James Gregory
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Gregory |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Gregory |
| SIGNATURE | GREGORY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8589-8758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1897 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Neighbours, Distrust and the State: What the Poorer Working Class in Britain Felt about Government and Each Other, 1860s to 1930s, by Marc Brodie
Journal Article Neighbours, Distrust and the State: What the Poorer Working Class in Britain Felt about Government and Each Other, 1860s to 1930s, by Marc Brodie Get access Neighbours, Distrust and the State: What the Poorer Working Class in Britain Felt about Government and Each Other, 1860s to 1930s, by Marc Brodie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; pp. 213. £65). James Gregory James Gregory University of Plymouth, UK james.r.gregory@plymo…
Does housing tenure matter? Owner-occupation and wellbeing in Britain and Austria
This article presents the case for the significance of two neglected domains of sociological enquiry: housing tenure and subjective wellbeing. Our empirical focus is on the relationship between housing tenure and subjective wellbeing in two case-study countries, Austria and the UK, using multivariate modelling of European SILC data to investigate potential associations between tenure and individual wellbeing survey items. Our case-studies are cho…
Charles Upchurch. “ Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain
Journal Article Charles Upchurch. “Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain. Get access Charles Upchurch. “Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2021. Pp. x, 289. Paper $39.95. James Gregory James Gregory University of Plymouth, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
An easy target: Studentification, crime and safety of students in Johannesburg
The socio-economic impacts associated with studentification are diverse. International and local research suggests that the process of studentification and growth of private student accommodation can attract certain types of crime to neighbourhoods that have a high concentration of students. Johannesburg is a popular city amongst local and regional students and attracts several thousand students each year. Some neighbourhoods have become popular …
Deofles Cræftum ond Dracan Fellum: Grendel's Glof and Early Welsh Tradition
When Beowulf describes to his uncle Hygelac the fight with Grendel in Heorot, he includes a detail that had apparently been ignored by the poet during the actual fight sequence in lines 710–836. Specifically, Beowulf mentions a glof that Grendel bore, a strange device “eall gegyrwed / deofles cræftum ond dracan fellum” (made by devil's cunning from dragon's scales) (ll. 2087b-88b) into which the fiend intended to stuff his victims:1 Ic sceal forð…
Personal Savings for Those on Lower Incomes: Towards a New Framework for Assessing the Role of the State in Relation to Savings Schemes
This article explores the role of the state in helping households to save. Using the UK as an example of challenges faced in other developed countries, it develops a framework for comparing saving schemes along two dimensions: apparent normative motivation for the scheme and likely impact on savers of varying income levels. Using this framework, our analysis suggests that there is much greater state support for high-income savers than low-income …
Judgment in the Victorian Age
"This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields, including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature. It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed"
Instagrammers, Urban Renewal and the Johannesburg Inner City
Engineering Compassion: The Institutional Structure of Virtue
This paper offers a constructive critique of a recent account, in this journal, of the place of compassion as a virtue within social policy. The critique suggests that the 'compassion thesis' collapses into an account of duty rather than virtue, and that compassion as a virtue can only be exercised by individuals, and not by institutions. The paper goes on to suggest an alternative account of the relationship between social policy institutions an…
The search for an ‘asset-effect’: What do we want from asset-based welfare
This article calls for a critical revaluation of the case for asset-based welfare as a progressive strategy for greater social inclusion. Whilst there is a strong case for helping low-income households to build a financial cushion, the idea that there is a stronger ‘asset-effect’ – with positive benefits beyond financial stability and access to goods and services – is unsupported by current evidence. Recent interpretations of that evidence have t…
The culture of liberalism and the virtue of ‘balance
This article argues for a virtue-based account of the value and legitimacy of liberalism in increasingly multicultural societies. In contrast to the recent trend to seek consensus and stability through an overlapping ‘political’ consensus, this article argues for a more ‘comprehensive’ view of the attraction of liberalism in a culturally diverse world. This attraction resides in a particular view of the properly constituted ‘self’, able to apprec…
Correspondence of John Wallis (1616–1703), Vol. 3: October 1668–1671
Reformers, Patrons and Philanthropists: The Cowper-Temples and High Politics in Victorian Britain
William and Georgina Cowper-Temple were significant figures in nineteenth-century Britain. William Cowper-Temple, later Lord Mount Temple, was private secretary to one Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and minister in the government of Lord Palmerston. He sought to improve the nation's health and rebuild London, and famously amended the Education Act in 1870. His charismatic wife, Georgina, was also champion of diverse social and moral reforms, and…
The political philosophy of Walzer’s social criticism
This article calls for a critical re-evaluation of Walzer’s theory of justice. It argues that there is a deep tension between Walzer’s social criticism and his complex equality. Social criticism is based on the normative value of a connected and ‘whole’ self, and complex equality is based upon a value pluralism that threatens to fragment this sense of wholeness. Walzer therefore commissions a tacit premise, borrowing from the same ‘political phil…
