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Bachelors Sociology University of Leicester

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According to Wikipedia, Paul Willis is a British social scientist known for his work in sociology and cultural studies. Paul Willis' work is widely read in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and education, his work emphasizing consumer culture, socialization, music, and popular culture. He was born in Wolverhampton and received his education at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Birmingham. He worked at Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and subsequently at the University of Wolverhampton. He was a Professor of Social/Cultural Ethnography at Keele University. In the autumn of 2010, he left Keele University and is now a professor at Princeton University.

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Learning to Labor: How Working-Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs (1976) (4981)
Cultural studies : theory and practice (2003) (1233)
Common Culture: Symbolic Work At Play In The Everyday Cultures Of The Young (1990) (595)
Manifesto for Ethnography (2000) (445)
The Ethnographic Imagination (2000) (291)
Cultural production is different from cultural reproduction is different from social reproduction is different from reproduction (1981) (236)
Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs@@@Young Workers: From School to Work@@@Knuckle Sandwich: Growing up in the Working Class City (1979) (204)
Foot Soldiers of Modernity: The Dialectics of Cultural Consumption and the 21st-Century School (2003) (146)
Schooling for the Dole (1984) (104)
Learning to Labor in New Times (2004) (94)
History in Person (2007) (61)
Engaging communities: Ostrom's economic commons, social capital and public relations. (2012) (50)
THE CULTURAL MEANING OF DRUG USE (2002) (45)
Unemployment: the final inequality (1986) (38)
Strategic Public Relations Leadership (2013) (38)
Moving Culture: An Enquiry into the Cultural Activities of Young People (1990) (35)
Accounting for Self, Sex and Sexuality in UK Social Workers’ Knowledge Base: Findings from an Exploratory Study (2016) (30)
Notes on method (2003) (30)
Renegotiating the terms of engagement: Public relations, marketing, and contemporary challenges (2012) (29)
Community capacity building: a practical guide (2006) (25)
From humble inquiry to humble intelligence: Confronting wicked problems and augmenting public relations (2016) (25)
CHARTING THE LUDODROME The mediation of urban and simulated space and rise of the flâneur electronique (2007) (24)
Cultural forms and class mediations (1980) (18)
Manifesto for Ethnography (2002) (17)
Notes on common culture (1998) (16)
Orders of Experience: The Differences of Working Class Cultural Forms (1983) (15)
Preach wine and serve vinegar: Public relations, relationships and doublethink (2015) (14)
Invisible Aesthetics and the Social Work of Commodity Culture (2005) (13)
Public relations, passive aggression and critical social auditing: reflections on organisational inaction in stakeholder engagement (2015) (12)
The Expressive Style of a Motor-bike Culture (1993) (12)
The Role of Topic-Hood in Multiple-Wh Question Semantics (2008) (12)
The Youth Review: Social Conditions of Young People in Wolverhampton (1988) (10)
Lived Forms of Schooling : Bringing the Elementary Forms of Ethnography to the Science of Education (2018) (10)
An Interview with Paul Willis (2009) (10)
Making the road while walking: Co-creation, teaching excellence and university leadership (Stimulus Paper) (2016) (9)
Work and Play, Ideas and Experience of Work and Leisure (1974) (9)
Advancing tendencies? PR leadership, general leadership, and leadership pedagogy (2015) (8)
Transparent cities: Re‐shaping the urban experience through interactive video game simulation (2009) (8)
Outsourcing public relations pedagogy: Lessons from innovation, management futures, and stakeholder participation (2011) (8)
Cultural production in perpetuity (2018) (7)
Maximising the local impact of anchor institutions: A case study of Leeds City Region (2017) (7)
Retroduction, reflexivity and leadership learning: Insights from a critical realist study of empowerment (2019) (7)
Culture, Health and Sexuality: an introduction (2015) (7)
Sým-bolon (2010) (6)
Deliberate Engagement and Wicked Problems: From Good Intentions to Practical Action (2018) (6)
Notes on common culture—towards a cultural policy for grounded aesthetics (1998) (6)
From knowing to doing: Reflexivity, leadership and public relations (2019) (6)
Editorial: Sexualities and Social Work in the Contemporary World (2016) (5)
The Islamic Spirit of Capitalism: Moroccan Islam and its Transferable Cultural Schemas and Values (2010) (5)
The prevalence of bacteriuria in older institutionalized patients. (2001) (4)
The Association of Research Libraries ARL Scholars Portal Working Group Final Report, May 2002 (2005) (4)
Conclusion: Theory and Practice (2018) (3)
The Youth Review (1990) (3)
Making the Change - Crossing over from research science to science reporting (2003) (3)
The Liberty Bell: A Meditation on Labor, Liberty, and the Cultural Mediations that Connect or Disconnect them (2004) (3)
