Claire Wallace
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Wallace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 305 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Knitting together: The revival of knitting as Intangible Cultural Heritage through digital resources and its contributions to tourism
Knitting is recognised as one kind of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland (ICH). Knitting qualifies as ICH since patterns were held as tacit knowledge and passed down through families and locations. This tradition has been threatened by social and economic change, but has experienced a recent revival through the use of internet resources, attracting new enthusiasts worldwide as a popular craft hobby. The digitisation of traditional ICH means…
Introduction: The Impact of (Covid)-19 on Cultural Tourism
The coronavirus pandemic (SARS-CoV-2) has been disastrous for cultural tourism worldwide as many cultural tourist venues are concentrated in cities and have had to close along with tourismrelated facilities such as hospitality businesses and hotels. There has been a widespread fear of travel and social contact. The comparative research drawn upon in this article suggests that new trends might be emerging with rural and natural attractions becomin…
Media Tourism and (Covid)-19: An Empirical Investigation of The Impact of (Covid)-19 on the Scottish Tourism Industry
The growth of Scotland’s creative industries within the last decade has resulted in a significant rise in media tourism, a subsector of cultural tourism that focuses on tourism inspired by media such as novels, films, and television series. In March 2020 when Scotland’s tourism and hospitality industry would typically be preparing to welcome visitors, the nation went into a national lockdown due to mounting concerns over the rapidly spreading cor…
Gathering together: Social Capital, Cultural Capital and the Value of Cultural Heritage in a Digital Age
Cultural heritage is generally regarded as something of value – but it is valued in different ways by different communities. Here we explore the value of cultural heritage for rural Scottish communities and how it is generated through social and cultural capital. Using the idea of ‘gathering’, we consider the process of gathering historical archives, narratives and gathering places based on local knowledge. We draw upon a study of communities in …
Patterns of participation in the informal economy in East-Central Europe, 1991–1998 1
The informal economy was an integral part of the former Communist economies and is now also an important part of the transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe. This chapter considers the relative size and dynamics of the informal economy in different countries during the course of transition and the forms of participation in the informal economy. It draws upon a survey, the New Democracies Barometer (NDB) for the years 1992, 1994, 1996 a…
Youth, Citizenship and Empowerment
"This title was first published in 2001. This book brings together a range of perspectives about citizenship and empowerment from around the globe. It thus approaches these important topics from a wide variety of directions, including different geo-political contexts, empirical studies, theoretical approaches and examples of actual projects to empower youth and how they have worked. The book addresses issues of importance for contemporary young p…
Relational identities on EU borderlands: The case of Poles in Belarus and Belarusians in Poland
The paper argues that the well-known triadic relationship between kin state, resident state and national minority needs to take into account a fourth dimension: that of European institutions. This is illustrated through a study of relational identities on the EU's Eastern border where the reconfiguration of ethnic relations followed the end of the iron curtain and EU accession. It considers two neighbouring ethnic minorities. One minority is part…
The Decent Society: Planning for Social Quality
The search for ‘the Decent Society’ – a fit place in which to live – has informed policy at both governmental and international level. This book analyses its nature and devises a consistent way of measuring the concept world-wide on the basis of a coherent theory of agency within social structure. Influenced by classical sociology and by the economist Amartya Sen, the book posits that societies need to create (a) economic security, (b) social coh…
Broadband and the creative industries in rural Scotland
The creative industries potentially contribute much to the social and economic viability of rural regions. This paper explores the role that broadband connectivity plays in the development of professional and creative practices. In particular, we explore the extent to which broadband connectivity can reduce the penalty of distance for rural creative practitioners, and equally, how a lack of connectivity impacts upon the development of the rural c…
Decent Society
Great Expectations or Small Country Living? Enabling Small Rural Creative Businesses with ICT
Small businesses are prototypical rural business, but limited by distance. However, creative businesses are less constrained by space and hold great promise for rural development. Indeed, the rural is an attractive creative aesthetic milieu. Moreover, new broadband technologies seem to offer a solution to address connectivity; the social and spatial problem of being rural. Consequently, we ask how does broadband enable small rural creative firms.…
