David Francis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Francis |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Francis |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2423-0244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Screens and Preschools: The Bilingual English Language Learner Assessment as a Curriculum-Compliant Digital Application
These findings position BELLA within the growing body of literature on digital media use in early childhood assessment and education, highlighting its potential as a curriculum-compliant digital assessment tool that evaluates and supports cognitive development without a gender bias. This study contributes to the field by providing empirical evidence of BELLA's effectiveness and suggesting future research directions, including the exploration of i…
Exploring Film Language with a Digital Analysis Tool: The Case of Kinolab
This article presents a case study of Kinolab, a digital platform for the analysis of narrative film language. It describes the need for a scholarly database of clips focusing on film language for cinema and media studies faculty and students, highlighting recent technological and legal advances that have created a favorable environment for this kind of digital humanities work. Discussion of the project is situated within the broader context of c…
Heritage questing with Virginia Woolf: UCL Institute of Archaeology’s ‘spirit of place’ and new pedagogies of the pandemic
This article charts a particular journey of discovery – that of ‘heritage questing with Virginia Woolf’. We explore how, against the backdrop of COVID-19, the Master’s in Cultural Heritage Studies (MACHS) adopted and adapted Virginia Woolf as an efficacious ‘ancestor figure’ around which staff and students were able to grasp, engage with, articulate and try to understand the extraordinary experiences and challenges faced throughout the academic y…
Inequality in the South African labour market: The political economy of the national minimum wage
In 2019, South Africa implemented a national minimum wage (NMW) for the first time. This is an important intervention, given that the South African labour market continues to generate some of the highest levels of income and wealth inequality in the world. The minimum wage is intended as a structural intervention to transform the labour market by setting a wage floor, while highlighting larger issues that continue to reproduce inequality in the l…
Inequality Studies from the Global South
As the market churns: Productivity and firm exit in developing countries
Stephen Hester on the problem of culturalism
From Civitavecchia, with Love: Dreaming beyond Reason and Literary Afterlife in Roberto Bolaño's Tres and Entre paréntesis
Theatres of OppositionEmpire, Revolution, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan is best known as the author of two of the English stage’s most popular comedies, The Rivals and The School for Scandal. In his own lifetime, however, Sheridan was as renowned a politician as he was a playwright, and during a parliamentary career that spanned thirty‐two years—the large majority of which he spent in opposition—he was an advocate of reform, a supporter of the French Revolution and of Irish independence, and…
Orders of Ordinary Action: Respecifying Sociological Knowledge
The theme of this book is how ethnomethodology provides for an 'alternate' sociology by respecifying sociological phenomena as locally accomplished members' activities. Much of the book comprises original research by leading scholars in the field
Analysing Practical and Professional Texts: A Naturalistic Approach
The Relationship between Viewing Area Size and Visitor Behavior in an Immersive Asian Elephant Exhibit
Immersive exhibits are increasingly popular in zoos, being seen as benefiting both animals and visitors. Multiple, discreet viewing areas are one of the key features of immersive zoo exhibits. Small, discreet viewing areas afford the visitor a very personal and intimate experience and may promote an affiliative response between the visitor and the animals on display, thus enhancing the immersive experience. This investigation sought to determine …
Jowards a Social Studies Syllabus
Using Wittgenstein to Respecify Constructivism
An Invitation to Ethnomethodology: Language, Society and Social Interaction
'An Invitation to Ethnomethodology' offers a new and rigorous approach to observational sociology that is grounded in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis
Theory of Mind: A Critical Assessment
The ‘Theory of Mind’ approach has been associated with probably the fastest-growing body of empirical research in psychology over the last 25 years, and has given rise to a range of different theoretical positions and elaborations within those positions. The basic idea is that understanding other people involves bridging a gulf between observed ‘behaviour’ and hidden mental states by means of a theory. The articles in this Special Issue subject ‘…
Analysing visually available mundane order: A walk to the supermarket
This paper analyses ethnomethodologically some aspects of visually available mundane order. We adopt a method of “self-reflective” analysis in which the analyst's own experience is reflected upon and accounted for as a methodical production. Thus the data analysed consists of a running commentary on a walk to the supermarket taken by one of the authors. With reference to this data, we discuss two main topics. The first involves the categorial org…
