Graham Paul Crow
Curriculum Vitae
Date of birth: 10 July 1957
Nationality: British
Education history
1968-1975
10 'O' + 3 'A' levels, Simon Langton Boys' Grammar School, Canterbury
1978
BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford (2:1)
1980
MA in Sociology, University of Essex (SSRC-funded)
1987
PhD in Sociology, University of Essex (SSRC-funded)
('Agricultural rationalization: the fate of family farmers in post-war Britain')
Employment history
1983-1990
Temporary Lecturer in Sociology, University of Southampton
1990-1996
Lecturer in Sociology, University of Southampton
1996-2000
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Southampton
2000-date
Reader in Sociology, University of Southampton
Main areas of research and teaching interests
Sociology of communities;
sociology of families, households and domestic life;
sociology of disability;
sociological theory;
comparative and historical sociology.
Publications: books: sole author
Crow, G. (1997) Comparative Sociology and Social Theory: Beyond the Three Worlds. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
(1998 Korean translation, Ilshin Publishing Co.)
Crow, G. (2002) Social Solidarities: Theories, Identities and Social Change. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Crow, G. (in preparation) For the Sake of Sociological Argument.
(under contract to Palgrave; manuscript delivery date September 2003).
Publications: books: joint author
Crow, G. and Allan, G. (1994) Community Life: An introduction to local social life. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Allan, G. and Crow, G. (2001) Families, Households and Society. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Allan, G., Crow, G. and Hawker, S. (in preparation) Stepfamilies
(under contract to Palgrave; manuscript delivery date December 2003).
Publications: books edited or co-edited (all with Editors' Introductions)
Allan, G. and Crow, G. (eds) (1989) Home and Family: Creating the Domestic Sphere. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Hardey, M. and Crow, G. (eds) (1991) Lone Parenthood: Coping with constraints and making opportunities. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf. (Published in Canada by University of Toronto Press.)
Crow, G. (ed.) (1996) The Sociology of Rural Communities (2 volumes). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Crow, G. and Heath, S. (eds) (2002) Social Conceptions of Time: Structure and process in work and everyday life. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Publications: refereed journal articles
Gasson, R., Crow, G., Errington, A., Hutson, J., Marsden, T. and Winter, M. (1988)'The farm as a family business', Journal of Agricultural Economics, 39 (1), pp.1-41.
Crow, G. (1989) 'The use of the concept of "strategy" in recent sociological literature', Sociology 23 (1), pp.1-24.
Allan, G. and Crow, G. (1991) 'Privatization, home-centredness and leisure', Leisure Studies 10, pp.19-32.
Crow, G. and Allan, G. (1995) 'Community types, community typologies and community time', Time and Society 4 (2), pp.147-66.
Crow, G. (1996) 'Taking stock of recent rural studies in the UK: A reply to Miller and Cloke', Sociologia Ruralis 36 (3), pp.361-4.
Crow, G. (1999) 'Sociology and the discovery of society's hidden dimensions', Self, Agency and Society 2 (1), pp.1-22.
Crow, G. and Rees, A. (1999) '"Winners" and "losers" in social transformations', Sociological Research On-line 4 (1) 17pp.
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/4/1
Crow, G. (2000) 'Developing sociological arguments through community studies', International Journal of Social Research Methodology 3 (3) pp.173-87.
Allan, G., Hawker, S. and Crow, G. (2001) 'Family diversity and change in Britain and Western Europe', Journal of Family Issues 22 (7), pp.819-37.
Crow, G., Allan, G. and Summers, M. (2001) 'Changing perspectives on the insider/outsider distinction in community sociology', Community, Work and Family. 4 (1), pp.29-48.
Crow, G., Allan, G. and Summers, M. (2002) 'Neither busybodies nor nobodies: Managing proximity and distance in neighbour relations' Sociology 36(1), pp.127-45.
Crow, G. (2002) 'Community studies: fifty years of theorization' in Sociological Research On-line 7 (3) special issue 'Globalization and Social Capital' guest edited by P. Black et al http://www.socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/7/3
Publications: chapters in books
Crow, G. (1989) 'The post-war development of the modern domestic ideal' in G. Allan and G. Crow (eds) Home and Family: Creating the Domestic Sphere. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp.14-32.
Crow, G., Marsden, T. and Winter, M. (1990) 'Recent British Rural Sociology' in P. Lowe and M. Bodiguel (eds) Rural Studies in Britain and France. London: Belhaven Press, pp.248-62.
Crow, G. (1990) 'Awkward agriculture: old and new problems in discerning the direction of rural development in advanced capitalist societies' in H. Buller and S. Wright (eds) Rural Development: Problems and Practices. Aldershot: Gower, pp.65-77.
Crow, G. and Allan, G. (1990) 'Constructing the domestic sphere' in H. Corr and L. Jamieson (eds) Politics of Everyday Life. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp.11-36.
Crow, G. and Hardey, M. (1991) 'The housing strategies of lone parents' in M. Hardey and G. Crow (eds) Lone Parenthood: Coping with Constraints and Making Opportunities. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, pp.47-65.
Crow, G. and Hardey, M. (1992) 'Diversity and ambiguity among lone-parent households in Britain' in C. Marsh and S. Arber (eds) Families and Households. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp.142-56. (reprinted in G. Allan (ed.) (1999) The Sociology of the Family, Oxford: Blackwell,pp.232-46.)
Crow, G. (1994) 'The traditional working-class community revisited' in Communications, Media and Communities Research Centre Coal, Culture and Community, Sheffield: Pavic Press, pp.39-49.
Crow, G. (1996) 'Community time as community's fourth dimension' in N. Papastergiardis (ed.) Annotations 1: Mixed Belongings and Unspecified Destinations, London: Institute of International Visual Arts, pp.58-62.
Allan, G. and Crow, G. (1996) 'The family - a sociological perspective' in P. Gastrell and J. Edwards (eds) Community Health Nursing: Frameworks for Practice. London: Balliere Tindall, pp.81-91. (second edition in press)
Crow, G. (1997) 'What do we know about the neighbours?' in P. Hoggett (ed) Contested Communities. Bristol: Policy Press, pp.17-30.
Crow, G. and Allan, G. (2000) 'Communities, Family Support and Social Change', in J. Canavan, P. Dolan and J. Pinkerton (eds) Family Support: Direction from Diversity. London: Jessica Kingsley, pp.35-55.
Crow, G. and Maclean, C. (2000) 'Community' in G. Payne (ed.) Social Divisions. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp.223-41. (second edition under consideration)
Hawker, S., Allan, G. and Crow, G. (2001) 'La multiplication des grands-parents', in C. Attias-Donfut & Martine Segalen (eds) Le Siècle des Grands-parents. Paris: Autrement, pp.167-86.
Crow, G. (2002) 'Families, moralities, rationalities and social change', in A Carling, S Duncan and E Edwards (eds) Analysing Families: Morality and rationality in policy and practice. London: Routledge, pp.285-96.
Crow, G. and Maclean, C. (forthcoming 2003) 'Families and local communities' in J. Scott, J. Treas & M. Richards (eds) Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families.
Crow, G. (forthcoming 2003) 'Conceptualising State and Society' in P. Kennett (ed.) Handbook of Comparative Social Policy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Crow, G. (forthcoming 2003) 'Social networks and social exclusion: an overview of the debate', in C. Phillipson et al (eds) Social Networks and Social Exclusion: Sociological and Policy Issues, Aldershot: Ashgate.
Publications: book reviews
I have reviewed books for the following journals: British Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Culture, Health and Sexuality, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Rural Studies, Journal of Social Policy, Sociologia Ruralis, Sociological Research On-line, Sociology, Work, Employment and Society.
Research grants held
G. Allan, G. Crow and S. Hawker 'Step-families and the construction of kinship', ESRC 1998-99. £83,774.
C. Phillipson, Perri 6, G. Allan, G. Crow, D. Morgan, R. Pahl and C. Wenger 'Social networks and social exclusion' ESRC seminar series 1999-2001. £12,417.
R. Wiles, S. Heath and G. Crow 'Informed consent and the research process' ESRC 2003-04 £39,099. Part of ESRC Research Methods programme.
Research students supervised (* = jointly supervised)
Supervised through to successful completion (8, all at Southampton except Preston at King Alfred's College, Winchester):
A. Mellish 'Lone fathers and the labour market' (MPhil 1997)
G. Atkinson 'Women and dependence' (PhD 1998) (ESRC-funded)
S. Hawker 'Counselling as emotional labour' (PhD 1998) (ESRC-funded)
C. Kerr* 'Food and elderly people' (PhD 1999) (ESRC-funded)
J. Parry* 'Identity in former mining communities' (PhD 2000) (ESRC-funded)
S. Preston* 'Community drama and community development' (PhD 2000)
K. Reed* 'British South Asian mothers' health beliefs' (PhD 2000)
K. Manson* 'RAF wives' (ESRC-funded) (PhD 2001)
Current (6; all at Southampton except Donnelly at University College Chichester):
S. Cooke* 'Unemployment, training and job search' (ESRC-funded from 2000)
N. Donnelly* 'The prevention of suicide among students' (from 2002)
P. Partington* 'Rehabilitation after stroke' (from 2000)
R. Pockney* 'Friendship among adults with learning disabilities' (from 2001)
J. Turner* 'Youth, crime and community' (from 2001)
J. Vass* 'The concept of society' (from 2003)
External examining
I have acted as external examiner for 10 PhD candidates: at Warwick (1993 and 2001), Edinburgh (1998 and 2002), Lancaster (1999), Kent (2000), Salford (2001), Manchester (2002) and Bangor (2002) Universities in the UK and James Cook University, Australia (2001). I am external examiner for the undergraduate programme in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University (2000-date).
Conference and other presentations
I have presented papers at the following Universities: Amsterdam, Brisbane, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, East Anglia, Edinburgh, Essex, Galway, Glasgow, Kent, Lahti (Finland), Lancaster, Leicester, London (Institute of Education), Loughborough, Manchester, Open, Oxford, Oxford Brookes, Plymouth, Sheffield Hallam, Surrey, Swansea, West of England, York.
Wider contribution to the discipline
Co-editor (2001-2003, with Larry Ray) of Sociological Research On-line. Editorial board member of Sociology (1993-97) and of Sociological Research On-line (1997-2001). Co-organiser of the British Sociological Association annual conference, April 2000. Member of BSA Academic Affairs committee 2000-01. Plenary speaker at BSA/ESRC summer school 2002. Regular referee for ESRC and for various journals and publishers.