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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the conflict over the release of transgenic soybean in Brazil based on a narrative analysis of political conflict. At the end of the 1990s, the commercial release of Roundup Ready (RR) soybean triggered a heated debate over the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Brazilian agriculture, which developed into an open political conflict opposing pro- and anti-GMOs groups in Brazilian society. This volume examines some of the structuring axes of this conflict by applying a narrative analysis of political conflict. In this approach, politics is perceived as a process of interpretive conflict in which participants in the political game seek to establish the lines that delimit the very definition of public issues under debate. The issue of GMOs is understood, from this perspective, as a public controversy whose dynamics are shaped by the discourses that emerge from the dispute itself. To analyze these controversies, the book focuses on three axes of narrative analyses: the conflict over distributives issues associated with the commercial release of RR soy; the conflict over scientific uncertainty associated with the environmental risks of GMOs; and the conflict over labeling policies. Transgenics in Dispute: Political Conflicts in the Commercial Liberation of GMOs in Brazil will be of interest to both social and environmental scientists concerned with the risks produced by the newest technologies that mediate our relationship with the environment and with the public debate that their use tends to provoke.This book is a translation of the original Portuguese edition “Transgênicos em disputa: Os conflitos políticos na liberação comercial dos OGMs no Brasil” by Cristiano Luis Lenzi, published in Brazil by Appris Editora in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The author has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Environmental Policy Process: from linear to discursive model.- Chapter 3. Brave New World Of Biotechnology: Ethics, science, policy and regulation.- Chapter 4. A Territory Free of Transgenics: the conflict over the release of RR soybean in Southern Brazil.- Chapter 5. Science In Dispute: Sound science and the conflict over risk analysis.- Chapter 6. Labelling as Precaution: Substantial equivalence and the conflict over labelling.- Chapter 7. Regulation Made in USA: Regulatory Polarization and the Brazilian Case.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book engages with the concept of reproductive justice by exploring case studies of struggles around abortion in the context of rising anti-genderism, religious fundamentalism, and ethno-nationalism. Based on rich qualitative data offering in-depth analyses from different geographical, political and cultural contexts, the book explores how reproductive justice is understood, contested and given meaning. Chapters further develop the Black feminist concept of reproductive justice in a critical dialogue with postcolonial theory and explore the strength of transnational feminist practices. This book thus offers a fresh approach to the issue of abortion by engaging with contemporary political and cultural processes, and it expands the narrow notions of women’s rights, particularly notions of property rights over bodies, towards an analysis of the political economy of social reproduction and how it affects bodies that can be pregnant. This volume will be of interest to scholars with interests in reproductive justice, anti-gender politics, and religious fundamentalism.Table of Contents1: Introduction.- 2: New strategies, old movement? Framing the abortion struggle in Sweden, 1930-2020.- 3: Parenting the Nation. State violence and reproduction in Nicaragua and Sweden.- 4: Reproductive justice in South Africa and African contexts: Where are we and where should we go and how in the era of global neoliberalism, neo-conservatism and religious fundamentalism?.- 5: Changing and competing discourses on abortion in Taiwan, 1990-2020.- 6: In green and blue: Feminist struggle for abortion rights in Argentina.- 7: Narratives on the history of abortion in socialist Poland in today’s struggles around abortion in Poland.- 8: Everyday bordering and the struggle for reproductive justice in Ireland.- 9: ​¡Aborto Ya! - Feminist strategies in the struggle for free, legal, safe and gratuitous abortion in Chile.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection offers the first system-wide account of the impact of COVID-19 on crime and justice in England and Wales. Integrating first-hand narratives, it provides a critical discussion of the challenges faced by criminal justice agencies, together with policy and practice recommendations for future pandemic planning.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Part I: COVID-19 and the Criminal Justice System Chapter 2: Emergence and Maturity in Policing COVID-19 – Peter Kawalek, John Coxhead and Lisa Jackson Chapter 3: Reimagining the Open Court in the Time of Pandemic: Towards ‘Portal Justice’ and ‘Broadcast Justice’ – Sarah Moore Chapter 4: COVID-19 and Community Sanctions – Sam Ainslie, Andrew Fowler, Jake Phillips, Chalen Westaby Chapter 5: COVID-19 in Custody: Responding to Pandemics in Prisons in England and Wales – Christopher Kay Chapter 6: Youth Justice and COVID-19: Courts, Community and Custody – Kathy Hampson and Stephen Case Part II: Crime, Justice and COVID-19 – Critical Issues Chapter 7: Racism, Policing and the Pandemic – Scarlet Harris, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Patrick Williams, Lisa White Chapter 8: Crisis Within a Crisis: Sex Workers, Emergency Response and Creative Service Provision – Rachel Fowler, Abbie Haines, Professor Teela Sanders Chapter 9: COVID-19 and Drug Trends – Mark Monaghan and Ian Hamilton Chapter 10: Professional Qualification in Probation and COVID-19 – Andrew Fowler, Laura Martin, Aileen Watson and Tom Brown Part III: The View From the Inside The View From the Inside Chapter 11. “The Box Project” – Hmp Parc Chapter 12. “Write Inside Sessions at Hmp Manchester” Chapter 13. Conclusion: The Lessons – Recovery and Pandemic Preparedness

