Sara Delamont
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 80313 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sara Delamont |
| PRENOMES | Sara |
| SOBRENOME | Delamont |
| ASSINATURA | DELAMONT S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5683-2311 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 123 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 874 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 120 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Creating sticky cultures
The pedagogic strategies of successful teachers are an important focus for educational research. Successful instructors in martial arts and combat sports earn loyalty and commitment from their students, creating an attractive culture. The paper presents ethnographic data on pedagogical strategies in two educational sites, to demonstrate the empirical and theoretical relevance of the work of Gary Alan Fine. We conducted fieldwork on two groups in …
What would the Marshal do
Many martial arts systems have their own revered heroes, such as mythical founders and leaders of notable schools. The paper draws on ethnographic research conducted on The Blade Academy, an expanding historical European martial arts (HEMA) school in the United Kingdom. Among pedagogic strategies used by the lead instructors and their core followers are narratives about historic figures whose heroic beliefs and deeds should be respected and even …
Leaving the field
Through accounts of ethnographers’ various exits from the field, this book draws attention to an overlooked but essential part of the research process, and contributes to more general discussions of ethnography.
Looking East and South
In a precarious occupation, martial arts instructors must be inspiring and build a shared philosophy. Drawing on Taijiquan and Capoeira, which have their philosophical or epistemological roots in Asia and Africa, this article explores core concepts that feature in students’ enculturation. These concepts are grounded in epistemologies contrasting with Papineau’s work on popular and elite sport, Knowing the Score. More specifically, the philosophic…
Leaving the Field
Os Joelhos! Os Joelhos! Protective Embodiment and Occasional Injury in Capoeira
Capoeira , the African-Brazilian dance and martial art has enthusiastic devotees in Britain. Most practitioners are acutely aware of their capoeira embodiment, and have strategies to protect themselves from injury, and ways to seek treatment for any injuries they get. Drawing on data from a long-term ethnography and a set of 32 open-ended interviews with advanced students, the paper explores student strategies to prevent capoeira injuries, and th…
The belts are set out
In contemporary capoeira groups, newcomers are symbolically 'baptised' into the community at a public ceremony called their Batizado (literally baptism) held during a festival. Novices play a game with a guest expert, get their first belt and thereafter they are members of their teacher's group. Drawing on a long term, two-handed ethnography of diasporic capoeira contemporanea in the UK, including observation of 53 such festivals, their ceremonia…
Style, stamina and mobile masculinities
The roots of Savate in France stretch back at least 200 years, and there is extensive interdisciplinary research in French showing changing interpretations of its meaning and purpose. Savate is now a globalised combat sports with potential to enter the Olympic Games. To help remedy the lacuna of English-language research, this paper considers: (1) Documentaries and rare instructional literature; (2) online videos and discussions of archival Savat…
Anomalous beasts and the sociology of education
The author reflects on continuities and changes in the subdiscipline, using Mary Douglas and Basil Bernstein. In 2000 the millennial issue of Sociology, the generic journal of the British Sociological Association, included a paper about the sociology of education called ‘The anomalous beasts: Hooligans and the sociology of education’. It focused on hooligans as anomalous beasts in the sociology of education, and the sub-discipline as an anomalous…
The Lost Ethnographies
The Lost Ethnographies reports on the methodological lessons learnt from ethnographic projects that, viewed superficially, failed. Experienced researchers write about projects they planned, and were excited about, which then never began, had to be abandoned, or took such unexpected directions that it became a different piece of work altogether. The topics and settings are varied and disparate, but the lessons learnt have important similarities. T…
A Very Unstatic Sport’
The empirical focus of this paper is a martial art, Savate, which has received little scholarly attention from social scientists in the English-speaking world. The disciplinary framework is based on symbolic interactionist approaches to bodies, embodiment and movement. The ethnographic methods employ the research agenda of John Urry as set out in his wider call for a mobile sociology. Here Urry’s research agenda is used as a strategy: a key goal …
Tales of a tireur
A tireur is a male practitioner of savate, a martial art relatively unknown in the UK but popular in France, Belgium and much of central Europe. Savate, which is also known as French kickboxing or boxe française, is very much a minority sport in contemporary Britain and Northern Ireland, and its enthusiasts have received little research attention from social scientists. This article is a collaborative case study of one tireur: James Southwood. It…
Greg Dimitriadis 1969–2014
Key Themes in the Ethnography of Education
One Page of Notes and No Hypotheses
The heavy shadow? Bernstein and his legacy
Yorgo was a fair-haired, friendly but rather silent man. ‘You shouldn’t go to sleep under a fig tree’ he said ... ‘Why not?’ ‘The shadow is heavy’. (Fermor 1958, 15)Bernstein’s shadow was very heavy
I Can See it in the Nightclub
