Peter Armstrong
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3609468 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter Armstrong |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | Armstrong |
| ASSINATURA | ARMSTRONG P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-8439-0749 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 98 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Theo Nichols
White Collar Workers
Gyeongju
Kyoto
Dialectics of design
This paper advances a first‐pass theory of change in the styling of objects of domestic utility. It is based on the idea that the expressive potential of design for the maker, the user and the designer exists in tension with other desirable properties of the designed artefact. Respectively these are mass availability, conformity to professionally‐defined ideas of good taste, and the demands of function and marketability. The theory is illustrated…
Imagining institutional rationality? A fictional encounter between Ian McEwan and Wolfgang Iser
Arguing that institutional rationality constitutes a meta-institution upon which the specific institutions of the capitalist social order depend, this paper explores the possibility that it might be interrogated through the imaginary worlds created by readers in their responses to literary fiction. It does so by constructing a fictive encounter between the response aesthetics of Wolfgang Iser and two novels by Ian McEwan, Saturday and Enduring lo…
Critique of Entrepreneurship
Styles of Illusion
This paper argues that one of the most prevalent styles in contemporary sociology - style referring to a complex of theory, method and treatment of the literature - systematically allows space for the misrepresentation of reality. The theoretical core of the style in question is a view of identity as formed through the active consumption of discourse, its preferred methodology is that of qualitative fieldwork whilst a largely impressionistic lite…
Science, enterprise and profit
Key policy documents relating to the 'knowledge-driven economy' show that policy makers, university heads and other interested academics have come to view the task of creating science-based industries through the lens of enterprise ideology.Proceeding on the assumption that the scientific fundamentals are already in place, the belief is that industrial applications can be achieved by infusions of enterprise. Such a framing is attractive to those …
Entrepreneurship in Science
Current UK policy on the knowledge-driven economy places a heavy weight of expectation on the fostering of entrepreneurial attitudes amongst university scientists. Interviews with the owner-managers of innovative companies in liquid crystal technology suggest that scientist-entrepreneurs are not simply scientists who have become imbued with the entrepreneurial spirit. They are also characterised by particular approaches to science and market inte…
Professional Knowledge and Social Mobility
The mutation of professional knowledge is a neglected issue in the sociology of the professions. Through an historical study of the qualification requirements of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), this paper argues that upward social mobility for the subordinate managerial professions creates a tendency for their knowledge bases to expand into a common ground associated with senior management practice. The by-product is a t…
Management, Labour Process and Agency
This paper is motivated by an unease that a labour process approach to managerial work, if it is to be based upon simplistic assumptions that management itself is a labour process will actually obscure many of the contradictions which exist within managerial capitalism and which a true labour process approach should be concerned to expose and analyse. To that end Braverman's treatment of management as a labour process is criticised and shown to b…
The Domesday Machine
This paper describes selected aspects of the Domesday project led by the BBC and intended to create 'an exhibition of Britain1 in the 1980s. Among other things, this resulted in what is perhaps the first example of a second-generation Geographical Information System (GIS). Based upon a micro-computer linked to a new Laser Vision-Read Only Memory (LV-ROM), this holds 54000 images (maps, photos, satellite images, etc), 300 megabytes of digital data…
Humberside Medieval Pottery
(1987). Humberside Medieval Pottery: an illustrated catalogue of saxon and medieval domestic assemblages from north lincolnshire and its surrounding region. By Colin Hayfield. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 144, No. 1, pp. 477-478
Engineers, Management and Trust
This paper argues that the characteristic lack of engineering representation in British senior management is partly a consequence of the prevailing conception of what management is actually about. As compared to certain other capitalist economies, British conditions have favoured such management activities as the search for longterm finance and strategic marketing over product and process improvement. This system of priorities, massively perpetua…
The 1986 Domesday Project
This paper provides an overview of the 1986 Domesday project. The intention is to document the origins of the major research effort that is culminating in the BBC publishing video discs which aim to reflect all aspects of Britain in the mid-1980s. The paper outlines the prominent role of geographers in the design and fulfillment of key features of the Domesday's data base. In particular, the geographical basis to some methods of accessing informa…
Lost Managers
Sandal Castle Excavations 1964–1973
