Shaun Best
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaun Best |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaun |
| FAMILY NAME | Best |
| SIGNATURE | BEST S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reframing Education Failure and Aspiration: The Rise of the Meritocracy
Introduction: The aspiration industry and the meritocratic sort
Introduction: The aspiration industry and the meritocratic sort
Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives
The Emerald Guide to Zygmunt Bauman
This book is the first introductory guide to the work of Zygmunt Bauman, designed specifically for students and those new to his work. It provides a firm foundation for the independent reading of Bauman and for exploring the many interpretations of his influential ideas.
The Stranger
This book explores the concept of the stranger as a ‘modern’ social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel’s influential essay ‘The Stranger’, questioning the assumptions around what it means to be regarded as ‘strange’, and identifying the consequences of being labelled a stranger. Organised both chronologically and thematically, the book begins with Simmel’s …
Liquid Love: Zygmunt Bauman’s thesis on sex revisited
In Liquid Love, Zygmunt Bauman (2003) argued that within liquid modernity a consumer driven, adiaphoric, sexual free for all had emerged, rooted in an intense unregulated individualism. Sexuality was identified by Bauman as one of the areas of social life that had become privatized; that the state had withdrawn from regulation. Liquid Love is identified as one application too far for Bauman’s liquefaction thesis in that the book highlights the co…
Zygmunt Bauman on Education in Liquid Modernity
Zygmunt Bauman on Education in Liquid Modernity evaluates the contribution that Bauman has made to education studies. It outlines the central themes within social analysis in Bauman’s writings, and examines how researchers have applied his key ideas to explore current theoretical issues. The book focuses on Bauman’s ideas in relation to the management and consumption of education, including topics such as student voice and individual identity; re…
Education in the interregnum: An evaluation of Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid-turn writing on education
In his liquid-turn writings, Zygmunt Bauman has come to identify liquid modernity as a period of interregnum. Education has a central role to play within the contemporary interregnum by opening up a new public sphere for dialogue. However, the processes of liquefaction manifest themselves in conditions that severely limit a person's ability to exercise their human agency. Bauman provides no indication of how the educators can escape the processes…
Understanding and Doing Successful Research: Data Collection and Analysis for the Social Sciences
Research Methods is an essential guide to carrying out a research project. Each of the focused chapters introduces and explains an aspect of social research to readers who may have no experience or knowledge of this subject. The emphasis is on ‘how to do’ various different methods, how to decide which is the most appropriate, and how to analyse the data. The book also includes examples of good practice from a range of social science disciplines.
Agency and Structure in Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust
The article explores how Zygmunt Bauman's work from Modernity and the Holocaust to his liquid turn writings assumes that people live in a deterministic world. Bauman fails to distinguish agency as an analytical category in its own right and as such fails to capture self-determination, agential control and moral responsibility. All of Bauman's work is based upon the assumption that the individual loses their autonomy and the ability to judge the m…
Understanding and Doing Successful Research: Data Collection and Analysis for the Social Sciences
Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance - By D. Lyon
Leisure Studies: Themes and Perspectives
What is the place of leisure in societies where people complain of 'over-work'? How do personal freedom and choice relate to the inequalities of class, gender, disability and ethnicity? This critical introduction to the field offers a systematic account of the meaning and structure of leisure today. The book: situates the student in the field. provides a comprehensive account of the leading approaches to leisure. explores the influence of class, …
Liquid Terrorism: Altruistic Fundamentalism in the Context of Liquid Modernity
Liquid life is the name that Zygmunt Bauman gives to the experience of life within 'liquid modernity' - a form of modernity in which social frameworks and institutions experience a process of accelerating liquefaction. On the basis of a narrative analysis of martyr videos recorded by the 7 July 2005 London bombers and eight men who stood trial in the United Kingdom for planning to bomb transatlantic airliners with home-made liquid explosives, a c…
The social construction of pain: An evaluation
