Thinking with Bourdieu against Bourdieu: A ‘Practical’ Critique of the Habitus
- A. King
- Philosophy
- 1 November 2000
There are two strands in Bourdieu's sociological writings. On the one hand, Bourdieu argues for a theoretical position one might term his “practical theory” which emphasizes virtuosic interactions…
The European Ritual: Football in the New Europe
- A. King
- History
- 2003
Contents: Part I: The Transformation of a Ritual: From 1968 to 1999 The new Europe: cities, states or superstate? Part II: Football in the Old Europe: The early years of the European Cup: 1955-70…
The Lads: Masculinity and the New Consumption of Football
- A. King
- Education
- 1 May 1997
The 1990s have seen the rapid transformation in the consumption of football with the development, in particular, of all-seater stadiums. This article analyses the responses of a particular type of…
The End of the Terraces: The Transformation of English Football in the 1990s
- A. King
- History
- 1 November 1998
Part 1 Theoretical and historical frameworks: for the sociology of football football, ritual and historical change the post-war consensus and the emergence of British post-Fordism. Part 2 The organic…
Leaders' personalities and the outcomes of democratic elections
- A. King
- Economics
- 21 March 2002
A widely held belief concerning democratic elections is that the votes of many individuals are influenced by their assessments of the competing candidates’ personalities and other personal…
The Blunders of Our Governments
Blunder, n. A gross mistake; an error due to stupidity or carelessness. There are a handful that we remember all too well - Margaret Thatcher's poll tax, Blair's Millennium Dome - but the list of…
Against Structure: A Critique of Morphogenetic Social Theory
- A. King
- Philosophy
- 1 May 1999
This article criticises the ontology of Margaret Archer's morphogenetic social theory, arguing that the concept of autonomous social structure on which she bases this social theory is contradictory.…
The Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- A. King
- History
- 22 April 2013
Preface 1. The Elementary Forms of the Military Life 2. Cohesion 3. The Marshall Effect 4. Combat Motivation 5. Mass Tactics 6. Modern Tactics 7. The Persistence of Mass 8. Battle Drills 9. Training…
Modes of Executive-Legislative Relations: Great Britain, France, and West Germany
- A. King
- Political Science
- 1 February 1976
Political scientists and politicians both talk in terms of "the relations between the executive and the legislature." But in fact it is seldom helpful to speak of "executivelegislative relations"…
The Accidental Derogation of the Lay Actor
- A. King
- Sociology
- 1 September 2000
The concept of structure is central to Giddens’s structuration theory because it apparently accounts for the reproduction of the social system without derogating the lay actor in functionalist or…
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