Charles Crothers
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 80311 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Charles Crothers |
| PRENOMES | Charles |
| SOBRENOME | Crothers |
| ASSINATURA | CROTHERS C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Auckland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7557-5146 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Sooryamoorthy
Review of Sooryamoorthy, R. (2022) Sociology Global: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
The postwar Columbia tradition in sociology
For a period of some three decades (1940s-1970s) the faculty and graduate students at the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, and its associated research unit (the Bureau of Applied Social Research: BASR), successfully produced a stream of innovative sociological studies which was particularly important in building on the foundations of classical sociology to establish modern sociology. Modern Sociology was produced as a theoretically…
Citation concept analysis (CCA) of Robert K. Merton’s book Social Theory and Social Structure
Citations can be used in evaluative bibliometrics to measure the impact of papers. However, citation analysis can be extended by considering a multidimensional perspective on citation impact which is intended to receive more specific information about the kind of received impact. Bornmann, Wray, and Haunschild (2020) introduced the citation concept analysis (CCA) for capturing the importance and usefulness certain concepts (explained in publicati…
The Contexts of the Christchurch terror attacks
The social sciences are not always effective in explaining particular events, but their study does provide insights towards better explanations and guidance for interventions. It is sad when the fo
Kōtuitui and the social sciences in Aotearoa/New Zealand
I began my four-year tenure as Senior Editor of Kōtuitui with an editorial summarising progress on the journal over the first decade since its founding (Crothers 2017a), so as I end my term, a furt
Pamela Abbott, Claire Wallace and Roger Sapsford, The Decent Society
Reintroducing Robert K. Merton
This book reintroduces the work of Robert K. Merton as a bridge between classical sociology and modern sociology. Founded in the sociological classics but developing a modern approach to the advancement of theory and research methodology, Merton's thought helped to construct modern sociology in its coverage of many of the social institutional areas of contemporary society. Recovering and analysing the system of 'structural analysis', which Merton…
Mana Tangatarua
Recent writings on Robert K Merton
Talking race in young adulthood
The social condition of the New Zealand people
Many social commentators have considered that alongside the fiscal transparency enjoined by contemporary New Zealand governments, there should be a complementary social responsibility reporting. This task is usually assigned to social indicator frameworks. However, at present (as the 2017 election looms) there is a faltering in the provision of social indicators which have been in place in New Zealand for almost two decades, with the exception of…
Administering CR to Resuscitate Sociology
The Critical Realist meta-theoretical position in sociology and other social sciences has tended to remain on the margins of the mainstream. Porpora develops the case for reconstructing sociology through the more active deployment of Critical Realist tenets. In developing his reform agenda, Porpora reviews the contribution Critical Realist views could have on several key recalcitrant issues in sociological theory and assesses the comparative perf…
Sociologies of New Zealand
An introduction to election commentaries
Kōtuitui, 10 years on
The Royal Society was established in 1867 to co-ordinate and assist, through the publication of a single series of Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the activities o
The Role of New Zealand Sociology in Developing New Zealand Sociology
M āori and P akeha ( N ew Z ealand)
Māori—organized in a settlement hierarchy of whānau , hapū , and iwi —have occupied New Zealand for over the last eight hundred years, having developed a sophisticated culture. Dispossession of land and deterioration of culture and society followed settlement by Pakeha over the past two hundred years, but a Māori renaissance during the last forty years has led to an official “bicultural” modus vivendi being established. With considerable recent m…
Discipline-Building in the Social Sciences
Elster, Jon (1940–)
Social Structure
Sociological Traditions
Dahl, Robert A (1915–2014)
Using the Internet in New Zealand elections and support for e-voting
The use of the Internet for voting and other related purposes is a key area of discussion worldwide, although only touched on in a few New Zealand publications. It is seen by many as something of a panacea – a ‘technical fix’ – that might repair the falling rates of participation in democratic elections, while others are horrified that it might subvert important aspects of democracy. In order to ascertain interest in e-voting in particular and al…
A world you do not know
They drag my marks down!’ – challenges faced by lecturers in the allocation of marks for multicultural group projects
Our university hosts a diverse student cohort and, in certain discipline areas, international students and domestic students whose first language is not English outnumber their English-speaking peers. On the whole, group projects with these cohorts are challenging, and in particular, the allocation of marks is fraught with difficulty. Awarding the same mark to all group members is often viewed as unfair, and resented by those who feel either disa…
Developments in British Sociology as Shown in British Sociology Journals
To provide a factual foundation for understanding of the trajectory of the development in British sociology a content analysis of the journal articles in the main generalist British sociology journals is provided. This contributes both an overall picture, and allows an account of contrasts between the journals. Attention is focused on the extent to which the content differs between British and other authors (and more detailed geographical breakdo…
Merton as a general theorist
Sociologies of New Zealand
Ethnic residential segregation in New Zealand, 1991-2006
