Elizabeth B. Silva
Elizabeth B. Silva
Elizabeth B. Silva is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University. Her current research foci are on 'cultural capital and social exclusion' (in particular on personal interdependencies of cultural consumption in households) and 'technology and personal lives' (engaging with gender, family practices and the material as everyday concerns). Her work has involved the integration of a variety of research methods and it has been strongly informed by cross-national and cross cultural comparisons. Recent 'methods' related publications include: 'Homologies of social space and elective affinities: researching cultural capital' in Sociology, 2006, 40(6): 1171-1189; 'The judgement of taste and social position in focus group research' Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, 2005, 76/77: 241-253 Milan: Angeli (with David Wright). Peter Redman, Elizabeth B Silva and Sophie Watson (eds) (2005) The Uses of Sociology: Traditions, methods and practices. Milton Keynes: The Open University.
Sociology
CRESC and Open University
United Kingdom
Email: e.b.silva@open.ac.uk
