Ian Mcdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Mcdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONALD I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9091-4396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
When the Penny Drops: Understanding how social class influences speciality careers in the UK medical profession
In the UK, the medical profession is socially exclusive and socially stratified as doctors from more advantaged backgrounds are more likely to train for specialities with more competitive entry. However, in research to date the causes and consequences of social stratification have been overlooked. We explore this subject here, drawing on a qualitative study comprising in-depth interviews with 30 medical students and doctors from less advantaged s…
Measuring the impact of a positive psychology course at a Thai university: Addressing student well‐being in challenging times
Even before the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, researchers had raised concerns about the mental health of youth worldwide. One response has been the development of positive psychology interventions (PPIs) designed to enhance well‐being. This study, conducted at a Thai university, investigated the impact of an online positive psychology course containing several PPIs on student well‐being as measured by the EPOCH Measure of Adolescent Well‐Being,…
Isotopic evidence of increasing water abundance and lake hydrological change in Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada
Lake-rich northern permafrost landscapes are sensitive to changing climate conditions, but ability to track real-time and potentially multiple hydrological responses (e.g. lake expansion, drawdown, drainage) is challenging due to absence of long-term, sustainable monitoring programs in these remote locations. Old Crow Flats (OCF), Yukon, is a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance where concerns about low water levels and their consequences f…
Deflecting Privilege: Class Identity and the Intergenerational Self
Why do people from privileged class backgrounds often misidentify their origins as working class? We address this question by drawing on 175 interviews with those working in professional and managerial occupations, 36 of whom are from middle-class backgrounds but identify as working class or long-range upwardly mobile. Our findings indicate that this misidentification is rooted in a self-understanding built on particular 'origin stories' which ac…
Marxist and Neo-Marxist Approaches on Sport
This chapter presents an overview and a critique of the main contours of Marxist sociology of sport that developed in the academy in the USA and western Europe. It deals with a call for more utopian thinking, appropriately conceived, as the basis for a revolutionary Marxist sociology of sport. The chapter focuses on the contribution of Marxism to the critique of sport. Speaking at the funeral of Karl Marx in 1883, his lifelong friend and collabor…
Migration and Sorting in the American Electorate: Evidence From the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study
Migration is a significant factor in the composition of U.S. electoral constituencies, including U.S. House districts. Does migration contribute to geographic homogeneity, and does the result contribute to political polarization in a significant way? This article considers this question using the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey. To determine individual-level migration patterns, residence information from individual survey responden…
Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport
The cultural ubiquity, political prominence and economic significance of contemporary sport present fertile terrain for its critical socio-cultural analysis. From corporate and media dominated mega-events like the Olympic Games, to state programmes for nation-building and health promotion, to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, age and disability, sport is so profoundly marked by relations of power that it lends itself to critique a…
Culture, Politics and Sport: Blowing the Whistle, Revisited
'Whannel is a foundational figure in the study of sports and the media. ...For 20 years his writing has set a high standard ...and it remains an inspiration to many' - Toby Miller, Professor of Cultural Studies, New York University, USA Garry Whannel’s text Blowing the Whistle: The Politics of Sport broke new ground when it was first published in 1983. Its polemical discussion brought sports as cultural politics into the academic arena and set th…
Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport
Bodily practice, performance art, competitive sport: A critique of kalarippayattu, the martial art of Kerala
How are we to understand the meaning and politics of kalarippayattu in contemporary Kerala? This article begins by outlining the meaning of kalarippayattu in the mythohistorical landscape of feudal south India and its place in contributing to the development of cultural identity in the nascent state of Kerala. This provides a context for interpreting the different ways in which globalisation is reconfiguring kalarippayattu: a hitherto composite k…
Situating the Sport Documentary
Sport documentaries constitute a significant aspect of the documentary tradition. Yet they remain an underresearched area of critique in both documentary studies and sport studies. This article begins by exploring the reasons for the low status of the sport documentary before engaging in an analysis of range of recent and contemporary sport documentaries. The cinematic sport documentary is situated within the resurgence of the documentary form as…
Researching health care: Designs, Dilemmas, Disciplines
Theorising Partnerships: Governance, Communicative Action and Sport Policy
Under New Labour, partnerships have emerged to become a central mechanism of service delivery in social policy. In response to this development, a number of papers and texts have appeared that have questioned the claims made for the benefits of partnerships by politicians and policy makers. In particular, the gap between the rhetoric of inclusiveness and the practice of exclusion in partnership working has been highlighted. However, as pertinent …
"Race," Sport, and British Society
A Poem
Hindu Nationalism, Cultural Spaces, and Bodily Practices in India
With the opening of India to the global economy, technology, and culture, questions of national identity are being starkly posed and tested. An attendant rise in militant Hindu nationalism can be seen as a bold strategic response to this question as it attempts to place India among the most powerful nations in global modernity. Analyses of this attempt to fundamentally transform India have tended to be pitched at the institutional levels of econo…
