Steven Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 5220554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8302-1138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From Compliance to Stewardship
Universities internationally are entering a new phase in their response to gender-based violence, shaped by shifting regulatory expectations and the growing influence of digitally-mediated misogyny among students. This commentary suggests the rise of the ‘manosphere’ (loosely connected online networks promoting misogynistic ideas) has reconfigured the conditions under which gendered harm emerges on campus, creating a mismatch between institutiona…
The limits of ‘backlash’ masculinity
This paper proposes a reconsideration of backlash as the dominant frame for analysing resistance to gender equality. Widely used to describe reactionary responses to feminist progress, the term often under-theorizes the strategic, organized and structural dimensions of contemporary masculinist mobilization. Building on feminist accounts of patriarchal adaptation, we foreground masculinity as a coordinated and politically organized project, well b…
The reanimation of normative manhood acts in schools
Drawing on qualitative survey data from 107 Australian teachers, we analyse how boys perform masculinity in schools through dominance, derision, defiance, and harassment, in ways that constitute reanimated normative manhood acts (Schwalbe, 2014). Teachers describe a noticeable shift around 2022, coinciding with the rising visibility and popularity of the manosphere, when some boys’ misogyny became more explicit, emboldened, and unchecked. Buildin…
Looking After Yourself Is Self-Respect”
Notions of masculinity have played a central role in social and cultural research on men’s drinking events. Within this context, masculinity is regularly called on to explain the problematic disparities that mark men’s alcohol consumption, including men’s disproportionate involvement in drinking and a range of alcohol-related harms. More recently, however, researchers have begun to emphasize men’s drinking events as sites of care and support, lea…
Gendered stereotypes and norms
The ‘social worlds’ concept
Intervening in heavy drinking cultures within groups below the level of the population has been under-utilized as a means of reducing alcohol-associated harms. We argue that the concept of ‘social worlds’ is useful for the identification and investigation of heavy drinking cultures in collectivities at this level. The concept may also support investigations into other practices with health implications, such as other substance use or gambling. So…
Masculinity
For sociologists, masculinity is not bound up with or innate to male‐sexed bodies. It is a social construct – an ideal image of manhood that is culturally specific and historically variable, but is generally situated in relation to, and characterized by, an absence of femininity. Central to sociological discussions of masculinity is the theorization of men's power, and how this is asserted, enacted against, or obtained at the expense of women, ot…
Youth Sociology
Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming
Reifying difference
This article contributes to the study of contemporary lesbian communities by examining the management of internal diversity on a lesbian ‘subreddit’ (i.e. a sub-section of the popular social news media website Reddit) in relation to the parallel conceptual categories of ‘post-gay’ and ‘post-lesbian’. Drawing on data obtained via virtual ethnography of this subreddit, it argues that contemporary lesbian communities have diverged significantly from…
Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming
Young Working-Class Men in Transition
Young Working Class Men in Transition uses a unique blend of concepts from the sociologies of youth and masculinity combined with Bourdieusian social theory to investigate British young working-class men’s transition to adulthood. Indeed, utilising data from biographical interviews as well as an ethnographic observation of social media activity, this volume provides novel insights by following young men across a seven-year time period. Against th…
Masculinity, Labour, and Neoliberalism
Youth and Social Class
This book addresses the recent marginalisation of class theory in youth sociology. The authors argue for the importance of reinstating class analysis as central to understanding young people's lives i
Continuity, change and complexity in the performance of masculinity among elite young footballers in England
Following recent research evidencing that young men are redefining the essential components of what it is to be a man, this paper draws on qualitative interviews with 22 elite-level, English Premier League academy level football (soccer) players to investigate their performances and understandings of masculinity in relation to decreasing homohysteria. Even in this gender-segregated, near-total institution, these working-class, non-educationally a…
Digital Methods for Social Science
Educational aspirations among UK Young Teenagers