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Book SynopsisEmpires have been the commonest form of political organization for most of recorded history. How should we best understand them? What are their principles and how do they differ from other political forms, such as the nation-state? What sort of relations between rulers and ruled do they express? Do they, as many have held, follow a particular course of “rise, decline, and fall”? How and why do empires end, and with what consequences? Is the era of empire over? This book explores these questions through a fascinating analysis of the major empires of world history and the present. It pays attention not just to the modern overseas empires of the Europeans, but also to the ancient empires of the Middle East and Mediterranean, the Islamic empires of the Arabs, Mughals, and Ottomans, and the two-thousand-year Chinese Empire. As Kumar shows, understanding empires helps us understand better the politics of our own times.Trade Review"An invaluable contribution to a field in which thoughtfully conceived, globe-spanning efforts remain all too few."—Times Literary Supplement "A marvellous book, the best available on this subject: fluent, authoritative and blessed with enormous range."—John A. Hall, McGill University "Sweeping yet succinct, globe-spanning but focused, Krishan Kumar's Empires is the most comprehensive and illuminating survey we now have of the past, present, and even future of the world's longest-lasting political form. A miracle of synthesis and compression."—David Armitage, Harvard University "This is a sharply argued book that builds on Krishan Kumar's already highly impressive oeuvre on empires and nationalism. Exploring both Western and non-Western empires, Kumar makes a bold claim: empires belong not just to the past but also, potentially, to a post-national future."—George Lawson, Australian National University "With clarity and precision, Kumar presents an original argument built on deep and convincing historical evidence from many empires over thousands of years of human history. It should be a must read for scholars of empires."—Richard W. Lachmann, University at Albany, SUNYTable of ContentsPreface Chapter One Empires in Time and Space Chapter Two Traditions of Empire, East and West Chapter Three Rulers and Ruled Chapter Four Empires, Nations, and Nation-States Chapter Five Decline and Fall Chapter Six Empire after Empire Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisOrlando Patterson’s classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of human exploitation, which disregarded and distorted almost all of the basic prerequisites of normal social life. What distinguishes Patterson's account is his detailed description of the lives and culture of slaves under this repressive regime. He analyses the conditions of slave life and work on the plantations, the psychological life of slaves and the patterns and meanings of life and death. He shows that the real-life situation of slaves and enslavers involved a complete breakdown of all major social institutions, including the family, gender relations, religion, trust and morality. And yet, despite the repressiveness and protracted genocide of the regime, slaves maintained some space of their own, and their forced adjustment to white norms did not mean that they accepted them. Slave culture was characterized by a persistent sense of resentment and injustice, which underpinned the day-to-day resistance and large-scale rebellions that were a constant feature of slave society, the last and greatest of which partly accounts for its abolition. This second edition includes a new introduction by Orlando Patterson, which explains the origins of the book, appraises subsequent works on Jamaican slavery, and reflects on its enduring relevance. Widely recognized as a foundational work on the social institution of slavery, this book is an essential text for anyone interested in the role of slavery in shaping the modern world.Trade Review‘a lucid, densely packed, and extremely intelligent analysis of slavery… indispensable’Eric Hobsbawm, The Guardian ‘an inventive and perceptive book’Jack P. Greene, The American Historical Review ‘a valuable contribution to the study of West Indian history… Patterson has asked new questions and elicited some new answers in his discussion of the Jamaican slave society.’Elsa Goveia, The Times Literary Supplement ‘This book is a badly needed and well done study of the slave society of Jamaica… Refreshingly free of romanticism, it deals frankly with the impact of slavery upon all the members of Jamaican society.’Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, The Historian"[Orlando Patterson] is one of our great comparative and historical sociologists"SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction to the 2022 Edition: Life and Scholarship in the Shadow of SlaveryPrefaceI The Masters: An Overall View of SlaveryII The Slave Plantation: Its Socio-Economic StructureIII The Treatment of the Slaves in Law and CustomIV An Analysis of the Slave Population of JamaicaV The Tribal Origins of the Jamaican SlavesVI The Socialization and Personality Structure of the SlaveVII Social Institutions of the Slaves: Witchcraft, Sorcery and ReligionVIII Social Institutions of the Slaves: Economy, Recreation and ControlXIV The Mechanisms of Resistance to SlaveryXX The Cultural and Social Development of Jamaica: 1655-1865Appendix 1: Stephen Fullers Account of the Number of Negroes imported and exported at Jamaica each year, 1702-75Appendix 2: Exports from Jamaica, 1768Appendix 3: General Return from the Island of Jamaica, for Fifty-Three Years, ending 31st December 1836, abstracted from the Journals of the House AssemblyAppendix 4: Output, Income and Expenditure in 1832Appendix 5: Manuscripts and Official Publications ConsultedAppendix 6: Europeans in West Africa; Seventeenth to Eighteenth CenturiesAppendix 7: Africa as known to Europeans in the Mid-eighteenth CenturyIndex

