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- Editorial
Martin Bulmer and Liz Stanley
Sociological Research Online 1 (1) editorsAbstract:
- Social Transformation? Exploring Issues in Comparison, Development and Change
Liz Stanley
Sociological Research Online 2 (4) editorialAbstract: Editorial and Call for Papers in the area of Social Transformation
- Class in International Perspective: a Call for Papers
Liz Stanley
Sociological Research Online 3 (2) callAbstract: Review of: Doyle, Richard (1997) On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences. Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA.
- Introduction to Predictions
Liz Stanley
Sociological Research Online 4 (4) stanleyAbstract: Review of: Sobal, Jeffery; Maurer, Donna (1999) Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems. Aldine de Gruyter: New York. Sobal, Jeffery; Maurer, Donna (1999) Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness. Aldine de Gruyter: New York.
- Review Article: Looking Back and Looking Forward: Some Recent Feminist Sociology Reviewed
Sue Wise and Liz Stanley
Sociological Research Online 8 (4) wiseAbstract: xx
- A Child of Its Time: Hybridic Perspectives on Othering in Sociology
Liz Stanley
Sociological Research Online 10 (3) stanleyAbstract: Responding to John Scott's (2005) 'Sociology and its others', the idea of hybridic sociologies is developed, Mills' ideas about 'the sociological imagination' are discussed, Scott's proposal for a core curriculum countered with some suggestions for extended in-depth disciplinary debate about an intellectually expansionist programme for UK sociology, and responses to these suggestions as well as to the broad argument are welcomed.
- Putting It into Practice: Using Feminist Fractured Foundationalism in Researching Children in the Concentration Camps of the South African War
Liz Stanley and Sue Wise
Sociological Research Online 11 (1) stanleyAbstract: Feminist fractured foundationalism has been developed over a series of collaborative writings as a combined epistemology and methodology, although it has mainly been discussed in epistemological terms. It was operationalised as a methodology in a joint research project in South Africa concerned with investigating two important ways that the experiences of children in the South African War 1899-1902, in particular in the concentration camps established during its commando and 'scorched earth' phase, were represented contemporaneously: in the official records, and in photography. The details of the research and writing process involved are provided around discussion of the nine strategies that compose feminist fractured foundationalism and its strengths and limitations in methodological terms are reviewed.
- Rethinking 'Current Crisis' Arguments: Gouldner and the Legacy of Critical Sociology
Robert Hollands and Liz Stanley
Sociological Research Online 14 (1) 1Abstract: Proclamations of 'current crisis' in sociology are long-standing and have recently resurfaced in British and North America. This article explores the response of Alvin Gouldner to an earlier 1970s perceived 'current crisis'. It then discusses some of the key dimensions ascribed to the current 'current crisis' – fragmentation, the decline of the intellectual, the need for a higher profile for public and professional sociology - to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Gouldner's ideas for analysing the situation of contemporary sociology. It concludes that Gouldner's critical sociology provides a useful basis for understanding current debates about fragmentation and public sociology, but less so in explaining the decline of intellectuals. In addition, neither Gouldner nor contemporary thinking about sociology's present-day 'current crisis' give much attention to the vastly increased regulation and bureaucratisation of the university system accompanying the expended remit of regulatory government, something we think underlies the discipline's successive perceptions of crisis. The contemporary version of critical sociology, with which this article aligns itself, provides a more structural and less voluntaristic rethinking of 'current crisis' arguments.
- The Number of the South African War (1899-1902) Concentration Camp Dead: Standard Stories, Superior Stories and a Forgotten Proto-Nationalist Research Investigation
Liz Stanley and Helen Dampier
Sociological Research Online 14 (5) 13Abstract: Tilly extols the power and compass of 'superior stories' compared with 'standard stories'; however, in life things are not always so clear cut. A 1906 1914 research investigation headed by P. L. A. Goldman, initially concerned with the enumeration and commemoration of the deaths of Boer combatants during the South African War (1899-1902), later with the deaths of people in the concentration camps established in the commando phase of this war, is explored in detail using its archived documents. Now largely forgotten, the investigation was part of a commemorative project which sought to replace competing stories about wartime events with one superior version, as seen from a proto-nationalist viewpoint and harnessed to the wider purpose of nation-building. Goldman, the official in charge, responded to a range of methodological and practical difficulties in dealing with a huge amount of data received from a wide variety of sources, and made ad hoc as well as in principle decisions regarding how to handle these, and eventually producing 'the number' as politically and organisationally required. However, another number of the South African War concentration camp dead - one which was both different and also added up incorrectly - concurrently appeared on a national women's memorial, the Vrouemonument, and it is this which has resounded subsequently. The reasons are traced to the character of stories and their power, and the visibility of stories about the concentration camp deaths in question the face of the Vrouemonument and their anonymity in Goldman's production of 'the number'. Tilly's idea of an 'in-between' approach to stories is drawn on in exploring this.
- The ESRC's 2010 Framework for Research Ethics: Fit for Research Purpose?
Liz Stanley and Sue Wise
Sociological Research Online 15 (4) 12Abstract: The ESRC's (2010) Framework for Research Ethics extends the remit of its 2005 research ethics framework in three significant ways: the system is to be fully mandatory and it will no longer possible to make the case that no out of the ordinary ethical issues arise; the Research Ethics Committees (RECs) set up under the ESRC's 2005 document have extended remit, including reviewing all research proposals accepted by the ESRC and other funding bodies; and funding will depend on the REC review, with its purview extending through a project's life. The 2010 document is reviewed in detail and the conclusion is drawn that it is not fit for purpose. Six wider issues raised by the FRE document are discussed: the consultation process by the ESRC was insufficient and the informed consent of the social science community was not obtained; the ethics creep involved will involve unnecessary bureaucratisation; the RECs will operate without expert discipline-specific knowledge using unethical generalist criteria; the overall effects long-term will be deleterious to the research base; the FRE document unacceptably ignores the professional associations and their research ethics guidelines; and the ESRC's system of the expert peer review of funding applications will be undermined.
