Peter Halfpenny
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 232963 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter Halfpenny |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | Halfpenny |
| ASSINATURA | HALFPENNY P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Manchester |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 184 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Positivism and Sociology (RLE Social Theory)
Any serious attempt to explain social life has to come to terms with sociology's positivist legacy. It is a heritage on the one hand from the seventeenth-century political arithmeticians and the later moral statisticians who believed that quantification would provide the basis for a dispassionate analysis of social affairs; and on the other hand from the nineteenth-century post-Enlightenment social philosophers who were eager to develop an empiri…
Positivism and Sociology
Special Issue on e-Social Science
The Future of Regional Cities in the Information Age
Castells identifies two potential consequences of the introduction of information technology into the workplace: dispersal of the workforce and individualization of work, including the spread of teleworking. Such tendencies would undermine one of the rationales for cities: bringing large numbers of people together in order to choreograph their work. Has information technology had the impact that Castells suggests? Evidence from interviews with me…
Mobility and the middle classes
While much is known about the mobility patterns of the middle classes in London and the South East, far less is certain about middle-class migration patterns in other regions of the country. Nor has the importance of other regional centres in providing opportunities in the professions and management been acknowledged. This article rectifies these omissions by drawing on research with young professionals employed in Manchester in the North West. I…
A Social Policy Role for Faith-Based Organisations? Lessons from the UK Jewish Voluntary Sector
After two decades of growing expectations that the UK voluntary (or 'third') sector will expand its social policy role, the spotlight is now focusing on specific types of voluntary organisations including community groups, black and minority ethnic associations and 'faith-based organisations'. This article notes the growing cross-party interest in the UK in religious organisations and then presents findings from two recent empirical studies of th…
Research on the voluntary sector
English This article provides an overview of the growing body of research on the UK voluntary sector, organised around five general themes: the organisational composition of the sector; the resources it commands; explanations for the existence of the sector;accounts of differences between the voluntary, private and public sectors; and the nature and impact of inter-sectoral relationships. While substantial progress has been made over the past twe…
Rebuilding civil society in Northern Ireland
English Since 1995, 26 District Partnerships have been established in Northern Ireland - one in each local government area. They are overseen by a Northern Ireland Partnership Board, drawing representation from across the ethnic and political spectrum. Funding of over £80 million (up to the end of September 1999) has been given by the European Commission through its Peace and Reconciliation Special Support Programme. Representatives of voluntary …
Professional Work and Professional Careers in Manchester's Business and Financial Sector
This paper examines professional work and professional careers and the extent to which professionals face change, uncertainty and risk in their careers. The key issue is whether the power and privilege of the professions is being undermined. It draws on research from Manchester's business and financial sector including accountancy, law, actuarial work and corporate finance. Interviews with senior partners and managers in a range of organisations …
Economic and Sociological Theories of Individual Charitable Giving
This article first sets out the principles of neoclassical microeconomic analysis and examines the advances in our understanding of individual giving to charitable organizations achieved within this framework of analysis. It then turns to sociology and considers alternative conceptions of sociological analysis, especially rational-action theories and the qualitative tradition. The contribution of these to our understanding of charitable giving is…
Researching small companies' charitable giving through telephone interviews
A small-scale study to explore the possibility of obtaining information about small companies' charitable giving through telephone interviews provided challenges on three research design issues: selecting a target sample, telephone interviewing, and sensitive research topics. This article explores the general lessons derived from the study. First, it considers suitable sampling frames for identifying and contacing small companies. Second, it disc…
The Relation Between Quantitative and Qualitative Social Research
La relation entre recherches sociales quantitative et qualitatives. A partir d'une caractérisation schématique de l'historique du débat sur les méthodes de recherche sociale qualitatives et quantitatives. un argument en six points est présenté. Les six points se centrent sur: (1) les multiples paradigmes à la disposition des chercheurs, chacun caractérisant les données et l'explication de manières radicalement opposées: (2) la variété de démarche…
Situating Simulation in Sociology
