Books:
Medical Ethics Education: Interdisciplinary and Social Theoretical Perspectives. Under contract with Springer, scheduled for publication Autumn 2012. Series information: http://www.springer.com/series/10184
This book will contain some of the perspectives developed in my PhD.
Articles:
I am currently woking on a couple of articles which stem from the research presented in my PhD:
1. Working Title: ‘How Sociologists can Take Education Seriously: Socialization and Enculturation as Aspects of Bourdieu’s ‘Collective Enterprise of Inculcation’
This article considers Bourdieu’s ‘collective enterprise of inculcation’ and suggests the phrase should be understood to be imply a broader process than the historical and contemporary concept of socialisation is usually taken to mean. In particular we should understand it to include the content of formal education and its associated formal pedagogies. Making use of Heskovits’ anthropology I develop an account of enculturation that articulates an understanding of the formal ethics education of medical students that theoretically complements sociological ideas of the moral socialisation of medical students.
2. Working Title: ‘Thinking Through Habitus: For a Dispositional Account of Cognitive Practices’
This article contributes to the growing literature that seeks to turn Bourdieu’s social theory in a more cognitive direction. In contrast to other attempts I draw on (social) psychology directly, specifically the concept of thinking dispositions. In so doing I address criticisms of habitus as a private psychological for the use of sociologists (Bloch) whilst also developing a practice perspective on our ‘ways of knowing’ (Harris 2007).
Under Review:
1. (With Ciaran Thomas Burke and Nicola Ingram) Whose Afraid of a Sociological Fiction?: A Defence of the Collective Habitus as Sociology at the Median Level.
Abstract: This paper defends to concept of 'collective habitus' as an analytic tool available to the Bourdieuan sociologist in response to criticism of the concept by Will Atkinson here.