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D-Index
56
Citations
17097
World Ranking
1857
National Ranking
330

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Nick Crossley is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and specializes primarily in the social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including sociology and political science, music, urban studies, statistical and nonlinear physics, and social psychology.

Their work covers several main topics of study: social and cultural dynamics, cultural industries and urban development, music history and culture, management and organizational studies, complex network analysis techniques, social capital and networks, and mental health treatment and access.

Crossley has authored multiple papers, some of the recent ones being:

  • "A Dependent Structure of Interdependence: Structure and Agency in Relational Perspective" (2021, Sociology)
  • "Doing it with others: The social dynamics of Do-It-Yourself musicking" (2023, DIY Alternative Cultures & Society)
  • "Music Worlds and Event Networks: An Exposition" (2023, Cultural Sociology)
  • "Engagement with services in Black African and Caribbean people with psychosis: The role of social networks, illness perceptions, internalized stigma, and perceived discrimination" (2022, British Journal of Clinical Psychology)
  • "Relations-In-Process: In Honour of François Depelteau" (2020, Digithum)

Several academic venues feature Crossley's publications frequently, including:

  • Cultural Sociology
  • The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
  • Sociology
  • DIY Alternative Cultures & Society
  • British Journal of Clinical Psychology

Collaborations have been made with various researchers, especially with Amy Degnan, Katherine Berry, Dawn Edge, Matthew Vaughan, and Tuğba Öztürk.

Nick Crossley's contributions have been recognized with at least one award: Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The Social Body: Habit, Identity and Desire

    Nick Crossley

  • Making Sense of Social Movements

    Nick Crossley

  • Intersubjectivity : the fabric of social becoming

    Nick Crossley

  • Merleau-Ponty, the Elusive Body and Carnal Sociology

    Nick Crossley

  • Towards Relational Sociology

    Nick Crossley

  • The phenomenological habitus and its construction

    Nick Crossley

  • Making Sense of Social Movements

    Carla M. Eastis;Nick Crossley

  • From Reproduction to Transformation Social Movement Fields and the Radical Habitus

    Nick Crossley

  • After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere

    Nick Crossley;John Michael Roberts

  • Contesting Psychiatry: Social Movements in Mental Health

    Nick Crossley

  • Worlds, Fields and Networks: Becker, Bourdieu and the Structures of Social Relations

    Wendy Bottero;Nick Crossley

  • The Circuit Trainer’s Habitus: Reflexive Body Techniques and the Sociality of the Workout:

    Nick Crossley

  • Reflexive embodiment in contemporary society: The body in late modern society

    N. Crossley

  • Social Network Analysis for Ego-Nets Social Network Analysis for Actor-Centred Networks

    Nick Crossley;Elisa Bellotti;Gemma Edwards;Martin G Everett

  • In the Gym: Motives, Meaning and Moral Careers

    Nick Crossley

  • Mapping Reflexive Body Techniques: On Body Modification and Maintenance

    Nick Crossley

  • Key concepts in critical social theory

    Nick Crossley

  • Body-Subject/Body-Power: Agency, Inscription and Control in Foucault and Merleau-Ponty:

    Nick Crossley

  • Body Techniques, Agency and Intercorporeality: on Goffman's Relations in Public

    Nick Crossley

  • Researching embodiment by way of ‘body techniques’

    Nick Crossley

  • Social Network Analysis for Ego-Nets

    Nick Crossley;Elisa Bellotti;Gemma Edwards;Martin G. Everett

Frequent Co-Authors

Colette Fagan
Colette Fagan University of Manchester
Mike Savage
Mike Savage London School of Economics and Political Science
Katherine Berry
Katherine Berry University of Manchester
Paul M. O'Neill
Paul M. O'Neill University of Liverpool
Simon J. Williams
Simon J. Williams University of Warwick
John Scott
John Scott Queensland University of Technology
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt

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