Why Solidarity Matters: The Political Strategy of Welfare Design
Reporting on our recent book, The Solidarity Society , this article explores the way in which the design of welfare programmes interacts with and shapes the underlying quality of social relations between members of society—and, through this, public attitudes to welfare. Given that sustaining generous welfare over long timescales requires the support of electorates, this ‘relational’ dimension of welfare policy is crucial for the long‐term strateg…
Between the Ancients and Moderns. Baroque Culture in Restoration England Joseph Levine
Journal Article Between the Ancients and Moderns. Baroque Culture in Restoration England Joseph Levine Get access Jeremy Gregory Jeremy Gregory University of Northhumbria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 463, September 2000, Pages 974–975, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.463.974 Published: 01 September 2000
Southernizing the American Working Class: Post-war Episodes of Regional and Class Transformation
The Ecology and Management of Wetlands: Volume 1: Ecology of Wetlands
The First Crossing of Spitsbergen: Discussion
Engineering Compassion: The Institutional Structure of Virtue
This paper offers a constructive critique of a recent account, in this journal, of the place of compassion as a virtue within social policy. The critique suggests that the 'compassion thesis' collapses into an account of duty rather than virtue, and that compassion as a virtue can only be exercised by individuals, and not by institutions. The paper goes on to suggest an alternative account of the relationship between social policy institutions an…
Does housing tenure matter? Owner-occupation and wellbeing in Britain and Austria
This article presents the case for the significance of two neglected domains of sociological enquiry: housing tenure and subjective wellbeing. Our empirical focus is on the relationship between housing tenure and subjective wellbeing in two case-study countries, Austria and the UK, using multivariate modelling of European SILC data to investigate potential associations between tenure and individual wellbeing survey items. Our case-studies are cho…
Why Solidarity Matters: The Political Strategy of Welfare Design
Reporting on our recent book, The Solidarity Society , this article explores the way in which the design of welfare programmes interacts with and shapes the underlying quality of social relations between members of society—and, through this, public attitudes to welfare. Given that sustaining generous welfare over long timescales requires the support of electorates, this ‘relational’ dimension of welfare policy is crucial for the long‐term strateg…
Personal Savings for Those on Lower Incomes: Towards a New Framework for Assessing the Role of the State in Relation to Savings Schemes
This article explores the role of the state in helping households to save. Using the UK as an example of challenges faced in other developed countries, it develops a framework for comparing saving schemes along two dimensions: apparent normative motivation for the scheme and likely impact on savers of varying income levels. Using this framework, our analysis suggests that there is much greater state support for high-income savers than low-income …
The search for an ‘asset-effect’: What do we want from asset-based welfare
This article calls for a critical revaluation of the case for asset-based welfare as a progressive strategy for greater social inclusion. Whilst there is a strong case for helping low-income households to build a financial cushion, the idea that there is a stronger ‘asset-effect’ – with positive benefits beyond financial stability and access to goods and services – is unsupported by current evidence. Recent interpretations of that evidence have t…
The culture of liberalism and the virtue of ‘balance
This article argues for a virtue-based account of the value and legitimacy of liberalism in increasingly multicultural societies. In contrast to the recent trend to seek consensus and stability through an overlapping ‘political’ consensus, this article argues for a more ‘comprehensive’ view of the attraction of liberalism in a culturally diverse world. This attraction resides in a particular view of the properly constituted ‘self’, able to apprec…
The political philosophy of Walzer’s social criticism
This article calls for a critical re-evaluation of Walzer’s theory of justice. It argues that there is a deep tension between Walzer’s social criticism and his complex equality. Social criticism is based on the normative value of a connected and ‘whole’ self, and complex equality is based upon a value pluralism that threatens to fragment this sense of wholeness. Walzer therefore commissions a tacit premise, borrowing from the same ‘political phil…
Southernizing the American Working Class: Post-war Episodes of Regional and Class Transformation
The First Crossing of Spitsbergen: Discussion
The Ecology and Management of Wetlands: Volume 1: Ecology of Wetlands
Southernizing the American Working Class: Post-war Episodes of Regional and Class Transformation
Between the Ancients and Moderns. Baroque Culture in Restoration England Joseph Levine
Journal Article Between the Ancients and Moderns. Baroque Culture in Restoration England Joseph Levine Get access Jeremy Gregory Jeremy Gregory University of Northhumbria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 463, September 2000, Pages 974–975, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.463.974 Published: 01 September 2000
Reformers, Patrons and Philanthropists: The Cowper-Temples and High Politics in Victorian Britain
William and Georgina Cowper-Temple were significant figures in nineteenth-century Britain. William Cowper-Temple, later Lord Mount Temple, was private secretary to one Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and minister in the government of Lord Palmerston. He sought to improve the nation's health and rebuild London, and famously amended the Education Act in 1870. His charismatic wife, Georgina, was also champion of diverse social and moral reforms, and…
