John O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7491-0563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Key Dimensions of Culturally Competent Mental Health Care for Roma and Traveller Populations: A Rapid Review
A Bayesian mixture model captures temporal and spatial structure of voting blocs within longitudinal referendum data
The estimation of voting blocs is an important statistical inquiry in political science. However, the scope of these analyses is usually restricted to roll call data where individual votes are directly observed. Here, we examine a Bayesian mixture model with Dirichlet-multinomial components to infer voting blocs within longitudinal referendum data. This model infers voting bloc mixture within municipalities using state-level data aggregated at th…
Introduction. Une Renaissance dissidente
Ce volume analyse la dissidence à la Renaissance comme écart, discordance ou résistance, au-delà de l’hérésie. Montaigne, Rabelais, La Boétie et d’autres figures manifestent, par le langage et la littérature, des postures de désaccord face aux orthodoxies théologiques, médicales ou politiques. La dissidence apparaît ainsi comme un habitus critique et créatif, social et culturel, offrant un espace de réflexion et de liberté intellectuelle
Medicare Part D Coverage of Drugs Selected for the Drug Price Negotiation Program
This cross-sectional study describes and historically benchmarks Medicare Part D coverage in 2019 and 2023 for the first 10 drugs selected for negotiation
La Boétie Absolutist? An episode in the history of political thought
First published in 1652–1654 and then in a new edition in 1666, the Discours politiques of the académicien Daniel de Priézac (1590–1662) have been characterized as a statement of Aristotelian politics in the service of absolutism. The aspect of interest in this article is Priézac’s hitherto unnoticed practice of quoting from La Boétie’s La Servitude volontaire. It may seem strange that a treatise so often associated with anti-tyrannical literatur…
What the Banshees of Inisherin is about
This paper discusses how the film The Banshees of Inisherin represents and employs key sociological concepts and ideas, namely those of liminality, schismogenesis, stasis and transgression, relating to the social pathologies of contemporary civilization
Introduction: O hommes disposez & prompts à la servitude
Slavery and Freedom in a Time of Civil War: La Boétie, L’Hospital, and Montaigne
The modern ‘neo-Roman' or ‘republican' concept of freedom as liberty from the arbitrary will of another is the starting point for a discussion of three French Renaissance magistrates for whom freedom is paramount political question: La Boétie, L'Hospital, and Montaigne. The first of these sees freedom in ontological terms, the foundation of being as well as of any political system in the form of freedom of expression and amitié. The article shows…
Obituary: Richard Parish (1948-2022)
Rural residency as a risk factor for severe maternal morbidity
PURPOSE: The goal of this study was to evaluate how rural/urban status and other risk factors alter women's odds of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) at delivery. METHODS: This study used 48,608 Kentucky resident delivery hospitalization records from 2017. We used multiple logistic regression with interaction terms to evaluate the moderating effect of rural/urban residence with other risk factors. We reported adjusted odds ratios (aORs) and 95% con…
Un poème latin de La Boétie et ses variantes: L’épitaphe sur la mort du marquis de Beaupréau
Le ms BnF Dupuy 951 contient un poème latin de La Boétie, son épitaphe sur la disparition brutale du jeune marquis de Beaupréau, poème que Montaigne devait publier en 1571. La version du ms Dupuy est recopiée de la main de Daniel Rogers (ca. 1538-91), poète et diplomate anglais, et exhibe sous sa plume d’importantes variantes textuelles dont nous montrons qu’elles témoignent de tout un courant d’activité intellectuelle œuvrant, au lendemain de sa…
Russell D Lansbury, Crossing Boundaries: Work and Industrial Relations in Perspective
The use of public houses as a collective representation of the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland
Pubs have served as a collective representation through which the collective identity of ‘Irish society’ has been articulated during the crisis of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As such they offer a case study of how meaning making occurs in contemporary periods of social crisis. While the neoliberal era is widely interpreted as period involving a process of desymbolisation in which meaning giving traditions are undermined, in …
Constructing sociology: The IJS and academic institution building
Politics and Society being added to the second-level curriculum has introduced sociology for the first time to schools, doing something to catch up with the situation in Northern Ireland where sociology is an A-Level subject. In teacher education only those with a teaching qualification can deliver sociology modules, and not for instance a person with a PhD in sociology of education. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Irish Journal of Soci…
Naming my world: Finding my voice
This is a personal account of a sociological career over four decades, influenced by developments in Irish society and sociology. I focus on the growth of a feminist sociology, the stigmatisation of unmarried mothers, concealed stories and the changing treatment of ‘voice’ in sociological research
The dialectic of alienation and sociability: A Simmelian reading of the pandemic
Variations in the Temporal Structure of Sociability across American Cities