Building Virtual Bridges: How Rural Micro-Enterprises Develop Social Capital in Online and Face-to-Face Settings
In rural UK, businesses are often isolated and have much to gain from healthy networks, yet studies show that many rural business owners fail to network effectively. Information communications technologies offer new ways to network that might benefit rural businesses by expanding their reach. This study looked at online and face-to-face networking behaviour among rural micro-enterprises in Scotland in relation to the development of bonding and br…
The Quality of Society and Life Satisfaction in China
‘Stuck Out Here’: The Critical Role of Broadband for Remote Rural Places
In a rapidly evolving digital society, broadband connectivity is increasingly critical. Everyday experiences are mediated by technology, be they related to work, education, leisure or health care; technology impacts at many levels. Access to broadband Internet is considered to be essential to contemporary society. Despite this growing recognition, broadband access is still not ubiquitous across all of the UK, with access being particularly proble…
Trust in Post-Soviet Countries, Ten Years On
This paper looks at recovery from the normative collapse which followed the fall of the Soviet Union; two large-scale surveys allow comparison of levels of trust in 2001 and 2010/2011. The collapse of the Soviet Union was not just an economic event; it destroyed the normative framework and drove people back to reliance on things they could see and people they knew. The main findings are that even 20 years of building new institutions has not rest…
Enhanced broadband access as a solution to the social and economic problems of the rural digital divide
This article discusses the danger of a growing digital divide between rural and other areas. It presents broadband as increasingly necessary for the delivery of information, health, education, business, social security, public and leisure services. Access to broadband has become vital for rural communities to participate in a progressively digital economy and to overcome problems of physical and social isolation. Yet rural areas are among those m…
Social Quality: A Way to Measure the Quality of Society
In this paper we suggest a way to measure the well-being of society based upon our own development of the Social Quality model. The Social Quality model has the advantage of being sociologically grounded as a measure of the well-being of society and the individuals within it. We test our model of Social Quality against life satisfaction as an indicator of how successful it is in delivering these aspirations. The model was tested on all European c…
Politique familiale et égalité des sexes
Les parents recourent à un certain nombre de stratégies pour concilier activité professionnelle et responsabilités familiales telles que le Shift Parenting (les deux parents ont des horaires de travail décalés l’un par rapport à l’autre) ou un emploi flexible. Les grands-parents restent une source d’aide importante dans un pays où les modes de garde formels des enfants sont encore insuffisants. Même si les pouvoirs publics aident résolument les f…
Youth Policies in Europe: Towards a Classification of Different Tendencies in Youth Policies in the European Union
Drawing upon material from several research projects, this article attempts to classify youth policies in the European Union according to a variety of dimensions: the organisation of the youth sector, the target groups for youth policies, the definitions of youth and the main purposes of youth policies. One problem in undertaking this exercise is that not only are youth policies highly diverse between countries, but they are also diverse within c…
More Participation, Happier Society? A Comparative Study of Civil Society and the Quality of Life
Talking About Health and Well-Being in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Russia
Residents of Ukraine and Russia perceive their living conditions and health as very poor. This is coupled with concerns over access to social services and health care. There is a strong interaction between the poor quality of life after the economic and political collapse and the views of individual citizens about their ability to take responsibility for their health. The collapse of the former supportive system was a ‘cultural trauma’ that affec…
Chernobyl: Living with risk and uncertainty
The nuclear accident in Chernobyl in 1986 is a dramatic example of the type of incidents that are characteristic of a ‘risk society’. The consequences of the incident are indeterminate, the causes complex and future developments unpredictable. Nothing can compensate for its effects and it affects a broad population indiscriminately. This paper examines the lived experience of those who experienced biographical disruption as residents of the regio…
Household employment patterns in an enlarged European Union
Our aim is to contribute to better understanding of why different practices relating to the division of paid labour by sex in couple households are still to be found in different parts of Europe. We analyse data on the distribution of dominant household employment patterns in eight countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Using comparative survey evidence for a large tot…