This paper reports an ethnographic study of how Brazilians teaching capoeira in the UK use dance as a discursive and embodied pedagogic strategy both to change men's bodies and also to gauge the success of their instructional work. The theoretical framework is drawn from Herzfeld's neglected study of the poetics of manhood in Crete which is revisited in the light of his subsequent analysis of the embodiment of ethnographic practice. Ethnographic …
Performing Research or Researching Performance
Drawing on what Gary Alan Fine has called a peopled ethnography of two martial arts, one French ( savate), one African-Brazilian ( capoeira), strategies for studying embodied performativity are outlined. The relevance of classic ethnography for the illumination of global social and political issues is explored. The virtues of traditional, “peopled” (re)presentation are vigorously defended as a counter narrative to the vogue for presenting qualita…
Girl trouble
Carol Dyhouse will, I hope, forgive me for starting this review essay on her important book Girl Trouble with a brief autobiographical preface. My grandmother Irene was born into a wealthy family i
Expertise, authority and embodied pedagogy
The paper reports a study of masterclasses for young opera-singers, taught by experienced, world-class singers. These and similar forms of learning in the creative and performing arts represent fertile opportunities for the investigation of pedagogy. Given the recent ‘performative’ turn in sociological studies of education, and of cultural forms more widely, it is especially pertinent to examine the work of pedagogy in an overtly performative con…
Milkshakes and Convertibles
My title comes from Blanche Geer's (1964) famous paper ‘First days in the field’. When she was about to do the preliminary fieldwork for the project that became Becker, Geer, and Hughes (1968) on liberal arts undergraduates, she reflected on her own student ‘self’. That young woman had a taste for ‘milkshakes and convertibles’ (p. 379), which to Geer as an adult woman seemed incomprehensible and foreign. Being British, my life has never included …
The Nineteenth-century Woman
This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century. Throughout the book evidence from both the USA and UK shows that feminists had to operate in a restricting and complex social environment in which the concept of "the lady" and the ideal…
Sport, masculinities and the body
Sport, masculinities and the body, by I. Wellard, London, Routledge, 2009, 166 pp., $39.95 (paperback), ISBN978-0-415-53657-8 This is the first volume in a new series from Routledge, called Researc
Academic writing in a global context
Sage Qualitative Research Methods
VOLUME ONE Editorial Introduction - Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont A Stranger at the Gate - Nels Anderson The Past and the Future of Ethnography - Patricia Adler and Peter Adler Ethnography: Post, Past and Present - Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey and Sara Delamont The Interactional Study of Organisation - Robert Dingwall and Phil Strong Linking Data (extract) - Nigel Fielding and Jane Fielding Towards A Peopled Ethnography - Gary Alan Fine Beyond …
Handbook of Ethnography
Introduction to Part One The Chicago School of Ethnography - Mary Jo Deegan Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnography - Paul Rock Currents of Cultural Fieldwork - James D Faubion British Social Anthropology - Sharon Macdonald Into the Community - Lodewijk Brunt Mass-Observation's Fieldwork Methods - Liz Stanley Orientalism - Julie Marcus Ethnomethodology and Ethnography - Melvin Pollner and Robert M Emerson Phenomenology and Ethnography - Ilja Maso…
The only honest thing
There has been a rising acceptance of autoethnography in the past 15 years. Instead of studying social phenomena, in an appropriately reflexive way, some scholars have taken to researching themselves. Drawing on concrete examples from an ongoing ethnographic project, the paper contrasts the beneficial, even essential, practices of autobiographical and reflexive thinking about fieldwork with the narcissistic substitution of autoethnography for res…
Rescuing narrative from qualitative research
We review some of the recent trends that have made the collection and exploration of narratives especially prominent among the social sciences. While we acknowledge the significance of narratives in many aspects of social life, we sound a note of caution concerning the popularity of ‘narratives’, and ‘testimony’, not least among ‘qualitative’ researchers. We suggest that too many authors are complicit in the general culture of ‘the interview soci…
Doctoring Uncertainty
This paper explores a dominant feature of the professional socialization of doctoral students in laboratory and field sciences: the harsh reality of struggling to get laboratory experiments and other forms of practical research to `work'. As undergraduates, young scientists have experienced success in their practical work because they are exposed to stage-managed experiments, demonstrations or similarly controlled environments. They encounter a w…
Balancing the Berimbau
This article is an unusual reflexive text. It has two authors, two voices, two embodied experiences, and two sociological biographies in dialogue. The empirical focus is capoeira, but the ethnographic experience is common to many cultural forms. Capoeira is the Brazilian dance and martial art, done to the music of the berimbau. Classes are offered in many European countries, as well as in North America. Two sociologists, one a practitioner, the o…
The Anomalous Beasts
This paper argues that the subspecialism of sociology of education has, for a century, been ambivalent about the `hooligan'. It has both celebrated and excoriated the anti-school working-class boy. Similarly, the mainstream of sociology has been ambivalent about sociologists of education, both relying on them and ignoring them. Thirdly, the paper speculates on the position of hooligans in Britain in 2025 and the relationship between mainstream so…