O produtor familiar de leite e o processo de granelização na região do Triângulo Mineiro (MG) / Milk prodution and the use of bulk tanks in the region of Triângulo Mineiro (MG)
Este trabalho teve como objetivo a realização de um estudo do processo de granelização da produção de leite no país e os impactos sociais causados por essa política sobre os produtores familiares de leite na região do Triângulo Mineiro em Minas Gerais
Local Educational Order: Ethnomethodological studies of knowledge in action
The studies in this book take an ethnomethodological approach to educational phenomena. Ethnomethodology’s concern is with the locally accomplished and situated character of social order. With reference to educational phenomena, this means that ethnomethodology investigates how the ‘natural facts’ of educational life, such as daily activities in school classrooms, are produced as such in the first place, rather than taking for granted the recogni…
Le genre selon l'ethnométhodologie et l'analyse de conversation
People who talk on the telephone can, without exception, correctly be described as "male" or "female". What impact does this type of fact have on the social organisation of a telephone conversation? More specifically, what are its implications for an analysis of telephone conversations that tries to respect the analytical principles of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis? To answer these questions other, more general, questions need to be …
Planning in Organisations: Rational Control or Contingent Activity
1] This paper develops an interactional approach to planning in organisations that draws out the relevance of both rationalist and contingent models of planning. The distinction between these two models is developed in the light of the modernist / postmodernist debate to provide a set of theoretical issues to with planning in organisations. These issues are explored in the context of planning carried out in two empirically studied settings, a hea…
Reality Analysis in a Classroom Storytelling
In the first part of this paper ethnomethodology is compared with realist and social constructionist sociology, with specific reference to notions of 'reality'. In contrast with sociological concerns about the correct theorization of reality, for ethnomethodology 'reality' is approached as a members' phenomenon. Ethnomethodology seeks to investigate how concerns with the 'real' inform members' locally ordered practical action and reasoning. In th…
Doing Data: The Local Organization of a Sociological Interview
We review the ubiquitous remedial perspective evident in methodological discussions of the interview and we explicate the presuppositions of such discussions. We contrast this perspective with a view of interviews as interactional events, the organization of which is locally managed and practically accomplished. We then examine a transcript of an interview between a sociological researcher and an educational psychologist, in which psychological r…
The Golden Dreams of the Social Constructionist
The social constructionist approach taken by Watson and Goulet in their recent paper on the belief system of the Dene Tha is critically examined. In arguing that Dene Tha reality is "socially constituted," Watson and Goulet's paper displays many of the characteristic assumptions of social constructionist analysis: in particular, the use of a dichotomy between an empiricist and a constructionist conception of knowledge and a claim that knowledge i…
Sociology: The Study of Social Systems
Doing Data: The Local Organization of a Sociological Interview
We review the ubiquitous remedial perspective evident in methodological discussions of the interview and we explicate the presuppositions of such discussions. We contrast this perspective with a view of interviews as interactional events, the organization of which is locally managed and practically accomplished. We then examine a transcript of an interview between a sociological researcher and an educational psychologist, in which psychological r…
Reality Analysis in a Classroom Storytelling
In the first part of this paper ethnomethodology is compared with realist and social constructionist sociology, with specific reference to notions of 'reality'. In contrast with sociological concerns about the correct theorization of reality, for ethnomethodology 'reality' is approached as a members' phenomenon. Ethnomethodology seeks to investigate how concerns with the 'real' inform members' locally ordered practical action and reasoning. In th…
Stephen Hester on the problem of culturalism
Theatres of OppositionEmpire, Revolution, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan is best known as the author of two of the English stage’s most popular comedies, The Rivals and The School for Scandal. In his own lifetime, however, Sheridan was as renowned a politician as he was a playwright, and during a parliamentary career that spanned thirty‐two years—the large majority of which he spent in opposition—he was an advocate of reform, a supporter of the French Revolution and of Irish independence, and…
Planning in Organisations: Rational Control or Contingent Activity