Health world views of post-soviet citizens
An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives
Introducing Sociology.2. Social Stratification.3. Social Class in Modern Britain.4. Wealth, Welfare, and Poverty.5. Gender.6. Ethnicity and Race.7. Power, Politics, Citizenship, and Protest.8. The Mass Media.9. Social Control, Deviance, and Crime.10. The Family.11. Schooling in Britain.12. Inequality in Education.13. Religion.14. Work and Leisure.15. Population.16. Health and Illness.17. Doing Sociological Research.Appendix: Reading Statistical D…
Household Strategies: Their Conceptual Relevance and Analytical Scope in Social Research
The article considers the idea of 'household strategies' as a concept that takes into account the motivations and agency of actors in society, as a method of analysis through looking at the intersection of different economies in household behaviour and as a unit of analysis, with a focus on households rather than individuals. Although the concept of household strategies has been criticized in each of these dimensions, it has nevertheless remained…
More Participation, Happier Society? A Comparative Study of Civil Society and the Quality of Life
Social Quality: A Way to Measure the Quality of Society
In this paper we suggest a way to measure the well-being of society based upon our own development of the Social Quality model. The Social Quality model has the advantage of being sociologically grounded as a measure of the well-being of society and the individuals within it. We test our model of Social Quality against life satisfaction as an indicator of how successful it is in delivering these aspirations. The model was tested on all European c…
Household employment patterns in an enlarged European Union
Our aim is to contribute to better understanding of why different practices relating to the division of paid labour by sex in couple households are still to be found in different parts of Europe. We analyse data on the distribution of dominant household employment patterns in eight countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Using comparative survey evidence for a large tot…
Opening and closing borders: Migration and mobility in East-Central Europe
and the Czech and Slovak Republics ± countries which have been crucially affected by the opening of borders to the European Union. There has not only been migration from these countries, but also into these countries; the former has declined and the latter has increased in the last ten years. The paper argues, however, that this migration most often takes the form of short-term circulatory movements. It considers a number of factors which account…
The Development of Open‐air Markets in East‐Central Europe
This paper considers the way in which open‐air markets have developed as a legacy of both the communist and pre‐communist systems, but have taken distinctive forms in the post‐communist context. The small‐scale capitalism represented by open‐air markets is often informal and not often analysed in the context of the transformation process in East and Central Europe. However, this paper argues that they can represent an important indicator of some …
Broadband and the creative industries in rural Scotland
The creative industries potentially contribute much to the social and economic viability of rural regions. This paper explores the role that broadband connectivity plays in the development of professional and creative practices. In particular, we explore the extent to which broadband connectivity can reduce the penalty of distance for rural creative practitioners, and equally, how a lack of connectivity impacts upon the development of the rural c…
An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives
Introducing Sociology.2. Social Stratification.3. Social Class in Modern Britain.4. Wealth, Welfare, and Poverty.5. Gender.6. Ethnicity and Race.7. Power, Politics, Citizenship, and Protest.8. The Mass Media.9. Social Control, Deviance, and Crime.10. The Family.11. Schooling in Britain.12. Inequality in Education.13. Religion.14. Work and Leisure.15. Population.16. Health and Illness.17. Doing Sociological Research.Appendix: Reading Statistical D…
Flexibility and Individualisation: A Comparison of Transitions into Employment in England and Germany
In virtually all advanced capitalist industrial societies, transitions from compulsory education into employment have been prolonged since the 1970s. The basic reasons are the same everywhere, but there have been contrasting interpretations of youth's new social condition by different countries' social scientists. Here a particularly sharp contrast is between Britain and Germany. In the former country most researchers have taken a negative view o…
Health world views of post-soviet citizens
Time Pioneers: Flexible Working Time and New Lifestyles
Introduction. 1. Lifestyles and time relations in flux. 2. Flexible working time -- new perspectives and traditional forms of opposition. 3. The revision of interpretative schemata -- commitment and dissociation. 4. The changed relationship between money and time. 5. The time structures of the new lifestyle. 6. The dynamic of the new lifestyle. 7. Future prospects. Notes. Bibliography. Index
