Alan Aldridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Aldridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Aldridge |
| SIGNATURE | ALDRIDGE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Theorizing Religion in a Globalizing World
Orthodox and Alternative Medicine
Some Useful Sources on Consumption
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Consumerism, Health and Social Order
The concept of consumerism has multiple meanings, many of which are heavily value-laden; similarly, there are conflicting stereotypes of ‘the consumer’. After exploring the key dimensions of debates about consumerism and the consumer, this paper addresses some paradoxical consequences of the discourse of consumer empowerment in the field of health promotion and specifically in the ‘new public health’ movement
The Scrying Game
Review of: Tiles, Mary and Hans Oberdiek (1995) Living in a Technological Culture: Human Tools and Human Values. Routledge: London
Prediction in Sociology
The nineteenth-century founders of sociology were in no doubt that sociology is a predictive discipline. This was a key component of its constitution as a science, in contrast to religious mythology and metaphysics. Comte's formula 'Savoir pour prévoir et prévoir pour pouvoir' neatly captures the mood and mission of the sociological enterprise at its foundation. As the twentieth century closes, prediction has become almost a taboo word, connoting…
Habitus and Cultural Capital in the Field of Personal Finance
Key concepts drawn from the work of Pierre Bourdieu - in particular, habitus and cultural capital - which have been widely used to analyse the fields of education and the arts, are applied here to the sociologically neglected field of personal finance. The cultural project to promote marketization has not created an informed public of sovereign consumers rich in cultural capital. On the contrary, the development of commodified mass-market financi…
Engaging with Promotional Culture
The UK's expanding personal financial services sector has been the site of allegations of widespread professional malpractice. In response, the Consumers' Association has begun to scrutinise financial products and services more closely. The personal financial sector is a promotional culture, in which information and persuasion are inextricably linked. It appears, therefore, to be a prime target for the Consumers' Association, whose mission is to …
The English as They See others
Peter Mayle's best-selling accounts of his life in Provence have appealed to a wide audience in Britain but have also attracted harsh criticism. It is argued here that these works, although ostensibly about Provence, are better analysed as myths for the English. The contrast with an account from the 1930s reflects wider social change, showing a move from a confidently colonial to a self-consciously 'anthropological' mode. Doubts about the authent…
Women Priests
The Construction of Rational Consumption in Which? Magazine
Published by the Consumers' Association and launched in 1957, Which? magazine aims to offer impartial, independent and scientifically-grounded factual information in order to promote rational choice in consumption. In this article, Which? is analysed as a lifestyle guide in which rational consumption and the rational consumer are socially constructed. Which? repudiates the irrationalist anti-Enlightenment thrust of postmodernism: it concentrates …
Negotiating Status
The clergy of the Church of England are members of an ancient and elite profession. although the legal privileges enjoyed by the Established Church have dwindled, its cultural influence remains extensive. The Church is central to national and civil religion; bishops enjoy high social status, which diffuses to rank-and-file clergy; and clergy themselves have high professional autonomy. In this article, conventional studies of social mobility-which…
Discourse on Women in the Clerical Profession
In 1986, the Church of England permitted women to enter the lowest rank of the clerical profession, the diaconate, while reserving to men the offices of priest and bishop. For male clergy, the period served as a deacon is normally a one-year probation before ordination to the priesthood, whereas for women it is a terminus. This limited incorporation of women into the clerical profession has been accompanied by a prolific discourse on the need for…
Men, Women, and Clergymen
The Church of England faces a potential crisis over the ordination of women to the priesthood. This article presents survey and interview evidence of patterns of clerical opinion on the problem, showing that the trend of clerical opinion is in favour. However, the organizational context of clerical life means that whereas a clergyman's opinion is fateful for women it may have little consequence for the man himself. Clergymen have an assured statu…
In the Absence of the Minister
The order of deaconesses, which survived in western Christianity until the beginning of the eleventh century, was revived in the Church of England in 1862. The role of deaconess has been systematically compounded of anomalies which express the otherness of women and their subordination to men. That deaconesses are subordinate to clergy and dependent on their goodwill is evident from analysis of the formal structures and informal networks within w…
Slaves to No Sect
