Paul Willis (cultural theorist)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Willis is a leading British cultural theorist.

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 is currently Professor of Social/Cultural Ethnography at Keele University.

He gave a paper at the 9th Symposium of the National Deviancy Conference in January 1972 entitled 'A Motor-Bike Subculture'.[1]

[edit] Books

  • The Ethnographic Imagination (Cambridge: Polity, 2000)
  • (with S Jones, J Canaan and G Hurd) Common Culture. Milton Keynes: Open University, Press 1990, reprinted 1994 & 1996.
  • 'Profane Culture' (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978)
  • Learning to Labour (Aldershot: Gower, 1977) reprinted 1978, 79, 80,81,88,94,98, 2001
  • Learning to Labour in New times, (ed with Nadine Dolby & Greg Dimitriadis). New York: Routledge, forthcoming
  • Moving Culture. London: Gulbenkian Foundation, 1990.
  • jointly edited with M Castells et al, Neuvas Perspectivas Criticas en Educacion . Barcelona: Paidós Educador, 1994
  • (with A Bekenn, T Ellis and D Whitt) The Youth Review . Aldershot: Gower, 1988
  • (with A Bekenn, T Ellis and D Whitt) The Social Condition of Young People in Wolverhampton in 1984 . Wolverhampton: Wolverhampton Borough Council, 1985.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Taylor, L. & Taylor, I. (eds) (1972) Politics and Deviance, Harmondsworth: Penguin pg.213

[edit] External links

 This biography of a United Kingdom academic is a stub. You can help by expanding it.