Turnout and voting choices at general elections of Pacific peoples in New Zealand
This article examines turnout and voting choices at general elections among Pacific peoples in New Zealand between 1996 and 2011 and investigates this further through a secondary analysis of data from the New Zealand Election Study. It finds that turnout is lower among Pacific peoples compared to other electors, but that this is mainly accounted for by political-psychological and socio-demographic factors. It finds strong support for the Labour P…
Reintroducing Robert K. Merton
This book reintroduces the work of Robert K. Merton as a bridge between classical sociology and modern sociology. Founded in the sociological classics but developing a modern approach to the advancement of theory and research methodology, Merton's thought helped to construct modern sociology in its coverage of many of the social institutional areas of contemporary society. Recovering and analysing the system of 'structural analysis', which Merton…
Merton's Flawed and Incomplete Methodological Program
Particularly during the 1940s, Robert Merton developed a loosely knit methodological program including such key concepts as “structure and functional analysis” and “middle range theories” which provided guidance for sociological work over several decades and which retains some considerable relevance today. However, there are inconsistencies and incompletions in this program which have become more problematic over time. The paper questions the dep…
New Zealand Sociology Textbooks
The historical sequence of core New Zealand sociology texts is presented through brief descriptions of their content and form, together with some comments on other sociology-related texts and New Zealand-produced sociology texts that have wider distributions. Texts are progressively larger and with a more extensive range of coverage and move from being compilations of previously published work to original material. As the pedagogic form and conte…
The Contexts of the Christchurch terror attacks
The social sciences are not always effective in explaining particular events, but their study does provide insights towards better explanations and guidance for interventions. It is sad when the fo
The Role of New Zealand Sociology in Developing New Zealand Sociology
They drag my marks down!’ – challenges faced by lecturers in the allocation of marks for multicultural group projects
Our university hosts a diverse student cohort and, in certain discipline areas, international students and domestic students whose first language is not English outnumber their English-speaking peers. On the whole, group projects with these cohorts are challenging, and in particular, the allocation of marks is fraught with difficulty. Awarding the same mark to all group members is often viewed as unfair, and resented by those who feel either disa…
Sociology and the Unintended
The Internal Structure of Sociology Departments
It is possible to understand the social dynamics of academic sociology departments only once the set of groupings within each department have been delineated and the relations between each analyzed. In this paper such a structural analysis is attempted, with the analytical approach stressing the competition among the groupings for control over resources and symbolic capital. The paper focuses on the particular complex role within which graduate s…
On the Myth of Rural Tranquility
The postwar Columbia tradition in sociology
For a period of some three decades (1940s-1970s) the faculty and graduate students at the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, and its associated research unit (the Bureau of Applied Social Research: BASR), successfully produced a stream of innovative sociological studies which was particularly important in building on the foundations of classical sociology to establish modern sociology. Modern Sociology was produced as a theoretically…
Talking race in young adulthood
Using the Internet in New Zealand elections and support for e-voting
The use of the Internet for voting and other related purposes is a key area of discussion worldwide, although only touched on in a few New Zealand publications. It is seen by many as something of a panacea – a ‘technical fix’ – that might repair the falling rates of participation in democratic elections, while others are horrified that it might subvert important aspects of democracy. In order to ascertain interest in e-voting in particular and al…
Biomapping indigenous peoples
The players in this very serious real-world interchange are: indigenous peoples, opportuning scientists keen on obtaining DNA samples, but who are accompanied, at least in indigenous memory, by by
Decolonizing Methodologies
(c) 2013 Charles CrothersSchool of Social Sciences, Auckland University of [email protected]
Thin Explanations
The Oxford Handbook provides an extensive and innovative review of developments in Analytical Sociology (AS) which is a theory program which seeks to develop ‘thin explanations’ of social phenomena by understanding their micro-foundations through explicitly developed models and then tracing through the broader consequences of these actions and interactions for aggregate social patterns. The volume covers the key characteristics of this approach i…
Producing Ethnographies
Data on a large set of workplace ethnographies published from 1940 to 2002, compiled by Randy Hodson, are analyzed to show the trends over time in the production of such ethnographic work, its shifting disciplinary base, the relevance of the personal backgrounds of its authors, the contributions made by academic amateurs, the changing roles of gender and political stances, and the nature of different routes to publication. The definition of what …
Cultures of Violence
Race and Ethnic Studies in New Zealand
Cluny Macpherson, Paul Spoonley and Melani Anae (eds) TANGATA O TE MOANA NUI: THE EVOLVING IDENTITIES OF PACIFIC PEOPLES IN AOTEAROA /NEW ZEALAND. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 2000, 325 pp. (pb
Corporate Decision-Making
Using data from a New Zealand survey of top business leaders, we explore the relevance of interview data for illuminating the structures and processes of the capitalist class. We are able to show from this survey that family groups are still very important units of corporate power analysis; directors, not managers, tend to make the larger decisions; board members are more concerned with the development of policy than its implementation ; director…
