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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSeen as a corrective to the continuing preoccupations of the sociology of social movements with progressive organisations and movements, this paper offers an analysis of the defensive crime prevention initiatives...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBiodiversity might be in decline, but the flora and fauna of academic publishing on the environment is alive and well. The 'environmental problematic' has found its way into disciplinary nooks and crannies like some...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSome books are fertile: they implant ideas with an independent growth potential. This is one such study, though its generative power is reserved for its last sections. Bash's book opens familiarly enough, as another...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBiodiversity might be in decline, but the flora and fauna of academic publishing on the environment is alive and well. The 'environmental problematic' has found its way into disciplinary nooks and crannies like some...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe defence of abortion from individualistic rights-based arguments understates social context and ostracises communities that draw on the language of collective responsibilities. In trying to understand restrictive...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSaunders' analysis of social mobility in the UK is based on the assumption that mobility is equal to meritocracy. Meritocracy, which refers to the equality of opportunity, does not guarantee equal outcomes. Saunders,...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe meaning and current direction of cultural studies has been the subject of intense debate within the academy. Amongst the concerned there is a growing feeling that it has lost its way and become detached from its...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSaunders' analysis of the social mobility in the UK is flawed because of problems in his model of social mobility. First, the model represents conditions of 'perfect meritocracy,' where equality of opportunity leads to...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIs the nation-state - or, as Smith prefers it, the 'national state', to avoid any suggestion of an absolute congruence between state and nation - in terminal decline? Is nationalism obsolete? Are they being replaced by...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedContrary to Pahl's criticism, Goldthorpe and Marshall's class analysis programme is a theoretical one. A re-formulation of their position shows how it sets key elements in structured relationships with each other....
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBiodiversity might be in decline, but the flora and fauna of academic publishing on the environment is alive and well. The 'environmental problematic' has found its way into disciplinary nooks and crannies like some...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis book is about living with uncertainty in postmodern society. It, however, brings not a sense of pessimism, but a well-argued message of hope and encouragement. Weeks begins by offering an in-depth analysis of the...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNationalism has become increasingly an area of study in its own right, and this book, part of the extensive legacy of Ernest Gellner in this field, will be a welcome addition and one that students will find helpful and...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBiodiversity might be in decline, but the flora and fauna of academic publishing on the environment is alive and well. The 'environmental problematic' has found its way into disciplinary nooks and crannies like some...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIf I had printed out a draft of a book which is as good as Pahl's After Success - which I should have been proud to do - I like to think I would have spent another six months on it making it better. A reviewer is...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRobert Murphy's criticism of the sociology and history of scientific knowledge (SSK) suggests that SSK is theory dope sociology. Using the 'tu quoque' argument, he claims that people who practice SSK, whom he calls...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThese two volumes between them include 30 papers that were presented at two gatherings: a conference on 'Images of Aging' held at Trent University, Canada, in May 1992, and an international symposium on 'Gender and...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBiodiversity might be in decline, but the flora and fauna of academic publishing on the environment is alive and well. The 'environmental problematic' has found its way into disciplinary nooks and crannies like some...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Goldthorpe class schema has been criticised as being unsuitable for assessing women's class positions. This paper tests the cross-sex validity of the employee classes within the schema by examining their within-sex...
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From:Sociology (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBiodiversity might be in decline, but the flora and fauna of academic publishing on the environment is alive and well. The 'environmental problematic' has found its way into disciplinary nooks and crannies like some...