Ben Fincham
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 248116 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ben Fincham |
| PRENOMES | Ben |
| SOBRENOME | Fincham |
| ASSINATURA | BEN FINCHAM |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sussex |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 204 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Suicide and Its Nexus
In Indonesia, suicide research has largely overlooked structural factors at the meso and macro levels, whether as primary causes, contributing factors, or considerations for prevention strategies. The dominance of psychological and psychiatric approaches has marginalized sociological perspectives, limiting a more holistic understanding of suicide. Existing heuristic models primarily frame suicide as a consequence of mental health disorders or eco…
Hell is Other Cyclists
This chapter examines representations of a group of cyclists with a strong sense of identity which often manifests itself in feelings of marginality in a variety of social settings bicycle messengers. In terms of the labour market, cycle messengers are at the periphery. The 'negative-inside' representation where the correspondent, presents an image of a workforce which is exploited, vilified, marginalised and victimised. Within this 'positive-out…
The Sociology of Fun
What is fun? How is it distinct from happiness or pleasure? How do we know when we are having it? This book is the first to provide a comprehensive sociological account of this taken for granted social phenomenon. Fincham investigates areas such as our memories of fun in childhood, the fun we have as adults, our muted experiences of fun at work and our lived experiences of having fun. Using first-hand accounts and a new approach to interpreting f…
Sociological autopsy
This paper's main aim is to argue the methodological case for a particular approach to researching the sociology of suicide. By way of illustrating the use of this approach it also offers some brief examples of substantive findings about the gendered character of men's suicides. The first half of the article explains and justifies the research approach. This is a qualitatively-driven mixed method and dual paradigm study of individual suicides. It…
Suicide Notes as Social Documents
In this chapter our focus is on the suicide notes that nearly half of the files contained. In keeping with the sociological autopsy approach we treat the notes not as straightforward indicators of mental illness, but as culturally-specific artefacts that bring into relief the role of social relationships in instances of suicide. We will approach the notes as a means of connection, as well as drawing attention to their content, structure and mater…
Suicide Case Files as Sites of Identity Creation
In this chapter we want to use the artefacts that constitute the inquest file to draw out some of the assumptions inherent in the inquest process regarding documents and identities. Specifically, we are concerned with relationships: how they extend into documents and how they constitute different kinds of persons and identities, during someone’s lifetime and beyond. We will do so by drawing on recent ethnographic approaches to the study of docume…
The Sociology of Suicide — A Critical Appreciation
There is currently little dialogue between sociology and suicide studies, which may seem surprising given the central role that Durkheim’s (2002 [1897]) Suicide played in the construction of sociology as a distinct discipline. Although a series of influential studies followed in the wake of Durkheim’s, emanating from various schools of thought, suicide has ceased to be of much interest to mainstream sociology. While contemporary sociologists have…
Repertoires of Action
The previous two chapters have both shown how the contents of suicide files are shaped by the broader social context in which the suicide occurs. Our focus in this chapter shifts as we begin to use the contents of the files to explore the lived experiences of suicidal individuals and the circumstances in which suicides take place. Ultimately we hope to be able to say something about causality though, in so doing, we will retain our interest in me…
What is a Sociological Autopsy?