Women, Sexuality and Social Control
Up on the Roof
The majority of the popular martial arts in Britain are of South East Asian origin. One exception is the Brazilian dance and martial art capoeira, which has grown in popularity in the UK over the past twenty years at the same time as it has become a global phenomenon. Brazilian teachers have spread across the globe to create what the article calls diasporic capoeira.The ethnographic research reported here focuses on how Brazilian capoeira teacher…
Critical mass and doctoral research
Drawing on empirical research in a number of academic disciplines, and on contrasting doctoral research training in laboratory sciences with that in social sciences, the article examines the notion of ‘critical mass ̊s, which has informed recent policy and debate about research training in the UK. Based on a critique of the Harris Review of Postgraduate Education, it is argued that such policy perspectives are insensitive to the fundamental diffe…
In the roiling smoke
Two British authors reflect on the current state of qualitative research, viewed as a battlefield through roiling smoke. From a UK perspective they reflect on the perceived crisis in qualitative research in the United States. They also suggest that there are four important features that good qualitative research should rely on: problematizing ‘education’; avoiding ethnocentricism; appreciating the long history of qualitative research; and carryin…
The concept smacks of magic
Professions and Powerlessness
This paper argues that the existing sociological literature on the learned professions and on scientific occupations has developed in ways that are now theoretically unproductive. One sympton of this dead-end is the failure of sociologists of the professions to include research on scientists in their discussions and vice versa. A second symptom is the lack of attention to the implications of the work of Jamous, Peloille. and Bourdieu in both the …
I Can See it in the Nightclub
This paper reports an ethnographic study of how Brazilians teaching capoeira in the UK use dance as a discursive and embodied pedagogic strategy both to change men's bodies and also to gauge the success of their instructional work. The theoretical framework is drawn from Herzfeld's neglected study of the poetics of manhood in Crete which is revisited in the light of his subsequent analysis of the embodiment of ethnographic practice. Ethnographic …
I'm your teacher, I'm Brazilian!’ Authenticity and authority in European capoeira
Capoeira, the Brazilian dance and martial art is now globalised and taught widely outside Brazil. Instruction is provided by Brazilians who are living in self-imposed exile from their homeland. The authentic capoeira that such teachers provide is a major attraction for non-Brazilian students. However, there is little research available on the motivations and strategies of overseas capoeira instructors. Building on a long term ethnographic study, …
Critical Mass and Pedagogic Continuity
The paper is based on ethnographic work with doctoral students, their supervisors and postdoctoral researchers in three contrasting disciplines: biochemistry, artificial intelligence and physical geography. It explores how stability and continuity in scientific disciplines are sustained through socialisation processes of doctoral research. It identifies the inter‐generational transmission of knowledge, skills and assumptions within the institutio…
Three Blind Spots? A Comment on the Sociology of Science by a Puzzled Outsider
A sociologist from another specialism read a selection of literature from the last fifteen years of the sociology of science. Three lacunae were discovered, each an area apparently neglected by sociologists of every theoretical persuasion writing in the sociology of science. These three omissions are: treating science as a variety of work; studying the socialization of scientists and learning environments in science; and researching gender divisi…
The smell of sweat and rum
The Brazilian martial art, capoeira, is popular in many countries outside Brazil, including the UK. Capoeira is generally taught by Brazilians whose livelihood depends on recruiting and retaining enough paying customers to keep their classes economically viable and socially pleasurable for the students. The teachers also have to establish and maintain authority over their students who are young adults with many other ways to spend their time and …
No place for women among them? Reflections on the axé of fieldwork
Capoeira, the Brazilian dance and martial art, is now taught in many countries outside Brazil. Reflections on a year's fieldwork on capoeira teaching in the UK are used to make educational ethnography anthropologically strange. Issues of locality, noise, uncertainty and bodily contact are explored in a reflexive way
The Nineteenth-Century Woman
Journal Article The Nineteenth-Century Woman: Hex Cultural and Physical World. Ed. by Sara Delamont and Lorna Duffin. (London: Croom Helm, 1978. 213 pp. Notes and indexes. $18.50.) Get access Phillida Bunkle Phillida Bunkle Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Page 417, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900946…
Roda Boa, Roda Boa
The nun in the toilet
This article reports and analyzes “urban legends” told about schools. The data are taken from three earlier studies of British pupils transferring from primary to secondary school. Five urban legends are discussed, and several others are mentioned. The interpretation is along the line of structural analysis. The author concludes that research into urban legends can widen the scope of educational ethnography
Gender and the discourse of derision
