John Holmwood
#61,846
Most Influential Person Now
British sociologist
John Holmwood's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Download Badge
Sociology
Why Is John Holmwood Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Holmwood is a British sociologist. His work has focused on social stratification and the relationship between social science and explanation. His later work has concentrated on issues of pragmatism in public sociology. Holmwood is particularly known for his work concerning Talcott Parsons.
John Holmwood's Published Works
Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works
Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author
Published Works
- A manifesto for the public university (2011) (131)
- Sociology's misfortune: disciplines, interdisciplinarity and the impact of audit culture. (2010) (108)
- Colonialism, Postcolonialism and the Liberal Welfare State (2018) (92)
- Action and Its Environments: Towards a New Synthesis (1989) (88)
- Functionalism and its critics (2005) (70)
- Founding Sociology? Talcott Parsons and the Idea of General Theory. (1996) (67)
- Realism, regularity and social explanation (2003) (58)
- From social rights to the market: neoliberalism and the knowledge economy (2014) (58)
- Sociology as Public Discourse and Professional Practice: A Critique of Michael Burawoy* (2007) (57)
- Constructing the new consumer society (1997) (50)
- Three Pillars of Welfare State Theory (2000) (41)
- Gender and Critical Realism: A Critique of Sayer (2001) (36)
- Feminism and Epistemology: What Kind of Successor Science? (1995) (31)
- Explanation And Social Theory (1991) (28)
- Challenges to Public Universities: Digitalisation, Commodification and Precarity (2019) (28)
- Viewpoint — The Impact of ‘Impact’ on UK Social Science (2011) (26)
- The university, democracy and the public sphere (2017) (23)
- The attack on education as a social right (2012) (21)
- Economics, Sociology, and the "Professional Complex": Talcott Parsons and the Critique of Orthodox Economics (2006) (20)
- The Palgrave handbook of sociology in Britain (2014) (20)
- The Challenge of Global Social Inquiry (2009) (19)
- Exploring the body (2003) (17)
- Synthesis and fragmentation in social theory: A progressive solution (1994) (17)
- EUROPE AND THE 'AMERICANIZATION' OF BRITISH SOCIAL POLICY (2000) (17)
- Public Reasoning without Sociology: Amartya Sen’s Theory of Justice (2013) (16)
- Pragmatism and the prospects of sociological theory (2011) (15)
- Sociology after Fordism: Prospects and problems (2011) (15)
- Countering Extremism in British Schools?: The Truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair (2017) (14)
- Editorial Foreword: Sociology and its Public Face(s) (2007) (14)
- Questioning Contingency in Social Life: Roles, Agreement and Agency (2012) (12)
- Rationality and Action (1991) (11)
- Sociology’s Past and Futures: The Impact of External Structure, Policy and Financing (2014) (11)
- Beyond capital? The challenge for sociology in Britain. (2014) (11)
- The Idea of a Public University (2019) (11)
- The Role of Contradictions in Modern Theories of Social Stratification (1983) (10)
- ‘The turn of the screw’; marketization and higher education in England (2016) (10)
- Claiming whiteness (2020) (9)
- From 1968 to 1951: How Habermas Transformed Marx into Parsons (2009) (9)
- Sociologies of Moderation (2013) (9)
- Research Ethics Committees (RECs) and the Creaking Piers of Peer Review (2010) (8)
- Action, System and Norm in the Action Frame of Reference: Talcott Parsons and His Critics (1983) (7)
- A Treatise on Social Theory, Volume III: Applied Social Theory (1998) (7)
- Citizenship and Inequality in Postmodern Social Theory (1997) (6)
- Not only our misfortune: reply to Rosenfeld and Savage. (2010) (6)
- ‘Only connect’: the challenge of globalisation for the social sciences (2007) (6)
- Introduction: Translation and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity (2011) (6)
- Moral Economy Versus Political Economy: Provincializing Polanyi (2016) (6)
- Gender, the Professions, and Employment Citizenship (1994) (5)
- Rethinking Moderation in a Pragmatist Frame (2013) (5)
- Radical Sociology: What’s Left? (1999) (4)
- Countering Extremism in British Schools? (2017) (4)
- W(h)ither Welfare? (1991) (4)
- Markets versus Publics: The New Battleground of Higher Education (2012) (4)
- Exit from the Perspective of Entry (2017) (3)
- From political economy to moral economy: provincialising Polanyi (2016) (3)
- Stratification: Social Division and Inequality – Wendy Bottero (2006) (3)
- Evolutionary and Functionalist Historical Sociology (2003) (3)
- Sociologies of moderation : problems of democracy, expertise and the media (2012) (3)
- The general public's use and perceptions on interactive, personal digital health information and advisory services (2004) (2)
- Contemporary Sociological Theory: Post‐Parsonian Developments (2009) (2)
- The public good of higher education (2019) (2)
- International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought (2007) (2)
- The impossibility of sociology as a science; arguments from within the discipline (2019) (2)
- John Holmwood: Sociology of Structure, Sociology as Structure (2016) (2)
- Problems of reflexivity: 'dialogic' social inquiry and the displacement of explanation (2003) (2)
- Reflexivity as Situated Problem-Solving. A Pragmatist Alternative to General Theory (2014) (2)
- Action and Structure (1991) (1)
- Book Reviews : Derek Layder: Structure, Interaction and Social Theory, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1981, 155 pp. £9.50 (1982) (1)
