Ronald L Cohen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 103622 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ronald L Cohen |
| PRENOMES | Ronald L |
| SOBRENOME | Cohen |
| ASSINATURA | COHEN R L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | City, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4560-1590 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 566 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Student workers as proto-workers
Work undertaken by students is widespread, but largely overlooked, with this employment dismissed as a precursor to ‘real work’. The designation of student work as not real, ‘proto-work’, is central to the production of consent. Drawing on original analysis of focus group interviews with 83 students undertaking paid work and Burawoy’s text, Manufacturing Consent , the article identifies two ways in which hegemonic legitimation of and consent to e…
Equally Bad, Unevenly Distributed
Students comprise approximately four per cent of the UK labour force and as much as 20% in some occupations and jobs. Yet students' work is typically seen as marginal, secondary both to their current learning and future working biographies. Public and media attention on 'earning while learning' (EwL) tends to focus on the negative impacts of paid work on education. Meanwhile students' actual working conditions, occupations and employment experien…
The Sociology of Self-Employment
Self-employment accounts for a significant share of income-producing work but the 'sociology of self-employment' remains embryonic. This article argues that, to date, sociologists have viewed self-employment through discrete lenses, rooted in different intellectual traditions. A novel typology is developed that conceptually maps extant analyses, revealing the variety of ways these lenses portray the relationship of self-employment to capitalism. …
We're not like that
This article explores the occupational identities of hairdressers and vehicle mechanics working in small and micro firms. Using qualitative interview data from two UK cities, it examines the ways that workers expounded, reflected on and discursively reframed public perceptions of their occupation. A novel distinction between two types of identity resistance is proposed. 'Crusaders' are workers who perform collective occupational resistance by rej…
Repair work as good work
Repair work is essential if we are to develop environmentally-sustainable societies, but repair activity has largely disappeared in advanced economies. Where it survives, work in repair is typically ‘dirty’ and undesirable. This article asks how repair work can be experienced as ‘good work’, drawing on the accounts of 20 trainees on a classic car restoration course. We observe that two features made repair ‘good work’ in trainees’ eyes: craft and…
Spatio-Temporal Unboundedness
This article considers whether unbounded times and spaces of work are systematically associated with self-employment. In contrast to analyses that frame the spatial and temporal location of work as signifying autonomy or freedom, it posits that self-employment is produced by, and then reproduces, constraints on and preferences about spatio-temporal organization at both occupational and individual level. Using data from 5 years of the U.K. Labour …
Introduction to the Special Issue
A "partial renaissance" of self-employment in labor markets of the global North has attracted policy concern within national, supranational, and global arenas, yet sociological thought has been somewhat slower to respond to this phenomenon. In response, this special issue focuses on everyday self-employment among workers drawn from countries across the world. The collection of articles in this volume originated, in part, from a recent symposium t…
The Feminization of Body Work
This article explores the relationship between ‘body work’ and gender, asking why paid work involving the physical touch and manipulation of others' bodies is largely performed by women. It argues that the feminization of body work is not simply explicable as ‘nurturance’, nor as the continuation of a pre‐existing domestic division of labour. Rather, feminization resolves dilemmas that arise when intimate touch is refigured as paid labour. These …
Justice
Femininity, Childhood and the Non-Making of a Sporting Celebrity
Gymnastics is regularly classified as a feminine-appropriate sport, embodying grace and elegance and is an Olympic sport which has regularly produced female sporting celebrities. Beth Tweddle is the most successful British gymnast of all time and the first to achieve international success, culminating in a medal at London 2012, yet she has received relatively little media coverage and few corporate endorsements. Employing a 'negative case' method…
Sisterhood and After
In this article, we address the question of ethics in the study of social movements from the perspective of ‘Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project’, which will record life history interviews of 50 key activists in the UK for the British Library Sound Archive. Our research is inspired by the democratic ideals of oral historical methods and of feminism itself, yet we have discovered tensions concerning the status of indi…
The Methodological Impact of Feminism
