Stephen Crook
Biographic Data
| ID | 3983891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Crook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Crook |
| SIGNATURE | CROOK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Stars Down to Earth
The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles provided by each of these three essays to showcase the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with consumption. He engages with some of his most enduring themes in this seminal collection, focusing on the irrational in mass culture - from astrology to new age cults, from anti-semitism to the power of …
Spatiotemporal Analysis
This entry discusses the concepts and methods related to spatiotemporal analysis. From early civilizations to modern times, space and time have been the two fundamental domains under which humans have characterized events and phenomena of interest. The conceptualization of absolute versus relative space–time has exerted a major impact on so‐called spatiotemporal analysis, which seeks to understand “when” and “where” (and to some extent “why”) thi…
Change, uncertainty and the future of sociology
[Extract] I am grateful for the opportunity to address themes that are central to the future of our discipline and association. That future appears clouded to many of us, especially the majority located in universities. There, our concerns are amplified by funding problems, shifts in student enrolment patterns towards ‘safe’ vocational courses, permanent revolution in organizational structures and the rest (I have been at James Cook University fo…
Adorno
A collection of key articles on the irrational in mass culture, relevant to the understanding of phenomena such as astrology and New Age cults, the power of neo-fascist propaganda and the psychological basis of popular culture, showing Theodor Adorno at his brilliant and maddening best
Social Theory and the Postmodern
[Extract] The idea of the postmodern is no longer a novelty in social theory. Themes that had been the recondite concerns of an avant-garde in the 1980s and exploded into an intellectual crazecum-publishing bonanza in the early 1990s are now part of the standard repertoire of social theory and cognate disciplines. Undergraduate students in cultural studies and sociology learn to distinguish the postmodern from other theoretical ‘frameworks’ or ‘p…
The Dynamics of Environmental Issues in Australia
Recent survey (AES and ISSP) data and public opinion polls show an interesting dynamic at work in public opinion on environmental issues in Australia. Environmental concerns lose urgency, detach themselves from environmental groups, their established issue-carriers, and further bifurcate into distinct 'green' and 'brown' issue clusters. These shifts in patterns of concern accompany changes in forms of public expression and in the diffusion of con…
Minotaurs and Other Monsters
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the everyday among social theorists from Habermas and Giddens to de Certeau and Maffesoli. Taking Habermas as a benchmark, it is argued that recent accounts of the everyday in divergent traditions of analysis converge on two suspect theses: that of the everyday as `taken-for-granted' and that of the everyday as `living history'. These two theses are related to Minotaur-like concepts of the everyda…
Shades of green
Data from the 1990 and 1993 Australian Electoral Studies are used to investigate whether public concern about the environment has declined in Australia over recent years. Questions of the ranking and structure of environmental concerns and of levels of support for environmental organisations are addressed. The data show that public concern about the environment remains high on an agenda of long-term issues, that environmental concerns form two di…
Out of the Maze? Twists and Riddles of Postmodern Thinking
Modernist Radicalism and Its Aftermath
Minotaurs and Other Monsters
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the everyday among social theorists from Habermas and Giddens to de Certeau and Maffesoli. Taking Habermas as a benchmark, it is argued that recent accounts of the everyday in divergent traditions of analysis converge on two suspect theses: that of the everyday as `taken-for-granted' and that of the everyday as `living history'. These two theses are related to Minotaur-like concepts of the everyda…
Shades of green
Data from the 1990 and 1993 Australian Electoral Studies are used to investigate whether public concern about the environment has declined in Australia over recent years. Questions of the ranking and structure of environmental concerns and of levels of support for environmental organisations are addressed. The data show that public concern about the environment remains high on an agenda of long-term issues, that environmental concerns form two di…
The Dynamics of Environmental Issues in Australia
Recent survey (AES and ISSP) data and public opinion polls show an interesting dynamic at work in public opinion on environmental issues in Australia. Environmental concerns lose urgency, detach themselves from environmental groups, their established issue-carriers, and further bifurcate into distinct 'green' and 'brown' issue clusters. These shifts in patterns of concern accompany changes in forms of public expression and in the diffusion of con…
Change, uncertainty and the future of sociology
[Extract] I am grateful for the opportunity to address themes that are central to the future of our discipline and association. That future appears clouded to many of us, especially the majority located in universities. There, our concerns are amplified by funding problems, shifts in student enrolment patterns towards ‘safe’ vocational courses, permanent revolution in organizational structures and the rest (I have been at James Cook University fo…
Out of the Maze? Twists and Riddles of Postmodern Thinking
Modernist Radicalism and Its Aftermath
Modernist Radicalism and Its Aftermath
Out of the Maze? Twists and Riddles of Postmodern Thinking
Shades of green
Data from the 1990 and 1993 Australian Electoral Studies are used to investigate whether public concern about the environment has declined in Australia over recent years. Questions of the ranking and structure of environmental concerns and of levels of support for environmental organisations are addressed. The data show that public concern about the environment remains high on an agenda of long-term issues, that environmental concerns form two di…
The Dynamics of Environmental Issues in Australia
Recent survey (AES and ISSP) data and public opinion polls show an interesting dynamic at work in public opinion on environmental issues in Australia. Environmental concerns lose urgency, detach themselves from environmental groups, their established issue-carriers, and further bifurcate into distinct 'green' and 'brown' issue clusters. These shifts in patterns of concern accompany changes in forms of public expression and in the diffusion of con…
Minotaurs and Other Monsters
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the everyday among social theorists from Habermas and Giddens to de Certeau and Maffesoli. Taking Habermas as a benchmark, it is argued that recent accounts of the everyday in divergent traditions of analysis converge on two suspect theses: that of the everyday as `taken-for-granted' and that of the everyday as `living history'. These two theses are related to Minotaur-like concepts of the everyda…
Social Theory and the Postmodern
[Extract] The idea of the postmodern is no longer a novelty in social theory. Themes that had been the recondite concerns of an avant-garde in the 1980s and exploded into an intellectual crazecum-publishing bonanza in the early 1990s are now part of the standard repertoire of social theory and cognate disciplines. Undergraduate students in cultural studies and sociology learn to distinguish the postmodern from other theoretical ‘frameworks’ or ‘p…
Adorno
A collection of key articles on the irrational in mass culture, relevant to the understanding of phenomena such as astrology and New Age cults, the power of neo-fascist propaganda and the psychological basis of popular culture, showing Theodor Adorno at his brilliant and maddening best
Change, uncertainty and the future of sociology
[Extract] I am grateful for the opportunity to address themes that are central to the future of our discipline and association. That future appears clouded to many of us, especially the majority located in universities. There, our concerns are amplified by funding problems, shifts in student enrolment patterns towards ‘safe’ vocational courses, permanent revolution in organizational structures and the rest (I have been at James Cook University fo…
Spatiotemporal Analysis
This entry discusses the concepts and methods related to spatiotemporal analysis. From early civilizations to modern times, space and time have been the two fundamental domains under which humans have characterized events and phenomena of interest. The conceptualization of absolute versus relative space–time has exerted a major impact on so‐called spatiotemporal analysis, which seeks to understand “when” and “where” (and to some extent “why”) thi…
The Stars Down to Earth
The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles provided by each of these three essays to showcase the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with consumption. He engages with some of his most enduring themes in this seminal collection, focusing on the irrational in mass culture - from astrology to new age cults, from anti-semitism to the power of …
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (3 works) · Astrology (2 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (2 works) · Law (2 works)