About

Welcome to Theory Types!

Theorytypes.wordpress.com is an academic blog maintained by Jonathan G Heaney, a PhD candidate in social science at the National University of Ireland, Galway.  It is hoped that this site will be a forum of and resource for theory-orientated researchers and academics from across the social science disciplines .  I intend to link this blog to other theory-type blogs on the web and to post articles, opinions, reviews and everything else that relates to theory, broadly defined.  My own interests at present are in social (and sociological) theory and the sociology of emotions.  My thesis engages with the work of Norbert Elias, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Zygmunt Bauman and a wide variety of emotions theorists such as Jonathan H Turner, Jack Barbalet and Tom Scheff, to name a few.  However, I am a theory head!  I am interested almost all aspects of theory, social, political and other, from the contemporary work of Niklas Luhmann and Social Network theory to the continued relevance of the classics like Weber, Marx, Simmel and Mannheim.  In addition to my interest in emotions I am interested in the concept of power.  As well as being a member of the ESA emotions group, I am attached to the IPSA research group on power, and the power and conflict research cluster within the school of political science & sociology, NUI Galway.  I also lecture on the final year social theory course in NUIG, particularly on Elias, Bourdieu and Foucault.

This blog is intended to be by theory types for theory types.  As it develops, I hope others will add material, ideas, resources, and above all discussion.  Feel free to join in!

My pages and contact details are:

SSRC, NUI Galway

Academia.edu

My current (2011) CV is available here: JonathanGHeaney.CV.Sept.2011..