James Hinton, Seven Lives from Mass Observation: Britain in the Late Twentieth Century
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DOI: 10.1177/0022009418786695s
Abstract: cases he investigates; why else would presidents fear the electoral consequences of shrinking from war? This blaming of political and policy elites and exoneration of ‘the people’ strikes a familiar note in our current age… read more here.
Keywords: lives mass; hinton seven; observation britain; james hinton ... See more keywords
Gambling, Status Anxiety and Inter-Generational Social Mobility: Findings from the Mass Observation Archive
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DOI: 10.1177/0038038519874981
Abstract: This article is located within sociological research exploring the subjective experiences and emotional consequences of social mobility in the UK. It adds to recent attempts to examine the role of everyday cultural practices in making… read more here.
Keywords: mobility; social mobility; mass observation; observation archive ... See more keywords
‘There is nothing less spectacular than a pestilence’: Picturing the pandemic in Mass Observation's COVID-19 collections
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DOI: 10.1177/09526951221134002
Abstract: What is to be gained by studying visual observation in Mass Observation's COVID-19 collections? What can we see of the pandemic through diarists’ images and words? Visual methods were part of the plural research strategies… read more here.
Keywords: observation covid; covid collections; observation; mass observation ... See more keywords
Archiving the COVID-19 pandemic in Mass Observation and Middletown
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DOI: 10.1177/09526951231152139
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic generated debates about how pandemics should be known. There was much discussion of what role the human sciences could play in knowing – and governing – the pandemic. In this article, we… read more here.
Keywords: human sciences; covid pandemic; observation middletown; mass observation ... See more keywords
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama
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DOI: 10.1177/14687941231176944
Abstract: This paper experiments with the use of literary analysis for the interpretation of participants’ writing. The dataset comprises 56 ‘Reports’ in response to a 2019 Mass Observation Directive. Mass Observation is a British archive. Its… read more here.
Keywords: allusion sociological; analysis; literary allusion; mass observation ... See more keywords