Race', Sport and British Society
Foreward. Paul Gilroy, Yale University, USA Section 1. Research into Current Levels and Forms of Sports Racism: Some Empirical Explorations Section II. Public Controversies Over `Race' and Sport: Science, Media and the Law Section III. Challenging Discourses/ Contesting Identities
Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Sport
Physiological Patriots: The Politics of Physical Culture and Hindu Nationalism in India
During the last decade, there has been a resurgence of Hindu nationalism in India. The most influential protagonist in this movement is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a uniformed male voluntary organization committed to the creation of a strong Hindu state. From primary research conducted on training programmes of the RSS in India during 1998, it was found that a combination of exercises, games, sports, yoga and prayers is used to inculca…
Fagan, Sean, S. M. 1997 . Does Morality Change? Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, pp. 216
Fagan, Sean, S. M. 1997 . Does Morality Change? Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, pp. 216
Cardiac disease construction on the borderland
Covering your Back: Strategies for Qualitative Research in Clinical Settings
Evaluating or analyzing clinical practice often involves an analysis of the social context of care. This has created research opportunities for health sociologists to work on multidisciplinary teams with clinicians. This article gives an account of the methodological strategies that were necessary for completing a critical, qualitative study of the social impact of echocardiography (cardiac ultrasound) when used to diagnose patients as normal. Th…
Creative writing
Poems
Deflecting Privilege: Class Identity and the Intergenerational Self
Why do people from privileged class backgrounds often misidentify their origins as working class? We address this question by drawing on 175 interviews with those working in professional and managerial occupations, 36 of whom are from middle-class backgrounds but identify as working class or long-range upwardly mobile. Our findings indicate that this misidentification is rooted in a self-understanding built on particular 'origin stories' which ac…
Migration and Sorting in the American Electorate: Evidence From the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study
Migration is a significant factor in the composition of U.S. electoral constituencies, including U.S. House districts. Does migration contribute to geographic homogeneity, and does the result contribute to political polarization in a significant way? This article considers this question using the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey. To determine individual-level migration patterns, residence information from individual survey responden…
Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport
Situating the Sport Documentary
Sport documentaries constitute a significant aspect of the documentary tradition. Yet they remain an underresearched area of critique in both documentary studies and sport studies. This article begins by exploring the reasons for the low status of the sport documentary before engaging in an analysis of range of recent and contemporary sport documentaries. The cinematic sport documentary is situated within the resurgence of the documentary form as…
Hindu Nationalism, Cultural Spaces, and Bodily Practices in India
With the opening of India to the global economy, technology, and culture, questions of national identity are being starkly posed and tested. An attendant rise in militant Hindu nationalism can be seen as a bold strategic response to this question as it attempts to place India among the most powerful nations in global modernity. Analyses of this attempt to fundamentally transform India have tended to be pitched at the institutional levels of econo…
Bodily practice, performance art, competitive sport: A critique of kalarippayattu, the martial art of Kerala
How are we to understand the meaning and politics of kalarippayattu in contemporary Kerala? This article begins by outlining the meaning of kalarippayattu in the mythohistorical landscape of feudal south India and its place in contributing to the development of cultural identity in the nascent state of Kerala. This provides a context for interpreting the different ways in which globalisation is reconfiguring kalarippayattu: a hitherto composite k…
Theorising Partnerships: Governance, Communicative Action and Sport Policy
Under New Labour, partnerships have emerged to become a central mechanism of service delivery in social policy. In response to this development, a number of papers and texts have appeared that have questioned the claims made for the benefits of partnerships by politicians and policy makers. In particular, the gap between the rhetoric of inclusiveness and the practice of exclusion in partnership working has been highlighted. However, as pertinent …
Physiological Patriots: The Politics of Physical Culture and Hindu Nationalism in India
During the last decade, there has been a resurgence of Hindu nationalism in India. The most influential protagonist in this movement is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a uniformed male voluntary organization committed to the creation of a strong Hindu state. From primary research conducted on training programmes of the RSS in India during 1998, it was found that a combination of exercises, games, sports, yoga and prayers is used to inculca…
When the Penny Drops: Understanding how social class influences speciality careers in the UK medical profession
In the UK, the medical profession is socially exclusive and socially stratified as doctors from more advantaged backgrounds are more likely to train for specialities with more competitive entry. However, in research to date the causes and consequences of social stratification have been overlooked. We explore this subject here, drawing on a qualitative study comprising in-depth interviews with 30 medical students and doctors from less advantaged s…
Cardiac disease construction on the borderland
Yusman Ali, Charcoal Seller
Mais of Jamaica
Poems
Creative writing
Covering your Back: Strategies for Qualitative Research in Clinical Settings
Evaluating or analyzing clinical practice often involves an analysis of the social context of care. This has created research opportunities for health sociologists to work on multidisciplinary teams with clinicians. This article gives an account of the methodological strategies that were necessary for completing a critical, qualitative study of the social impact of echocardiography (cardiac ultrasound) when used to diagnose patients as normal. Th…