(1983). Sandal Castle Excavations 1964–1973: A Detailed Archaeological Report. By P. Mayes and L. A. S. Butler. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 140, No. 1, pp. 379-382
Beverley
Beverley: An Archaeological and Architectural Study. By Keith Miller, John Robinson, Barbara English and Ivan Hall." Archaeological Journal, 140(1), pp. 389–390
Class Relationships at the Point of Production
A case-study of relations between supervisors and workers in a medium-sized shoe factory is used to argue that it is the Marxian question of function within the social relations of production rather than the Weberian one of market capacities which most convincingly determines the question of the proletarianization or otherwise of the direct supervisors of labour. Understanding class, and therefore proletarianization, as a matter of the interests …
Management, Labour Process and Agency
This paper is motivated by an unease that a labour process approach to managerial work, if it is to be based upon simplistic assumptions that management itself is a labour process will actually obscure many of the contradictions which exist within managerial capitalism and which a true labour process approach should be concerned to expose and analyse. To that end Braverman's treatment of management as a labour process is criticised and shown to b…
Engineers, Management and Trust
This paper argues that the characteristic lack of engineering representation in British senior management is partly a consequence of the prevailing conception of what management is actually about. As compared to certain other capitalist economies, British conditions have favoured such management activities as the search for longterm finance and strategic marketing over product and process improvement. This system of priorities, massively perpetua…
Science, enterprise and profit
Key policy documents relating to the 'knowledge-driven economy' show that policy makers, university heads and other interested academics have come to view the task of creating science-based industries through the lens of enterprise ideology.Proceeding on the assumption that the scientific fundamentals are already in place, the belief is that industrial applications can be achieved by infusions of enterprise. Such a framing is attractive to those …
Professional Knowledge and Social Mobility
The mutation of professional knowledge is a neglected issue in the sociology of the professions. Through an historical study of the qualification requirements of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), this paper argues that upward social mobility for the subordinate managerial professions creates a tendency for their knowledge bases to expand into a common ground associated with senior management practice. The by-product is a t…
The Domesday Machine
This paper describes selected aspects of the Domesday project led by the BBC and intended to create 'an exhibition of Britain1 in the 1980s. Among other things, this resulted in what is perhaps the first example of a second-generation Geographical Information System (GIS). Based upon a micro-computer linked to a new Laser Vision-Read Only Memory (LV-ROM), this holds 54000 images (maps, photos, satellite images, etc), 300 megabytes of digital data…
The 1986 Domesday Project
This paper provides an overview of the 1986 Domesday project. The intention is to document the origins of the major research effort that is culminating in the BBC publishing video discs which aim to reflect all aspects of Britain in the mid-1980s. The paper outlines the prominent role of geographers in the design and fulfillment of key features of the Domesday's data base. In particular, the geographical basis to some methods of accessing informa…
Class Relationships at the Point of Production
A case-study of relations between supervisors and workers in a medium-sized shoe factory is used to argue that it is the Marxian question of function within the social relations of production rather than the Weberian one of market capacities which most convincingly determines the question of the proletarianization or otherwise of the direct supervisors of labour. Understanding class, and therefore proletarianization, as a matter of the interests …
Imagining institutional rationality? A fictional encounter between Ian McEwan and Wolfgang Iser
Arguing that institutional rationality constitutes a meta-institution upon which the specific institutions of the capitalist social order depend, this paper explores the possibility that it might be interrogated through the imaginary worlds created by readers in their responses to literary fiction. It does so by constructing a fictive encounter between the response aesthetics of Wolfgang Iser and two novels by Ian McEwan, Saturday and Enduring lo…
Styles of Illusion
This paper argues that one of the most prevalent styles in contemporary sociology - style referring to a complex of theory, method and treatment of the literature - systematically allows space for the misrepresentation of reality. The theoretical core of the style in question is a view of identity as formed through the active consumption of discourse, its preferred methodology is that of qualitative fieldwork whilst a largely impressionistic lite…
Sandal Castle Excavations 1964–1973
(1983). Sandal Castle Excavations 1964–1973: A Detailed Archaeological Report. By P. Mayes and L. A. S. Butler. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 140, No. 1, pp. 379-382
Beverley
Beverley: An Archaeological and Architectural Study. By Keith Miller, John Robinson, Barbara English and Ivan Hall." Archaeological Journal, 140(1), pp. 389–390
Class Relationships at the Point of Production