An overview and analysis of community bank mergers (1998) (3)
Being social: creating a critical commons with public relations practice (2015) (2)
The accidental ethnographer and the accidental commodity (2009) (2)
Taking the arid zone to tv: what is required to get a story based on the arid zone on air (2007) (2)
Strategic communication and social marketing in healthcare organisations (2013) (2)
Profane Culture: Updated Edition (2014) (2)
Creativity, deception and ethical malpractice: A critique of the Trumanisation of marketing public relations through guerrilla campaigns. (2009) (1)
Badges of Half-Formed, Inarticulate Radicalism: A Critique of Recent Trends in the Study of Working Class Youth Culture (2016) (1)
Portraits in color : the lives of colorful Negro women (1962) (1)
Correspondence and Reduplication in Language Play: Evidence from Tigrinya and Ludling Typology (2011) (1)
Recent developments in English Studies at the Centre (2003) (1)
The state and popular culture (1982) (1)
Who Is a Southerner? It's Your Turn to Tell Us (2005) (1)
Learning to labour = Spaß am Widerstand (2013) (1)
POPULATION: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM FOR LAWYERS (2014) (1)
Digital disruption: Our life-changing experience (2015) (1)
4. The Golden Age (2014) (0)
Public relations and the consumer (2017) (0)
Looking back to go forward: neuroscience, history and public relations (2017) (0)
Shorter Notices (1982) (0)
A new model of strategic communication (2014) (0)
5. The Hippies (2014) (0)
3. The Motor-bike (2014) (0)
Notes towards a theory of cultural forms and social reproduction (2017) (0)
Humility, deliberation, hyperactivism and hyperbole: why CSR is best viewed as a wicked problem (2017) (0)
Tuning in to the sexual histories and lives of older adults (2016) (0)
1. Introduction: Profanity and Creativity (2014) (0)
Plenary session 3: Wildlife tourism (2008) (0)
Wicked intelligence as counter intelligence: unlearning, democracy and public relations (2014) (0)
CORRIGENDUM (2011) (0)
7. The Creative Age (2014) (0)
Pensions on Retirement (1966) (0)
2. The Motor-bike Boys (2014) (0)
Marketing and value-added opportunities with alternative swine systems (1999) (0)
Consultant Contract (1974) (0)
Professional Practice and Research update (2005) (0)
Acknowledgments (2005) (0)
Symbol-action-context (2016) (0)
The cultural meaning of drug use: Paul E. Willis (2006) (0)
Sexual Orientation at Work: Contemporary issues and perspectives (2014) (0)
Special Group in Coaching Psychology: Members Survey 2006 (2006) (0)
Confessions of a public relations practitioner : Hidden life in the open plan office (2017) (0)
Maraboutic Resistance and Popular Culture in the Arab Spring of Morocco (2016) (0)
The Cultural Switch Gear in the Arab Spring of Morocco (2016) (0)
8. Conclusions Cultural Politics (2014) (0)
Editorial (2018) (0)
Being Modern in China: A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition and Schooling in China Today (2019) (0)
A new model of strategic public relations (2014) (0)
Book Review. (1982) (0)
Moments. Preface to the 2014 Edition (2014) (0)
Selective guide to further reading and contacts (2003) (0)
WHY WORK? A CULTURALLY INFORMED CRITIQUE OF PAST AND PRESENT SHOP FLOOR INTERPRETATIONS OF WORK (2009) (0)
Hidden life in the open plan office: confessions of a public relations practitioner (2017) (0)
Simulated urbanism and its effects on the negotiation of hyperreal cities (2008) (0)
Comparative book review (2010) (0)
Collaborative Creativity, Leadership and Public Relations: Identifying and Addressing Research Limitations (2018) (0)
Editorial Announcement (2008) (0)
Introduction: The books at the end of the shelf (2007) (0)
How Do Public Relations Practitioners Build Social Capital? (2019) (0)
6. The Experience of Drugs (2014) (0)
Working Across Differences in Sexuality and Age (2014) (0)
Letter to Leah Chanin regarding SEAALL Constitution and Bylaws, June 16, 1972 (1972) (0)
Note to Pearl Von Allmen regarding SEAALL Constitution and Bylaws, September 25, 1972 (1972) (0)
Research Ethics in Practice (2015) (0)
Letter to Kate Wallach regarding the Lucile Elliott Scholarship, April 30, 1969 (1969) (0)
Letter to Pearl Von Allmen regarding SEAALL Constitution and Bylaws, June 16, 1972 (1972) (0)
Elements of a culture (2017) (0)
Labour power, culture, class and institution (2017) (0)
Letter to Pearl Von Allmen regarding the Dorothy Salmon Memorial Fund, April 9, 1969 (1969) (0)
Commoditization, resistance, reproduction : an interview with Paul Willis (2009) (0)
ETHNOGRAPHY OF MOTOR-BIKE BOYS. IN: DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT. A SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE (2003) (0)
2. Classe et formes institutionnelles de culture (2011) (0)
Tribute to J. Richard Hackman – A giant of our profession (2014) (0)
Class and institutional form of a culture (2017) (0)
Statutory Regulation – SGCP Response to the Society’s Consultation Paper (2006) (0)
Ethnography of Motor-Bike Boys (2002) (0)
How Social Media Can Create Impact for Research (2020) (0)

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Learning to Labour