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Book SynopsisCulture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on etiquette and communication will help you navigate unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas.Trade ReviewCulture Smart! has come to the rescue of hapless travellers...' Sunday Times Travel, ' the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries.' Global Travel, ' full of fascinating, as well as common sense, tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas.' Observer, ' as useful as they are entertaining.' Easy Jet Magazine, ' offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world.' New York TimesTable of ContentsBrief History Politics - Economic Life Traditions - Friendships & Family Relationships Bureaucracy Religion Humour - Local Holidays Taboos Invitations Gifts Dress - Business etiquette - Punctuality & Appointments - Team working Communication Negotiating - Women in Society Tips - Eating Out - Traditional Food - Dos and Don t - Making Friends

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Book Synopsis"What are you waiting for?" Stop wasting your time" "You will die alone," "You will miss the train and stay on your own!" These are some of the questions and warnings that single women hear on an everyday basis. Single women are constantly being asked whether they are ''still single,'' or being bid to get married next or soon. Still, soon, ever-after, waste of time, waiting, how long, when, all these form part of the rich language of time. This book argues that time plays a crucial rule in the discursive formation of female singlehood and that our common understanding of singlehood is dominated by underlying temporal models, premises and concepts. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach and integrating different theoretical realms and perspectives, this book paves way for a new theorization of singlehood and time. Lahad's unique approach gives us the opportunity to explore and theorize singlehood through temporal concepts such as waiting, wasting time, timeout and accelerated aging. Other temporal categories which are examined throughout this book as age, the life course, linearity and commodification of time enable the fresh consideration of our dominant perceptions about collective clocks, schedules, time tables and the temporal organization of social life in general. By proposing this new analytical direction, this book seeks to rework some of our common conceptions of singlehood, and presents a new theoretical arsenal with which the temporal paradigms which devalue and marginalize single women and women's subjectivies in general can be understated.Lahad argues that singlehood is sociologically important, because it touches upon some of the pressing issues in social life and raises fundamental questions about how people make sense of their lives and organize their lives with others. Drawing on a wide range of cultural resources - including web columns, blogs, advice columns, popular clichés, advertisements and references from television and cinema, the author challenges the meaning-making processes of singlehood and time. In this connection, the book lays the ground for a rich, multilayered politicized analysis of solo living and temporality and intends to be a mile stone in both singlehood and time studies.Trade ReviewKinneret Lahad has provided a fascinating discussion on gender, singlehood, and social time. Challenged by temporal metaphors such as "biological clock" or "missing the train", single , urban, upper and middle class women have been portrayed as outliers of heteronormative social norms, where being married is equalled to being "normal." Using discourses from popular culture, everyday talk, and new media technologies in the Israeli context, Lahad dissects and challenges the long standing linear life course studies in sociology with a fresh, interesting and innovative perspective on the feminist reading of singlehood. It is a ground-breaking work on the sociology of gender and the sociology of time. Gökce Yurdakul, Humboldt University, co-author of The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging From the outset, the reader is drawn into a highly readable and theoretically engaging study of "long-term" single women. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, the author provides a detailed examination of a triple discrimination, in terms of age, gender and single status. Focussing upon but not confined to modern Israel, the study takes us through the numerous sites and temporal contexts where these discriminations occur. However, this is not just a study of a particular gendered status but it is also a major contribution to the understanding of everyday time; waiting time, time passing, commodified time. In her final chapter the author opens up possibilities of alternative definitions and practices of singlehood. David Morgan, University of ManchesterA welcome contribution to the sociology of time, highlighting the implicit norms and expectations underlying such notions as being “on time” or “late” at the level of the life-course. Furthermore, the book provides a foundation for a sociology of singlehood, treating it as a major phenomenon in its own right rather than just as a transitional stage in anticipation of marriage, recognizing that “remaining” single is often a permanent rather than merely temporary state of being. The asymmetry between women’s lack of need to account for their decision to get married and need to justify why they have thus far not done so is the book’s most evocative finding.Eviatar Zerubavel, Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University -- .Table of Contents1 Introduction2 The linear life-course imperative3 Singlehood as an unscheduled status passage4 Facing the horror: becoming an “old maid”5 On commodification: from wasted time to damaged goods6 Taking a break7 Waiting and queuing8 Time work: keeping up appearances9 Discussion: another timeIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Social Life of Busyness engages with the assumption that busyness is taking over everyday life by exploring busyness at work, at home and during leisure time. In a world where the notion of being busy is commonly experienced, and even expected, how should we understand the reasons for busyness?

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Book SynopsisConsidering the ways in which a family socially constructs a home, this is a much-needed investigation into how the house, its architecture, spatial arrangements and internal and external divisions shape and reshape family relationships in the face of constant challenges and change.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and extending his arguments for "putting people first.” Cernea led a community of social scientists in formulating and promoting a comprehensive set of innovative and original social policies on development issues, which the World Bank adopted and implemented. This book includes globally significant work on urban and rural development, the epistemology of using social science knowledge in national and international development, methodologies for using social organization for more effective poverty reduction, and the experience of crafting social policies to become normative frameworks for purposive collective social action. And by including contributions from senior policy makers in the World Bank who helped shepherd social science's entry into development policy and practice, it provides a unique look at how organizational change can happen. Table of ContentsPart I: Growing Social Science Demand at the World Bank. Chapter 1: The Important Contribution of Social Knowledge to International Development. Chapter 2: The Road to Achieving Critical Mass of Sociologists and Anthropologists in the World Bank. Chapter 3: Address to the World Bank Sociological Group. Chapter 4: Working Together: Broadening the World Bank’s Development Paradigm. Chapter 5: Social Analysis in the World Bank. Chapter 6: Resettlement, Impoverishment, and Development’s Pathologies. Chapter 7: The Direct and Major Operational Relevance of Social Assessments. Chapter 9: Writing New Rules and Changing Old Practices. Part II: Social Development Work – Live. Chapter 9: Malinowski Award Lecture 1996 Social Organization and Development Anthropology. Chapter 10: Anthropology at Work. Chapter 11: Social Development (excerpts from her 2004 Oral History). Chapter 12: Putting People First in Practice: Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program. Chapter 13: The World Bank and Indigenous Peoples. Chapter 14: The Need for Social Research and the Broadening of CGIAR’s Paradigm. Chapter 15: Fighting Poverty, Combatting Social Exclusion. Part III: Involuntary Resettlement. Chapter 16: The Risk and Reconstruction Model for Resettling Displaced Populations. Chapter 17: Muddy Waters: Inside The World Bank As It Struggled With The Narmada Irrigation And Resettlement Projects, Western India. Chapter 18: Performance in Resettlement. Chapter 19: From Onlookers to Participants: How the Role of Social Scientists has Changed in India's Development in the last Seventy Years. Chapter 20: Social Assessment and Resettlement Policies and Practice in China: Contributions by Michael Cernea to Development in China. Part IV: Retrospective & Outlook. Chapter 21: A Retrospective: MICHAEL M. CERNEA (1934).