Large socio‐economic differences in educational attainment and participation in Higher Education (HE) are seen in the United Kingdom (UK). Furthermore, improvements in attainment and in rates of progression to university have been much faster for most ethnic minority groups than for White children. Political rhetoric explains these differences in terms of a lack of aspiration, particularly among White, working‐class boys. This paper extends recen…
Identity, neoliberalism and aspiration
"Identity, neoliberalism and aspiration: educating white working-class boys. By Garth Stahl." British Journal of Educational Studies, 64(2), pp. 263–264
Young People and Social Policy in Europe
This edited collection provides the first in-depth analysis of social policies and the risks faced by young people. The book explores the effects of both the economic crisis and austerity policies on
Debating Modern Masculinities
Masculinity, it seems, is in crisis, again. This edited volume critically interrogates the current situation facing contemporary young men. The contributors deconstruct and reject such crisis talk, wi
Digital Methods for Social Science
This timely book inspires researchers to deploy relevant, effective, innovative digital methods. It explores the relationship of such methods to 'mainstream' social science; interdisciplinarity; innov
Class Inequality in Austerity Britain
When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to critical
I just got on with it’
In the 1980s, researchers established the need to document and analyse the educational attitudes, behaviours and outcomes of ‘ordinary kids' as a means of developing a holistic account of school experience. Yet, while significant attention is given to extremes in educational attitudes and behaviours, ‘ordinariness' tends to remain overlooked in contemporary research and policy discourses. This article contributes to this void by presenting data f…
Gender Nonconformity, Intelligence, and Sexual Orientation
A Case for Dissidence in Occupied Paris
In Occupied Paris in June 1942, non-Jewish Parisians protested against the ordinance requiring Jews to wear the yellow star. Based largely on police archives, this article examines a subgroup within the protest made up of non-Jewish youth known as the Zazous. The Zazous were known for their attraction to jazz swing culture, music and dress, which both the Germans and Vichy considered delinquent and unpatriotic. Previous work on this period has te…
Continuity, change and complexity in the performance of masculinity among elite young footballers in England
Following recent research evidencing that young men are redefining the essential components of what it is to be a man, this paper draws on qualitative interviews with 22 elite-level, English Premier League academy level football (soccer) players to investigate their performances and understandings of masculinity in relation to decreasing homohysteria. Even in this gender-segregated, near-total institution, these working-class, non-educationally a…
Educational aspirations among UK Young Teenagers
Large socio‐economic differences in educational attainment and participation in Higher Education (HE) are seen in the United Kingdom (UK). Furthermore, improvements in attainment and in rates of progression to university have been much faster for most ethnic minority groups than for White children. Political rhetoric explains these differences in terms of a lack of aspiration, particularly among White, working‐class boys. This paper extends recen…
I just got on with it’
In the 1980s, researchers established the need to document and analyse the educational attitudes, behaviours and outcomes of ‘ordinary kids' as a means of developing a holistic account of school experience. Yet, while significant attention is given to extremes in educational attitudes and behaviours, ‘ordinariness' tends to remain overlooked in contemporary research and policy discourses. This article contributes to this void by presenting data f…
The Stoa Gutter Well a Late Archaic Deposit in the Athenian Agora
S. R. Roberts, Alice Glock, The Stoa Gutter Well a Late Archaic Deposit in the Athenian Agora, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 1-74
Gender Nonconformity, Intelligence, and Sexual Orientation
From Aquatics
The Stoa Gutter Well a Late Archaic Deposit in the Athenian Agora
S. R. Roberts, Alice Glock, The Stoa Gutter Well a Late Archaic Deposit in the Athenian Agora, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 1-74
Characteristics of Marine Aggregates in Shallow-water Ecosystems
A Case for Dissidence in Occupied Paris
In Occupied Paris in June 1942, non-Jewish Parisians protested against the ordinance requiring Jews to wear the yellow star. Based largely on police archives, this article examines a subgroup within the protest made up of non-Jewish youth known as the Zazous. The Zazous were known for their attraction to jazz swing culture, music and dress, which both the Germans and Vichy considered delinquent and unpatriotic. Previous work on this period has te…
I just got on with it’
In the 1980s, researchers established the need to document and analyse the educational attitudes, behaviours and outcomes of ‘ordinary kids' as a means of developing a holistic account of school experience. Yet, while significant attention is given to extremes in educational attitudes and behaviours, ‘ordinariness' tends to remain overlooked in contemporary research and policy discourses. This article contributes to this void by presenting data f…