1] This paper develops an interactional approach to planning in organisations that draws out the relevance of both rationalist and contingent models of planning. The distinction between these two models is developed in the light of the modernist / postmodernist debate to provide a set of theoretical issues to with planning in organisations. These issues are explored in the context of planning carried out in two empirically studied settings, a hea…
Inequality in the South African labour market: The political economy of the national minimum wage
In 2019, South Africa implemented a national minimum wage (NMW) for the first time. This is an important intervention, given that the South African labour market continues to generate some of the highest levels of income and wealth inequality in the world. The minimum wage is intended as a structural intervention to transform the labour market by setting a wage floor, while highlighting larger issues that continue to reproduce inequality in the l…
Le genre selon l'ethnométhodologie et l'analyse de conversation
People who talk on the telephone can, without exception, correctly be described as "male" or "female". What impact does this type of fact have on the social organisation of a telephone conversation? More specifically, what are its implications for an analysis of telephone conversations that tries to respect the analytical principles of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis? To answer these questions other, more general, questions need to be …
The Golden Dreams of the Social Constructionist
The social constructionist approach taken by Watson and Goulet in their recent paper on the belief system of the Dene Tha is critically examined. In arguing that Dene Tha reality is "socially constituted," Watson and Goulet's paper displays many of the characteristic assumptions of social constructionist analysis: in particular, the use of a dichotomy between an empiricist and a constructionist conception of knowledge and a claim that knowledge i…
Sociology: The Study of Social Systems
Diffusion of Innovations in West Africa: A New Look at the Western Model
At the current level of development in the study area of Togo, several of the variable relationships consistently found in western research did not obtain. Education, for example, 1ed respondents away from agriculture to new areas of interest. It is felt that the path analysis model helped to explain the complex pattern of association and focus upon other variable relationships than those traditionally examined. It was thought that the adoption v…
Sociology: The Study of Social Systems
Doing Data: The Local Organization of a Sociological Interview
We review the ubiquitous remedial perspective evident in methodological discussions of the interview and we explicate the presuppositions of such discussions. We contrast this perspective with a view of interviews as interactional events, the organization of which is locally managed and practically accomplished. We then examine a transcript of an interview between a sociological researcher and an educational psychologist, in which psychological r…
The Golden Dreams of the Social Constructionist
The social constructionist approach taken by Watson and Goulet in their recent paper on the belief system of the Dene Tha is critically examined. In arguing that Dene Tha reality is "socially constituted," Watson and Goulet's paper displays many of the characteristic assumptions of social constructionist analysis: in particular, the use of a dichotomy between an empiricist and a constructionist conception of knowledge and a claim that knowledge i…
Reality Analysis in a Classroom Storytelling
In the first part of this paper ethnomethodology is compared with realist and social constructionist sociology, with specific reference to notions of 'reality'. In contrast with sociological concerns about the correct theorization of reality, for ethnomethodology 'reality' is approached as a members' phenomenon. Ethnomethodology seeks to investigate how concerns with the 'real' inform members' locally ordered practical action and reasoning. In th…
Planning in Organisations: Rational Control or Contingent Activity
1] This paper develops an interactional approach to planning in organisations that draws out the relevance of both rationalist and contingent models of planning. The distinction between these two models is developed in the light of the modernist / postmodernist debate to provide a set of theoretical issues to with planning in organisations. These issues are explored in the context of planning carried out in two empirically studied settings, a hea…
Local Educational Order: Ethnomethodological studies of knowledge in action
The studies in this book take an ethnomethodological approach to educational phenomena. Ethnomethodology’s concern is with the locally accomplished and situated character of social order. With reference to educational phenomena, this means that ethnomethodology investigates how the ‘natural facts’ of educational life, such as daily activities in school classrooms, are produced as such in the first place, rather than taking for granted the recogni…
Le genre selon l'ethnométhodologie et l'analyse de conversation
People who talk on the telephone can, without exception, correctly be described as "male" or "female". What impact does this type of fact have on the social organisation of a telephone conversation? More specifically, what are its implications for an analysis of telephone conversations that tries to respect the analytical principles of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis? To answer these questions other, more general, questions need to be …