New Zealand in Cross-National Perspective
In terms of social, economic and political variables, where does New Zealand stand when compared with other nations? No systematic, scholarly attempt has ever been made to answer this question. In order to provide a beginning, the author first surveys relevant cross-national studies and notes that a set of four major characteristics of nations seems useful: wealth or development; size; cultural/political orientation; settlement density. On these …
The Reliability of Density Measurements
Data from a land-use study of small and medium-sized towns in New Zealand are drawn on to ascertain the relationship between official and effective density measures. It was found that the reliability of official measures of density is very low overall, although reliability rises as a function of community sizes
On the Myth of Rural Tranquility
Robert K. Merton
Corporate Decision-Making
Using data from a New Zealand survey of top business leaders, we explore the relevance of interview data for illuminating the structures and processes of the capitalist class. We are able to show from this survey that family groups are still very important units of corporate power analysis; directors, not managers, tend to make the larger decisions; board members are more concerned with the development of policy than its implementation ; director…
The Internal Structure of Sociology Departments
It is possible to understand the social dynamics of academic sociology departments only once the set of groupings within each department have been delineated and the relations between each analyzed. In this paper such a structural analysis is attempted, with the analytical approach stressing the competition among the groupings for control over resources and symbolic capital. The paper focuses on the particular complex role within which graduate s…
South African Sociology Departments in 1996/7
Dawid Venter's Directory of South African Sociology departments is used to build up a description of departmental characteristics for 1996/7. Course programmes, staff characteristics (including rank and proportion holding PhDs) are covered, together with student numbers at various levels and student/staff ratios. Staff interests are described and questions raised about the implications of this data for the future development of Sociology in South…
Let's get real
It is argued that the philosophical approach of ‘critical realism’ is of considerable importance in providing a framework to guide the development of useful social science analyses, but that its impact is limited by its poor ‘public relations’ and lack of engagement with ongoing social analyses. There are several major issues which critical realism has not adequately tackled. These are identified and possible routes for overcoming these indicated…
Social Structure
Nicos Mouzelis's Sociological Theory
In Sociological Theory: What went Wrong?: Diagnoses and Remedies (London: Routledge, 1995), Mouzelis provides a stunning and largely successful attempt to establish (or rather re-establish) sociological theory as a speciality within the social sciences which is progressively developing solutions within its own set agenda of concerns, and he then reviews a range of theoretical issues embedded within the work of a wide range of contemporary theoris…
The Effect of Community Context in The South African Land Reform Programme
Grassroots Governance
Merton as a general theorist
The Diversity and Insularity of Sociological Traditions
Race and Ethnic Studies in New Zealand
Cluny Macpherson, Paul Spoonley and Melani Anae (eds) TANGATA O TE MOANA NUI: THE EVOLVING IDENTITIES OF PACIFIC PEOPLES IN AOTEAROA /NEW ZEALAND. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 2000, 325 pp. (pb
Encyclopaedias, Handbooks, Dictionaries, Collections and Companions
Sociology has always included collective works for reference purposes alongside its more usual production of books, monographs and journal articles, but in recent years the steady provision of this form of publication has swollen into an outpouring. The essay discusses the characteristics of different types of collective works in English-speaking sociology, suggests interpretations that might explain the recent outpouring, draws out the implicati…
New Zealand Sociology Textbooks
The historical sequence of core New Zealand sociology texts is presented through brief descriptions of their content and form, together with some comments on other sociology-related texts and New Zealand-produced sociology texts that have wider distributions. Texts are progressively larger and with a more extensive range of coverage and move from being compilations of previously published work to original material. As the pedagogic form and conte…
Merton's Flawed and Incomplete Methodological Program
Particularly during the 1940s, Robert Merton developed a loosely knit methodological program including such key concepts as “structure and functional analysis” and “middle range theories” which provided guidance for sociological work over several decades and which retains some considerable relevance today. However, there are inconsistencies and incompletions in this program which have become more problematic over time. The paper questions the dep…
Ethnic residential segregation in New Zealand, 1991-2006
Robert K. Merton
This chapter contains sections titled: The Person Intellectual Career Social and Intellectual Contexts Theory Impact Assessment Bibliography
Robert K. Merton
Cultures of Violence
Developments in British Sociology as Shown in British Sociology Journals
To provide a factual foundation for understanding of the trajectory of the development in British sociology a content analysis of the journal articles in the main generalist British sociology journals is provided. This contributes both an overall picture, and allows an account of contrasts between the journals. Attention is focused on the extent to which the content differs between British and other authors (and more detailed geographical breakdo…
Raewyn Connell, Confronting Equality
The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development
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