The paper sets current public debates about gender and schooling in England into an historical and United Kingdom‐wide context. Once that work is done, the position is much more complicated than the mass‐media coverage would suggest. Attacks on English schools for failing boys are examined as a 'discourse of derision'. An agenda for future research is included. Keywords: gendermasculinityfeminismexam resultsWalesScotlandNorthern Ireland Additiona…
Socialisation into Teaching
The paper argues that in recent years sociologists have neglected the processes of occupational socialisation of leaching, despite research interest in everyday life in other educational settings. Shortcomings in the extant research on teacher socialisation and in the wider literature on professional socialisation are detailed to explain the lack of intellectual interest in teacher socialisation. Finally, the paper offers some potential lines for…
They start to get malicia ’
The sociological study of education involves focusing upon teaching and learning, upon explicit instruction and the acquisition of the tacit knowledge and skills that are essential if learners are to become enculturated into a new habitus. Sociological insight into these processes can come from research on conventional educational settings, but is greater when unfamiliar, settings are studied. This paper focuses upon a pedagogic setting of an unc…
The twilight years? Educational ethnography and the five moments model
The growth and variety of qualitative research in education is used as a test case to challenge the narrative of ethnography proposed by Denzin and Lincoln. Their characterization of qualitative methods in terms of five (subsequently six) ''moments'' is not reflected in research on education. Ironically, their model is shown to be a modernist narrative that does not do justice do the diversity of qualitative research in the past. It is suggested …
Familiar screams
1. The misery and incomprehension expressed by the informants is vivid, but it is not new. Classic “autobiographical” texts such as Bowen (1954), Barley (1983) and Chagnon (1968) made all these points forcibly. We collected exactly similar stories in 1990. The paper does not report any evidence that these novice anthropologists had read any of that literature. If they had not read any of the classic, or more recent (e.g. Lareau and Shultz 1996) a…
Explorations in Classroom Observation
Explorations in Classroom Observation
Social Control and Education
Explorations in Classroom Observation
The Nineteenth-Century Women
The Nineteenth-Century Woman
Journal Article The Nineteenth-Century Woman: Hex Cultural and Physical World. Ed. by Sara Delamont and Lorna Duffin. (London: Croom Helm, 1978. 213 pp. Notes and indexes. $18.50.) Get access Phillida Bunkle Phillida Bunkle Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Page 417, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900946…
The Nineteenth Century Woman
Women, Sexuality and Social Control
The Two Traditions in Educational Ethnography
∗ This is a revised version of a paper presented to the SSRC/Open University conference on the ethnography of schooling, St Hilda's College, Oxford, 10th‐12th September 1979
Women and Medicine (Book)
To Windward of the Land
The Sociology of Women
Sex Roles and the School
The Sociology of Women
Socialisation into Teaching
The paper argues that in recent years sociologists have neglected the processes of occupational socialisation of leaching, despite research interest in everyday life in other educational settings. Shortcomings in the extant research on teacher socialisation and in the wider literature on professional socialisation are detailed to explain the lack of intellectual interest in teacher socialisation. Finally, the paper offers some potential lines for…
Readings on Interaction in the Classroom
Two "New" Sociologies of Education
Two “New” Sociologies of Education
(1986). Two “New” Sociologies of Education: A Comment on Heap's “Discourse in the Production of Classroom Knowledge”. Curriculum Inquiry: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 327-329
Three Blind Spots? A Comment on the Sociology of Science by a Puzzled Outsider
A sociologist from another specialism read a selection of literature from the last fifteen years of the sociology of science. Three lacunae were discovered, each an area apparently neglected by sociologists of every theoretical persuasion writing in the sociology of science. These three omissions are: treating science as a variety of work; studying the socialization of scientists and learning environments in science; and researching gender divisi…
Inside Schools
Ethnography has much to offer teachers, especially at a time of growing interest in the 'teacher-reseacher' and in 'action' and 'collaborative' research
Losing Out
In the beginning was the Bunsen
(1988). In the beginning was the Bunsen: the foundations of secondary school science. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 315-328
Gender and British Postgraduate Funding Policy
This research note critically reviews the ESRC‐sponsored Winfield Report on Ph.D. completion rates and the allocation of research studentships. It is argued that the report was insensitive to issues of gender, and failed to consider research relevant to that topic. In consequence, the Winfield Report, and policies implemented on the basis of it, incorporate unexamined assumptions about social science doctorates and the students pursuing higher de…
The nun in the toilet
This article reports and analyzes “urban legends” told about schools. The data are taken from three earlier studies of British pupils transferring from primary to secondary school. Five urban legends are discussed, and several others are mentioned. The interpretation is along the line of structural analysis. The author concludes that research into urban legends can widen the scope of educational ethnography
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