The Family and the New Right
The ideas of the New Right on the family have a populist appeal. Governments in Britain and the USA have introduced measures influenced by New Right thinking. Abbott and Wallace trace and critically evaluate the writers, intellectuals and moral movements (anti-abortion, Christian pro-family) who have contributed to these philosophical, political and economic attitudes towards the family. Particular attention is paid to the arguments that women sh…
Trust in Post-Soviet Countries, Ten Years On
This paper looks at recovery from the normative collapse which followed the fall of the Soviet Union; two large-scale surveys allow comparison of levels of trust in 2001 and 2010/2011. The collapse of the Soviet Union was not just an economic event; it destroyed the normative framework and drove people back to reliance on things they could see and people they knew. The main findings are that even 20 years of building new institutions has not rest…
Gathering together: Social Capital, Cultural Capital and the Value of Cultural Heritage in a Digital Age
Cultural heritage is generally regarded as something of value – but it is valued in different ways by different communities. Here we explore the value of cultural heritage for rural Scottish communities and how it is generated through social and cultural capital. Using the idea of ‘gathering’, we consider the process of gathering historical archives, narratives and gathering places based on local knowledge. We draw upon a study of communities in …
The Quality of Society and Life Satisfaction in China
Relational identities on EU borderlands: The case of Poles in Belarus and Belarusians in Poland
The paper argues that the well-known triadic relationship between kin state, resident state and national minority needs to take into account a fourth dimension: that of European institutions. This is illustrated through a study of relational identities on the EU's Eastern border where the reconfiguration of ethnic relations followed the end of the iron curtain and EU accession. It considers two neighbouring ethnic minorities. One minority is part…
Building Virtual Bridges: How Rural Micro-Enterprises Develop Social Capital in Online and Face-to-Face Settings
In rural UK, businesses are often isolated and have much to gain from healthy networks, yet studies show that many rural business owners fail to network effectively. Information communications technologies offer new ways to network that might benefit rural businesses by expanding their reach. This study looked at online and face-to-face networking behaviour among rural micro-enterprises in Scotland in relation to the development of bonding and br…
Women farmers in south-west England
There has been research on women running businesses and on women as farmers’ wives, but little is known about women farmers—women running their own businesses within the rural economy. This paper reports on long interviews with nine women farmers in the South West of England. All had become involved in farming during or as a result of marriage, but at the time of the interviews all were business‐women in their own right, running farms or substant…
Young People and the Division of Labour in Farming Families
The family farm has been identified as the main unit of agricultural production in Britain and it has been widely studied as an economic unit in agricultural research. However, it is also a social unit: one with a division of labour based upon gender and generation. Here we will consider a relatively unexplored area of agricultural production: the contribution of children to the family farm, based upon a quantitative survey of young people in a r…
East-West Migration and the Czech Republic
The fall of the Berlin Wall led to fears of an influx of migrants from Eastern Europe. So far this ‘flood’ has not arrived, but new patterns of migration from East to West are emerging. In this paper we explore patterns of migration in the Czech Republic which has emerged as part of a ‘buffer zone’ between East and West Europe. We develop a preliminary typology of types of migration and some of the factors which govern migration in the Czech Repu…
Talking About Health and Well-Being in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Russia
Residents of Ukraine and Russia perceive their living conditions and health as very poor. This is coupled with concerns over access to social services and health care. There is a strong interaction between the poor quality of life after the economic and political collapse and the views of individual citizens about their ability to take responsibility for their health. The collapse of the former supportive system was a ‘cultural trauma’ that affec…
Youth Cultures and Consumption in Eastern and Western Europe: An Overview
Whereas in the past, youth cultures were analyzed in terms of their relationship to divisions such as social class, the tendency now is to see youth as submerged in general consumer culture and to analyze this in terms of cultural codes and symbols. In this article, the authors argue that there are important differences in the way in which young people are situated in relation to consumer culture and that this differs according to the different s…
The eastern frontier of Western Europe: Mobility in the buffer zone
