NORBERT ELIASS LOST RESEARCH
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Norbert Eliass Lost Research
Revisiting the Young Worker Project
JOHN GOODWIN and HENRIETTA OCONNOR
University of Leicester, UK
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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Goodwin, John, 1970
Norbert Eliass lost research : revisiting the young worker project / by John Goodwin and Henrietta OConnor.
pages cm. (Rethinking classical sociology)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0466-8 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-3155-9850-5 (ebook)
ISBN 978-1-3170-8682-6 (epub) 1. Elias, Norbert, 18971990. 2. Youth Employment Great Britain Longitudinal studies. 3. Dropouts Employment Great Britain Longitudinal studies. 4. Dropouts Great Britain Social conditions Longitudinal studies. 5. Working class Great Britain Longitudinal studies. 6. Sociology Research Great Britain. I. OConnor, Henrietta. II. Title.
HD6276.G7G645 2015
331.3470941dc23
2015008816
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Contents
List of Tables, Figures and Appendices
Tables
Figures
Appendices
About the Authors
John Goodwin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester. He was previously the head of the Centre for Labour Market Studies (20062010), and sub-dean (20032006) and the first academic director of the College of Social Science (20092010) at the University of Leicester. As a sociologist his principal research interests include the broad areas of the sociology of work (especially education to work transitions and gender and work), social science research methods (life histories, work narratives, (auto)biography, the re-use of qualitative secondary analysis and archival data) and the history of sociology. He has considerable expertise in qualitative research methods and he is currently undertaking restudies of the classic community studies The Established and The Outsiders (Elias and Scotson 1965) and Homes in High Flats (Jephcott 1971). He is currently associate editor of the Journal of Youth Studies and an editorial board member of Education and Training, and the European Journal of Industrial Training. He was previously a member of the editorial boards for Work Employment and Society (20022005) and Sociological Research Online (20082010). In 2013 he was made a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Henrietta OConnor is Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester. She has held a number of roles including head of department of the Centre for Labour Market Studies and deputy head of the School of Management. Previously she held posts as sub-dean of graduate studies and director of postgraduate research in the College of Social Science.
Her principal interests include the broad areas of the sociology of work with a focus on transitions, gender and motherhood. She has carried out research and published widely in aspects of transition such as young peoples transition from school to work and is currently researching aspects of the graduate labour market.
Henrietta also has expertise in social science research methods; for example, online research methods and the use of virtual interviews. Her current work is based around the secondary analysis of qualitative data, archival research and the use of fieldnotes and marginalia, qualitative longitudinal research and community restudies.
She is an editorial board member of the British Sociological Association journal Sociology (20122015), and an editorial board member of the Journal of Youth Studies. She is chair of the editorial board of Sociological Research Online.
Preface
We have been engaged in a restudy of Eliass Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles project since 2000, and although we have already written a great deal, this research is very much still ongoing. The reason for this is that Eliass approach to researching young workers, the complex research design constructed (as we shall see) under difficult circumstances, and the sheer wealth of materials surrounding the project means that, in many respects, we have still only scratched the surface. It is always problematic to speculate but given the breadth and depth of materials amassed by the research team, and if the project had been completed, Elias would have written a substantive text that both extended some of the themes he developed in
