The Future of South Africa (London: Macmillan, 1977. pp. viii + 328. £4.95 h.b., paper £1.95) W. A. De Klerk, Puritans in Africa: A Story of Afrikanerdom (London, Rex Collings, 1975). T. Dunbar Moodie, The Rise of Afrikanerdom: Power, Apartheid, and the Afrikaner Civil Religion (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London; University of California Press; 1975). Hendrik W. Van Der Merwe (ed), Identiteit en Verandering: Sewe Opstelle Oor die Afri…
Capital, Fractions of Capital and the State
This paper examines what has been called the 'neo-Marxist' or, more unkindly, the 'vulgar Poulantzian', approach to the state. The typical feature of this approach is a formulation of the relation between capital and the state in terms of the struggle between 'fractions of capital' to establish the position of 'hegemonic fraction' within the 'power bloc'. The state then represents the unity of capital in relation to the proletariat and the domina…
The Origins of Levi-Strauss's Structuralism
The paper is concerned with the intellectual origins of Lévi-Strauss's structuralism. In the first section I define this structuralism, arguing that it consists of far more than a simple method, being underpinned by an epistemology and a theory of man in society. I argue further that this structuralism cannot be seen as the application of a method pioneered in linguistics, indicating that the 'structural' aspects of Levi-Strauss's first major the…
Towards a Socialist History
Towards a Socialist History: Socialist Humanism and the Critique of Economism Simon Clarke Simon Clarke Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 8, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1979, Pages 137–156, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/8.1.137 Published: 01 October 1979
The Foundations of Structuralism
The Foundations of Structuralism
One-Dimensional Marxism
Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology
Marx's Social Theory
Making Sense of Marx.Jon Elster
Another look at the degree results of men and women
This paper starts with a critical examination of the claims made in a recent paper by Ernest Rudd (1984) on the relative performance of men and women at degree level, and proceeds to evaluate Rudd's explanation of performance differentials before finally concluding that the most fruitful explanations are likely to be in terms of discriminatory social and institutional pressures. The first part of the paper shows that Rudd overestimates the tenden…
Overaccumulation, class struggle and the regulation approach
This timely article builds on the recent discussion of French regulation theory in Capital & Class. Aglietta's seminal work is subject to careful critical scrutiny and is shown to have major historical and theoretical limitations. The author calls for a non-structuralist/functionalist analysis of the present crisis
The basic theory of capitalism
The Uno Approach and the Pure Theory of Capitalism
The Social Significance of Villa Architecture in Celtic North West Europe
J. T. Smith's suggestion that many villas in north west Europe were owned and occupied by more than one household is examined statistically and found to be unsupported by architectural evidence. Possible social explanations for this are examined, with particular reference to Hingley's social interpretation of the upper Thames region
The Marxist Theory of Overaccumulation and Crisis
In this paper I intend to contrast the ‘falling rate of profit ’ crisis theories of the 1970s with the ‘underconsumptionism ’ of the orthodox Marxist tradition. The central argument is that in rejecting traditional underconsumptionist theories of crisis contemporary Marxism has thrown the baby out with the bathwater, with unfortunate theoretical and political consequences. A more adequate critique of traditional underconsumptionism leads not to t…
Keynesianism, Monetarism and the Crisis of the State
New Utopias for old
Clarke presents an imaginative critique of post-Fordism as the latest Utopian vision of the resolution of the contradictions of capitalist production
Crisis of Socialism or Crisis of the state
The collapse of the state socialist regimes of Eastern Europe has been met with dumbfound silence by much of the left. This is ironic, because the harshest critics of state socialism have long been found on the left. Perhaps the main source of dismay has been that we had always held a naive hope that the overthrow of state socialism would be based on a mass popular movement calling for `true socialism'. However, this view was not based on any ser…
Overaccumulation, Class Struggle and the Regulation Approach
The State Debate
Introduction The core papers in this collection present a particular approach to the capitalist state which was developed during the 1970s in working groups of the Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE). Although these papers built on collective discussion, they by no means expressed a consensus within the CSE, or even within the relevant working groups. The justification for their selection is not that they are representative of work within th…
Marxism, Sociology and Poulantzas’s Theory of the State
Political developments in the last ten years have led to a very considerable renewal of interest in Marxist economic and political analysis, and to a concerted attempt to reinvigorate Marxist theory as a revolutionary force. The focus of this movement is the attempt to develop a Marxist critique of Stalinist dogmatism and of post-Stalinist revisionism. Its material conditions are the end of the long wave of post-war capitalist expansion and the r…
State, Class Struggle, and the Reproduction of Capital
In the last few years, the Marxist theory of the state has been the focus of continuous debate. The main aim of most of the contributions to the debate has been to steer a middle way between ‘vulgar’ conceptions of the state as a mere tool of capital and ‘reformist’ conceptions of the state as a neutral institution standing outside and above the class struggle. The focus of recent discussion has been the attempt to develop an adequate account of …
Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology
We are now in a position to return to the question posed in the first chapter of the character and scientific status of the reorientation of social thought that took place at the end of the nineteenth-century. There is little doubt that such a reorientation did in fact take place, and that this reorientation did not simply involve a change in a number of elements of a given system. It involved a fundamental change in the ‘structure of the theoret…
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