Gary Pollock
Biographic Data
| ID | 3939304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Pollock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollock |
| SIGNATURE | POLLOCK G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6673-2368 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Children’s understanding of well-being related questions: Results of cognitive interviews in four European countries
This paper presents the results of cognitive interviews with 8-year-old children from four European countries–Croatia, France, Finland, and Ireland. The aim of the interviews was to pre-test a selection of well-being-related questions as a part of questionnaire development for the first European multinational birth cohort study–Growing up in Digital Europe (GUIDE)/EuroCohort. Unlike most previous studies, we focused on a younger and more age-homo…
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course
This chapter adopt a life course perspective to study poverty and economic insecurity.First, it explains the advantages of a life course perspective for the study of poverty and gives a historical overview of the field.Next, we discuss two specific life course perspective that may illuminate the longitudinal patterns and experiences of poverty: the mechanism of cumulative advantage and disadvantage and the resources and stress framework.Third, we…
Young people’s orientations towards contemporary politics: Trust, representation and participation
Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe
This edited volume presents findings from a major cross-European research project mapping the civic and political engagement of young Europeans in the context of both shared and diverse political heritages. Drawing on new survey, interview and ethnographic data, individual articles discuss substantive issues relating to young people’s attitudes and activism including: attitudes to the European Union and to history; understanding of political ideo…
Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey Can Improve Policy
Young People in Risk Society: The Restructuring of Youth Identities and Transitions in Late Modernity
This title was first published in 2002: Loosely divided into two sections, this book's first part includes chapters which explore young people's identities and youth cultures in relation to issues such as drug use, education and dance music. In various ways, the authors examine whether there is a need to rethink the existing theories and concepts which have informed the study of youth cultures and identities. The second part to the volume is conc…
The Current Evidence Base and Future Needs in Improving Children’s Well-Being Across Europe: Is There a Case for a Comparative Longitudinal Survey
There has been a growing interest among academics, policy makers and practitioners in the subjective well-being of children and young people (CYP). The recognition of CYP’s rights to having a good childhood and good future life chances, coupled with the injunction from the New Sociology of Childhood to consult with CYP as active agents have also resulted in an increasing interest in the use of well-being as a key concept in policy programmes in m…
Politics are Bollocks’: Youth, Politics and Activism in Contemporary Europe
This introductory article introduces the MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement) project, the findings of which are the basis of the articles in this volume. MYPLACE maps the relationship between political heritage, current levels and forms of civic and political engagement of young people in Europe, and their potential receptivity to radical and populist political agendas. In this introductory article, the implications of …
Populism, Ideology and Contradiction: Mapping Young People's Political Views
Forms of populism have long been a component of modern political discourse and systems where democracy relies upon popular legitimacy. There is, however, an uneasy relationship between some widely held views of 'the people' and the parties which seek to govern them. Contemporary academic and political discourse on populism often equates these views with right-wing politics, whilst some radical scholars, suggest that these views, whilst controvers…
Class in the South Caucasus
This paper identifies classes using evidence from surveys taken in 2009 among nationally representative samples of approximately 2000 households from each of the three South Caucasus countries –Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Information on employment, education and income is used to identify clusters of both individuals and households, in each case a middle class, a working class and a lower class. Using individual classification, the lower cla…
Young adults’ family and housing life-stage transitions during post-communist transition in the South Caucasus
This paper reports evidence from surveys in 2007 which gathered life-history information since age 16 from samples totalling 1215 31–37-year-olds in the capital cities and regional centres of the three South Caucasus countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Following this quantitative survey in which all questions were closed, there were 20 in-depth follow-up interviews with between four and eight respondents per country. The evidence shows t…
New class divisions in the new market economies: Evidence from the careers of young adults in post-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
This paper presents evidence from the biographies of samples totaling 1,215 young adults in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, who all reached age 16 between 1986 and 1992, and whose subsequent life histories coincided with their countries’ transitions from communism. The evidence is used to examine whether new classes are being created in the new market economies and, if so, where the new divisions lie. Economic classes are defined as aggregates w…
Youth leisure careers during post‐communist transitions in the South Caucasus