"The post-Communist countries of Poland, Hungary, [and] the Czech and Slovak Republics have become a buffer zone between East and West. In this article we analyse the way in which this occurs in terms of migration in and out of the region. Our analysis focuses upon the emerging role which this region plays in relation to other parts of Western and Eastern Europe and the way in which economic and political developments there have encouraged partic…
Youth Cultures under Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of the Swings Against the Nazis
This article looks at the role of a popular youth subculture as a form of resistance to dominant constructions of youth under National Socialism in Germany. At the time when youth were strongly pressured to participate in the dominant youth organization and to conform to a particular model of 'youthfulness' associated with fascist modernity, there were few opportunities to construct alternative ideas of youth. However, participation in the 'Hambu…
Family, Economy and Community
Youth in the Eighties
Youth in Transition: The Sociology of Youth and Youth Policy
Family, Economy and Community
The Family and the New Right
The ideas of the New Right on the family have a populist appeal. Governments in Britain and the USA have introduced measures influenced by New Right thinking. Abbott and Wallace trace and critically evaluate the writers, intellectuals and moral movements (anti-abortion, Christian pro-family) who have contributed to these philosophical, political and economic attitudes towards the family. Particular attention is paid to the arguments that women sh…
Young People and the Division of Labour in Farming Families
The family farm has been identified as the main unit of agricultural production in Britain and it has been widely studied as an economic unit in agricultural research. However, it is also a social unit: one with a division of labour based upon gender and generation. Here we will consider a relatively unexplored area of agricultural production: the contribution of children to the family farm, based upon a quantitative survey of young people in a r…
Flexibility and Individualisation: A Comparison of Transitions into Employment in England and Germany
In virtually all advanced capitalist industrial societies, transitions from compulsory education into employment have been prolonged since the 1970s. The basic reasons are the same everywhere, but there have been contrasting interpretations of youth's new social condition by different countries' social scientists. Here a particularly sharp contrast is between Britain and Germany. In the former country most researchers have taken a negative view o…
East-West Migration and the Czech Republic
The fall of the Berlin Wall led to fears of an influx of migrants from Eastern Europe. So far this ‘flood’ has not arrived, but new patterns of migration from East to West are emerging. In this paper we explore patterns of migration in the Czech Republic which has emerged as part of a ‘buffer zone’ between East and West Europe. We develop a preliminary typology of types of migration and some of the factors which govern migration in the Czech Repu…
Youth Cultures and Consumption in Eastern and Western Europe: An Overview
Whereas in the past, youth cultures were analyzed in terms of their relationship to divisions such as social class, the tendency now is to see youth as submerged in general consumer culture and to analyze this in terms of cultural codes and symbols. In this article, the authors argue that there are important differences in the way in which young people are situated in relation to consumer culture and that this differs according to the different s…
The eastern frontier of Western Europe: Mobility in the buffer zone
"The post-Communist countries of Poland, Hungary, [and] the Czech and Slovak Republics have become a buffer zone between East and West. In this article we analyse the way in which this occurs in terms of migration in and out of the region. Our analysis focuses upon the emerging role which this region plays in relation to other parts of Western and Eastern Europe and the way in which economic and political developments there have encouraged partic…
Women farmers in south-west England
There has been research on women running businesses and on women as farmers’ wives, but little is known about women farmers—women running their own businesses within the rural economy. This paper reports on long interviews with nine women farmers in the South West of England. All had become involved in farming during or as a result of marriage, but at the time of the interviews all were business‐women in their own right, running farms or substant…
Time Pioneers: Flexible Working Time and New Lifestyles
Introduction. 1. Lifestyles and time relations in flux. 2. Flexible working time -- new perspectives and traditional forms of opposition. 3. The revision of interpretative schemata -- commitment and dissociation. 4. The changed relationship between money and time. 5. The time structures of the new lifestyle. 6. The dynamic of the new lifestyle. 7. Future prospects. Notes. Bibliography. Index
Youth in society: The construction and deconstruction of youth in East and West Europe
The Significance of Borders in the East European Transition