This paper provides an overview of some of the findings of a recently completed study of school choice in 33 local schools which may be indicative of the effect of an increase in the marketisation of schools. Since it is unlikely that debate over parental choice can be settled by theoretical argument alone and it may also be too early to understand the full implications of the relevant recent governmental reforms in the UK, results from research …
Data sources and estimates of charitable giving in Britain
This paper describes how estimates of individual charitable giving are derived from two major continuous surveys: the Family Expenditure Survey and the Individual Giving Survey. It explores the reasons for and the significance of the differences between the two estimates. Conclusions are drawn on the relative merits and demerits of the two survey datasets, and the circumstances in which it might be appropriate to use each of them
Rationality and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Within the positivist tradition, natural scientific knowledge is the epitome of rationality. In philosophy, this view was fostered by the logical positivist Reichenbach's (1938) distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justification. To the former belong all the external determinants of the generation of scientific theoriespsychological, social, political, and historical. To the latter belongs only rational calculation on t…
Reply to Potter and McKinlay
discourse analyst is not in the philosophical question, but in conflicts which have consequences in the participants' own social settings. This interpretative frame colours Halfpenny's entire interpretation of OPB and WW. It is because Halfpenny construes variability in philosophical terms that he misses the significance of the chapter of OPB concerned with the TWOD (Truth Will Out Device). The point of this chapter is that it documents the real …
Talking of Talking, Writing of Writing
Gilbert and Mulkayl set out to study the controversies surrounding an area of biochemistry called oxidative phosphorylation. In 1979 and 1980, they interviewed thirty-four British and American scientists, mostly in their laboratories, for up to three hours each, and collected together correspondence between the major figures, along with some 400 research and review articles, and the relevant portions of about thirty textbooks. In the course of th…
Laws, Causality and Statistics
At the end of his Introduction to this symposium, after highlighting some specific problems that arise in attempting either to generate causal laws by means of the statistical manipulation of social data or to test theories statistically, Stephen Turner sets a basic question: what relations hold between laws, causality and statistics? My answer is that the view one takes of these relations is fundamentally influenced by one's conception of the na…
National Wage-Rate Claims and Settlements - II. An Exploratory Study of some Possible Determinants of Claims and Settlements
What are the determinants of the level of trades unions' wage-rate claims? To answer this question, a range of simplified models is examined. One set of these models pictures bargainers being influenced when setting claims by looking backward to past variations in the cost of living, past changes in general wage-rates, the gap between the union's claims and settlements in previous bargaining rounds, and the time since their last settlement. A sec…
Shorter Notices
Donald W. Katzner, Analysis without measurement
Development and Direction in Sociology
Positivism and Sociology
Comte and the early period statistics logical positivism laws and explanation theory and evidence
Positivism and Sociology
A refutation of historical materialism
Positivism and Sociology
The Analysis of Qualitative Data
Professional Work and Professional Careers in Manchester's Business and Financial Sector
This paper examines professional work and professional careers and the extent to which professionals face change, uncertainty and risk in their careers. The key issue is whether the power and privilege of the professions is being undermined. It draws on research from Manchester's business and financial sector including accountancy, law, actuarial work and corporate finance. Interviews with senior partners and managers in a range of organisations …
Research on the voluntary sector
English This article provides an overview of the growing body of research on the UK voluntary sector, organised around five general themes: the organisational composition of the sector; the resources it commands; explanations for the existence of the sector;accounts of differences between the voluntary, private and public sectors; and the nature and impact of inter-sectoral relationships. While substantial progress has been made over the past twe…
Rebuilding civil society in Northern Ireland
English Since 1995, 26 District Partnerships have been established in Northern Ireland - one in each local government area. They are overseen by a Northern Ireland Partnership Board, drawing representation from across the ethnic and political spectrum. Funding of over £80 million (up to the end of September 1999) has been given by the European Commission through its Peace and Reconciliation Special Support Programme. Representatives of voluntary …
A Social Policy Role for Faith-Based Organisations? Lessons from the UK Jewish Voluntary Sector
After two decades of growing expectations that the UK voluntary (or 'third') sector will expand its social policy role, the spotlight is now focusing on specific types of voluntary organisations including community groups, black and minority ethnic associations and 'faith-based organisations'. This article notes the growing cross-party interest in the UK in religious organisations and then presents findings from two recent empirical studies of th…