The dichotomies and oppositions that permeate the sociology of suicide have given rise to very different research strategies, though quantitative approaches in the Durkheimian tradition remain dominant. Our emphasis on the need to transcend artificial divisions in understanding, whether they be based on agency and structure, the individual and the social, psychology and sociology, carries over into the methodological realm. The central problem he…
Lessons for Prevention
Our aim in writing this book was to disseminate both the method and the findings of the sociological autopsy study. We begin this final chapter by summarising what we see as the book’s contribution and then we address the question of suicide prevention, including the ways in which our sociological autopsy study can potentially inform prevention. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keyw…
When Things Fall Apart — Suicide and the Life-Course
In this final empirical chapter we offer a more objectivist reading than has been provided so far. Detailed quantitative analysis of the 100 cases included in our sociological autopsy is presented alongside a more general assessment of the demography of suicide in England and Wales. What we say here should be read in light of what we have already said in earlier chapters, not least because this should guard against the dangers of reifying the rel…
Understanding Suicide
Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy
Unprepared for the Worst
This paper draws on the results of an Inquiry, commissioned by Qualiti (Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact), a node of ESRC's National Centre for Research Methods, into the physical and emotional harm suffered by qualitative social researchers. It argues that junior researchers and PhD students, the main recipients of such harm, are being let down by some principal investigators and PhD supervisors who…
Mobile Methodologies
When things fall apart
The Impact of Working with Disturbing Secondary Data
The article discusses the effects on the researcher of reading disturbing secondary data (defined here as evidence gathered by someone other than the researcher). The case study is a qualitative sociological autopsy of suicide, and the secondary data-written documents and photographs-are all from case files in a British coroner's office. Following ethnographic detail about the research setting and research process, there is discussion of the dive…
Documenting the Quick and the Dead
In keeping with recent critiques of literature on the body and the life course, the argument of this paper is that social identities can, to a certain extent, be constructed post-mortem and in the absence of a living body. The authors make this case with reference to a sociological autopsy study of a hundred suicide case files in a coroner's office in a medium-sized British city. The research draws on ethnographic approaches to the study of docum…
A Price Worth Paying
Drawing on analysis of relevant literature, focus groups, and web-based discussion board postings, assembled as part of an inquiry into risks to the well-being of qualitative researchers, it is argued that emotional harm is more prevalent than physical harm and may be particularly associated with reflexivity and the important influence of feminist research methods. The particular concern of feminist researchers with reflexivity, with research rel…
Balance is Everything
The conceptual separation of 'work' and 'life', as distinct elements of social activity, has become established as shorthand for the social and psychological dislocation felt by being at work and not being at work.There is a literature on the work/life balance driven by governmental rhetoric, based on the idea of flexible working. This article suggests that distinctions between 'work' and 'life', implying a dichotomy in adult life, are overstated…
Generally Speaking People are in it for the Cycling and the Beer
From a study comprising of interviews, ethnography and a survey, this paper examines the cultural affiliation of a group of workers in a dangerous and unconventional occupation - bicycle couriering. Returning to the work of Howard Becker, this article examines cultural practices and sensibilities of bicycle couriers, principally in the UK. The idea of a distinct 'courier culture' is found to be important to couriers. The article also contributes …
Bicycle Messengers and the Road to Freedom
Despite its promise of freedom and autonomy, the ubiquity of the automobile has influenced unforeseen ecological, social, and political change. In Against Automobility, a panel of distinguished scholars take a critical look at the contradiction of the automobile
Contemporary Ethnographies of Work and Employment
Review article: Sanders, T. (2005) 'Sex Work: A Risky Business' Devon: Willan Publishing(ISBN: 1843920824) Bone, J. (2006) 'The Hard Sell: An Ethnographic Study of the Direct Selling Industry' Aldershot: Ashgate (ISBN: 0754646092) Moeran, B. (2006) 'Ethnography at Work' New York: Berg, (ISBN: 9781854204983) Venkatesh, S. A. (2006) 'Off the Books: The Underground Economy ofthe Urban Poor Cambridge' London: Harvard University Press (ISBN: 067402355…
Sociological autopsy
This paper's main aim is to argue the methodological case for a particular approach to researching the sociology of suicide. By way of illustrating the use of this approach it also offers some brief examples of substantive findings about the gendered character of men's suicides. The first half of the article explains and justifies the research approach. This is a qualitatively-driven mixed method and dual paradigm study of individual suicides. It…
A Price Worth Paying
Drawing on analysis of relevant literature, focus groups, and web-based discussion board postings, assembled as part of an inquiry into risks to the well-being of qualitative researchers, it is argued that emotional harm is more prevalent than physical harm and may be particularly associated with reflexivity and the important influence of feminist research methods. The particular concern of feminist researchers with reflexivity, with research rel…
Understanding Suicide
Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy
When things fall apart
Balance is Everything
The conceptual separation of 'work' and 'life', as distinct elements of social activity, has become established as shorthand for the social and psychological dislocation felt by being at work and not being at work.There is a literature on the work/life balance driven by governmental rhetoric, based on the idea of flexible working. This article suggests that distinctions between 'work' and 'life', implying a dichotomy in adult life, are overstated…
Bicycle Messengers and the Road to Freedom
Despite its promise of freedom and autonomy, the ubiquity of the automobile has influenced unforeseen ecological, social, and political change. In Against Automobility, a panel of distinguished scholars take a critical look at the contradiction of the automobile
Unprepared for the Worst
