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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedReading this book, I could not decide if the genre of which it is a part is a sign of a secure mode of research or a symptom of an insecure mode searching for epistemological guarantors in self analysis and confession....
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEight of R. W. Witkin's essays are assembled under the book title 'Art and Social Structure'. They start with more general discussions about 'Art and History - The Grand Version', which is a mentioning of art theorists...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn this article we explore alternative meanings and functions of home-directed consumption, in particular those aspects of consumption which have to do with presentation and appearance (fittings, furnishings and decor)....
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDuncombe and Marsden defend their study that was criticized by Ian Craib as reproducing media/cultural stereotypes in their work regarding emotions and intimacy. Duncombe and Marsden cite the study, specifically the...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe antiracist education paradigm, of which David Gillborn is a prominent exponent, has a very parochial history. While it is not limited to British commentators, it is dominated by them. This has much to do with its...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years the work of feminist historians and sociologists such as Lenore Davidoff, Catherine Hall and Anne Witz has led to a growing sensitivity to the historical interconnections between class and gender...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper presents a re-reading of the Foucauldian analysis of professional accounting firms given by Grey in his 'Career as a Project of the Self . . .' (Sociology, 28,2). It argues that Grey's paper provides an...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedResearch on social movements has reached a critical threshold. In academic terms, it has become an established discipline with an elaborated set of analytical frameworks and thus it has exceeded the pioneering years of a...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis book seeks to describe the life histories of a number of adult Deaf people. Harris discusses the way in which hearing constructions of deafness and Deaf constructions of Deafness order social relations between...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe recent attention paid to corporate culture by managerial gurus has revived interest in the relationship between occupation and community, particularly the influence of social organisation upon work experience....
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBertrand Russell once remarked that judgements about war are fundamentally 'the outcome of feeling rather than of thought.' The moral philosopher Richard Norman seeks to transcend such subjectivism by demonstrating the...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRandall Collins' Four Sociological Traditions is an expanded edition of the 1985 Three Sociological Traditions. The main change is an additional chapter 'The Rational/Utilitarian Tradition', hence a fourth 'sociological...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe primary purpose of this paper is to challenge the assumptions that lie behind the Foucauldian concepts of power and surveillance. The argument is made in two stages. The first stage, concentrating on Foucault's...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs the title suggests, the theme of this book is the gendering of the relations of production and appropriation in terms of sexuality and family. Adkins develops a cogent analysis, the aim of which is to take issue with...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe premise taken by Fuller in his review essay where he states the inadequacies of sociological theory stands weak when reviewed in the context that he defined sociological theory in terms only of the abstract and...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe need to rethink the meaning of development has been recognised for some while, and there is a certain familiarity about many of the criticisms of orthodox development thinking which Escobar makes. Not for the first...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHomeworking reappeared on the academic agenda in Britain in the late 1970s, though it had become a campaigning issue some years before. There is now a considerable body of literature covering its history and its...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRandall Collins' Four Sociological Traditions is an expanded edition of the 1985 Three Sociological Traditions. The main change is an additional chapter 'The Rational/Utilitarian Tradition', hence a fourth 'sociological...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt is noted that Weber's original programme for understanding the conduct of individuals cannot be realised because the concept of motive is no longer employed by sociologists. The principal reasons for this loss are...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJohn Stuart Mill was being perfectly consistent and high-powered in praising diversity and homogeneity. For if disagreement is not to get out of hand, regulative rules of the game are absolutely necessary; differently...