Lee Harvey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Harvey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Harvey |
| SIGNATURE | HARVEY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birmingham City University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Gender
In this part of the book a number of critical research studies that concentrate on gender oppression are examined in detail. The examination is focused on the methodology rather than the substantive issues; however, methodology and substance are interrelated and the following analyses show how methodic practices are combined with underlying presuppositions in order to generate a critical investigation of substantive issues relating to gender.
Basics
This book is an illustrative guide to doing critical social research. It is not concerned with simply describing techniques of data collection that may be pertinent to a critical approach. Rather, through the exploration of a large number of case studies of critical social research it sets out and then explores the nature of critical social research methodology.
Class
In this part of the book a number of critical research studies that address the nature and functioning of class are examined in detail. The focus is on the methodology employed in these critical studies which address class in one way or another as an oppressive system.
Conclusion
It has been the intention of this book to show how empirically grounded critical social research can be accomplished. However, it is as much about reaffirming a way of thinking as it is about providing approaches to data. Indeed it is not data collection, but the intrinsic critique of the interpretive framework that marks out critical social research from other forms of social scientific and cultural enquiry.
Race
The studies examined in this part of the book focus primarily on racial oppression. The terms ‘race’, ‘racism’, ‘black’, ‘Afro-Caribbean’, ‘Asian’ are all, of course, politically charged and dynamic concepts. The lack of any clearly non-repressive signifiers ( Bulmer, 1986 ) means that the selection of terminology is both transitory and to some extent arbitrary. When referring to other commentators, and in the studies reviewed below, the terminol…
Critical Social Research
Part 1 Basics: criticism and knowledge empirical study critical and conventional ethnography the critical tradition elements of critical social research. Part 2 Class: c ass, production and culture, Karl Marx - Capital C. Wright Mills - The Power Elite Goldthorpe, Lockwood et al - Affluent Worker Paul Willis - Learning to Labour Grimshaw and Jefferson - Interpreting Policework Judith Williamson - Decoding Advertisements Will Wright - Six Guns and…
An in‐depth study on the impact of external quality assurance
After more than two decades of external quality assurance, there is an increasing interest in questions concerning the impact and effects of this activity. Following an external evaluation of NOKUT – the Norwegian quality assurance agency, this article studies the impact of external quality assurance in detail by analysing quantitative and qualitative feedback from those exposed to evaluations conducted by this agency. The study provides informat…
Old Wine in New Bottles? A Comparison of Public and Private Accreditation Schemes in Higher Education
Accreditation, standards and diversity: An analysis of Equis accreditation reports
The development of various national and supra‐national accreditation systems is currently being discussed as a possible response to an increasingly internationalized and deregulated higher education sector. However, the establishment of such procedures may have unintended consequences, not least with respect to limiting the diversity of higher education. By studying a number of accreditation reports in the field of business administration (the EQ…
The power of accreditation: Views of Academics1
Accreditation in higher education is examined by drawing on the experiences of academics and managers in Britain, the United States and Canada. The qualitative comments are used to deconstruct the notion of accreditation. Accreditation processes, it is argued, are not benign or apolitical but represent a power struggle that impinges on academic freedom, while imposing an extensive bureaucratic burden in some cases. Accreditation can also act as a…
Defining and Measuring Employability
The concept of employability is analysed and the prevailing tendency to create employability measures based on outcomes is critiqued. The outcome approach results in employability as being construed as an institutional achievement rather than the propensity of the individual student to get employment. The operationalisation of employability as a concept is examined and the implicit 'magic bullet' notion of employability-development opportunities …
Transforming Work Experience in Higher Education
It has frequently been claimed that work experience can contribute to higher educational standards in schools and in higher education and contribute to the development of a flexible, highly‐skilled and enterprising labour force. This potential was endorsed by the Dearing Report on higher education, although there is little research evidence about the contribution of work experience to the higher education curriculum. This article reports on four …
New realities: The relationship between higher education and employment
A New Generation of Methodology Textbooks
Assessing Quality in Higher Education: A transbinary research project
(1993). Assessing Quality in Higher Education: a transbinary research project. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 143-148
Defining Quality
This paper addresses the nature of the concept of quality in relation to higher education. It analyses ways of thinking about quality, considers their relevance to higher education, explores their interrelationships and examines their philosophical and political underpinnings. The relative nature of quality is examined. First, quality means different things to different people. Second, quality is relative to ‘processes’ or ‘outcomes’. The widely …
Doing Sociology: A Practical Introduction
The Chicago School: A Liberal Critique of Capitalism
Recreational betting: Individual betting profiles
This paper complements a previous article (Filby and Harvey, 1988) on aggregate betting patterns by describing in some detail the betting patterns and strategies of individual punters. The habits of 67 regular punters drawn from three Birmingham betting shops are analysed on the basis of the evidence of their betting slips. While the discussion bears witness to the effort invested in betting activity by punters, it also urges some caution in over…
Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Supplement 2, 1986 (Parts A & B): The Iowa School
Recreational betting: Everyday activity and strategies
This paper analyses aggregate betting behaviour as revealed by data embodied in the betting slips of off-course betting shop punters. A large sample (9000) slips were collected from three Birmingham shops belonging to a large multiple bookmaking company. Data from the slips were processed by computer. The discussion reveals some of the behavioural and preferential patterns of betting shop punters as a basis for evaluating a number of assumptions …
The Effect of Auspices, Style and Layout on Response Rates to Mailed Questionnaires
The research reported in this paper assesses the impact of auspices, style of question and layout of questionnaire on response rates, using an experimental design
Myths of the Chicago school of sociology
The Nature of 'Schools' in the Sociology of Knowledge: The Case of the 'Chicago School
The nature of 'schools' as a metascientific construct is reviewed. Tiryakian's (1979a) increasingly popular construction of a school of sociology is examined and the case of 'The Chicago School' is considered in detail. The efficacy of a 'schools' approach to understanding the nature of the growth and development of scientific knowledge is called into question. It is suggested that schools, as used in the literature, tend to be convenient groupin…
The myths of the Chicago School
Defining Quality
This paper addresses the nature of the concept of quality in relation to higher education. It analyses ways of thinking about quality, considers their relevance to higher education, explores their interrelationships and examines their philosophical and political underpinnings. The relative nature of quality is examined. First, quality means different things to different people. Second, quality is relative to ‘processes’ or ‘outcomes’. The widely …
Critical Social Research
Part 1 Basics: criticism and knowledge empirical study critical and conventional ethnography the critical tradition elements of critical social research. Part 2 Class: c ass, production and culture, Karl Marx - Capital C. Wright Mills - The Power Elite Goldthorpe, Lockwood et al - Affluent Worker Paul Willis - Learning to Labour Grimshaw and Jefferson - Interpreting Policework Judith Williamson - Decoding Advertisements Will Wright - Six Guns and…
The power of accreditation: Views of Academics1
Accreditation in higher education is examined by drawing on the experiences of academics and managers in Britain, the United States and Canada. The qualitative comments are used to deconstruct the notion of accreditation. Accreditation processes, it is argued, are not benign or apolitical but represent a power struggle that impinges on academic freedom, while imposing an extensive bureaucratic burden in some cases. Accreditation can also act as a…
Transforming Work Experience in Higher Education
It has frequently been claimed that work experience can contribute to higher educational standards in schools and in higher education and contribute to the development of a flexible, highly‐skilled and enterprising labour force. This potential was endorsed by the Dearing Report on higher education, although there is little research evidence about the contribution of work experience to the higher education curriculum. This article reports on four …
The Nature of 'Schools' in the Sociology of Knowledge: The Case of the 'Chicago School
The nature of 'schools' as a metascientific construct is reviewed. Tiryakian's (1979a) increasingly popular construction of a school of sociology is examined and the case of 'The Chicago School' is considered in detail. The efficacy of a 'schools' approach to understanding the nature of the growth and development of scientific knowledge is called into question. It is suggested that schools, as used in the literature, tend to be convenient groupin…
The myths of the Chicago School
Doing Sociology: A Practical Introduction
Recreational betting: Everyday activity and strategies
This paper analyses aggregate betting behaviour as revealed by data embodied in the betting slips of off-course betting shop punters. A large sample (9000) slips were collected from three Birmingham shops belonging to a large multiple bookmaking company. Data from the slips were processed by computer. The discussion reveals some of the behavioural and preferential patterns of betting shop punters as a basis for evaluating a number of assumptions …
The Use and Abuse of Kuhnian Paradigms in the Sociology of Knowledge
Old Wine in New Bottles? A Comparison of Public and Private Accreditation Schemes in Higher Education
Recreational betting: Individual betting profiles
This paper complements a previous article (Filby and Harvey, 1988) on aggregate betting patterns by describing in some detail the betting patterns and strategies of individual punters. The habits of 67 regular punters drawn from three Birmingham betting shops are analysed on the basis of the evidence of their betting slips. While the discussion bears witness to the effort invested in betting activity by punters, it also urges some caution in over…
The Use and Abuse of Kuhnian Paradigms in the Sociology of Knowledge
The myths of the Chicago School
Myths of the Chicago school of sociology
The Nature of 'Schools' in the Sociology of Knowledge: The Case of the 'Chicago School
The nature of 'schools' as a metascientific construct is reviewed. Tiryakian's (1979a) increasingly popular construction of a school of sociology is examined and the case of 'The Chicago School' is considered in detail. The efficacy of a 'schools' approach to understanding the nature of the growth and development of scientific knowledge is called into question. It is suggested that schools, as used in the literature, tend to be convenient groupin…
Recreational betting: Everyday activity and strategies
This paper analyses aggregate betting behaviour as revealed by data embodied in the betting slips of off-course betting shop punters. A large sample (9000) slips were collected from three Birmingham shops belonging to a large multiple bookmaking company. Data from the slips were processed by computer. The discussion reveals some of the behavioural and preferential patterns of betting shop punters as a basis for evaluating a number of assumptions …
