Sue Scott
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3585451 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sue Scott |
| PRENOMES | Sue |
| SOBRENOME | Scott |
| ASSINATURA | SCOTT S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Durham University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 530 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Storytelling, sociology and sexuality
We are approaching Ken Plummer’s work from the standpoint of our shared history in interactionist sociologies of sexuality and interest in sexual storytelling. Plummer was truly a trailblazer in the study of sexuality. He was one of the first in the UK to approach sexuality from a distinctively sociological and interactionist perspective which, while innovative, was out of tune with the Marxist and psychoanalytical mood of the time and was later …
Reflections on the first year of Global Social Challenges Journal and looking to the future
Addressing the global social challenges of our time
Series Editors’ Preface
This book is the first in a series that aims to bring original sociological thinking to bear on contemporary gender relations, divisions and issues of concern to feminists. We hope the series will challenge received wisdom, offer new insights and expand the scope of sociological knowledge both theoretically and substantively. In tackling the issue of paid domestic cleaning, Lotika Singha raises questions that trouble the common feminist view that…
Series Editors’ Preface
Series Editors’ Preface
Series Editors’ Preface
The outsourcing of domestic work in the UK has been steadily rising since the 1970s, but little research has considered the experiences of local White British women working as independent cleaning service-providers.Domestic work in India is increasingly researched but mostly with a regional focus. Through a nuanced cross-cultural analysis of outsourced domestic cleaning in a particular social context in the UK and India, this book provides a fres…
Private Risks and Public Dangers
Contains papers selected from the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society. Most of the papers fall into the broad theme of risk and danger, and the public response to these in a multiplicity of modes of regulation and surveillance
Sexual embodiment and consumption
This chapter introduces the reader to the development, and importance, of ideas about sexuality and the body as social, and to the notion that sexual and bodily practices are interwoven with our everyday lived experience. It emphasizes gendered power relations to explore some aspects of sexual embodiment important for the study of consumption and deserving of greater attention. The chapter discusses aspects of society and culture which shape our …
Understanding Everyday Kitchen Life
Sociology of the Body and the Relation between Sociology and Biology
Over the last three decades the sociology of the body has emerged as a distinctive field, led by British sociologists. From being ignored or simply taken as given as a biological basis of human existence, the body increasingly came to be seen as socially produced and regulated and as fundamental to social interaction and identity. Yet over the same period new forms of biological determinism have gained prominence, which threaten to reduce not onl…
Sociology of the Body and the Relation between Sociology and Biology
Körperwissen
Mit diesem Beitrag möchten wir die grundlegenden Erkenntnisse der pragmatischen bzw. interaktionistischen Tradition zu neuem Leben erwecken und in den akademischen Diskurs zurückführen. In unseren Augen besitzt diese Denkrichtung für die spezifi sch soziologische und feministische Sexualitätsanalyse weiterhin eine erhebliche Relevanz. Bei der Herausbildung der ersten umfassenden soziologischen Sexualitätstheorie, wie sie in den späten 1960er und …
Körperwissen
Rehabilitating Interactionism for a Feminist Sociology of Sexuality
In this article we seek to rehabilitate the radical insights of the pragmatist/interactionist tradition and to establish its continued relevance to a distinctively sociological and feminist analysis of sexuality. We argue for the importance of the contribution of Gagnon and Simon in arguing for a fully social understanding of sexuality. We offer an account of the process whereby interactionism has been rendered all but invisible and make a case f…
Obituary
Faking Like a Woman? Towards an Interpretive Theorization of Sexual Pleasure
This article explores the possibility of developing a feminist approach to gendered and sexual embodiment which is rooted in the pragmatist/interactionist tradition derived from G.H. Mead, but which in turn develops this perspective by inflecting it through more recent feminist thinking. In so doing we seek to rebalance some of the rather abstract work on gender and embodiment by focusing on an instance of 'heterosexual' everyday/night life - the…
Under the Kitchen Surface
This paper examines how the product world around domestic cleanliness plays with the dual construction of the home as safe and dangerous. By participating in this construction, cleaning products engage with a salient concern in domestic life—how to achieve and maintain a safe domestic environment. We have investigated the discursive commentary on domestic cleanliness and safety in one domestic advice manual: Good Housekeeping magazine, over the p…
The Unbearable Lightness of Cleaning
In this paper we begin to open the black box that constitutes the organisation of domestic cleaning and consumption in the latter half of the twentieth century. We focus specifically on change and continuity in the manner in which cleaning practices and cleaning products are represented in the UK woman's magazine Good Housekeeping, in the late modern period. After a discussion of the modern history of cleanliness, we proceed with a rationale for …
Bringing Children (and Parents) into the Sociology of Consumption
The sociology of consumption pays relatively little detailed and systematic theoretical attention to children, while the sociology of childhood tends to view children’s consumption through what can be called the ‘production of consumption’ approach. This is surprising given the range of empirical and theoretical debate in the sociology of consumption, where ‘mode of consumption’,‘consumption as aesthetics’ and ‘material culture’ represent a furth…
The Personal Is Still Political
The Personal Is Still Political
Sexual Antinomies in Late Modernity
It is widely assumed that late modern societies are becoming progressively more sexually liberal, regardless of whether this is seen as beneficial or not. However, 'progress' in this direction is, in actuality, very uneven and gives rise to a number of antinomies and associated anxieties. For example, in a society where erotic imagery is commonplace in the media, there are still enormous anxieties about preserving children's sexual 'innocence' (i…
Embodying Orgasm
In this paper we discuss the potential for developing a feminist approach to women's sexual embodiment via an exploration of heterosexual sexuality. We contest both pre-social, biological accounts of sexuality and supra-social accounts: those that fail to locate desire and pleasure in their social context. In so doing we seek to avoid more abstract forms of social constructionism by analysing gendered, sexual bodies in interaction and bodies as l…
Difficulty and Diversity
The amount and nature of sex education provided varies from school to school. Teachers regard it as fraught with difficulties. It is a sensitive subject, there is no statutory training, no set curriculum or examinations to work towards, and it is one of many areas to be dealt with in an increasingly crowded Personal and Social Education programme by teachers who often also have a guidance role and a subject commitment. Drawing on data from 25 sch…
Swings and Roundabouts
In this paper we explore some key antionomies which have emerged in relation to children and childhood in late modernity: tensions between autonomy and protection and between perceptions of children as `at risk' and as potentially threatening. A particular focus here is on the sexualisation of risk, the degree of public concern expressed whenever the sexual `innocence' of children is thought to be endangered. We argue that the concept of risk anx…
Bringing Children (and Parents) into the Sociology of Consumption
The sociology of consumption pays relatively little detailed and systematic theoretical attention to children, while the sociology of childhood tends to view children’s consumption through what can be called the ‘production of consumption’ approach. This is surprising given the range of empirical and theoretical debate in the sociology of consumption, where ‘mode of consumption’,‘consumption as aesthetics’ and ‘material culture’ represent a furth…
Sexual Antinomies in Late Modernity
It is widely assumed that late modern societies are becoming progressively more sexually liberal, regardless of whether this is seen as beneficial or not. However, 'progress' in this direction is, in actuality, very uneven and gives rise to a number of antinomies and associated anxieties. For example, in a society where erotic imagery is commonplace in the media, there are still enormous anxieties about preserving children's sexual 'innocence' (i…
Sex, gender and power
While the incidence of HIV infection and AIDS amongst non drug injecting heterosexuals is currently low in the UK, epidemiological evidence suggests that this situation may be short lived. The sexual practices of young heterosexuals will then be crucial in determining the extent of the epidemic. Drawing on feminist theory, we argue that if we are to understand young people's sexual relationships we must attend to the power relations within which …
Faking Like a Woman? Towards an Interpretive Theorization of Sexual Pleasure
This article explores the possibility of developing a feminist approach to gendered and sexual embodiment which is rooted in the pragmatist/interactionist tradition derived from G.H. Mead, but which in turn develops this perspective by inflecting it through more recent feminist thinking. In so doing we seek to rebalance some of the rather abstract work on gender and embodiment by focusing on an instance of 'heterosexual' everyday/night life - the…
The Personal Is Still Political
Body Matters. Essays on the Sociology of the Body
Gut Reactions to Matters of the Heart
The aim of this paper is to analyse tensions between the concepts of rationality and irrationality as they are deployed in modern discourses around heterosexuality. These discourses, we argue, are profoundly gendered and often contradictory. On the one hand, the pursuit of sexual pleasure is seen as a rational life goal, to be integrated into consciously constructed and commodified lifestyles and identity choices. On the other, sexuality is still…
Can't Talk, Won't Talk