This paper draws on the results of an Inquiry, commissioned by Qualiti (Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact), a node of ESRC's National Centre for Research Methods, into the physical and emotional harm suffered by qualitative social researchers. It argues that junior researchers and PhD students, the main recipients of such harm, are being let down by some principal investigators and PhD supervisors who…
Generally Speaking People are in it for the Cycling and the Beer
From a study comprising of interviews, ethnography and a survey, this paper examines the cultural affiliation of a group of workers in a dangerous and unconventional occupation - bicycle couriering. Returning to the work of Howard Becker, this article examines cultural practices and sensibilities of bicycle couriers, principally in the UK. The idea of a distinct 'courier culture' is found to be important to couriers. The article also contributes …
The Impact of Working with Disturbing Secondary Data
The article discusses the effects on the researcher of reading disturbing secondary data (defined here as evidence gathered by someone other than the researcher). The case study is a qualitative sociological autopsy of suicide, and the secondary data-written documents and photographs-are all from case files in a British coroner's office. Following ethnographic detail about the research setting and research process, there is discussion of the dive…
Documenting the Quick and the Dead
In keeping with recent critiques of literature on the body and the life course, the argument of this paper is that social identities can, to a certain extent, be constructed post-mortem and in the absence of a living body. The authors make this case with reference to a sociological autopsy study of a hundred suicide case files in a coroner's office in a medium-sized British city. The research draws on ethnographic approaches to the study of docum…
Bicycle Messengers and the Road to Freedom
Despite its promise of freedom and autonomy, the ubiquity of the automobile has influenced unforeseen ecological, social, and political change. In Against Automobility, a panel of distinguished scholars take a critical look at the contradiction of the automobile
Generally Speaking People are in it for the Cycling and the Beer
From a study comprising of interviews, ethnography and a survey, this paper examines the cultural affiliation of a group of workers in a dangerous and unconventional occupation - bicycle couriering. Returning to the work of Howard Becker, this article examines cultural practices and sensibilities of bicycle couriers, principally in the UK. The idea of a distinct 'courier culture' is found to be important to couriers. The article also contributes …
The Impact of Working with Disturbing Secondary Data
The article discusses the effects on the researcher of reading disturbing secondary data (defined here as evidence gathered by someone other than the researcher). The case study is a qualitative sociological autopsy of suicide, and the secondary data-written documents and photographs-are all from case files in a British coroner's office. Following ethnographic detail about the research setting and research process, there is discussion of the dive…
Documenting the Quick and the Dead
In keeping with recent critiques of literature on the body and the life course, the argument of this paper is that social identities can, to a certain extent, be constructed post-mortem and in the absence of a living body. The authors make this case with reference to a sociological autopsy study of a hundred suicide case files in a coroner's office in a medium-sized British city. The research draws on ethnographic approaches to the study of docum…
A Price Worth Paying
Drawing on analysis of relevant literature, focus groups, and web-based discussion board postings, assembled as part of an inquiry into risks to the well-being of qualitative researchers, it is argued that emotional harm is more prevalent than physical harm and may be particularly associated with reflexivity and the important influence of feminist research methods. The particular concern of feminist researchers with reflexivity, with research rel…
Balance is Everything
The conceptual separation of 'work' and 'life', as distinct elements of social activity, has become established as shorthand for the social and psychological dislocation felt by being at work and not being at work.There is a literature on the work/life balance driven by governmental rhetoric, based on the idea of flexible working. This article suggests that distinctions between 'work' and 'life', implying a dichotomy in adult life, are overstated…
Mobile Methodologies
When things fall apart
Unprepared for the Worst
This paper draws on the results of an Inquiry, commissioned by Qualiti (Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact), a node of ESRC's National Centre for Research Methods, into the physical and emotional harm suffered by qualitative social researchers. It argues that junior researchers and PhD students, the main recipients of such harm, are being let down by some principal investigators and PhD supervisors who…
Suicide Notes as Social Documents
In this chapter our focus is on the suicide notes that nearly half of the files contained. In keeping with the sociological autopsy approach we treat the notes not as straightforward indicators of mental illness, but as culturally-specific artefacts that bring into relief the role of social relationships in instances of suicide. We will approach the notes as a means of connection, as well as drawing attention to their content, structure and mater…
Suicide Case Files as Sites of Identity Creation
In this chapter we want to use the artefacts that constitute the inquest file to draw out some of the assumptions inherent in the inquest process regarding documents and identities. Specifically, we are concerned with relationships: how they extend into documents and how they constitute different kinds of persons and identities, during someone’s lifetime and beyond. We will do so by drawing on recent ethnographic approaches to the study of docume…
The Sociology of Suicide — A Critical Appreciation
There is currently little dialogue between sociology and suicide studies, which may seem surprising given the central role that Durkheim’s (2002 [1897]) Suicide played in the construction of sociology as a distinct discipline. Although a series of influential studies followed in the wake of Durkheim’s, emanating from various schools of thought, suicide has ceased to be of much interest to mainstream sociology. While contemporary sociologists have…
Repertoires of Action
The previous two chapters have both shown how the contents of suicide files are shaped by the broader social context in which the suicide occurs. Our focus in this chapter shifts as we begin to use the contents of the files to explore the lived experiences of suicidal individuals and the circumstances in which suicides take place. Ultimately we hope to be able to say something about causality though, in so doing, we will retain our interest in me…
What is a Sociological Autopsy?