O produtor familiar de leite e o processo de granelização na região do Triângulo Mineiro (MG) / Milk prodution and the use of bulk tanks in the region of Triângulo Mineiro (MG)
Este trabalho teve como objetivo a realização de um estudo do processo de granelização da produção de leite no país e os impactos sociais causados por essa política sobre os produtores familiares de leite na região do Triângulo Mineiro em Minas Gerais
Analysing visually available mundane order: A walk to the supermarket
This paper analyses ethnomethodologically some aspects of visually available mundane order. We adopt a method of “self-reflective” analysis in which the analyst's own experience is reflected upon and accounted for as a methodical production. Thus the data analysed consists of a running commentary on a walk to the supermarket taken by one of the authors. With reference to this data, we discuss two main topics. The first involves the categorial org…
An Invitation to Ethnomethodology: Language, Society and Social Interaction
'An Invitation to Ethnomethodology' offers a new and rigorous approach to observational sociology that is grounded in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis
Theory of Mind: A Critical Assessment
The ‘Theory of Mind’ approach has been associated with probably the fastest-growing body of empirical research in psychology over the last 25 years, and has given rise to a range of different theoretical positions and elaborations within those positions. The basic idea is that understanding other people involves bridging a gulf between observed ‘behaviour’ and hidden mental states by means of a theory. The articles in this Special Issue subject ‘…
Using Wittgenstein to Respecify Constructivism
The Relationship between Viewing Area Size and Visitor Behavior in an Immersive Asian Elephant Exhibit
Immersive exhibits are increasingly popular in zoos, being seen as benefiting both animals and visitors. Multiple, discreet viewing areas are one of the key features of immersive zoo exhibits. Small, discreet viewing areas afford the visitor a very personal and intimate experience and may promote an affiliative response between the visitor and the animals on display, thus enhancing the immersive experience. This investigation sought to determine …
Jowards a Social Studies Syllabus
Analysing Practical and Professional Texts: A Naturalistic Approach
Theatres of OppositionEmpire, Revolution, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan is best known as the author of two of the English stage’s most popular comedies, The Rivals and The School for Scandal. In his own lifetime, however, Sheridan was as renowned a politician as he was a playwright, and during a parliamentary career that spanned thirty‐two years—the large majority of which he spent in opposition—he was an advocate of reform, a supporter of the French Revolution and of Irish independence, and…
Orders of Ordinary Action: Respecifying Sociological Knowledge
The theme of this book is how ethnomethodology provides for an 'alternate' sociology by respecifying sociological phenomena as locally accomplished members' activities. Much of the book comprises original research by leading scholars in the field
From Civitavecchia, with Love: Dreaming beyond Reason and Literary Afterlife in Roberto Bolaño's Tres and Entre paréntesis
As the market churns: Productivity and firm exit in developing countries
Stephen Hester on the problem of culturalism
Inequality Studies from the Global South
Exploring Film Language with a Digital Analysis Tool: The Case of Kinolab
This article presents a case study of Kinolab, a digital platform for the analysis of narrative film language. It describes the need for a scholarly database of clips focusing on film language for cinema and media studies faculty and students, highlighting recent technological and legal advances that have created a favorable environment for this kind of digital humanities work. Discussion of the project is situated within the broader context of c…
Heritage questing with Virginia Woolf: UCL Institute of Archaeology’s ‘spirit of place’ and new pedagogies of the pandemic
This article charts a particular journey of discovery – that of ‘heritage questing with Virginia Woolf’. We explore how, against the backdrop of COVID-19, the Master’s in Cultural Heritage Studies (MACHS) adopted and adapted Virginia Woolf as an efficacious ‘ancestor figure’ around which staff and students were able to grasp, engage with, articulate and try to understand the extraordinary experiences and challenges faced throughout the academic y…
Inequality in the South African labour market: The political economy of the national minimum wage
In 2019, South Africa implemented a national minimum wage (NMW) for the first time. This is an important intervention, given that the South African labour market continues to generate some of the highest levels of income and wealth inequality in the world. The minimum wage is intended as a structural intervention to transform the labour market by setting a wage floor, while highlighting larger issues that continue to reproduce inequality in the l…
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