In this paper we explore some current issues in, what has come to be called, the new sociology of childhood and how these relate to the process of researching children's lives in general, and to our own research in particular. We discuss the developmental model of childhood, before going on to explore ideas about children as, on the one hand, inhabiting a relatively autonomous realm and, on the other as part of the same social world as adults but…
Embodying Orgasm
In this paper we discuss the potential for developing a feminist approach to women's sexual embodiment via an exploration of heterosexual sexuality. We contest both pre-social, biological accounts of sexuality and supra-social accounts: those that fail to locate desire and pleasure in their social context. In so doing we seek to avoid more abstract forms of social constructionism by analysing gendered, sexual bodies in interaction and bodies as l…
Rehabilitating Interactionism for a Feminist Sociology of Sexuality
In this article we seek to rehabilitate the radical insights of the pragmatist/interactionist tradition and to establish its continued relevance to a distinctively sociological and feminist analysis of sexuality. We argue for the importance of the contribution of Gagnon and Simon in arguing for a fully social understanding of sexuality. We offer an account of the process whereby interactionism has been rendered all but invisible and make a case f…
The Unbearable Lightness of Cleaning
In this paper we begin to open the black box that constitutes the organisation of domestic cleaning and consumption in the latter half of the twentieth century. We focus specifically on change and continuity in the manner in which cleaning practices and cleaning products are represented in the UK woman's magazine Good Housekeeping, in the late modern period. After a discussion of the modern history of cleanliness, we proceed with a rationale for …
Intergroup Differences in a Social Custom of Wild Chimpanzees
Managing Risk and Experiencing Danger
Much of the early panic relating to AIDS has focused on non‐heterosexual sexualities and the identification of high risk groups. It can be argued that fear of the spread of HIV and AIDS into the heterosexual population was the spur for the development of government policy in this area. The protection of the population in general depends on changes in high risk sexual practices, and the part played in these changes by young women has been given sc…
On the bottom rung
Aids
Children's wishes, children's burdens
The authors are both practising family court welfare officers of more than ten years' standing, who draw on their experience of reporting to courts in contested private law applications for s.8 orders under the Children Act 1989. Taking the guiding principles of the Act as their starting-point they seek to locate the child's place within such proceedings. They discuss the concept of parental responsibility and give their views on the responsibili…
Under the Kitchen Surface
This paper examines how the product world around domestic cleanliness plays with the dual construction of the home as safe and dangerous. By participating in this construction, cleaning products engage with a salient concern in domestic life—how to achieve and maintain a safe domestic environment. We have investigated the discursive commentary on domestic cleanliness and safety in one domestic advice manual: Good Housekeeping magazine, over the p…
Difficulty and Diversity
The amount and nature of sex education provided varies from school to school. Teachers regard it as fraught with difficulties. It is a sensitive subject, there is no statutory training, no set curriculum or examinations to work towards, and it is one of many areas to be dealt with in an increasingly crowded Personal and Social Education programme by teachers who often also have a guidance role and a subject commitment. Drawing on data from 25 sch…
The Personal Is Still Political
LRMC and charging the polluter
A Note on the Relationship Between English Proficiency, Years of Language Study and Medium of Instruction
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationship between measured English‐language proficiency, years of English‐language study and the use of English as a medium of instruction for samples of Arabic‐speaking Egyptian and Lebanese university students. The results of multivariate regression analyses indicated no systematic relationship between years of EFL study and English proficiency. A better overall predictor of proficiency wa…
A Note on the Relationship Between English Proficiency, Years of Language Study and Medium of Instruction
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationship between measured English‐language proficiency, years of English‐language study and the use of English as a medium of instruction for samples of Arabic‐speaking Egyptian and Lebanese university students. The results of multivariate regression analyses indicated no systematic relationship between years of EFL study and English proficiency. A better overall predictor of proficiency wa…
On the bottom rung
A savage enquiry
The new politics of abortion
Women and the Aids crisis
Managing Risk and Experiencing Danger
Much of the early panic relating to AIDS has focused on non‐heterosexual sexualities and the identification of high risk groups. It can be argued that fear of the spread of HIV and AIDS into the heterosexual population was the spur for the development of government policy in this area. The protection of the population in general depends on changes in high risk sexual practices, and the part played in these changes by young women has been given sc…
Aids
Sex, gender and power