As British sociology seeks to overcome a historical distaste for quantitative research methods, one of the discipline's most dynamic sub-fields may prove troublesome. Feminist research thrives both within and outside sociology. As such it provides new insights and enriches the discipline, something recognized by the 2010 Benchmarking Review of Sociology. Yet feminist research has long been associated with an antipathy towards quantitative methods…
Conceptualising body work in health and social care
Body work is a central activity in the practice of many workers in the field of health and social care. This article provides an introduction to the concept of body work - paid work on the bodies of others - and demonstrates its importance for understanding the activities of health and social care workers. Providing an overview of existing research on body work, it shows the manifold ways in which this can inform the sociology of health and illne…
Time, space and touch at work
With 'efficiency savings' the watchword for health and social care services, reorganisation and labour rationalisation are the order of the day. This article examines the difficulties involved in (re)organising work which takes bodies as its object, or material of production. It shows that working on bodies ('body work') systematically delimits possibilities for labour process rationalisation which, in turn, constrains reorganisation of the healt…
Feminists really do count
We are delighted to be presenting this special issue on the topic of feminism and quantitative methods. We believe that such an issue is exceptionally timely. This is not simply because of ongoing debates around quantification within the field of feminism and women‟s studies. It is also because of debates within the wider research community about the development of appropriate methodologies that take account of new technological and philosophical…
When it Pays to Be Friendly
This article examines worker-client relationships in hairstyling. Data are drawn from interviews with 15 hourly-paid and 32 self-employed hairstylists and a self-administered survey. Relations of employment are found to be central to the deployment of emotional labour. Self-employed owner-operators are highly dependent on clients, rely on deep-acting, enact favours, and are prone to emotional breaking points when they fail to realise their 'conge…
Rethinking 'mobile work
This article investigates the relationship between spatial mobility and the labour process, developing a typology of 'mobile work'. Working while mobile is a largely white-collar (and well researched) phenomenon whereas mobility as work and mobility for work involve more diverse occupations and have been omitted from sociological analysis of mobile work. The article explores the range of work involving spatial mobility before focusing on a hither…
Silencing objections
This article addresses the question: Why is there so often silence in the face of injustice? Much of this silence is socially constructed, the result of a process through which possible (and, often, previously audible) objections to injustice are muffled, not by modifying the conditions giving rise to the objections, but by other means. Not all silences are socially constructed, of course, and some of those that are may have the genuine endorseme…
Regret, Reconciliation, and Restorative Justice
Provocations of Restorative Justice
Minority Group Influence
Paying the Social Debt
Preface Introduction Measuring the Social Debt Viewing Social Policy through the Restitution Lens How to Pay the Debt Creative Antitrust: Subsidized Social Divestiture Narrow Inequalities in Income and Wealth Affirmative Action, Competitiveness and Productivity Invest in Reducing Crime Discourage Immature Parenting and Welfare Dependency Invest in Persuasive Communications The Social Debt and Tax Reform Security, Productivity, Competitiveness, Ec…
Political Attitudes over the Lifespan
"Some reflections on Smith and Crosby's "affirmative action
Political Attitudes over the Life Span
The culmination of one of the most famous long-term studies in American sociology, this examination of political attitudes among women who attended Bennington College in the 1930s and 1940s now spans five decades, from late adolescence to old age. Theodore Newcomb s 1930s interviews at Bennington, where the faculty held progressive views that contrasted with those of the conservative families of the students, showed that political orientations ar…
Conceptualising body work in health and social care
Body work is a central activity in the practice of many workers in the field of health and social care. This article provides an introduction to the concept of body work - paid work on the bodies of others - and demonstrates its importance for understanding the activities of health and social care workers. Providing an overview of existing research on body work, it shows the manifold ways in which this can inform the sociology of health and illne…
What's Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice
Time, space and touch at work
With 'efficiency savings' the watchword for health and social care services, reorganisation and labour rationalisation are the order of the day. This article examines the difficulties involved in (re)organising work which takes bodies as its object, or material of production. It shows that working on bodies ('body work') systematically delimits possibilities for labour process rationalisation which, in turn, constrains reorganisation of the healt…
