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Item A Research Report on the 2005 Religious Observance Guidelines in Scotland(Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 2012-08-01) Gilfillan, Paul; Aitken, E.; Phipps, A.This article gives a brief overview of the place of religious observance RO) within Scotland's non-denominational state school sector, and the background to recent changes in educational thinking and government policy which led to new guidelines being introduced in 2005. The article reports on a study conducted in 2008 into the reception of the new RO guidelines and their implementation within three primary schools and one secondary school in a local authority area, together with empirical data from each of the four case studies and interview extracts from head teachers, RO practitioners and pupils. The article then highlights some problems arising from the new guidelines and suggests some areas for future empirical research.Item A Sociological Phenomenology of Christian Redemption(Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd., 2014) Gilfillan, PaulItem An Ethnographic Deconstruction of Sex and Relationships Education in Scotland(Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2009) Gilfillan, PaulThis chapter begins by presenting ethnographic data on the behaviours of Scottish working class teenagers and proceeds to an analysis of discursive behaviour observed surrounding the area of sexual relationships. This paper not only argues that sexual and / or intimate relationships are tied to wider social and cultural and economic realities, but are to be privileged as uniquely disclosive of the nature and power of social and cultural realities in the lives of teenagers. On this basis, the article considers some of the challenges faced by Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) in Scotland today when adolescent / teenage behaviours are understood as social, cultural and class practices. The article notes the increasing challenges faced by any SRE curriculum today and concludes SRE as currently configured by the State is unlikely to recognize the dominant forces shaping young peoples' sexual relationships as this would require a 'deconstructing' reflexivity towards SRE once recognised itself as a social and class practice by its professional practitioners.Item Art therapy and poverty: Examining practitioners’ experiences of working with children and young people in areas of multiple deprivation in West Central Scotland(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-21) Gilfillan, Paul; Hills de Zárate, Margaret; Watts, PatriciaPoverty can have a detrimental impact on the emotional well-being, educational attainment and future life chances of children and young people (CYP). It is known that poverty can also create several barriers to CYP and families accessing services. Furthermore, structural factors such as spending cuts on public services mean that professionals working with people affected by poverty have to ‘do more with less’. Practitioners could fail to acknowledge the impact of poverty if they have little cultural experience of poverty through their professional discourses and training. This could create a social distance between service-users and practitioners, as well as a misalignment of priorities, which could lead to inappropriate interventions being offered and opportunities missed to tackle the impact of poverty. This study gathered the views of 10 Art Therapists working in areas of multiple deprivation as determined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) in West Central Scotland. The aim was to examine practitioner’s perspectives on poverty and what they notice about its exploration by CYP in art therapy sessions. The study also considered if art therapists working in areas of multiple deprivation adapted their practice to create a contextualised and flexible service that would address the practical as well as the emotional impact of poverty. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and analysed using thematic analysis. Whilst most participants showed an awareness of the difficulties faced by CYP affected by poverty, there was evidence that there were numerous cultural barriers meaning the indicators of poverty could be missed by some practitioners. Despite this, participants were clear on the various ways poverty is explored in sessions by CYP. Some art therapists adapted their practice on occasions to address the practical impact of poverty. However, several art therapists faced structural barriers to being able to tackle poverty. Therefore, the data suggests that cultural and structural barriers made it difficult for practitioners working in areas of multiple deprivation to consistently adapt their practice to create a contextualised and flexible service that fully addresses the emotional and the practical impact of poverty.Item Catholics and the 2014 referendum(Open House, 2015-08) Gilfillan, PaulAs a sociologist interested in the question whether Scottish Catholics have a preferential constitutional option for their nation, I undertook some empirical research before the 2014 Referendum among older working-class Catholics in a Fife parish within the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh to gain some answers to a series of questions. Article appeared first in Open HouseItem David Lloyd Dusenbury, I Judge No One: A Political Life of Jesus(Edinburgh University Press, 2023-11) Gilfillan, PaulItem Ewan Gibbs, Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland [Book Review](Edinburgh University Press, 2021-11) Gilfillan, PaulItem Fundamental Ontology Versus Esse est percipi: Theorizing (Working Class) Being and Liberation(2009) Gilfillan, PaulThis article is of particular relevance to ethnographers and theorists of the working class and the concern to articulate a sociology of liberation. The article addresses the ontology of class and the central Western problematic of historicising reason, being and liberation/redemption first signalled in the twelfth century. From the standpoint of the author's ethnographic engagement with working class dasein in Scotland, the article emerges from an analysis of an exchange between two authors engaged in very different strategies of representing and understanding the reality of class. The article seeks to uncover some of the issues faced by social theorists who engage with the long dure task of modelling an ethnography of being and giving a sociological account of a radically emancipatory exercise of situated freedom from within class-based civilisation and societies.Item Kelsey Jackson Williams, The First Scottish Enlightenment: Rebels, Priests, and History [Book Review](Edinburgh University Press, 2021-05) Gilfillan, PaulItem Linden Bicket, George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination [Book Review](Edinburgh University Press, 2019-10-31) Gilfillan, PaulItem Living Inferiority(Oxford University Press, 2004) Gilfillan, PaulThis chapter looks at the impacts upon health for inhabitants of once heavily industrialised areas. Using ethnographic material and concepts borrowed from continental phenomenolgy, this chapter looks into the effects of deindustrialisation upon health and wellbeing in northern England during the nineteen-eighties and nineteen-nineties.Item Nation and culture in the renewal of Scottish Catholicism(Open House, 2015-09) Gilfillan, PaulThis is the second of two articles on Catholics and the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence by a senior lecturer in sociology. Here he considers the alignment of younger Catholics with the independence movement. Article appeared first in Open HouseItem A Public Sociology for Post-industrial Fife(Bristol University Press, 2020-09-14) Gilfillan, Paul; Scandrett, EurigItem Religion, generation & class in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum(Fondazione Università Popolare di Torino, 2015) Gilfillan, PaulItem Ruth Davidson's Conservatives: The Scottish Tory Party 2011–19, edited by David Torrance(Edinburgh University Press, 2023-05) Gilfillan, PaulItem Scotland: The Long-Delayed Rise of a Conservative Nationalism?(European Conservative Nonprofit Ltd., 2024-02-04) Gilfillan, PaulItem Scotland: The Strange Case of the Missing Nationalism(European Conservative Nonprofit Ltd., 2024-02-03) Gilfillan, PaulItem Scottish Nationalism and a New Generation's Answer to the question of Being-in-the-World(2011-01) Gilfillan, PaulThis article outlines the contours of an argument which will be of interest to those involved in 'community education' in contemporary Scotland; an argument which claims that, against the characterisation of postmodernism as an incredulity towards foundationalist projects, the postmodern condition offers an opportunity to articulate a systematic integralism in Scotland today. As an ethnographer my argument is that, among a social class recently empowered by literacy and affluence, the task it faces is re-thinking human being outwith the 'mirror of production' and re-thinking localities, governance, questions of meaning and transcendence, and a host of other relationships, outwith the paradigm of industrialisation and modernisation.