Gender Nonconformity, Intelligence, and Sexual Orientation
Class Inequality in Austerity Britain
When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to critical
Young People and Social Policy in Europe
This edited collection provides the first in-depth analysis of social policies and the risks faced by young people. The book explores the effects of both the economic crisis and austerity policies on
Debating Modern Masculinities
Masculinity, it seems, is in crisis, again. This edited volume critically interrogates the current situation facing contemporary young men. The contributors deconstruct and reject such crisis talk, wi
Digital Methods for Social Science
This timely book inspires researchers to deploy relevant, effective, innovative digital methods. It explores the relationship of such methods to 'mainstream' social science; interdisciplinarity; innov
Digital Methods for Social Science
Educational aspirations among UK Young Teenagers
Large socio‐economic differences in educational attainment and participation in Higher Education (HE) are seen in the United Kingdom (UK). Furthermore, improvements in attainment and in rates of progression to university have been much faster for most ethnic minority groups than for White children. Political rhetoric explains these differences in terms of a lack of aspiration, particularly among White, working‐class boys. This paper extends recen…
Identity, neoliberalism and aspiration
"Identity, neoliberalism and aspiration: educating white working-class boys. By Garth Stahl." British Journal of Educational Studies, 64(2), pp. 263–264
Youth and Social Class
This book addresses the recent marginalisation of class theory in youth sociology. The authors argue for the importance of reinstating class analysis as central to understanding young people's lives i
Continuity, change and complexity in the performance of masculinity among elite young footballers in England
Following recent research evidencing that young men are redefining the essential components of what it is to be a man, this paper draws on qualitative interviews with 22 elite-level, English Premier League academy level football (soccer) players to investigate their performances and understandings of masculinity in relation to decreasing homohysteria. Even in this gender-segregated, near-total institution, these working-class, non-educationally a…
Young Working-Class Men in Transition
Young Working Class Men in Transition uses a unique blend of concepts from the sociologies of youth and masculinity combined with Bourdieusian social theory to investigate British young working-class men’s transition to adulthood. Indeed, utilising data from biographical interviews as well as an ethnographic observation of social media activity, this volume provides novel insights by following young men across a seven-year time period. Against th…
Masculinity, Labour, and Neoliberalism
Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming
Reifying difference
This article contributes to the study of contemporary lesbian communities by examining the management of internal diversity on a lesbian ‘subreddit’ (i.e. a sub-section of the popular social news media website Reddit) in relation to the parallel conceptual categories of ‘post-gay’ and ‘post-lesbian’. Drawing on data obtained via virtual ethnography of this subreddit, it argues that contemporary lesbian communities have diverged significantly from…
Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming
The ‘social worlds’ concept
Intervening in heavy drinking cultures within groups below the level of the population has been under-utilized as a means of reducing alcohol-associated harms. We argue that the concept of ‘social worlds’ is useful for the identification and investigation of heavy drinking cultures in collectivities at this level. The concept may also support investigations into other practices with health implications, such as other substance use or gambling. So…
Masculinity
For sociologists, masculinity is not bound up with or innate to male‐sexed bodies. It is a social construct – an ideal image of manhood that is culturally specific and historically variable, but is generally situated in relation to, and characterized by, an absence of femininity. Central to sociological discussions of masculinity is the theorization of men's power, and how this is asserted, enacted against, or obtained at the expense of women, ot…
Youth Sociology
Gendered stereotypes and norms
Looking After Yourself Is Self-Respect”
Notions of masculinity have played a central role in social and cultural research on men’s drinking events. Within this context, masculinity is regularly called on to explain the problematic disparities that mark men’s alcohol consumption, including men’s disproportionate involvement in drinking and a range of alcohol-related harms. More recently, however, researchers have begun to emphasize men’s drinking events as sites of care and support, lea…
Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Masculinity (6 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (6 works)