Procedural Justice and Participation
Recent social psychological work on procedural justice suggests that people given the opportunity to participate in a decision are more likely to see that decision as just than those given no such opportunity. The operation of this “fair process effect” in legal settings contributes to the legitimacy of those settings and to the stability of their structure over time. A similar, limited opportunity for participation by experimental subjects playi…
Political Attitudes over the Lifespan
Rethinking 'mobile work
This article investigates the relationship between spatial mobility and the labour process, developing a typology of 'mobile work'. Working while mobile is a largely white-collar (and well researched) phenomenon whereas mobility as work and mobility for work involve more diverse occupations and have been omitted from sociological analysis of mobile work. The article explores the range of work involving spatial mobility before focusing on a hither…
When it Pays to Be Friendly
This article examines worker-client relationships in hairstyling. Data are drawn from interviews with 15 hourly-paid and 32 self-employed hairstylists and a self-administered survey. Relations of employment are found to be central to the deployment of emotional labour. Self-employed owner-operators are highly dependent on clients, rely on deep-acting, enact favours, and are prone to emotional breaking points when they fail to realise their 'conge…
The Feminization of Body Work
This article explores the relationship between ‘body work’ and gender, asking why paid work involving the physical touch and manipulation of others' bodies is largely performed by women. It argues that the feminization of body work is not simply explicable as ‘nurturance’, nor as the continuation of a pre‐existing domestic division of labour. Rather, feminization resolves dilemmas that arise when intimate touch is refigured as paid labour. These …
Distributive justice
On the Distinction Between Individual Deserving and Distributive Justice
Laypersons' Conceptions of Social Relationships
This study sought to test three hypotheses derived from contract theory concerning laypersons' conceptions of social relationships. Data collected in a questionnaire administered to male and female university students at one West German university and one college in the United States provided evidence for distinctions among three relationship types: loving or caring relationships, friend or associate relationships, and work relationships. Each re…
Provocations of Restorative Justice
The Methodological Impact of Feminism
As British sociology seeks to overcome a historical distaste for quantitative research methods, one of the discipline's most dynamic sub-fields may prove troublesome. Feminist research thrives both within and outside sociology. As such it provides new insights and enriches the discipline, something recognized by the 2010 Benchmarking Review of Sociology. Yet feminist research has long been associated with an antipathy towards quantitative methods…
Feminists really do count
We are delighted to be presenting this special issue on the topic of feminism and quantitative methods. We believe that such an issue is exceptionally timely. This is not simply because of ongoing debates around quantification within the field of feminism and women‟s studies. It is also because of debates within the wider research community about the development of appropriate methodologies that take account of new technological and philosophical…
Paying the Social Debt
Preface Introduction Measuring the Social Debt Viewing Social Policy through the Restitution Lens How to Pay the Debt Creative Antitrust: Subsidized Social Divestiture Narrow Inequalities in Income and Wealth Affirmative Action, Competitiveness and Productivity Invest in Reducing Crime Discourage Immature Parenting and Welfare Dependency Invest in Persuasive Communications The Social Debt and Tax Reform Security, Productivity, Competitiveness, Ec…
Fabrications of justice
Introduction to the Special Issue
A "partial renaissance" of self-employment in labor markets of the global North has attracted policy concern within national, supranational, and global arenas, yet sociological thought has been somewhat slower to respond to this phenomenon. In response, this special issue focuses on everyday self-employment among workers drawn from countries across the world. The collection of articles in this volume originated, in part, from a recent symposium t…
Mastery and justice in laboratory dyads
Repair work as good work
Repair work is essential if we are to develop environmentally-sustainable societies, but repair activity has largely disappeared in advanced economies. Where it survives, work in repair is typically ‘dirty’ and undesirable. This article asks how repair work can be experienced as ‘good work’, drawing on the accounts of 20 trainees on a classic car restoration course. We observe that two features made repair ‘good work’ in trainees’ eyes: craft and…
Self-presentation, embarrassment, and facework as a function of self-evaluation, conditions of self-presentation, and feedback from others
Equally Bad, Unevenly Distributed