- Inegalitarian populism and the university: British reflections on Newfield's The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them (2018) (1)
- The Problem of “Race” in Talcott Parsons's Account of the Citizenship Complex (2021) (1)
- Making science public: challenges and opportunities (2019) (1)
- Immigration, Domination, and ‘Proportional Patriotism’: Recovering the Sociology of Herbert Adolphus Miller (2022) (1)
- Social Rights and Complex Freedom (2015) (1)
- Providing Secure Access to Information Using the Internet (2000) (1)
- Questioning Contingency in Social Life (2013) (1)
- Business as Usual and More: A Response to Tomáš Bek, Petr Kubala and Terezie Lokšová and a Modest Proposal (2016) (1)
- Talcott Parsons and the Development of His System@@@Talcott Parsons and the Conceptual Dilemma@@@The Sociology of Talcott Parsons@@@The Theories of Talcott Parsons: The Social Relations of Action (1983) (1)
- Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership: Raising the Status of Children’s Voices in Ireland and Australia (2017) (1)
- The Action Frame of Reference (2014) (1)
- Editorial: Brexit and the (Dis)United Kingdom (2021) (0)
- False Consciousness and Ontological Alienation (1991) (0)
- Structure, Function and Contradiction (1991) (0)
- Editorial: Expertise, ‘Publics’ and the Construction of Government Policy (2021) (0)
- The Neo-Liberal Knowledge Regime and the Displacement of Critique (2014) (0)
- Sociology as democratic knowledge (2015) (0)
- Five minutes with John Holmwood and Martin Eve – discussing the future of academic publishing (2017) (0)
- Renewal and Reconstruction in Sociological Theory: The Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project (2021) (0)
- Book Reviews (1982) (0)
- Book Review Symposium: Stefan Collini, What are Universities For? (2013) (0)
- Robert G Dunn, Toward a Pragmatist Sociology: John Dewey and the Legacy of C. Wright Mills (2019) (0)
- The Clarke and Kershaw Reports (2017) (0)
- Publishing for Publics (2018) (0)
- Writing Justice/Performing Injustice: Reflections on Research, Publicity, and the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair (2020) (0)
- Explanation and social theory / John Holmwood, Alexander Steward (1991) (0)
- The Modern Corporation Statement on Economics (2016) (0)
- Media, Social Science, and the New Politics of Knowledge Production (2013) (0)
- Community cohesion, schooling and Prevent (2017) (0)
- Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters. New York: Oxford University Press. 2011, 248 pp. (2012) (0)
- Violence and Inequalities: Racism, Xenophobia and Exclusion (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews (1985) (0)
- Spectacle and reality: inequality in the second Elizabethan age (2012) (0)
- Book Reviews (1984) (0)
- Editorial – The Trojan Horse affair (2022) (0)
- Book Reviews: After Parsons: A Theory of Social Action for the Twenty-First Century: Action Theory: Methodological Studies (2006) (0)
- Book reviews: After Parsons: A Theory of Social Action for the Twenty‐First Century – Edited by Renée C. Fox, Victor M. Lidz, and Harold J. Bershady Action Theory: Methodological Studies – Edited by Helmut Staubmann (2006) (0)
- Decolonising Class Analysis (2018) (0)
- Editorial: Writing (and righting) the ‘classics’: A symposium on Gurminder K. Bhambra and John Holmwood’s Colonialism and Modern Social Theory, Polity 2021 (2022) (0)
- Religious education, collective worship and publicly funded education (2017) (0)
- Bauman and Contemporary Sociology by Ali Rattansi (2019) (0)
- Review: Lisa Lowe, The Intimacies of Four Continents (2016) (0)
- Prague, Villa Lanna and a changing Europe (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews (1989) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2013) (0)
- ‘British values’ and community cohesion (2017) (0)
- Evolutionary and functionalist approaches to historical sociology (2002) (0)
- Editorial: Beveridge’s Giants 80 Years On (2022) (0)
- Power and Normative Order (1991) (0)
- The NCTL hearings and their collapse (2017) (0)
- The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in Britain Australian Sociology Sociology in Ireland (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews (1993) (0)
- Introducing the case (2017) (0)
- Book Reviews (1983) (0)
- What Security, Whose Security? States, Corporations, and Publics (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews (1996) (0)
- Vertical and Horizontal Fallacies (1991) (0)
- The Theoretical Impasse (2014) (0)
- Book review: Knowledge for What? Public Sociology in the Making (2014) (0)
- Divisions of Labour (2017) (0)
- Shorter Notices (1983) (0)
- Race, nation and empire; the forgotten sociology of Herbert Adolphus Miller (2022) (0)
- Book Review: S. Svallfors The Moral Economy of Class: Class and Attitudes in Comparative Perspective Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006, $45.00 hbk (ISBN: 0-8047-5285-0), xvii+228 pp (2009) (0)
- Book Review (2013) (0)
- A plot to Islamicise schools (2017) (0)
- Afterword: Writing (and righting) the ‘classics’, a response (2022) (0)
- Public University Pathogens: Digitalisation, Commodification and Precarity (2018) (0)
- Lessons from the Trojan Horse affair (2017) (0)
- Sociologyâs Past and Futures (2014) (0)
- Governance, school reform and change management (2017) (0)
- Structural-Functionalism, Theoretical Breakdown and the Embrace of Contradiction (2014) (0)
- Preventing Evidence: ‘Rights’ and the Wrongs of Government Policy Reviews (2021) (0)
- Creating the future of academic publishing (2017) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
Other Resources About John Holmwood
What Schools Are Affiliated With John Holmwood?
John Holmwood is affiliated with the following schools:
