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Paul Willis (cultural theorist)
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Paul Willis is a leading British cultural theorist.
He was born in Wolverhampton and received his education at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Birmingham. He worked at Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and subsequently at the University of Wolverhampton. He is currently Professor of Social/Cultural Ethnography at Keele University.
He gave a paper at the 9th Symposium of the National Deviancy Conference in January 1972 entitled 'A Motor-Bike Subculture'.[1]
- 'The Ethnographic Imagination' (Cambridge: Polity, 2000)
- 'Profane Culture' (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978)
- 'Learning to Labour' (Aldershot: Gower, 1977)
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- ^ Taylor, L. & Taylor, I. (eds) (1972) Politics and Deviance, Harmondsworth: Penguin pg.213