A case-study of relations between supervisors and workers in a medium-sized shoe factory is used to argue that it is the Marxian question of function within the social relations of production rather than the Weberian one of market capacities which most convincingly determines the question of the proletarianization or otherwise of the direct supervisors of labour. Understanding class, and therefore proletarianization, as a matter of the interests …
Lost Managers
The 1986 Domesday Project
This paper provides an overview of the 1986 Domesday project. The intention is to document the origins of the major research effort that is culminating in the BBC publishing video discs which aim to reflect all aspects of Britain in the mid-1980s. The paper outlines the prominent role of geographers in the design and fulfillment of key features of the Domesday's data base. In particular, the geographical basis to some methods of accessing informa…
Humberside Medieval Pottery
(1987). Humberside Medieval Pottery: an illustrated catalogue of saxon and medieval domestic assemblages from north lincolnshire and its surrounding region. By Colin Hayfield. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 144, No. 1, pp. 477-478
Engineers, Management and Trust
This paper argues that the characteristic lack of engineering representation in British senior management is partly a consequence of the prevailing conception of what management is actually about. As compared to certain other capitalist economies, British conditions have favoured such management activities as the search for longterm finance and strategic marketing over product and process improvement. This system of priorities, massively perpetua…
The Domesday Machine
This paper describes selected aspects of the Domesday project led by the BBC and intended to create 'an exhibition of Britain1 in the 1980s. Among other things, this resulted in what is perhaps the first example of a second-generation Geographical Information System (GIS). Based upon a micro-computer linked to a new Laser Vision-Read Only Memory (LV-ROM), this holds 54000 images (maps, photos, satellite images, etc), 300 megabytes of digital data…
Management, Labour Process and Agency
This paper is motivated by an unease that a labour process approach to managerial work, if it is to be based upon simplistic assumptions that management itself is a labour process will actually obscure many of the contradictions which exist within managerial capitalism and which a true labour process approach should be concerned to expose and analyse. To that end Braverman's treatment of management as a labour process is criticised and shown to b…
Professional Knowledge and Social Mobility
The mutation of professional knowledge is a neglected issue in the sociology of the professions. Through an historical study of the qualification requirements of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), this paper argues that upward social mobility for the subordinate managerial professions creates a tendency for their knowledge bases to expand into a common ground associated with senior management practice. The by-product is a t…
Entrepreneurship in Science
Current UK policy on the knowledge-driven economy places a heavy weight of expectation on the fostering of entrepreneurial attitudes amongst university scientists. Interviews with the owner-managers of innovative companies in liquid crystal technology suggest that scientist-entrepreneurs are not simply scientists who have become imbued with the entrepreneurial spirit. They are also characterised by particular approaches to science and market inte…
Styles of Illusion
This paper argues that one of the most prevalent styles in contemporary sociology - style referring to a complex of theory, method and treatment of the literature - systematically allows space for the misrepresentation of reality. The theoretical core of the style in question is a view of identity as formed through the active consumption of discourse, its preferred methodology is that of qualitative fieldwork whilst a largely impressionistic lite…
Science, enterprise and profit
Key policy documents relating to the 'knowledge-driven economy' show that policy makers, university heads and other interested academics have come to view the task of creating science-based industries through the lens of enterprise ideology.Proceeding on the assumption that the scientific fundamentals are already in place, the belief is that industrial applications can be achieved by infusions of enterprise. Such a framing is attractive to those …
Critique of Entrepreneurship
Imagining institutional rationality? A fictional encounter between Ian McEwan and Wolfgang Iser
Arguing that institutional rationality constitutes a meta-institution upon which the specific institutions of the capitalist social order depend, this paper explores the possibility that it might be interrogated through the imaginary worlds created by readers in their responses to literary fiction. It does so by constructing a fictive encounter between the response aesthetics of Wolfgang Iser and two novels by Ian McEwan, Saturday and Enduring lo…
Dialectics of design
This paper advances a first‐pass theory of change in the styling of objects of domestic utility. It is based on the idea that the expressive potential of design for the maker, the user and the designer exists in tension with other desirable properties of the designed artefact. Respectively these are mass availability, conformity to professionally‐defined ideas of good taste, and the demands of function and marketability. The theory is illustrated…
Kyoto
Gyeongju
White Collar Workers
Theo Nichols
Political science (10 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · History (6 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Archaeology (4 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras)