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  • - Age Generation and Social Change
     
    825,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Stockwin J a a
    1.689,95 kr.

    Glossary of Terms - Preface - Dynamic and Immobilist Aspects of Japanese Politics; J.A.A.Stockwin - Parties, Politicians and the Political System; J.A.A.Stockwin - Bureaucracy and Political Change; A.Rix - Policy Implications of Administrative Reform; D.It - Japanese Interest Group Behaviour: An Institutional Approach; A.George - The Economy and the Political System; J.Horne - Politics and the Japanese Financial System; J.Horne - Making Policy on Health and Welfare; M.Collick - Japan and the United States: Dependent Ally or Equal Partner?; A.George - Exports as Foreign Policy; A.Rix - Conclusions; J.A.A.Stockwin - Index

  • - Power and the Organization of Sexuality
     
    610,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Divisions and Change
     
    1.102,95 kr.

    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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    617,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Power and Resistance
     
    605,95 kr.

    Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organised through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct the person, the senses and the self, this book stands at the interface of the sociologies of culture and consumption.

  • - Divisions and Change
     
    1.683,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Power and Resistance
    af Sasha Roseneil
    711,95 kr.

    Practising Identities is a collection of papers about how identities - gender, bodily, racial, ethnic and national - are practised in the contemporary world.

  • - The Social Relations of Expertise
     
    1.305,95 kr.

    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.

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    1.305,95 kr.

    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.

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    572,95 kr.

    This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. The different approaches to researching the body examined through these contributions include autobiography, case-studies, interviews and participant observation.

  • - Migration, Environment and Globalization
    af Mairtin Mac an Ghaill, Mary J. Hickman & A. Brah
    1.681,95 kr.

    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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    1.096,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Restructuring and Recession
     
    1.672,95 kr.

  • - Divisions and Change
     
    620,95 kr.

    Women and Working Lives explores the interconnections between women's domestic lives and their paid employment, and shows how male definitions of work need to be reformulated.

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    1.177,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Migration, Environment and Globalization
     
    1.673,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Divisions and Change
     
    620,95 kr.

    This is an edited collection of chapters detailing research on modern family and household living arrangements, mainly in Great Britain but also with some reference to Germany.

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    770,95 kr.

    This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. The different approaches to researching the body examined through these contributions include autobiography, case-studies, interviews and participant observation.

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    1.059,95 kr.

    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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    825,95 kr.

    There has been a notable upsurge of interest in the body, both in terms of empirical and theoretical study and debate. Authors consider the body as a site of agency, resistance and compromise and reflect upon the reluctance of sociology to engage with the body and notions of embodiment.

  • - Policy, Institutions and Work
     
    520,95 kr.

    There has been a notable upsurge of interest in the body, in terms of both empirical and theoretical study and debate. Contributors consider the body as a site of agency, resistance and compromise and reflect upon the reluctance of sociology to engage with the body and notions of embodiment.

  • - Policy, Institutions and Work
     
    1.186,95 kr.

    There has been a notable upsurge of interest in the body, in terms of both empirical and theoretical study and debate. Contributors consider the body as a site of agency, resistance and compromise and reflect upon the reluctance of sociology to engage with the body and notions of embodiment.

  • - Methodologies, Racism, Citizenship and the Environment
     
    1.470,95 kr.

    This volume draws together an impressive series of papers that explore enduring and new problems in the construction and analysis of British social policy.

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    499,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Restructuring and Recession
     
    1.681,95 kr.

    List of Tables and Figures - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Restructuring and Recession; K.Purcell and S.Wood - Contract Work in the Recession; R.Fevre - Re-dividing Labour: Factory Politics and Work Reorganisation; B.Jones and M.Rose - Recruitment as a Means of Control; M.Maguire - Multinational Companies and Women's Labour; R.Pearson - Work, Home and the Restructuring of Jobs; H.Bradley - Word Processing and the Secretarial Labour Process; J.Webster - New Technology and the Service Class; J.Child - Rationalisation, Technical Change and Employee Relations; W.Littek - Women and Technology: Opportunity is not Enough; C.Cockburn - Gender, Exploitation and Consent amongst Sheltered Housing Wardens; S.Cunnison - Bibliography - Index

  • - New Research Perspectives
    af Lydia Morris, South Bank University, London) Lyon & mfl.
    1.675,95 - 1.683,95 kr.

    Topics covered include the changing emotional geography of workplace and home, the gendering of aspects of employment and organisation, marital finance and gendered inheritance, the management of food and domestic labour, researching the emotions, and understanding intimate violence.

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    1.101,95 kr.

    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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    1.101,95 kr.

    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.