Economic and Sociological Theories of Individual Charitable Giving
This article first sets out the principles of neoclassical microeconomic analysis and examines the advances in our understanding of individual giving to charitable organizations achieved within this framework of analysis. It then turns to sociology and considers alternative conceptions of sociological analysis, especially rational-action theories and the qualitative tradition. The contribution of these to our understanding of charitable giving is…
Mobility and the middle classes
While much is known about the mobility patterns of the middle classes in London and the South East, far less is certain about middle-class migration patterns in other regions of the country. Nor has the importance of other regional centres in providing opportunities in the professions and management been acknowledged. This article rectifies these omissions by drawing on research with young professionals employed in Manchester in the North West. I…
The Relation Between Quantitative and Qualitative Social Research
La relation entre recherches sociales quantitative et qualitatives. A partir d'une caractérisation schématique de l'historique du débat sur les méthodes de recherche sociale qualitatives et quantitatives. un argument en six points est présenté. Les six points se centrent sur: (1) les multiples paradigmes à la disposition des chercheurs, chacun caractérisant les données et l'explication de manières radicalement opposées: (2) la variété de démarche…
Data sources and estimates of charitable giving in Britain
This paper describes how estimates of individual charitable giving are derived from two major continuous surveys: the Family Expenditure Survey and the Individual Giving Survey. It explores the reasons for and the significance of the differences between the two estimates. Conclusions are drawn on the relative merits and demerits of the two survey datasets, and the circumstances in which it might be appropriate to use each of them
Teaching Ethnographic Data Analysis on Postgraduate Courses in Sociology
To appreciate the analytic issues posed by ethnographic data, students must be taught to set those issues against the sociological approach within which the analysis is embedded, for sociology is a pluralistic discipline characterized by many different approaches and the meaning and importance of analytic techniques differ across approaches. Some of the approach-based differences in the analysis of ethnographic data are briefly described. Three d…
Talking of Talking, Writing of Writing
Gilbert and Mulkayl set out to study the controversies surrounding an area of biochemistry called oxidative phosphorylation. In 1979 and 1980, they interviewed thirty-four British and American scientists, mostly in their laboratories, for up to three hours each, and collected together correspondence between the major figures, along with some 400 research and review articles, and the relevant portions of about thirty textbooks. In the course of th…
Development and Direction in Sociology
An Experimental Study of Individual and Collective Decision-making
Several theorems have been established recently on the existence or location of equilibrium policies in collective decision-making in the case when the alternatives are points in a multi-dimensional space. One of these theorems is founded on an assumption about individual preferences which seems intuitively plausible in the context of political decision-making. We have conducted a number of experiments designed to test this theorem directly. In a…
The Future of Regional Cities in the Information Age
Castells identifies two potential consequences of the introduction of information technology into the workplace: dispersal of the workforce and individualization of work, including the spread of teleworking. Such tendencies would undermine one of the rationales for cities: bringing large numbers of people together in order to choreograph their work. Has information technology had the impact that Castells suggests? Evidence from interviews with me…
Rationality and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Within the positivist tradition, natural scientific knowledge is the epitome of rationality. In philosophy, this view was fostered by the logical positivist Reichenbach's (1938) distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justification. To the former belong all the external determinants of the generation of scientific theoriespsychological, social, political, and historical. To the latter belongs only rational calculation on t…
Laws, Causality and Statistics
At the end of his Introduction to this symposium, after highlighting some specific problems that arise in attempting either to generate causal laws by means of the statistical manipulation of social data or to test theories statistically, Stephen Turner sets a basic question: what relations hold between laws, causality and statistics? My answer is that the view one takes of these relations is fundamentally influenced by one's conception of the na…
Two-Variable and Three-Variable Functional Explanations
National Wage Rate Claims and Settlements
Have British Trade Unions increased their power since the Second World War? To answer this question the concept of power is analysed. Three logically independent but contingently connected dimensions are distinguished: potential power, the exercise of power and the result of power. The bargaining power of a Trade Union is defined, independently of its potential power, as its exercise of power in institutionalized national wage rate bargaining wit…
The Structure of Social Science