The political philosophy of Walzer’s social criticism
This article calls for a critical re-evaluation of Walzer’s theory of justice. It argues that there is a deep tension between Walzer’s social criticism and his complex equality. Social criticism is based on the normative value of a connected and ‘whole’ self, and complex equality is based upon a value pluralism that threatens to fragment this sense of wholeness. Walzer therefore commissions a tacit premise, borrowing from the same ‘political phil…
Why Solidarity Matters: The Political Strategy of Welfare Design
Reporting on our recent book, The Solidarity Society , this article explores the way in which the design of welfare programmes interacts with and shapes the underlying quality of social relations between members of society—and, through this, public attitudes to welfare. Given that sustaining generous welfare over long timescales requires the support of electorates, this ‘relational’ dimension of welfare policy is crucial for the long‐term strateg…
Correspondence of John Wallis (1616–1703), Vol. 3: October 1668–1671
The search for an ‘asset-effect’: What do we want from asset-based welfare
This article calls for a critical revaluation of the case for asset-based welfare as a progressive strategy for greater social inclusion. Whilst there is a strong case for helping low-income households to build a financial cushion, the idea that there is a stronger ‘asset-effect’ – with positive benefits beyond financial stability and access to goods and services – is unsupported by current evidence. Recent interpretations of that evidence have t…
The culture of liberalism and the virtue of ‘balance
This article argues for a virtue-based account of the value and legitimacy of liberalism in increasingly multicultural societies. In contrast to the recent trend to seek consensus and stability through an overlapping ‘political’ consensus, this article argues for a more ‘comprehensive’ view of the attraction of liberalism in a culturally diverse world. This attraction resides in a particular view of the properly constituted ‘self’, able to apprec…
Engineering Compassion: The Institutional Structure of Virtue
This paper offers a constructive critique of a recent account, in this journal, of the place of compassion as a virtue within social policy. The critique suggests that the 'compassion thesis' collapses into an account of duty rather than virtue, and that compassion as a virtue can only be exercised by individuals, and not by institutions. The paper goes on to suggest an alternative account of the relationship between social policy institutions an…
Instagrammers, Urban Renewal and the Johannesburg Inner City
Judgment in the Victorian Age
"This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields, including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature. It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed"
Personal Savings for Those on Lower Incomes: Towards a New Framework for Assessing the Role of the State in Relation to Savings Schemes
This article explores the role of the state in helping households to save. Using the UK as an example of challenges faced in other developed countries, it develops a framework for comparing saving schemes along two dimensions: apparent normative motivation for the scheme and likely impact on savers of varying income levels. Using this framework, our analysis suggests that there is much greater state support for high-income savers than low-income …
An easy target: Studentification, crime and safety of students in Johannesburg
The socio-economic impacts associated with studentification are diverse. International and local research suggests that the process of studentification and growth of private student accommodation can attract certain types of crime to neighbourhoods that have a high concentration of students. Johannesburg is a popular city amongst local and regional students and attracts several thousand students each year. Some neighbourhoods have become popular …
Deofles Cræftum ond Dracan Fellum: Grendel's Glof and Early Welsh Tradition
When Beowulf describes to his uncle Hygelac the fight with Grendel in Heorot, he includes a detail that had apparently been ignored by the poet during the actual fight sequence in lines 710–836. Specifically, Beowulf mentions a glof that Grendel bore, a strange device “eall gegyrwed / deofles cræftum ond dracan fellum” (made by devil's cunning from dragon's scales) (ll. 2087b-88b) into which the fiend intended to stuff his victims:1 Ic sceal forð…
Does housing tenure matter? Owner-occupation and wellbeing in Britain and Austria
This article presents the case for the significance of two neglected domains of sociological enquiry: housing tenure and subjective wellbeing. Our empirical focus is on the relationship between housing tenure and subjective wellbeing in two case-study countries, Austria and the UK, using multivariate modelling of European SILC data to investigate potential associations between tenure and individual wellbeing survey items. Our case-studies are cho…
Charles Upchurch. “ Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain
Journal Article Charles Upchurch. “Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain. Get access Charles Upchurch. “Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2021. Pp. x, 289. Paper $39.95. James Gregory James Gregory University of Plymouth, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Neighbours, Distrust and the State: What the Poorer Working Class in Britain Felt about Government and Each Other, 1860s to 1930s, by Marc Brodie
Journal Article Neighbours, Distrust and the State: What the Poorer Working Class in Britain Felt about Government and Each Other, 1860s to 1930s, by Marc Brodie Get access Neighbours, Distrust and the State: What the Poorer Working Class in Britain Felt about Government and Each Other, 1860s to 1930s, by Marc Brodie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; pp. 213. £65). James Gregory James Gregory University of Plymouth, UK james.r.gregory@plymo…
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