The dichotomies and oppositions that permeate the sociology of suicide have given rise to very different research strategies, though quantitative approaches in the Durkheimian tradition remain dominant. Our emphasis on the need to transcend artificial divisions in understanding, whether they be based on agency and structure, the individual and the social, psychology and sociology, carries over into the methodological realm. The central problem he…
Lessons for Prevention
Our aim in writing this book was to disseminate both the method and the findings of the sociological autopsy study. We begin this final chapter by summarising what we see as the book’s contribution and then we address the question of suicide prevention, including the ways in which our sociological autopsy study can potentially inform prevention. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keyw…
When Things Fall Apart — Suicide and the Life-Course
In this final empirical chapter we offer a more objectivist reading than has been provided so far. Detailed quantitative analysis of the 100 cases included in our sociological autopsy is presented alongside a more general assessment of the demography of suicide in England and Wales. What we say here should be read in light of what we have already said in earlier chapters, not least because this should guard against the dangers of reifying the rel…
Understanding Suicide
Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy
Sociological autopsy
This paper's main aim is to argue the methodological case for a particular approach to researching the sociology of suicide. By way of illustrating the use of this approach it also offers some brief examples of substantive findings about the gendered character of men's suicides. The first half of the article explains and justifies the research approach. This is a qualitatively-driven mixed method and dual paradigm study of individual suicides. It…
Hell is Other Cyclists
This chapter examines representations of a group of cyclists with a strong sense of identity which often manifests itself in feelings of marginality in a variety of social settings bicycle messengers. In terms of the labour market, cycle messengers are at the periphery. The 'negative-inside' representation where the correspondent, presents an image of a workforce which is exploited, vilified, marginalised and victimised. Within this 'positive-out…
The Sociology of Fun
What is fun? How is it distinct from happiness or pleasure? How do we know when we are having it? This book is the first to provide a comprehensive sociological account of this taken for granted social phenomenon. Fincham investigates areas such as our memories of fun in childhood, the fun we have as adults, our muted experiences of fun at work and our lived experiences of having fun. Using first-hand accounts and a new approach to interpreting f…
Suicide and Its Nexus
In Indonesia, suicide research has largely overlooked structural factors at the meso and macro levels, whether as primary causes, contributing factors, or considerations for prevention strategies. The dominance of psychological and psychiatric approaches has marginalized sociological perspectives, limiting a more holistic understanding of suicide. Existing heuristic models primarily frame suicide as a consequence of mental health disorders or eco…
Contemporary Ethnographies of Work and Employment
Review article: Sanders, T. (2005) 'Sex Work: A Risky Business' Devon: Willan Publishing(ISBN: 1843920824) Bone, J. (2006) 'The Hard Sell: An Ethnographic Study of the Direct Selling Industry' Aldershot: Ashgate (ISBN: 0754646092) Moeran, B. (2006) 'Ethnography at Work' New York: Berg, (ISBN: 9781854204983) Venkatesh, S. A. (2006) 'Off the Books: The Underground Economy ofthe Urban Poor Cambridge' London: Harvard University Press (ISBN: 067402355…
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