C. Wright Mills and the Ending of Violence

Brewer, John D.

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“…Ulster Protestantism is given meaning not so much by its religion but by the other lines of structural differentiation that religion represents. Weakening of ethno‐religious identities in Northern Ireland therefore will not be grounded in the anticipated – and on the whole likely – reduction in religious identification, belief and observance but in all those other structural processes that now reproduce religiously marked ethno‐national identities independently of the performance of religiosity (for a study of what these processes are in both Northern Ireland and South Africa see Brewer, 2003d). In the short term therefore, we can expect continuity more than change in Ulster Protestant identity formation.…”

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Continuity and Change in Contemporary Ulster Protestantism^*

Brewer

2004

The Sociological Review

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This paper explores current trends in religious practice, observance and belief in Ulster Protestantism for elements of continuity and change. Using historical and survey data it is clear that there are strong elements of both. However, Protestant religiosity is not changing to the point that it constitutes secularisation, as sociologists of religion understand it. Nor are new trends in religiosity weakening ethnonational identities in Northern Ireland. This is because political identities are socially reproduced in ways that are independent of their religious roots and are thus unaffected by patterns of religiosity. Likely changes in Protestant religiosity in the future therefore offer no immediate panacea for altering the dynamics of Northern Irish politics.

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Continuity and Change in Contemporary Ulster Protestantism^*

Brewer

2004

The Sociological Review

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“…The strongest argument for the value of deploying a Wright Mill’s influenced critical sociological perspective in SDP contexts can be found in John Brewer’s excellent thesis on the subject, entitled C. Wright Mills and the Ending of Violence (Brewer, 2003). Here, Brewer uses Wright Mill’s sociological template to comparatively make sense of the complex processes of peace-building undertaken in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Israel and Palestine.…”

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Assessing the sociology of sport: On the capacities and limits of using sport to promote social change

Sugden

2015

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, former IRSS Editor John Sugden, one of the foremost scholars to advance a critical sociology of sport and to apply its tenets to Sport for Development (SDP) programmes, reflects on a key question about how the sociology of sport has and can inform social and political activism that engages sport. Noting a 'new orthodoxy that dominates the SDP sector', there is a pressing need for a more critical sociology of sport in engaging strategies, and understanding the limits, of sport in the service of conflict reduction and peace making in divided societies. Building on the tenets of Wright Mills and his notion of 'the sociological imagination' and the work of Brewer connecting it to the ending of violence, Sugden calls on the sociology of sport community to bring critical engagement to the advancement and refinement of using sport as a mechanism to bring about changes in social relations and in the reduction of conflict in divided societies. While it is noted that sport cannot be a panacea for development and conflict reduction, it can play an important role in practical interventions aided by a critical sociology of sport. Keywords applied sociology, conflict reduction, social change, sport and peace, Sport for Development Reflections on the sociology of sport: pondering a key questionThis 50th anniversary essay affords the opportunity to complete an answer long overdue to a testing question. The question was asked of me after a staff and postgraduate student seminar I delivered at the University of Loughborough in 2006. Here I highlighted key challenges that were faced and overcome while instituting sport-based

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“…In fact, Mills' discussion of the sociological imagination is not fully worked out, which accounts in part for some of the persuasiveness of the term, that commentators can remake it in their own image. As John Brewer (2003) has commented, the more structural aspects of it in Mills' formulation are often omitted in present-day invocations, presenting it as a specific concern with the conjunction of biography and history, rather than as Mills has it, of how history and biography intersect within particular social structural contexts. [17] Beyond this, it is interesting to contemplate that "imagination" is something of a misnomer, given that many of Mills' comments about it are very grounded and concerned with specific craft practices.…”

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A Child of Its Time: Hybridic Perspectives on Othering in Sociology

Stanley

2005

Sociological Research Online

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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.

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C. Wright Mills and the Ending of Violence

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Cited by 26 publications

References 39 publications

Continuity and Change in Contemporary Ulster Protestantism^*

Continuity and Change in Contemporary Ulster Protestantism^*

Assessing the sociology of sport: On the capacities and limits of using sport to promote social change

A Child of Its Time: Hybridic Perspectives on Othering in Sociology

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Abstract: Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

Cited by 26 publications

References 39 publications

Continuity and Change in Contemporary Ulster Protestantism*

Continuity and Change in Contemporary Ulster Protestantism*

Assessing the sociology of sport: On the capacities and limits of using sport to promote social change

A Child of Its Time: Hybridic Perspectives on Othering in Sociology

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Continuity and Change in Contemporary Ulster Protestantism^*

Continuity and Change in Contemporary Ulster Protestantism^*