Professor Robert Holton
Fellow Emeritus, Sociology
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Radical Uncertainty in, editor(s)Simon Lindgren , Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2023, pp56 - 66, [R. Holton]
R.J. Holton and R. Boyd, "Where Are the People? What Are they Doing? Why Are they Doing It? (Mindell)'. Situating Artificial Intelligence Within a Socio-technical, Journal of Sociology, 57, (2), 2021, p179 - 195
Cosmopolitan Borders, Strangeness and Inter-Cultural Encounters in, editor(s)Barrie Axford, Alistair Brisborne, Sandra Halperin, C. Luders , Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter, London, Routledge, 2020, pp139 - 152, [Robert Holton]
Capitalism and Cosmopolitanism in, editor(s)V. Cichelli and S. Mesure , Cosmopolitanism in Hard Times, Leiden, Brill, 2020, pp383 - 394, [Robert Holton]
R.Boyd and R.J. Holton, Technology, Innovation, Employment and Power. Does Robotics and Artificial Intelligence really mean Social Transformation, Journal of Sociology, 54, (3), 2018, p331 - 345
Global Inequality in, editor(s)Bryan S Turner and Robert J Holton , Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Stusies, Routledge, 2016, pp60 - 77, [Robert J Holton]
Theories of Globalization: Issues and Origins in, editor(s)Bryan S Turner and Robert J Holton , Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies, Routledge, 2016, pp3 - 23, [Bryan S Turner and Robert J Holton]
Some social consequences of the global Financial crisis in, editor(s)Anthony Elliott and Eric Hsu , The Consequences of Global Disasters, Abingdon, UK, Routledge, 2016, pp223 - 233, [Robert Holton]
Globalization and Its Possible Futures in, editor(s)Bryan S Turner and Robert J Holton , Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies, Routledge, 2016, pp589 - 608, [Bryan Turner and Robert Holton]
Robert J Holton, Global Inequalities: Challenges and Opportunities, Development: What Now?, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, October 2014, edited by C.Talesco, F.Ng, D. Ip , Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2016, pp14 - 35
Globalization's Cultural Consequences Revisited in, editor(s)Roland Robertson and Didem Buhari-Gulmez , Global Culture: Consciousness and Connectivity, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2016, pp55 - 74, [Robert J Holton]
Robert J Holton, Global Inequalities, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, v - 204pp
Global Social Divisions in, editor(s)Geoff Payne , Social Divisions, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp375 - 391, [Robert Holton]
Robert J. Holton, Global Finance, Abingdon UK, Routledge, 2012, vi - 118pp
Some Comments on Cosmopolitanism and Europe in, editor(s)Roland Robertson and Anne Sophie Krossa , European Cosmopolitanism in Question, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp25 - 43, [Robert Holton]
Robert J Holton, Globalization and the Nation State, Second Revised Edition, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 1 - 267pp
'Globalization and Cricket' in, editor(s)Chris Rumford and Stepehn Wagg , Cricket and Globalization, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars, 2010, pp18 - 40, [Robert Holton]
'Longevity in a Global World' in, editor(s)Isidro Lopez-Aparicio , The Fragility Gap, Granada, Spain, Universidad de Granada, 2009, pp25 - 30, [Robert Holton]
Network Theories and Network Types in, editor(s)J. Barkhoff and H. Eberhart , Networking Across Borders and Frontiers, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2009, pp19 - 31, [Robert J Holton]
Robert J Holton, Cosmopolitanisms: New Thinking and New Directions, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 1 - 252pp
Talcott Parsons in, editor(s)R Stones , Key Sociological Thinkers, Basingstoke, Palgrave macmillan, 2008, pp136 - 148, [Robert Holton]
Robert J Holton, Global Networks, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 1 - 228pp
What do Australians think about Globalisation? in, editor(s)D, Denemark, G. Meagher, S. Wilson, M. Western, T. Phillips , Australian Social Attitudes: 2, Sydney NSW, University of new South Wales Press, 2007, pp107 - 124, [T. Phillips and R. Holton]
'From the particular to the global:some empirical, epistemological and methodological aspectsof microhistory with regard to a womens' rights network in, editor(s)Karen Fricker and Ronit Lentin , Performing Global Networks, Cambridge , Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, pp8 - 24, [Sandra Holton and Robert Holton]
Universalism, R. Robertson and J-A. Scholte, Encyclopaedia of Globalization, 4, London, Routledge, 2006, pp1223 - 1226, [Robert Holton]
Power: A Note on Talcott Parsons and the Brown University Conversations in, editor(s)Laurence S. Moss and Andrew Savchenko , Talcott Parsons: Economic Sociologist of the 2oth century , Oxford, Blackwell, 2006, pp59 - 63, [Robert Holton]
Networks, R. Robertson and J-A. Scholte, Encyclopaedia of Globalization, 3, London, Routledge, 2006, pp867 - 872, [Robert Holton]
Capitalism, R. Robertson and J-A. Scholte, Encyclopaedia of Globalization, 1, London, Routledge, 2006, pp121 - 126, [Robert Holton]
Globalization in, editor(s)Austin Harrington , Modern Social Theory: An introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp292 - 312, [Robert Holton]
Robert Holton, Network discourses: proliferation, critique, and synthesis, Global Networks, 5, (2), 2005, p209 - 215
Robert Holton, Making Globalization, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave MacMillan, 2005, 207pp
Robert Holton, Cosmopolitanism or Cosmopolitanisms? The Universal Races Congress of 1911, Global Networks, 2, (2), 2002, p153 - 170
Talcott Parsons: Conservative Apologist or irreplaceable Icon in, editor(s)George Ritzer and Barry Smart , Handbook of Social Theory, London, Sage Publications, 2001, pp152 - 162, [Robert Holton]
Robert Holton and Tim Phillips, Popular Attitudes to Globalisation, Policy, Organization, and Society, 20, (2), 2001, p5 - 21
Multicultural citizenship: the politics and poetics of public space in, editor(s)Engin Isin , Democracy, Citizenship and the global city, London, Routledge, 2000, pp189 - 202, [Robert Holton]
Robert Holton, Kentler kapitalizm ve Uygarlik, Ankara, Imge Kitabevi, 1999, 205pp
'Globalization and Australian Identities' in, editor(s)David Day , Australian Identities, Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1998, pp198 - 211, [Robert Holton]
Robert Holton, Globalization and the Nation-State, Basingstoke, UK, MacMillan, 1998
Talcott Parsons in, editor(s)Rob Stones , Key Sociological Thinkers, Basingstoke, MacMillan, 1998, [Robert Holton]
Robert Holton, Economia E Sociedade, Lisbon, Instituto Piaget, 1997, 372pp
Robert Holton, 'Four Myths about Globalization', Flinders Journal of History and Politics, 19, 1997, p141 - 196
Robert Holton, 'Rational Choice Theory in Sociology, Critical Review, 9, (4), 1995, p519 - 537
Robert Holton, Globalization and Multiculturalism, Australian and New Zealnd Journal of Sociology, 30, (3), 1994, p253 - 258
Robert Holton and Bryan Turner, 'Debate and Pseudo-debate in Class Analysis: Some Unpromising Aspects of Goldthorpe and Marshall's Defence', Sociology, 28, (3), 1994, p819 - 824
Robert Holton, Economy and Society, London, Routledge, 1992, 289pp
Robert Holton, 'Talcott Parsons and the Integration of Economic and Social Theory, Sociological Inquiry, 61, (1), 1991, p101 - 114