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Some topics examined in the book include country achievement of the SDGs, the relationship between human trafficking and the SDGs, climate change, and global problems mentioned above.

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Book SynopsisWissenschaftliche Forschung ist an spezifische Orte, Zeiten und Praktiken gebunden, die durch unzählige explizite und implizite Regeln eingegrenzt werden. Was aber geschieht, wenn diese Konfigurationen auseinanderbrechen? Friedrich Cain untersucht dies anhand der Forschungen, die polnische Wissenschaftler im Verborgenen durchführten, als das Land im Zweiten Weltkrieg unter deutscher Besatzung stand. Alle polnischen Bildungseinrichtungen und Forschungsstätten wie Schulen, Akademien und Universitäten, aber auch Bibliotheken und Labore wurden geschlossen und blieben 'nur für Deutsche' zugängig, denn ein 'Arbeitervolk', so die Rassentheorien der Besatzungsmacht, brauche keine höheren Kultureinrichtungen. Viele polnische Wissenschaftler wandten sich jedoch gegen die Verbote und versuchten weiter wissenschaftlich zu arbeiten. Neben der Organisation geheimer Seminare im Rahmen sogenannter Untergrunduniversitäten gelang es in nahezu allen Disziplinen klandestin zu forschen. Die Studie folgt soziologischen Untersuchungen einer Gesellschaft unter Besatzungsbedingungen, medizinischen Forschungen zur Hungerkrankheit und zum Fleckfieber sowie der Einrichtung physikalischer Experimentalzusammenhänge in Warschau, Krakau, Lemberg und anderswo. Versteckt in Privatwohnungen, getarnt als offizielle Unternehmen oder an der Schwelle zwischen deutscher Administration und polnischem Untergrund wurden gewohnte Infrastrukturen, also das Arsenal von Geräten, Büchern, Techniken und Tugenden neu organisiert. All dies hatte spezifische epistemologische Auswirkungen, etwa wenn Projekte abgebrochen, neu eingerichtet oder in der 'Laborsituation des Krieges' dynamisiert wurden. Häufig führte dies zur politischen Aufladung wissenschaftlicher Neutralitätsgebote und musste mit den politischen und moralischen Narrativen des polnischen Widerstands in Einklang gebracht werden.

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Book SynopsisIn this daring new study, the renowned Turkish sociologist and public intellectual Suheyb Öğüt seeks a new explanation of political sovereignty demystified from traditional descriptions of the political process.Boldly focusing on sexuality as a crucial definer of social order, Being and Symptom argues that there is an “M theory” – a master theory of theories — not only in Quantum Physics, but also in Continental Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Sociology, disclosing how the ontological structure of the “fantastic four” ingredients of metaphysics (potentiality, impotentiality, actuality, completion) has recurred through time. Ö?üt also seeks to turn Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy into a social theory within the fields of sexuality and sovereignty and to locate parallels among Aristotle, Ibn Khaldun, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Foucault, Lacan, Agamben, Nash, Derrida, Girard, Kristeva, and Žižek, with a special emphasis on how Žižek has adapted Lacanian psychoanalysis into social theory. Ö?üt conveys a highly original analysis of the unconscious of our social (sexual) relations, subjectivities, and politics.

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Book SynopsisThe Postcolonial Sporting Body considers the future not only of sport, but of global politics and identity in a world striving towards greater equity and decolonisation.

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Book SynopsisExamining this pressing field of study in an underexplored regional context, this book takes a refreshing new angle to deepen our understanding around the causes and effects of migration.