This paper reports findings from interview surveys with 1215 respondents, split between the capital cities (Yerevan, Baku and Tbilisi) and one non-capital region (Kotayk, Aran-Mugan and Shida Kartli) in each of the three South Caucasus countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The respondents, who were drawn from households in larger representative household social surveys, were all born between 1970 and 1976 and were aged 31-37 at the time of…
Youth Transitions: Debates over the Social Context of Becoming an Adult
The study of young people has become a mainstay of social science. Education, employment, leisure, criminality, family life are all spheres within which the different experiences of young people have been examined. The principal tool for many of these studies has been a focus on transitions, looking at origins, journeys and destinations. The transition from school to work has been given the most attention, but increasingly there is interest in ot…
Explaining differences in sport participation rates among young adults: Evidence from the South Caucasus
This paper presents and discusses evidence about the sport careers of representative samples of 31—37 year olds from the capital city and a comparator region in each of the three South Caucasus countries —Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. This is one of the few surveys to measure sport participation that allows change over time at the aggregate and individual levels to be distinguished. The evidence suggests that many differences in sport particip…
Holistic Trajectories: A Study of Combined Employment, Housing and Family Careers by using Multiple-Sequence Analysis
Social science applications of sequence analysis have thus far involved the development of a typology on the basis of an analysis of one or two variables which have had a relatively low number of different states. There is a yet unexplored potential for sequence analysis to be applied to a greater number of variables and thereby a much larger state space. The development of a typology of employment experiences, for example, without reference to d…
Work orders: Analysing employment histories using sequence data
The analysis of employment histories has been facilitated recently by advances in survey methodology, statistical processes and computing power. While much work has focused on transitions between states and time spent in one state, the potential of analysing a series of states (i.e. careers) has largely been ignored. A concentration on movement between two states, whilst allowing relevant contextual covariates to be controlled for, often ignores …
Contingent identities: Updating the transitional discourse
Individualization and the transition from youth to adulthood
Uncertain Futures: Young People in and Out of Employment Since 1940
In Britain, the period between the end of World War II and the mid 1970s witnessed an employment market which was relatively stable. Young people seeking entry into employment managed to do so with relative ease. There was a demand for labour which exceeded the supply. This stability allowed young people to be able to predict, to some extent, what sort of employment they were likely to attain. At one level it meant that the majority of young men …
The information technology implications of local authority housing management compulsory competitive tendering
Politics are Bollocks’: Youth, Politics and Activism in Contemporary Europe
This introductory article introduces the MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement) project, the findings of which are the basis of the articles in this volume. MYPLACE maps the relationship between political heritage, current levels and forms of civic and political engagement of young people in Europe, and their potential receptivity to radical and populist political agendas. In this introductory article, the implications of …
Explaining differences in sport participation rates among young adults: Evidence from the South Caucasus
This paper presents and discusses evidence about the sport careers of representative samples of 31—37 year olds from the capital city and a comparator region in each of the three South Caucasus countries —Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. This is one of the few surveys to measure sport participation that allows change over time at the aggregate and individual levels to be distinguished. The evidence suggests that many differences in sport particip…
Uncertain Futures: Young People in and Out of Employment Since 1940
In Britain, the period between the end of World War II and the mid 1970s witnessed an employment market which was relatively stable. Young people seeking entry into employment managed to do so with relative ease. There was a demand for labour which exceeded the supply. This stability allowed young people to be able to predict, to some extent, what sort of employment they were likely to attain. At one level it meant that the majority of young men …
Work orders: Analysing employment histories using sequence data
The analysis of employment histories has been facilitated recently by advances in survey methodology, statistical processes and computing power. While much work has focused on transitions between states and time spent in one state, the potential of analysing a series of states (i.e. careers) has largely been ignored. A concentration on movement between two states, whilst allowing relevant contextual covariates to be controlled for, often ignores …
Youth Transitions: Debates over the Social Context of Becoming an Adult
The study of young people has become a mainstay of social science. Education, employment, leisure, criminality, family life are all spheres within which the different experiences of young people have been examined. The principal tool for many of these studies has been a focus on transitions, looking at origins, journeys and destinations. The transition from school to work has been given the most attention, but increasingly there is interest in ot…