The Effect of Auspices, Style and Layout on Response Rates to Mailed Questionnaires
The research reported in this paper assesses the impact of auspices, style of question and layout of questionnaire on response rates, using an experimental design
Recreational betting: Individual betting profiles
This paper complements a previous article (Filby and Harvey, 1988) on aggregate betting patterns by describing in some detail the betting patterns and strategies of individual punters. The habits of 67 regular punters drawn from three Birmingham betting shops are analysed on the basis of the evidence of their betting slips. While the discussion bears witness to the effort invested in betting activity by punters, it also urges some caution in over…
Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Supplement 2, 1986 (Parts A & B): The Iowa School
The Chicago School: A Liberal Critique of Capitalism
Assessing Quality in Higher Education: A transbinary research project
(1993). Assessing Quality in Higher Education: a transbinary research project. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 143-148
Defining Quality
This paper addresses the nature of the concept of quality in relation to higher education. It analyses ways of thinking about quality, considers their relevance to higher education, explores their interrelationships and examines their philosophical and political underpinnings. The relative nature of quality is examined. First, quality means different things to different people. Second, quality is relative to ‘processes’ or ‘outcomes’. The widely …
Doing Sociology: A Practical Introduction
A New Generation of Methodology Textbooks
New realities: The relationship between higher education and employment
Defining and Measuring Employability
The concept of employability is analysed and the prevailing tendency to create employability measures based on outcomes is critiqued. The outcome approach results in employability as being construed as an institutional achievement rather than the propensity of the individual student to get employment. The operationalisation of employability as a concept is examined and the implicit 'magic bullet' notion of employability-development opportunities …
Transforming Work Experience in Higher Education
It has frequently been claimed that work experience can contribute to higher educational standards in schools and in higher education and contribute to the development of a flexible, highly‐skilled and enterprising labour force. This potential was endorsed by the Dearing Report on higher education, although there is little research evidence about the contribution of work experience to the higher education curriculum. This article reports on four …
Accreditation, standards and diversity: An analysis of Equis accreditation reports
The development of various national and supra‐national accreditation systems is currently being discussed as a possible response to an increasingly internationalized and deregulated higher education sector. However, the establishment of such procedures may have unintended consequences, not least with respect to limiting the diversity of higher education. By studying a number of accreditation reports in the field of business administration (the EQ…
The power of accreditation: Views of Academics1
Accreditation in higher education is examined by drawing on the experiences of academics and managers in Britain, the United States and Canada. The qualitative comments are used to deconstruct the notion of accreditation. Accreditation processes, it is argued, are not benign or apolitical but represent a power struggle that impinges on academic freedom, while imposing an extensive bureaucratic burden in some cases. Accreditation can also act as a…
Old Wine in New Bottles? A Comparison of Public and Private Accreditation Schemes in Higher Education
An in‐depth study on the impact of external quality assurance
After more than two decades of external quality assurance, there is an increasing interest in questions concerning the impact and effects of this activity. Following an external evaluation of NOKUT – the Norwegian quality assurance agency, this article studies the impact of external quality assurance in detail by analysing quantitative and qualitative feedback from those exposed to evaluations conducted by this agency. The study provides informat…
Gender
In this part of the book a number of critical research studies that concentrate on gender oppression are examined in detail. The examination is focused on the methodology rather than the substantive issues; however, methodology and substance are interrelated and the following analyses show how methodic practices are combined with underlying presuppositions in order to generate a critical investigation of substantive issues relating to gender.
Basics
This book is an illustrative guide to doing critical social research. It is not concerned with simply describing techniques of data collection that may be pertinent to a critical approach. Rather, through the exploration of a large number of case studies of critical social research it sets out and then explores the nature of critical social research methodology.
Class
In this part of the book a number of critical research studies that address the nature and functioning of class are examined in detail. The focus is on the methodology employed in these critical studies which address class in one way or another as an oppressive system.
Conclusion
It has been the intention of this book to show how empirically grounded critical social research can be accomplished. However, it is as much about reaffirming a way of thinking as it is about providing approaches to data. Indeed it is not data collection, but the intrinsic critique of the interpretive framework that marks out critical social research from other forms of social scientific and cultural enquiry.
Race
The studies examined in this part of the book focus primarily on racial oppression. The terms ‘race’, ‘racism’, ‘black’, ‘Afro-Caribbean’, ‘Asian’ are all, of course, politically charged and dynamic concepts. The lack of any clearly non-repressive signifiers ( Bulmer, 1986 ) means that the selection of terminology is both transitory and to some extent arbitrary. When referring to other commentators, and in the studies reviewed below, the terminol…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (12 works) · Higher education (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Business (5 works)