Drawing upon the work of Hughes and Patterson, this paper addresses the issue of whether a socially constructed conception of pain is possible or desirable. Contrary to a number of postmodern inspired conceptions that pain exists exclusively at the level of discourse and linguistic construction, pain is viewed as a material barrier that exists beyond the politico‐aesthetic level. The body is much more than a canvas upon which we can create approp…
Understanding Social Divisions
The study of social division has dominated research within the social sciences since the nineteenth century. This book addresses the full range of social divisions while considering the nature of social division itself
Understanding social divisions
A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory
Offering a comprehensive overview of social theory from classical sociology to the present day, this text guides students through the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber, feminism postmodernism and contemporary thinkers like Foucault
Introduction to Politics and Society
Beginning with key concepts and the main theoretical contributions in the study of politics, Shaun Best's study introduces the most important political ideas of Weber, Marx Foucault, Bauman, Sennett, Habermas, Baudrillard and Giddens
Zygmunt Bauman: Personal Reflections within the Mainstream of Modernity
In this paper the author outlines some of the key ideas within Zygmunt Bauman's sociology; both in terms of his contribution to the creation of a postmodern sociology and his substantive texts. The critique that he develops, is that Bauman's work is assembled upon a modernist notion of 'the social' which he not only accepts without question, but which undermines his attempts to devise a distinctly postmodern sociology. His substantive texts still…
Zygmunt Bauman: Personal Reflections within the Mainstream of Modernity
In this paper the author outlines some of the key ideas within Zygmunt Bauman's sociology; both in terms of his contribution to the creation of a postmodern sociology and his substantive texts. The critique that he develops, is that Bauman's work is assembled upon a modernist notion of 'the social' which he not only accepts without question, but which undermines his attempts to devise a distinctly postmodern sociology. His substantive texts still…
The social construction of pain: An evaluation
Drawing upon the work of Hughes and Patterson, this paper addresses the issue of whether a socially constructed conception of pain is possible or desirable. Contrary to a number of postmodern inspired conceptions that pain exists exclusively at the level of discourse and linguistic construction, pain is viewed as a material barrier that exists beyond the politico‐aesthetic level. The body is much more than a canvas upon which we can create approp…
Education in the interregnum: An evaluation of Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid-turn writing on education
In his liquid-turn writings, Zygmunt Bauman has come to identify liquid modernity as a period of interregnum. Education has a central role to play within the contemporary interregnum by opening up a new public sphere for dialogue. However, the processes of liquefaction manifest themselves in conditions that severely limit a person's ability to exercise their human agency. Bauman provides no indication of how the educators can escape the processes…
Liquid Terrorism: Altruistic Fundamentalism in the Context of Liquid Modernity
Liquid life is the name that Zygmunt Bauman gives to the experience of life within 'liquid modernity' - a form of modernity in which social frameworks and institutions experience a process of accelerating liquefaction. On the basis of a narrative analysis of martyr videos recorded by the 7 July 2005 London bombers and eight men who stood trial in the United Kingdom for planning to bomb transatlantic airliners with home-made liquid explosives, a c…
Zygmunt Bauman: Personal Reflections within the Mainstream of Modernity
In this paper the author outlines some of the key ideas within Zygmunt Bauman's sociology; both in terms of his contribution to the creation of a postmodern sociology and his substantive texts. The critique that he develops, is that Bauman's work is assembled upon a modernist notion of 'the social' which he not only accepts without question, but which undermines his attempts to devise a distinctly postmodern sociology. His substantive texts still…
Introduction to Politics and Society
Beginning with key concepts and the main theoretical contributions in the study of politics, Shaun Best's study introduces the most important political ideas of Weber, Marx Foucault, Bauman, Sennett, Habermas, Baudrillard and Giddens
A Beginner's Guide to Social Theory
Offering a comprehensive overview of social theory from classical sociology to the present day, this text guides students through the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber, feminism postmodernism and contemporary thinkers like Foucault
Understanding Social Divisions
The study of social division has dominated research within the social sciences since the nineteenth century. This book addresses the full range of social divisions while considering the nature of social division itself
Understanding social divisions
The social construction of pain: An evaluation