New class divisions in the new market economies: Evidence from the careers of young adults in post-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
This paper presents evidence from the biographies of samples totaling 1,215 young adults in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, who all reached age 16 between 1986 and 1992, and whose subsequent life histories coincided with their countries’ transitions from communism. The evidence is used to examine whether new classes are being created in the new market economies and, if so, where the new divisions lie. Economic classes are defined as aggregates w…
Individualization and the transition from youth to adulthood
Populism, Ideology and Contradiction: Mapping Young People's Political Views
Forms of populism have long been a component of modern political discourse and systems where democracy relies upon popular legitimacy. There is, however, an uneasy relationship between some widely held views of 'the people' and the parties which seek to govern them. Contemporary academic and political discourse on populism often equates these views with right-wing politics, whilst some radical scholars, suggest that these views, whilst controvers…
Youth leisure careers during post‐communist transitions in the South Caucasus
This paper reports findings from interview surveys with 1215 respondents, split between the capital cities (Yerevan, Baku and Tbilisi) and one non-capital region (Kotayk, Aran-Mugan and Shida Kartli) in each of the three South Caucasus countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The respondents, who were drawn from households in larger representative household social surveys, were all born between 1970 and 1976 and were aged 31-37 at the time of…
Young adults’ family and housing life-stage transitions during post-communist transition in the South Caucasus
This paper reports evidence from surveys in 2007 which gathered life-history information since age 16 from samples totalling 1215 31–37-year-olds in the capital cities and regional centres of the three South Caucasus countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Following this quantitative survey in which all questions were closed, there were 20 in-depth follow-up interviews with between four and eight respondents per country. The evidence shows t…
Contingent identities: Updating the transitional discourse
Children’s understanding of well-being related questions: Results of cognitive interviews in four European countries
This paper presents the results of cognitive interviews with 8-year-old children from four European countries–Croatia, France, Finland, and Ireland. The aim of the interviews was to pre-test a selection of well-being-related questions as a part of questionnaire development for the first European multinational birth cohort study–Growing up in Digital Europe (GUIDE)/EuroCohort. Unlike most previous studies, we focused on a younger and more age-homo…
The information technology implications of local authority housing management compulsory competitive tendering
Individualization and the transition from youth to adulthood
Uncertain Futures: Young People in and Out of Employment Since 1940
In Britain, the period between the end of World War II and the mid 1970s witnessed an employment market which was relatively stable. Young people seeking entry into employment managed to do so with relative ease. There was a demand for labour which exceeded the supply. This stability allowed young people to be able to predict, to some extent, what sort of employment they were likely to attain. At one level it meant that the majority of young men …
Work orders: Analysing employment histories using sequence data
The analysis of employment histories has been facilitated recently by advances in survey methodology, statistical processes and computing power. While much work has focused on transitions between states and time spent in one state, the potential of analysing a series of states (i.e. careers) has largely been ignored. A concentration on movement between two states, whilst allowing relevant contextual covariates to be controlled for, often ignores …
Contingent identities: Updating the transitional discourse
Holistic Trajectories: A Study of Combined Employment, Housing and Family Careers by using Multiple-Sequence Analysis
Social science applications of sequence analysis have thus far involved the development of a typology on the basis of an analysis of one or two variables which have had a relatively low number of different states. There is a yet unexplored potential for sequence analysis to be applied to a greater number of variables and thereby a much larger state space. The development of a typology of employment experiences, for example, without reference to d…
Youth Transitions: Debates over the Social Context of Becoming an Adult
The study of young people has become a mainstay of social science. Education, employment, leisure, criminality, family life are all spheres within which the different experiences of young people have been examined. The principal tool for many of these studies has been a focus on transitions, looking at origins, journeys and destinations. The transition from school to work has been given the most attention, but increasingly there is interest in ot…
Explaining differences in sport participation rates among young adults: Evidence from the South Caucasus
This paper presents and discusses evidence about the sport careers of representative samples of 31—37 year olds from the capital city and a comparator region in each of the three South Caucasus countries —Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. This is one of the few surveys to measure sport participation that allows change over time at the aggregate and individual levels to be distinguished. The evidence suggests that many differences in sport particip…
Young adults’ family and housing life-stage transitions during post-communist transition in the South Caucasus