While the incidence of HIV infection and AIDS amongst non drug injecting heterosexuals is currently low in the UK, epidemiological evidence suggests that this situation may be short lived. The sexual practices of young heterosexuals will then be crucial in determining the extent of the epidemic. Drawing on feminist theory, we argue that if we are to understand young people's sexual relationships we must attend to the power relations within which …
Risk, power and the possibility of pleasure
This paper draws on the work of the Women Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP) which was undertaken by the authors working collectively. It reports on data from a sociological study of the sexual beliefs and practices of two samples each of 75 young women between 16 and 21 in the cities of London and Manchester in the UK. The period of data collection was 1988-1990. The paper sets out the methods used by the WRAP team and locates this research process wi…
Potters and Paintresses
Private Risks and Public Dangers
Body Matters. Essays on the Sociology of the Body
Risk Society
Children's wishes, children's burdens
The authors are both practising family court welfare officers of more than ten years' standing, who draw on their experience of reporting to courts in contested private law applications for s.8 orders under the Children Act 1989. Taking the guiding principles of the Act as their starting-point they seek to locate the child's place within such proceedings. They discuss the concept of parental responsibility and give their views on the responsibili…
LRMC and charging the polluter
Feminism and Sexuality
Part 1 Essentialism verus social construction: from Uneven Developments, Mary Poovey from The Spinster and her Enemies, Sheila Jeffreys from Feminine Sexuality, Jacqueline Rose This Which is Not One, Luce Irigaray from The Construction of Female Sexuality, Stevi Jackson from The Traffic in Women and Thinking - notes for a radical theory of sexuality, Gayle Rubin Difference and the Production of Subjectivity, Wendy Hollway Biological Superiority -…
Gut Reactions to Matters of the Heart
The aim of this paper is to analyse tensions between the concepts of rationality and irrationality as they are deployed in modern discourses around heterosexuality. These discourses, we argue, are profoundly gendered and often contradictory. On the one hand, the pursuit of sexual pleasure is seen as a rational life goal, to be integrated into consciously constructed and commodified lifestyles and identity choices. On the other, sexuality is still…
Gender relations, sexual communication and the female condom
An exploratory multi-site study supported by the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS was conducted in Costa Rica, Indonesia, Mexico and Senegal to examine the extent to which women's capacity to negotiate safer sex might be enhanced by the introduction of the female condom. Data were first collected on prevailing gender relations, sexual communication and negotiation. This was followed by the distribution of the female condom and a locally desig…
Swings and Roundabouts
In this paper we explore some key antionomies which have emerged in relation to children and childhood in late modernity: tensions between autonomy and protection and between perceptions of children as `at risk' and as potentially threatening. A particular focus here is on the sexualisation of risk, the degree of public concern expressed whenever the sexual `innocence' of children is thought to be endangered. We argue that the concept of risk anx…
Risk anxiety and the social construction of childhood
Introduction The theorization of risk and risk anxiety has, so far, paid scant attention to issues of gender and generation. In particular, there has been little work on childhood in this area, despite the pervasiveness of public anxiety about risks to children. In our everyday world generalized risks, of the kind Beck (1992) associates with the democratization of risk, are deemed more pernicious when they threaten children's wellbeing. This is e…
Law Online
Can't Talk, Won't Talk
In this paper we explore some current issues in, what has come to be called, the new sociology of childhood and how these relate to the process of researching children's lives in general, and to our own research in particular. We discuss the developmental model of childhood, before going on to explore ideas about children as, on the one hand, inhabiting a relatively autonomous realm and, on the other as part of the same social world as adults but…
Difficulty and Diversity
The amount and nature of sex education provided varies from school to school. Teachers regard it as fraught with difficulties. It is a sensitive subject, there is no statutory training, no set curriculum or examinations to work towards, and it is one of many areas to be dealt with in an increasingly crowded Personal and Social Education programme by teachers who often also have a guidance role and a subject commitment. Drawing on data from 25 sch…
Difficulty and Diversity
The amount and nature of sex education provided varies from school to school. Teachers regard it as fraught with difficulties. It is a sensitive subject, there is no statutory training, no set curriculum or examinations to work towards, and it is one of many areas to be dealt with in an increasingly crowded Personal and Social Education programme by teachers who often also have a guidance role and a subject commitment. Drawing on data from 25 sch…
Intergroup Differences in a Social Custom of Wild Chimpanzees
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