Drawing upon the work of Hughes and Patterson, this paper addresses the issue of whether a socially constructed conception of pain is possible or desirable. Contrary to a number of postmodern inspired conceptions that pain exists exclusively at the level of discourse and linguistic construction, pain is viewed as a material barrier that exists beyond the politico‐aesthetic level. The body is much more than a canvas upon which we can create approp…
Leisure Studies: Themes and Perspectives
What is the place of leisure in societies where people complain of 'over-work'? How do personal freedom and choice relate to the inequalities of class, gender, disability and ethnicity? This critical introduction to the field offers a systematic account of the meaning and structure of leisure today. The book: situates the student in the field. provides a comprehensive account of the leading approaches to leisure. explores the influence of class, …
Liquid Terrorism: Altruistic Fundamentalism in the Context of Liquid Modernity
Liquid life is the name that Zygmunt Bauman gives to the experience of life within 'liquid modernity' - a form of modernity in which social frameworks and institutions experience a process of accelerating liquefaction. On the basis of a narrative analysis of martyr videos recorded by the 7 July 2005 London bombers and eight men who stood trial in the United Kingdom for planning to bomb transatlantic airliners with home-made liquid explosives, a c…
Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance - By D. Lyon
Understanding and Doing Successful Research: Data Collection and Analysis for the Social Sciences
Understanding and Doing Successful Research: Data Collection and Analysis for the Social Sciences
Research Methods is an essential guide to carrying out a research project. Each of the focused chapters introduces and explains an aspect of social research to readers who may have no experience or knowledge of this subject. The emphasis is on ‘how to do’ various different methods, how to decide which is the most appropriate, and how to analyse the data. The book also includes examples of good practice from a range of social science disciplines.
Agency and Structure in Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust
The article explores how Zygmunt Bauman's work from Modernity and the Holocaust to his liquid turn writings assumes that people live in a deterministic world. Bauman fails to distinguish agency as an analytical category in its own right and as such fails to capture self-determination, agential control and moral responsibility. All of Bauman's work is based upon the assumption that the individual loses their autonomy and the ability to judge the m…
Education in the interregnum: An evaluation of Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid-turn writing on education
In his liquid-turn writings, Zygmunt Bauman has come to identify liquid modernity as a period of interregnum. Education has a central role to play within the contemporary interregnum by opening up a new public sphere for dialogue. However, the processes of liquefaction manifest themselves in conditions that severely limit a person's ability to exercise their human agency. Bauman provides no indication of how the educators can escape the processes…
The Stranger
This book explores the concept of the stranger as a ‘modern’ social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel’s influential essay ‘The Stranger’, questioning the assumptions around what it means to be regarded as ‘strange’, and identifying the consequences of being labelled a stranger. Organised both chronologically and thematically, the book begins with Simmel’s …
Liquid Love: Zygmunt Bauman’s thesis on sex revisited
In Liquid Love, Zygmunt Bauman (2003) argued that within liquid modernity a consumer driven, adiaphoric, sexual free for all had emerged, rooted in an intense unregulated individualism. Sexuality was identified by Bauman as one of the areas of social life that had become privatized; that the state had withdrawn from regulation. Liquid Love is identified as one application too far for Bauman’s liquefaction thesis in that the book highlights the co…
Zygmunt Bauman on Education in Liquid Modernity
Zygmunt Bauman on Education in Liquid Modernity evaluates the contribution that Bauman has made to education studies. It outlines the central themes within social analysis in Bauman’s writings, and examines how researchers have applied his key ideas to explore current theoretical issues. The book focuses on Bauman’s ideas in relation to the management and consumption of education, including topics such as student voice and individual identity; re…
The Emerald Guide to Zygmunt Bauman
This book is the first introductory guide to the work of Zygmunt Bauman, designed specifically for students and those new to his work. It provides a firm foundation for the independent reading of Bauman and for exploring the many interpretations of his influential ideas.
Reframing Education Failure and Aspiration: The Rise of the Meritocracy
Introduction: The aspiration industry and the meritocratic sort
Introduction: The aspiration industry and the meritocratic sort
Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives
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