Students comprise approximately four per cent of the UK labour force and as much as 20% in some occupations and jobs. Yet students' work is typically seen as marginal, secondary both to their current learning and future working biographies. Public and media attention on 'earning while learning' (EwL) tends to focus on the negative impacts of paid work on education. Meanwhile students' actual working conditions, occupations and employment experien…
Femininity, Childhood and the Non-Making of a Sporting Celebrity
Gymnastics is regularly classified as a feminine-appropriate sport, embodying grace and elegance and is an Olympic sport which has regularly produced female sporting celebrities. Beth Tweddle is the most successful British gymnast of all time and the first to achieve international success, culminating in a medal at London 2012, yet she has received relatively little media coverage and few corporate endorsements. Employing a 'negative case' method…
Sisterhood and After
In this article, we address the question of ethics in the study of social movements from the perspective of ‘Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project’, which will record life history interviews of 50 key activists in the UK for the British Library Sound Archive. Our research is inspired by the democratic ideals of oral historical methods and of feminism itself, yet we have discovered tensions concerning the status of indi…
"Some reflections on Smith and Crosby's "affirmative action
Causes and Cures of Welfare
Paired-Associate Learning, Mediation Value and the Drop-Out Method
Pools of paired associates (double or single letters paired with one- or two-digit numbers) were constructed so that all pairs within a pool had approximately the same mediation value (MV), this latter value being defined as the ease with which a mediator can be found within a pair. These pools were then used in a drop-out experiment where a list of 8 pairs were learned to a criterion of one correct repetition. The main result was that rate of pr…
Primary Memory and Associative Interference
RI and PI effects were investigated in two probe digit experiments when varying ( a ) the nature of the retroactive and proactive items and ( b ) the number of proactive items. Two of Waugh & Norman's criteria for a PM experiment were met: no rehearsal during presentation and recall probability curve reached zero. With a presentation rate of 1 digit/sec. both PI and RI effects were found; with a rate of 4 digits/sec. only the presence of PI effec…
Self-presentation, embarrassment, and facework as a function of self-evaluation, conditions of self-presentation, and feedback from others
Mastery and justice in laboratory dyads
Judicial Treatment of the Due-on-Sale Clause
Cognitive deficits, learning disabilities, and Wisc Verbal-Performance consistency
Cognitive deficits, learning disabilities, and Wisc Verbal–Performance consistency
On the Distinction Between Individual Deserving and Distributive Justice
Why Justice? Normative and Instrumental Interpretations11This chapter was prepared while the senior author was in residence as a Fulbright research scholar at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Lou…
The Justice Concept in Social Psychology
Perceiving Justice
Causes and Cures of Welfare
What's Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice
Laypersons' Conceptions of Social Relationships
This study sought to test three hypotheses derived from contract theory concerning laypersons' conceptions of social relationships. Data collected in a questionnaire administered to male and female university students at one West German university and one college in the United States provided evidence for distinctions among three relationship types: loving or caring relationships, friend or associate relationships, and work relationships. Each re…
Procedural Justice and Participation
Recent social psychological work on procedural justice suggests that people given the opportunity to participate in a decision are more likely to see that decision as just than those given no such opportunity. The operation of this “fair process effect” in legal settings contributes to the legitimacy of those settings and to the stability of their structure over time. A similar, limited opportunity for participation by experimental subjects playi…
Justice
Justice in Social Relations
Distributive justice
Justice
Ronald L. Cohen Justice is a central moral standard in social life. It is invoked in judging individual persons and in judging basic structure of societies. It has been described as akin to a hunger or thirst (Pascal, Pensees, cited in Hirschman, 1982, p. 91), powerful than any physical hunger, and endlessly resilient (Pitkin, 1981, p. 349). The most prominent contemporary theory of justice proceeds from claim that justice is the first virtue of …
Justice in Social Relations
The Social Psychology of Procedural Justice
Fabrications of justice
Political Attitudes over the Life Span
The culmination of one of the most famous long-term studies in American sociology, this examination of political attitudes among women who attended Bennington College in the 1930s and 1940s now spans five decades, from late adolescence to old age. Theodore Newcomb s 1930s interviews at Bennington, where the faculty held progressive views that contrasted with those of the conservative families of the students, showed that political orientations ar…
Political Attitudes over the Lifespan
"Some reflections on Smith and Crosby's "affirmative action
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