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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Power of Labelling: How People are Categorized and Why It Matters
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be part of the mass known as 'The Poor'? What visions are conjured up in our minds when someone is labelled 'Muslim'? What assumptions do we make about their needs, values and politics? How do we react individually and as a society? Who develops the labels, what power do they carry and how do such labels affect how people are treated? This timely book tackles the critical and controversial issue of how people are labelled and categorized, and how their problems are framed and dealt with. Drawing on vast international experience and current theory, the authors examine how labels are constituted and applied by a variety of actors, including development policy makers, practitioners and researchers. The book exposes the intense and complex politics involved in processes of labelling, and highlights how the outcomes of labelling can undermine stated development goals. Importantly, one of the book's principal objectives is to suggest how policy makers and professionals can tackle negative forms of labelling and encourage processes of 'counter-labelling', to enhance poverty reduction and human rights, and to tackle issues of race relations and global security. The Afterword encapsulates these ideas ands provides a good basis for reflection, further debate and action.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Labelling, Power and Accountability: How and Why �Our� Categories Matter * Labels, Welfare Regimes and Intermediation: Contesting Formal Power * Labelling People for Aid * The Politics of Representing �the Poor� * Disjunctures in Labelling Refugees and Oustees * When Labels Stigmatize: Encounters with �Street Children� and �Restavecs� in Haiti * Poverty as a Spectator Sport * �Muslim Women� and �Moderate Muslims�: British Policy and the Strengthening of Religious Absolutist Control over Gender Development * Black Umbrellas: Labelling and Articulating Development in the Indonesian Mass Media * Labelling �Works�: The Language and Politics of Caste and Tribe in India * Exploring the Intersection of Racial Labels, Rainbow Citizenship and Citizens� Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa * Afterword: Changing Practice * Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Someone To Lend a Helping Hand: Women Growing Old
Book SynopsisBy providing descriptions of the experiences of thirty rural Minnesota women, often in their own words, this timely and topical book examines the expectations, beliefs and values of the women as they grow old in rural America. A lifecourse perspective fosters a better understanding of the aging process in terms of an individual's life experiences within the context of a cultural environment. To show how various elements shaped the women's lives in later years, and to give the fullest possible descriptions, the study combines both qualitative and quantitative research of the rural elderly in Minnesota. Through their stories, the women stress the cultural, familial and personal issues that continue to be important to them as they age. They explore the elements of continuity, as well as those of change, as a part of the lifecourse. Also detailed are their insights and experiences concerning interactions with different formal and informal support networks, as well as the more general topics. Table of Contents1. Formal and Informal Systems of Support: A Comparison of the United States and Denmark 2. Interpreting a Life 3. Looking to the Future 4. A Woman's Story 5. Patterns of Meaning: What Rural Lives Are Made Of 6. Someone to Lend a Helping Hand : Systems of Exchange and Support
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Cambridge University Press Culture in Australia
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Cambridge University Press The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability
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Cambridge University Press The Egalitarians Human and Chimpanzee
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Cambridge University Press Roots of Civic Identity
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Cambridge University Press Dynamic Functionalism
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Cambridge University Press Algebraic Models Social Networks 7 Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series Number 7
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Cambridge University Press Elite Politics in Rural India Political Stratification and Political Alliances in Western Maharashtra 9 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press Avenues to Adulthood The Origins of the High School and Social Mobility in an American Suburb Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History
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Cambridge University Press Dressing Constitutionally Hierarchy Sexuality And Democracy From Our Hairstyles To Our Shoes
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Cambridge University Press Class and Social Stratification in PostRevolution China
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Cambridge University Press The Birth of the Propaganda State
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Cambridge University Press Anthropological Studies of Religion
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Cambridge University Press The Common Writer Life in NineteenthCentury Grub Street
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Cambridge University Press Algebraic Models for Social Networks 7 Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series Number 7
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Cambridge University Press Charisma and Control in Rajneeshpuram
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Cambridge University Press Age Class Politics and the Welfare State
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Cambridge University Press The Liberation Movement in Russia 19001905 10 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press Classes Estates and Order in EarlyModern Brittany
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Cambridge University Press Challenging Diversity
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Cambridge University Press Decoding Homes and Houses
Book SynopsisDecoding Homes and Houses uses a computer-based method of analysis to explore the relation between the design and layout of traditional, vernacular, speculative and architect-designed houses and people's evolving tastes, lifestyles, habits and domestic routines.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. An introduction to the study of houses; 2. Tradition and change in the English house; 3. Ideas are in things, with Hillier and Graham; 4. Two domestic 'space codes' compared, with Hillier; 5. Shaping the taste of middle England; 6. Configuration and society in the English country house; 7. Visibility and permeability in the Rietveld Schroder house, with Rosenberg; 8. The anatomy of privacy in architects' London houses; 9. 'Deconstructing' architects' houses; 10. Decoding dwellings: the way ahead.
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Cambridge University Press Making Race and Nation
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Cambridge University Press Commodifying Communism
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Cambridge University Press After Identity
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Cambridge University Press Dressing Constitutionally
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Cambridge University Press The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East 58 University of Cambridge Oriental Publications Series Number 58
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Cambridge University Press Comp Cat Gender Class Race Ethnic Gender Class Race and Ethnicity 7 International Review of Social History Supplements Series Number 7
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Cambridge University Press Culture and Rights Anthropological Perspectives Contemporary Middle East
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Cambridge University Press Commodifying Communism Business Trust And Politics In A Chinese City 14 Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series Number 14
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Cambridge University Press Social Dominance An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on two questions: why do people from one social group oppress and discriminate against people from other groups? and why is this oppression so mind numbingly difficult to eliminate? The answers to these questions are framed using the conceptual framework of social dominance theory. Social dominance theory argues that the major forms of intergroup conflict, such as racism, classism and patriarchy, are all basically derived from the basic human predisposition to form and maintain hierarchical and group-based systems of social organization. In essence, social dominance theory presumes that, beneath major and sometimes profound difference between different human societies, there is also a basic grammar of social power shared by all societies in common. We use social dominance theory in an attempt to identify the elements of this grammar and to understand how these elements interact and reinforce each other to produce and maintain group-based social hierarchy.Trade Review'Tightly and scientifically written, the book is an excellent resource for scholars.' South African Journal of PsychologyTable of ContentsPart I. From There to Here - Theoretical Background: 1. From visiousness to viciousness: theories of intergroup relations; 2. Social dominance theory as a new synthesis; Part II. Oppression and its Psycho-Ideological Elements: 3. The psychology of group dominance: social dominance orientation; 4. Let's both agree that you're really stupid: the power of consensual ideology; Part III. The Circle of Oppression - The Myriad Expressions of Institutional Discrimination: 5. You stay in your part of town and I'll stay in mine: discrimination in the housing and retail markets; 6. They're just too lazy to work: discrimination in the labor market; 7. They're just mentally and physically unfit: discrimination in education and health care; 8. The more of 'them' in prison, the better: institutional terror, social control and the dynamics of the criminal justice system; Part IV. Oppression as a Cooperative Game: 9. Social hierarchy and asymmetrical group behavior: social hierarchy and group difference in behavior; 10. Sex and power: the intersecting political psychologies of patriarchy and empty-set hierarchy; 11. Epilogue.
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