The growth of small‐scale trading in Central Europe is fostered by the uneven development among post‐communist countries. This has encouraged small‐scale informal traders to cross the borders between these countries in order to buy and sell goods to supplement their incomes. This paper is based upon a study of these traders, involving qualitative interviews with 129 traders and observation of markets in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slo…
The Development of Open‐air Markets in East‐Central Europe
This paper considers the way in which open‐air markets have developed as a legacy of both the communist and pre‐communist systems, but have taken distinctive forms in the post‐communist context. The small‐scale capitalism represented by open‐air markets is often informal and not often analysed in the context of the transformation process in East and Central Europe. However, this paper argues that they can represent an important indicator of some …
Youth Cultures under Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of the Swings Against the Nazis
This article looks at the role of a popular youth subculture as a form of resistance to dominant constructions of youth under National Socialism in Germany. At the time when youth were strongly pressured to participate in the dominant youth organization and to conform to a particular model of 'youthfulness' associated with fascist modernity, there were few opportunities to construct alternative ideas of youth. However, participation in the 'Hambu…
Opening and closing borders: Migration and mobility in East-Central Europe
and the Czech and Slovak Republics ± countries which have been crucially affected by the opening of borders to the European Union. There has not only been migration from these countries, but also into these countries; the former has declined and the latter has increased in the last ten years. The paper argues, however, that this migration most often takes the form of short-term circulatory movements. It considers a number of factors which account…
Household Strategies: Their Conceptual Relevance and Analytical Scope in Social Research
The article considers the idea of 'household strategies' as a concept that takes into account the motivations and agency of actors in society, as a method of analysis through looking at the intersection of different economies in household behaviour and as a unit of analysis, with a focus on households rather than individuals. Although the concept of household strategies has been criticized in each of these dimensions, it has nevertheless remained…
An Introduction to Sociology: Feminist Perspectives
Introducing Sociology.2. Social Stratification.3. Social Class in Modern Britain.4. Wealth, Welfare, and Poverty.5. Gender.6. Ethnicity and Race.7. Power, Politics, Citizenship, and Protest.8. The Mass Media.9. Social Control, Deviance, and Crime.10. The Family.11. Schooling in Britain.12. Inequality in Education.13. Religion.14. Work and Leisure.15. Population.16. Health and Illness.17. Doing Sociological Research.Appendix: Reading Statistical D…
Obituary for Christine Ruth Cousins
Chernobyl: Living with risk and uncertainty
The nuclear accident in Chernobyl in 1986 is a dramatic example of the type of incidents that are characteristic of a ‘risk society’. The consequences of the incident are indeterminate, the causes complex and future developments unpredictable. Nothing can compensate for its effects and it affects a broad population indiscriminately. This paper examines the lived experience of those who experienced biographical disruption as residents of the regio…
Household employment patterns in an enlarged European Union
Our aim is to contribute to better understanding of why different practices relating to the division of paid labour by sex in couple households are still to be found in different parts of Europe. We analyse data on the distribution of dominant household employment patterns in eight countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Using comparative survey evidence for a large tot…
Health world views of post-soviet citizens
Talking About Health and Well-Being in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Russia
Residents of Ukraine and Russia perceive their living conditions and health as very poor. This is coupled with concerns over access to social services and health care. There is a strong interaction between the poor quality of life after the economic and political collapse and the views of individual citizens about their ability to take responsibility for their health. The collapse of the former supportive system was a ‘cultural trauma’ that affec…
Youth Policies in Europe: Towards a Classification of Different Tendencies in Youth Policies in the European Union
Drawing upon material from several research projects, this article attempts to classify youth policies in the European Union according to a variety of dimensions: the organisation of the youth sector, the target groups for youth policies, the definitions of youth and the main purposes of youth policies. One problem in undertaking this exercise is that not only are youth policies highly diverse between countries, but they are also diverse within c…
More Participation, Happier Society? A Comparative Study of Civil Society and the Quality of Life
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