Cardiac disease construction on the borderland
Fagan, Sean, S. M. 1997 . Does Morality Change? Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, pp. 216
Fagan, Sean, S. M. 1997 . Does Morality Change? Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, pp. 216
Physiological Patriots: The Politics of Physical Culture and Hindu Nationalism in India
During the last decade, there has been a resurgence of Hindu nationalism in India. The most influential protagonist in this movement is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a uniformed male voluntary organization committed to the creation of a strong Hindu state. From primary research conducted on training programmes of the RSS in India during 1998, it was found that a combination of exercises, games, sports, yoga and prayers is used to inculca…
Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Sport
Race', Sport and British Society
Foreward. Paul Gilroy, Yale University, USA Section 1. Research into Current Levels and Forms of Sports Racism: Some Empirical Explorations Section II. Public Controversies Over `Race' and Sport: Science, Media and the Law Section III. Challenging Discourses/ Contesting Identities
"Race," Sport, and British Society
A Poem
Hindu Nationalism, Cultural Spaces, and Bodily Practices in India
With the opening of India to the global economy, technology, and culture, questions of national identity are being starkly posed and tested. An attendant rise in militant Hindu nationalism can be seen as a bold strategic response to this question as it attempts to place India among the most powerful nations in global modernity. Analyses of this attempt to fundamentally transform India have tended to be pitched at the institutional levels of econo…
Theorising Partnerships: Governance, Communicative Action and Sport Policy
Under New Labour, partnerships have emerged to become a central mechanism of service delivery in social policy. In response to this development, a number of papers and texts have appeared that have questioned the claims made for the benefits of partnerships by politicians and policy makers. In particular, the gap between the rhetoric of inclusiveness and the practice of exclusion in partnership working has been highlighted. However, as pertinent …
Researching health care: Designs, Dilemmas, Disciplines
Bodily practice, performance art, competitive sport: A critique of kalarippayattu, the martial art of Kerala
How are we to understand the meaning and politics of kalarippayattu in contemporary Kerala? This article begins by outlining the meaning of kalarippayattu in the mythohistorical landscape of feudal south India and its place in contributing to the development of cultural identity in the nascent state of Kerala. This provides a context for interpreting the different ways in which globalisation is reconfiguring kalarippayattu: a hitherto composite k…
Situating the Sport Documentary
Sport documentaries constitute a significant aspect of the documentary tradition. Yet they remain an underresearched area of critique in both documentary studies and sport studies. This article begins by exploring the reasons for the low status of the sport documentary before engaging in an analysis of range of recent and contemporary sport documentaries. The cinematic sport documentary is situated within the resurgence of the documentary form as…
Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport
The cultural ubiquity, political prominence and economic significance of contemporary sport present fertile terrain for its critical socio-cultural analysis. From corporate and media dominated mega-events like the Olympic Games, to state programmes for nation-building and health promotion, to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, age and disability, sport is so profoundly marked by relations of power that it lends itself to critique a…
Culture, Politics and Sport: Blowing the Whistle, Revisited
'Whannel is a foundational figure in the study of sports and the media. ...For 20 years his writing has set a high standard ...and it remains an inspiration to many' - Toby Miller, Professor of Cultural Studies, New York University, USA Garry Whannel’s text Blowing the Whistle: The Politics of Sport broke new ground when it was first published in 1983. Its polemical discussion brought sports as cultural politics into the academic arena and set th…
Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport
Migration and Sorting in the American Electorate: Evidence From the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study
Migration is a significant factor in the composition of U.S. electoral constituencies, including U.S. House districts. Does migration contribute to geographic homogeneity, and does the result contribute to political polarization in a significant way? This article considers this question using the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey. To determine individual-level migration patterns, residence information from individual survey responden…
Marxist and Neo-Marxist Approaches on Sport
This chapter presents an overview and a critique of the main contours of Marxist sociology of sport that developed in the academy in the USA and western Europe. It deals with a call for more utopian thinking, appropriately conceived, as the basis for a revolutionary Marxist sociology of sport. The chapter focuses on the contribution of Marxism to the critique of sport. Speaking at the funeral of Karl Marx in 1883, his lifelong friend and collabor…
Isotopic evidence of increasing water abundance and lake hydrological change in Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada
Lake-rich northern permafrost landscapes are sensitive to changing climate conditions, but ability to track real-time and potentially multiple hydrological responses (e.g. lake expansion, drawdown, drainage) is challenging due to absence of long-term, sustainable monitoring programs in these remote locations. Old Crow Flats (OCF), Yukon, is a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance where concerns about low water levels and their consequences f…
Deflecting Privilege: Class Identity and the Intergenerational Self
Why do people from privileged class backgrounds often misidentify their origins as working class? We address this question by drawing on 175 interviews with those working in professional and managerial occupations, 36 of whom are from middle-class backgrounds but identify as working class or long-range upwardly mobile. Our findings indicate that this misidentification is rooted in a self-understanding built on particular 'origin stories' which ac…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (9 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works)