Professor Jack Barbalet

Professor Jack Barbalet

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• Biography
• Areas of expertise
• Awards / Honours
• Selected publications

Biography

Professorial Fellow, Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney from end of 2009.

Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Sydney, from March 2008-2009.

Previously Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the University of Leicester (1999-2008).

Earlier appointments in sociology at the Australian National University, in politics at the University of Adelaide and in economics at the University of Papua New Guinea.

Qualifications

BA (Flinders); BA Hons (Adelaide); PhD (Adelaide)

Areas of Expertise

Economics; Emotions; Theory.

Awards / Honours

Scholar-in-Residence at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany, 2007.

Research Associate with SociNova, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, involved with an international and inter-disciplinary project on emotions in economic decision making (continuing).

Selected Publications

Books
Weber, Passion and Profits: ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Emotion, Social Theory, and Social Structure: A Macrosociological Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Emotions and Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing (Sociological Review Monograph Series), 2002.

Book Chapters
‘Chinese Religion and Chinese Capitalism’. Religion and the State, edited by Bryan Turner, Adam Possamai and Jack Barbalet (under review with Cambridge University Press)

‘Consciousness, Emotions, and Science’. Pp. 39-71 in Theorizing Emotions: Sociological Explorations and Applications, edited by Debra Hopkins, Jochen Kleres, Helena Flam and Helmut Kuzmics. Frankfurt/New York: Camus Verlag, 2009.

‘The Emotional Basis and Consequences of Trust’. Emotions in Motion (in Swedish), edited by Åsa Wettergren, Bengt Starrin and Gerd Lindgren. Copenhagen: Liber, 2008.

‘Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism’. New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, 3rd edition, edited by Bryan Turner. London: Blackwell, 2008.

‘The Moon before the Dawn: a Seventeenth-century Precursor of Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments’. Pp. 84-105 in New Perspectives on Adam Smith’s ‘The Theory of Moral Sentiments’, edited by Ann Firth, Geoff Cockfield and John Laurent. London: Edward Elgar, 2007.

‘Classical Pragmatism, Classical Sociology: William James, Religion and Emotion’. Pp. 17-45 in Pragmatism and European Social Theory, edited by Patrick Baert and Bryan Turner. Oxford: The Bardwell Press, 2007.

‘Emotions in Politics: From the Ballot to Suicide Terrorism’. Pp. 31-55 in Emotion, Politics and Society, edited by Simon Clarke, Paul Hoggett and Simon Thompson. London: Palgrave, 2006.

Refereed Journal Articles
‘Citizenship in Max Weber’. Journal of Classical Sociology. 2010. [forthcoming].

‘Emotions beyond Regulation: Backgrounded Emotions in Science and Trust’. Emotion Review. 2010 [forthcoming].

‘Action Theoretic Foundations of Economic Sociology’. Wirtschaftssoziologie. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. 2009. Sonderheft 49: 143-57.

‘A Characterization of Trust, and its Consequences’. Theory and Society. 2009. 38(4): 367.82

‘Disinterestedness and Self Formation: Principles of Action in William Hazlitt’. European Journal of Social Theory. 2009. 12(2): 195-211.

‘Pragmatism and Economics: William James’ Contribution’. Cambridge Journal of Economics. 2008. 32(5): 797-810.

‘Max Weber and Judaism: An Insight into the Protestant Ethic Methodology’. Max Weber Studies. 2006. 6 (1): 51-67.

‘Weeping and Transformations of Self’. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 2005. 35 (2): 125-141.

‘Hypothesis, Faith, and Commitment: William James’ Critique of Science’. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 2004. 34 (3): 213-30.

‘Secret Voting and Political Emotions’. Mobilization: An International Journal. 2002. 7(2): 129-40.

‘Moral Indignation, Class Inequality and Justice: An Exploration and Revision of Ranulf’. Theoretical Criminology. 2002. 6(3): 279-97.