An Experimental Study of Individual and Collective Decision-making
Several theorems have been established recently on the existence or location of equilibrium policies in collective decision-making in the case when the alternatives are points in a multi-dimensional space. One of these theorems is founded on an assumption about individual preferences which seems intuitively plausible in the context of political decision-making. We have conducted a number of experiments designed to test this theorem directly. In a…
Ethnomethodology
The Structure of Social Science
Social Theory and Political Practice
An Excursion Into Creative Sociology
New Directions in Sociology
The Analysis of Qualitative Data
National Wage Rate Claims and Settlements
Have British Trade Unions increased their power since the Second World War? To answer this question the concept of power is analysed. Three logically independent but contingently connected dimensions are distinguished: potential power, the exercise of power and the result of power. The bargaining power of a Trade Union is defined, independently of its potential power, as its exercise of power in institutionalized national wage rate bargaining wit…
Two-Variable and Three-Variable Functional Explanations
Naturalism and Social Science
Teaching Ethnographic Data Analysis on Postgraduate Courses in Sociology
To appreciate the analytic issues posed by ethnographic data, students must be taught to set those issues against the sociological approach within which the analysis is embedded, for sociology is a pluralistic discipline characterized by many different approaches and the meaning and importance of analytic techniques differ across approaches. Some of the approach-based differences in the analysis of ethnographic data are briefly described. Three d…
Shorter Notices
Positivism and Sociology
A refutation of historical materialism
Shorter Notices
Donald W. Katzner, Analysis without measurement
Development and Direction in Sociology
Positivism and Sociology
Comte and the early period statistics logical positivism laws and explanation theory and evidence
National Wage-Rate Claims and Settlements - II. An Exploratory Study of some Possible Determinants of Claims and Settlements
What are the determinants of the level of trades unions' wage-rate claims? To answer this question, a range of simplified models is examined. One set of these models pictures bargainers being influenced when setting claims by looking backward to past variations in the cost of living, past changes in general wage-rates, the gap between the union's claims and settlements in previous bargaining rounds, and the time since their last settlement. A sec…
Laws, Causality and Statistics
At the end of his Introduction to this symposium, after highlighting some specific problems that arise in attempting either to generate causal laws by means of the statistical manipulation of social data or to test theories statistically, Stephen Turner sets a basic question: what relations hold between laws, causality and statistics? My answer is that the view one takes of these relations is fundamentally influenced by one's conception of the na…
Talking of Talking, Writing of Writing
Gilbert and Mulkayl set out to study the controversies surrounding an area of biochemistry called oxidative phosphorylation. In 1979 and 1980, they interviewed thirty-four British and American scientists, mostly in their laboratories, for up to three hours each, and collected together correspondence between the major figures, along with some 400 research and review articles, and the relevant portions of about thirty textbooks. In the course of th…
Reply to Potter and McKinlay
discourse analyst is not in the philosophical question, but in conflicts which have consequences in the participants' own social settings. This interpretative frame colours Halfpenny's entire interpretation of OPB and WW. It is because Halfpenny construes variability in philosophical terms that he misses the significance of the chapter of OPB concerned with the TWOD (Truth Will Out Device). The point of this chapter is that it documents the real …
Rationality and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Within the positivist tradition, natural scientific knowledge is the epitome of rationality. In philosophy, this view was fostered by the logical positivist Reichenbach's (1938) distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justification. To the former belong all the external determinants of the generation of scientific theoriespsychological, social, political, and historical. To the latter belongs only rational calculation on t…
Data sources and estimates of charitable giving in Britain
This paper describes how estimates of individual charitable giving are derived from two major continuous surveys: the Family Expenditure Survey and the Individual Giving Survey. It explores the reasons for and the significance of the differences between the two estimates. Conclusions are drawn on the relative merits and demerits of the two survey datasets, and the circumstances in which it might be appropriate to use each of them
The Relation Between Quantitative and Qualitative Social Research
La relation entre recherches sociales quantitative et qualitatives. A partir d'une caractérisation schématique de l'historique du débat sur les méthodes de recherche sociale qualitatives et quantitatives. un argument en six points est présenté. Les six points se centrent sur: (1) les multiples paradigmes à la disposition des chercheurs, chacun caractérisant les données et l'explication de manières radicalement opposées: (2) la variété de démarche…
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