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Relating Intimacies - Power And Resistance

by Julie Seymour

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 Relating Intimacies contains papers presented at the 1997 British Sociological Association Conference which discuss contemporary research and theorizing with regard to intimate relationships.
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Sexual Cultures - Communities, Values And Intimacy

by Jeffrey Weeks

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 Based on the 1994 British Sociological Association conference on "Sexualities in Social Context", this text aims to demonstrate how the social shapes the sexual and how the sexual in turn becomes a focal point for personal identity, anxiety value debates and political action.
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Experience Of Unemployment

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 Increasingly high unemployment has brought with it a multitude of consequences affecting those without jobs and, beyond them, their families, friends and communities.
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Transforming Politics - Power And Resistance

by S. Roseneil

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 This volume examines the transformation of politics and social movements at various levels. The impact of social movements on the state is also considered, with a particular focus upon the ways in which the state is able to incorporate apparently radical political agendas.
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Sociology In Action - Applications And Opportunities For The 1990s

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 In the last decade of this century, sociology has grown into a major contributor to public debate and social policy.
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Relating Intimacies - Power And Resistance

by Julie Seymour

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 Relating Intimacies contains papers presented at the 1997 British Sociological Association Conference which discuss contemporary research and theorizing with regard to intimate relationships.
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Practising Identities - Power And Resistance

by Sasha Roseneil

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 This is a collection of papers about how identities gender, bodily, racial, ethnic and national are practised in the contemporary world. Utilizing empirical studies and social and cultural theory about identity, a contribution is made to debates about identity, reflexivity, and cultural difference.
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Global Futures - Migration, Environment And Globalization

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 Providing critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this book examines, explores, and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization.
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Gender Relations In Public And Private - New Research Perspectives

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 This is a collection of papers from the 1993 BSA "Research Imaginations" conference, which explore the inter-penetration of the public and private spheres. The book comprises two sections, one dealing with aspects of employment and finance, and the other with domesticity and intimacy.
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Sex, Sensibility And The Gendered Body

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 The study of sexuality is moving from margin to centre stage in sociology, as the 1994 British Sociological Association annual conference on 'Sexualities in Social Context' demonstrated.
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Consumption And Class - Divisions And Change

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 An edited collection exploring divisions and changes within and between the spheres of consumption and production. Peter Saunders' work provides the initial stimulus for many of the papers, but all go beyond his narrow conception of a sociology of consumption and his liberal analysis of patterns of social inequality.
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Gender, Power And Sexuality

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 Gender, Power and Sexuality is a collection of original and exciting articles by well-known feminists which makes a major contribution to our understanding of the ways in which men exercise control over girls and women in their daily lives, in the home, at school, at work and in the courts. Women are seen to resent and challenge male power, but, the institutionalisation of male power is shown to mitigate against women taking control over their own lives.
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Interpreting The Past, Understanding The Present

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 The British Sociological Association held a conference on the theme "Sociology and History". In 1964, E.H. Carr had called for an open frontier between the disciplines. This book examines the traffic across this frontier and in particular, what might be called the sociological uses of history.
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Deciphering Science And Technology - The Social Relations Of Expertise

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 As science and technology have pervaded modern life to an ever greater degree, social scientists have been led to find questions of the causes and consequences of ''expert'' knowledge arising in places that would have been felt unlikely hitherto. Varcoe, McNeil and Yearley''s book assembles nine exemplary studies by sociologists, each of which explores an aspect of the current scientific-technological ''revolution''. Some popular ideas are challenged. So, too, implicitly, are certain large-scale social scientific theories claiming to have discerned in science and technology an overall meaning.
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Social Construction Of Social Policy - Methodologies, Racism, Citizenship And The Environment

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 This volume draws together an impressive series of papers that explore enduring and new problems in the construction and analysis of British social policy. Critical but accessible, the various chapters cover methodological issues and the nature of competing claims about social policy 'knowledge', racism and health services, citizenship and access to housing and other amenities, and the importance of the environment as an emerging area for social policy debate.
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Nationalisms Old And New

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 Nationalism is a collection of papers from the British Sociological Association conference, Worlds of the Future. Older discourses on national sovereignty and statehood are evaluated in terms of their validity within a world increasingly defined by transnational integration and global economic competition.
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Sexualizing The Social - Power And The Organization Of Sexuality

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 Various aspects of social life - including employment, family life, representations, politics, identities and the workings of the law - are considered, in terms of how sexuality shapes their organization and they shape sexuality.
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Methodological Imaginations

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 This book brings together a collection of essays which look creatively and imaginatively at issues of research methods and methodology in sociology. The diversity of research approaches discussed in this reader should make it an important contribution to research methods teaching for undergraduate and graduate students of sociology.
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Beyond Law And Order - Criminal Justice Policy And Politics Into The 1990s

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 Part of a series which explores contemporary sociological issues, this volume examines criminal justice policy and politics in the UK, looking to their development into the 1990s.
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Fordism And Flexibility - Divisions And Change

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 During the 1980s there were profound changes in the labour process towards the 'flexible worker' and in the labour market towards a 'flexible workforce'. the notion of flexible specialisation associated with the 'new' institutional economics;
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Social Relations And The Life Course - Age Generation And Social Change

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 This collection of essays represents some of the most important recent research into changing patterns of family, household and community life. It brings together some of the leading sociologists in the field to explore how these informal social relationships change over time and the life course.
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Global Futures - Migration, Environment And Globalization

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 Providing critical assessment of the "globalization thesis" through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this text examines and explores the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization.
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Thinking Identities - Ethnicity, Racism And Culture

by Avtar Brah

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 This book brings together research about a diverse range of groups who are rarely analysed together: Welsh, Irish, Jewish, Arab, White, African and Indian. The aim of the book is to critique orthodox explanations in the field, drawing upon the best of 'old' and 'new' theory.
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Constructing Gendered Bodies

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 Interest in sociological study of the body, theoretically and empirically, has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by bringing together exciting and stimulating research which examines the social and cultural processes involved in the construction of gendered bodies and sexual practices.
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