Many writers have argued that the Church of England, in common with other Christian denomination, is undergoing a profound crisis of identity. One crucial aspect of this is the clergy's rapid abandonment of the traditional services of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer in favour of the radically different, modern language services of the Alternative Service Book, published in 1980. Liturgical change on this scale is said to be both cause and effect o…
Habitus and Cultural Capital in the Field of Personal Finance
Key concepts drawn from the work of Pierre Bourdieu - in particular, habitus and cultural capital - which have been widely used to analyse the fields of education and the arts, are applied here to the sociologically neglected field of personal finance. The cultural project to promote marketization has not created an informed public of sovereign consumers rich in cultural capital. On the contrary, the development of commodified mass-market financi…
The Construction of Rational Consumption in Which? Magazine
Published by the Consumers' Association and launched in 1957, Which? magazine aims to offer impartial, independent and scientifically-grounded factual information in order to promote rational choice in consumption. In this article, Which? is analysed as a lifestyle guide in which rational consumption and the rational consumer are socially constructed. Which? repudiates the irrationalist anti-Enlightenment thrust of postmodernism: it concentrates …
Theorizing Religion in a Globalizing World
Engaging with Promotional Culture
The UK's expanding personal financial services sector has been the site of allegations of widespread professional malpractice. In response, the Consumers' Association has begun to scrutinise financial products and services more closely. The personal financial sector is a promotional culture, in which information and persuasion are inextricably linked. It appears, therefore, to be a prime target for the Consumers' Association, whose mission is to …
Negotiating Status
The clergy of the Church of England are members of an ancient and elite profession. although the legal privileges enjoyed by the Established Church have dwindled, its cultural influence remains extensive. The Church is central to national and civil religion; bishops enjoy high social status, which diffuses to rank-and-file clergy; and clergy themselves have high professional autonomy. In this article, conventional studies of social mobility-which…
Slaves to No Sect
Many writers have argued that the Church of England, in common with other Christian denomination, is undergoing a profound crisis of identity. One crucial aspect of this is the clergy's rapid abandonment of the traditional services of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer in favour of the radically different, modern language services of the Alternative Service Book, published in 1980. Liturgical change on this scale is said to be both cause and effect o…
Consumerism, Health and Social Order
The concept of consumerism has multiple meanings, many of which are heavily value-laden; similarly, there are conflicting stereotypes of ‘the consumer’. After exploring the key dimensions of debates about consumerism and the consumer, this paper addresses some paradoxical consequences of the discourse of consumer empowerment in the field of health promotion and specifically in the ‘new public health’ movement
Men, Women, and Clergymen
The Church of England faces a potential crisis over the ordination of women to the priesthood. This article presents survey and interview evidence of patterns of clerical opinion on the problem, showing that the trend of clerical opinion is in favour. However, the organizational context of clerical life means that whereas a clergyman's opinion is fateful for women it may have little consequence for the man himself. Clergymen have an assured statu…
Women Priests
In the Absence of the Minister
The order of deaconesses, which survived in western Christianity until the beginning of the eleventh century, was revived in the Church of England in 1862. The role of deaconess has been systematically compounded of anomalies which express the otherness of women and their subordination to men. That deaconesses are subordinate to clergy and dependent on their goodwill is evident from analysis of the formal structures and informal networks within w…
Discourse on Women in the Clerical Profession
In 1986, the Church of England permitted women to enter the lowest rank of the clerical profession, the diaconate, while reserving to men the offices of priest and bishop. For male clergy, the period served as a deacon is normally a one-year probation before ordination to the priesthood, whereas for women it is a terminus. This limited incorporation of women into the clerical profession has been accompanied by a prolific discourse on the need for…
The English as They See others
Peter Mayle's best-selling accounts of his life in Provence have appealed to a wide audience in Britain but have also attracted harsh criticism. It is argued here that these works, although ostensibly about Provence, are better analysed as myths for the English. The contrast with an account from the 1930s reflects wider social change, showing a move from a confidently colonial to a self-consciously 'anthropological' mode. Doubts about the authent…
Slaves to No Sect