Though sociologists have been interested in how temporal patterns of sociability vary in urban contexts, the study of city-level dynamics at short timescales has been challenging historically. Social media and new computational methods provide a solution. Our study clusters cities using sociality as a metric. We collected three months of social media data to investigate variation in the temporal structure of sociability across American cities. We…
A cacophony of protocol: Disability services in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
Re-examining Restructuring: Racialization, Religious Conservatism, and Political Leanings in Contemporary American Life
This paper assesses the continued relevance of Robert Wuthnow’s seminal theory of “religious restructuring” for explaining the relationship between religious conservatism and political allegiances in the contemporary United States. Employing a comparative approach, we evaluate the link between doctrinal conservatism (or liberalism) and political conservatism across the seven largest US religious traditions, including Islam. We find that for most …
A path to the future, or ambivalent payoffs: Tragic complexity, or a foundation for good order
Rosa’s concept of ‘resonance’ requires greater consideration of the tensions, traps and payoffs that will result from the political programmes and institutions that will have to be developed if the concept is to be protected and promoted. The paper points out the sacrifices of ideals and resort to power and coercion that tends to come with institution building and political action, and that can warp to absurdity foundational radiant ideals. Lesso…
Perceived Group Deprivation and Intergroup Solidarity: Muslims' Attitudes towards Other Minorities in the United States
What is the relationship between the sense of perceived discrimination among members of a marginalized racial, ethnic, or religious group and their political attitudes towards other marginalized groups within their society? Research on minority groups in politics has established that the feeling that one's own group is socially deprived and discriminated against is generally associated with an increase in within-group solidarity, observable in me…
Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys
This book provides a uniquely personal look at the social worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the complexities of growing up Muslim in America. The book offers a compelling portrait of typical Muslim American teenage boys concerned with typical teenage issues—girlfriends, school, parents, being cool—yet who are also expected to be good, practicing Muslims who don't date before marriage, who avoid vulgar popular culture, and w…
The Origins of Worker Mobilisation: Australia, 1788–1850
States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation
This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from both anthropological research and historical sociology to examine our ambivalent attitudes to alcohol in the modern West. From anthropological research on non-Western, non-modern cultures, the author demonstrates that the use of alcohol or other psychoactive substances is a universal across human societies, and indeed, has tended to be seen as unproblematic,…
London Youth, Religion, and Politics: Engagement and Activism from Brixton to Brick Lane
Spoiled Group Identities and Backstage Work: A Theory of Stigma Management Rehearsals
How do persons with a stigmatized identity learn potential responses to discrimination and harassment? Drawing on three and a half years of ethnographic data, this paper demonstrates how members of a group of Muslim American youth are socialized in locally dominant stigma management strategies through stigma management rehearsals. Stigma management rehearsals are small group interactions through which leaders and members encourage their peers to …
Individualism as a Discursive Strategy of Action: Autonomy, Agency, and Reflexivity among Religious Americans
This paper reconceptualizes 'individualism' as a discursive strategy of action through which everyday Americans attempt to manage the cultural dilemma of engaging in externally imposed social obligations within a broader individualistic culture. While classic formulations have treated individualism as a strong cultural force directing actors toward voluntaristic and privatized lives, my analysis-grounded in an inductive analysis of 17 qualitative…
Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715-1865
Perceived Group Deprivation and Intergroup Solidarity: Muslims' Attitudes towards Other Minorities in the United States
What is the relationship between the sense of perceived discrimination among members of a marginalized racial, ethnic, or religious group and their political attitudes towards other marginalized groups within their society? Research on minority groups in politics has established that the feeling that one's own group is socially deprived and discriminated against is generally associated with an increase in within-group solidarity, observable in me…
Death of a Partner: Perspectives of Heterosexual and Gay Men
Previous studies have examined how individuals cope with the death of a partner. Most of these studies have focused on the experiences of women or have studied men only in comparison to women. This qualitative study focused only on the experiences of men, both heterosexual and gay men, grieving the untimely death of a partner due to a terminal illness. In-person two-hour interviews were conducted with 12 men. Data were analyzed using the constant…
Muslim American youth and secular hip hop: Manifesting "cool piety" through musical practices
Reconstructing the Academic Worker: Industrial Relations in the Higher Education Sector