This paper reports evidence from surveys in 2007 which gathered life-history information since age 16 from samples totalling 1215 31–37-year-olds in the capital cities and regional centres of the three South Caucasus countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Following this quantitative survey in which all questions were closed, there were 20 in-depth follow-up interviews with between four and eight respondents per country. The evidence shows t…
New class divisions in the new market economies: Evidence from the careers of young adults in post-Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
This paper presents evidence from the biographies of samples totaling 1,215 young adults in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, who all reached age 16 between 1986 and 1992, and whose subsequent life histories coincided with their countries’ transitions from communism. The evidence is used to examine whether new classes are being created in the new market economies and, if so, where the new divisions lie. Economic classes are defined as aggregates w…
Youth leisure careers during post‐communist transitions in the South Caucasus
This paper reports findings from interview surveys with 1215 respondents, split between the capital cities (Yerevan, Baku and Tbilisi) and one non-capital region (Kotayk, Aran-Mugan and Shida Kartli) in each of the three South Caucasus countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The respondents, who were drawn from households in larger representative household social surveys, were all born between 1970 and 1976 and were aged 31-37 at the time of…
Class in the South Caucasus
This paper identifies classes using evidence from surveys taken in 2009 among nationally representative samples of approximately 2000 households from each of the three South Caucasus countries –Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Information on employment, education and income is used to identify clusters of both individuals and households, in each case a middle class, a working class and a lower class. Using individual classification, the lower cla…
Politics are Bollocks’: Youth, Politics and Activism in Contemporary Europe
This introductory article introduces the MYPLACE (Memory, Youth, Political Legacy and Civic Engagement) project, the findings of which are the basis of the articles in this volume. MYPLACE maps the relationship between political heritage, current levels and forms of civic and political engagement of young people in Europe, and their potential receptivity to radical and populist political agendas. In this introductory article, the implications of …
Populism, Ideology and Contradiction: Mapping Young People's Political Views
Forms of populism have long been a component of modern political discourse and systems where democracy relies upon popular legitimacy. There is, however, an uneasy relationship between some widely held views of 'the people' and the parties which seek to govern them. Contemporary academic and political discourse on populism often equates these views with right-wing politics, whilst some radical scholars, suggest that these views, whilst controvers…
The Current Evidence Base and Future Needs in Improving Children’s Well-Being Across Europe: Is There a Case for a Comparative Longitudinal Survey
There has been a growing interest among academics, policy makers and practitioners in the subjective well-being of children and young people (CYP). The recognition of CYP’s rights to having a good childhood and good future life chances, coupled with the injunction from the New Sociology of Childhood to consult with CYP as active agents have also resulted in an increasing interest in the use of well-being as a key concept in policy programmes in m…
Young People in Risk Society: The Restructuring of Youth Identities and Transitions in Late Modernity
This title was first published in 2002: Loosely divided into two sections, this book's first part includes chapters which explore young people's identities and youth cultures in relation to issues such as drug use, education and dance music. In various ways, the authors examine whether there is a need to rethink the existing theories and concepts which have informed the study of youth cultures and identities. The second part to the volume is conc…
Understanding Youth Participation Across Europe
This edited volume presents findings from a major cross-European research project mapping the civic and political engagement of young Europeans in the context of both shared and diverse political heritages. Drawing on new survey, interview and ethnographic data, individual articles discuss substantive issues relating to young people’s attitudes and activism including: attitudes to the European Union and to history; understanding of political ideo…
Measuring Youth Well-being: How a Pan-European Longitudinal Survey Can Improve Policy
Young people’s orientations towards contemporary politics: Trust, representation and participation
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course
This chapter adopt a life course perspective to study poverty and economic insecurity.First, it explains the advantages of a life course perspective for the study of poverty and gives a historical overview of the field.Next, we discuss two specific life course perspective that may illuminate the longitudinal patterns and experiences of poverty: the mechanism of cumulative advantage and disadvantage and the resources and stress framework.Third, we…
Children’s understanding of well-being related questions: Results of cognitive interviews in four European countries
This paper presents the results of cognitive interviews with 8-year-old children from four European countries–Croatia, France, Finland, and Ireland. The aim of the interviews was to pre-test a selection of well-being-related questions as a part of questionnaire development for the first European multinational birth cohort study–Growing up in Digital Europe (GUIDE)/EuroCohort. Unlike most previous studies, we focused on a younger and more age-homo…
Sociology (17 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works)