Many writers have argued that the Church of England, in common with other Christian denomination, is undergoing a profound crisis of identity. One crucial aspect of this is the clergy's rapid abandonment of the traditional services of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer in favour of the radically different, modern language services of the Alternative Service Book, published in 1980. Liturgical change on this scale is said to be both cause and effect o…
In the Absence of the Minister
The order of deaconesses, which survived in western Christianity until the beginning of the eleventh century, was revived in the Church of England in 1862. The role of deaconess has been systematically compounded of anomalies which express the otherness of women and their subordination to men. That deaconesses are subordinate to clergy and dependent on their goodwill is evident from analysis of the formal structures and informal networks within w…
Men, Women, and Clergymen
The Church of England faces a potential crisis over the ordination of women to the priesthood. This article presents survey and interview evidence of patterns of clerical opinion on the problem, showing that the trend of clerical opinion is in favour. However, the organizational context of clerical life means that whereas a clergyman's opinion is fateful for women it may have little consequence for the man himself. Clergymen have an assured statu…
Discourse on Women in the Clerical Profession
In 1986, the Church of England permitted women to enter the lowest rank of the clerical profession, the diaconate, while reserving to men the offices of priest and bishop. For male clergy, the period served as a deacon is normally a one-year probation before ordination to the priesthood, whereas for women it is a terminus. This limited incorporation of women into the clerical profession has been accompanied by a prolific discourse on the need for…
Negotiating Status
The clergy of the Church of England are members of an ancient and elite profession. although the legal privileges enjoyed by the Established Church have dwindled, its cultural influence remains extensive. The Church is central to national and civil religion; bishops enjoy high social status, which diffuses to rank-and-file clergy; and clergy themselves have high professional autonomy. In this article, conventional studies of social mobility-which…
Women Priests
The Construction of Rational Consumption in Which? Magazine
Published by the Consumers' Association and launched in 1957, Which? magazine aims to offer impartial, independent and scientifically-grounded factual information in order to promote rational choice in consumption. In this article, Which? is analysed as a lifestyle guide in which rational consumption and the rational consumer are socially constructed. Which? repudiates the irrationalist anti-Enlightenment thrust of postmodernism: it concentrates …
The English as They See others
Peter Mayle's best-selling accounts of his life in Provence have appealed to a wide audience in Britain but have also attracted harsh criticism. It is argued here that these works, although ostensibly about Provence, are better analysed as myths for the English. The contrast with an account from the 1930s reflects wider social change, showing a move from a confidently colonial to a self-consciously 'anthropological' mode. Doubts about the authent…
Engaging with Promotional Culture
The UK's expanding personal financial services sector has been the site of allegations of widespread professional malpractice. In response, the Consumers' Association has begun to scrutinise financial products and services more closely. The personal financial sector is a promotional culture, in which information and persuasion are inextricably linked. It appears, therefore, to be a prime target for the Consumers' Association, whose mission is to …
Habitus and Cultural Capital in the Field of Personal Finance
Key concepts drawn from the work of Pierre Bourdieu - in particular, habitus and cultural capital - which have been widely used to analyse the fields of education and the arts, are applied here to the sociologically neglected field of personal finance. The cultural project to promote marketization has not created an informed public of sovereign consumers rich in cultural capital. On the contrary, the development of commodified mass-market financi…
Prediction in Sociology
The nineteenth-century founders of sociology were in no doubt that sociology is a predictive discipline. This was a key component of its constitution as a science, in contrast to religious mythology and metaphysics. Comte's formula 'Savoir pour prévoir et prévoir pour pouvoir' neatly captures the mood and mission of the sociological enterprise at its foundation. As the twentieth century closes, prediction has become almost a taboo word, connoting…
The Scrying Game
Review of: Tiles, Mary and Hans Oberdiek (1995) Living in a Technological Culture: Human Tools and Human Values. Routledge: London
Some Useful Sources on Consumption
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Consumerism, Health and Social Order
The concept of consumerism has multiple meanings, many of which are heavily value-laden; similarly, there are conflicting stereotypes of ‘the consumer’. After exploring the key dimensions of debates about consumerism and the consumer, this paper addresses some paradoxical consequences of the discourse of consumer empowerment in the field of health promotion and specifically in the ‘new public health’ movement
Theorizing Religion in a Globalizing World
Orthodox and Alternative Medicine
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