∗This is a revised version of a paper given to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, Australian National University, 28 November‐2 December 1988
Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-1884
Variations in the Temporal Structure of Sociability across American Cities
Though sociologists have been interested in how temporal patterns of sociability vary in urban contexts, the study of city-level dynamics at short timescales has been challenging historically. Social media and new computational methods provide a solution. Our study clusters cities using sociality as a metric. We collected three months of social media data to investigate variation in the temporal structure of sociability across American cities. We…
A path to the future, or ambivalent payoffs: Tragic complexity, or a foundation for good order
Rosa’s concept of ‘resonance’ requires greater consideration of the tensions, traps and payoffs that will result from the political programmes and institutions that will have to be developed if the concept is to be protected and promoted. The paper points out the sacrifices of ideals and resort to power and coercion that tends to come with institution building and political action, and that can warp to absurdity foundational radiant ideals. Lesso…
Are We Reading what Montaigne Wrote
Freedom and Public Education
Imaginative Programming in Probation and Parole . Paul W. Keve
The Hello House Fire; Response of Alcoholics to Crisis
Analysis of responses of male psychiatric inpatients to a questionnaire indicated that those who had negative attitudes toward alcohol experienced more frequent and severe hangovers, regardless of the amounts they drank, than those who had favorable attitudes toward drinking
Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies , Stanley L. Engerman and Eugene D. Genovese, eds
Peten: An Archaeological Site Prediction Technique
The present-day boundaries of Guatemala and nearby areas, including the Yucatan, encompass the Maya, whose presence can be traced to 2,500 B.C. (Coe: 1966). The Maya have experienced a great part of general evolution, passing from the hunter and gatherer to agricultural/technological levels; they have organized as bands, tribes, and chiefdoms and now live within a modern nation state. Throughout this progression they have had to contend with forc…
The Relgion of the Slaves: A Study of the Religious Tradition and Behaviour of Plantation Slaves in the United States 1830-1865
Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715-1865
After Slavery: Black Labour and the Postwar Southern Economy
The Free Black in Urban America 1800-1850: The Shadow of the Dream
Class, Conflict, and Consensus: Antebellum Southern Community Studies
Each the work of a specialist on the antebellum South, these essays address broad issues such as the slavery system, the growth of the cotton industry, and the growing sectional self-consciousness of the South. The authors' local, microcosmic approaches permit examination of subjects such as local justice, economic failure, slave marriages, and slave insurrection with an in-depth attention rarely possible in general works
The Presence of the Past
Alienation as Expressed in Three Twentieth‐Century Operas
The Politics of Race in New York: The Struggle for Black Suffrage in the Civil War Era , by Phyllis F. Field
Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-1884
The Effects of Incest on Female Adolescent Development
The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
IOWAfathers who periodically carried out "purity raids" on the brothels, while simultaneously making money from the illegal business.Although relatively few members of the ranking establishment drew direct revenues from the vice trade, prominent businessmen, office holders, and civic leaders indirectly profited because the prostitutes brought dollars and clients into the broader marketplace.Sizable towns which might have attempted to eliminate th…
A Divided Unity! Politics of N.S.W. teacher militancy since 1945
Translation, philology and polemic in Denys Lambin's Nicomachean Ethics of 1558
The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause
First published in 1987, Confederate Image examines the popular lithographs and engravings cherished by Southerners during and after the Civil War. These images helped sustain and revive identity following the collapse of the Confederacy. (Though, ironically, most were actually crafted by Northern artisans.) The book focuses on prints of the three most prominent figures of the conflict--Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson--but a…
Syllabi and Instructional Materials for the Sociology of Emotions
Reconstructing the Academic Worker: Industrial Relations in the Higher Education Sector
∗This is a revised version of a paper given to the Annual Conference of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, Australian National University, 28 November‐2 December 1988
Against Pain as a Tool in Professional Work on People with Severe Disabilities
This paper discusses the ethics of professional use of pain as a means of changing people with severe disabilities. It states principles for selecting responses to a person who injures self or others, distingishes the professional application of pain from other occasions of pain, examines the limits of dealing with the ethics of inflicting pain from within the perspectives of professionalism and due process, and identifies some social conditions …
Common Whites: Class and Culture in Antebellum North Carolina
Anacreon Redivivus: A Study of Anacreontic Translation in Mid-Sixteenth-Century France
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