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Book SynopsisThis handbook assesses the phenomenon of populism—a concept frequently belabored, but often misunderstood in politics. Rising populism presents one of the great challenges for liberal democracies, but despite the large body of research, the larger picture remains elusive. This volume seeks to understand the causes and workings of modern-day populism, and plumb the depths of the fears and frustrations of people who have forsaken established parties. Although the main focus of this volume is political science, there are more disciplines represented in order to get a whole picture of the debate. It is comprised of strong empirical and theoretical papers that also bear social relevance.Table of ContentsPart I Populism : Introduction to & some Reflections on the Concept.- Chapter 1: The New Age of Populism – Reapproaching a Diffuse Concept.- Part II : Theoretical Critique.- Chapter 2: The Past and Present of Populism.- Chapter 3: Populism is Hegemony is Politics? Ernesto Laclau’s Theory of Populism.- Chapter 4: An Antipodean Populism? Winston Peters, New Zealand First, and the Problems of Misclassification.- Chapter 5: A Critique of Left-Wing Populism – Critical Materialist and Social-Psychological Perspectives.- Part III: The Political Psychology of Populism & its Affective Underpinnings.- Chapter 6: The Psychology of Populism.- Chapter 7: The Affective Underpinnings of Right-Wing Populist Party Support.- Chapter 8: From Specific Worries to Generalized Anger – The Emotional Dynamics of Right-Wing Populist Party Support.- Part IV: Authoritarian Populism & Fascism.- Chapter 9: Fascism and Populism.- Chapter 10: Populism and Authoritarianism.- Chapter 11: Authoritarian Populism and Collective Memory Manipulation.- Chapter 12: The (almost) Forgotten Elitist Sources of Right-Wing Populism.- Part V: Economic Populism, Inequality & Crises.- Chapter 13: Populism and the Economics of Antitrust.- Chapter 14: The Red Herring of ‘Economic Populism’.- Chapter 15: Populist Mobilization in the United States: Adding Political Economy to Cultural Explanations.- Part VI: Populism & Gender.- Chapter 16: Right-Wing Populism and Gender.- Chapter 17: The Gendered Politics of Right-Wing Populism and Intersectional Feminist Contestations”.- Chapter 18: Popular Sovereignty and (Non)Recognition in Venezuela: On the Coming into Political Being of El Pueblo.- Part VII: New Populisms and Cleavages.- Chapter 19: Environmental Populism.- Chapter 20: Medical populism.- Chapter 21: Global Populism.- Chapter 22: Populism and the Cosmopolitan-Communitarian Divide.- Chapter 23: (Populism and) the Recasting of the Ideological Landscape of Liberal Democracies.- Part VIII: Populism Discourses.- Chapter 24: The Political Language of Islamic Populism.- Chapter 25: Populism, Anti-populism and Post-truth.- Chapter 26: Experience Narratives and Populist Rhetoric in US Congressional Primaries.- Chapter 27: The Framing of Right-Wing Populism. Intricacies of ‘Populist’ Narratives, Emotions, and Resonance.- Chapter 28: Populism and Collective memory.- Part IX: Populists in Office.- Chapter 29: Populism in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 30: Populism in Africa and the Anti-Corruption Trope in Nigeria’s Politics.- Chapter 31: Populism Under Former Liberation Movements as Governments in Southern Africa: The Cases of Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.- Chapter 32: Venezuela- The Institutionalization of Authoritarian Populism.- Chapter 33: Populist Neo-Imperialism: A New Take on Populist Foreign Policy.- Part X: Strategic Populism & Societal Support.- Chapter 34: Populism as an Implementation of National Biopolitics. The Case of Poland.- Chapter 35:Understanding the Infiltration of Right-Wing Populist Positions Within Unsuspected Groups: The Case of Professional Social Workers.- Chapter 36: Clarifying our Populist Moment(s): Right-Wing and Left-Wing Populism in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.- Part XI: Consequences of Populism & Anti-Populist Discourse.- Chapter 37: Polarization as a Result of Populism? Evidence from Plenary Debates in the Bundestag.- Chapter 38: The Enemy in my House: How Right-Wing Populism Shifted the Debate About Citizenship in France.- Chapter 39: The Democracy’s ‘Resolved’ Dilemma. A Theory of Turnout Inequality Reducing (Right) Populist Parties.- Chapter 40: Counter Strategies in Dealing with Populism.

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Book SynopsisA Global History of Sexuality provides a provocative, wide-ranging introduction to the history of sexuality from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Explores what sexuality has meant in the everyday lives of individuals over the last 200 years Organized around four major themes: the formation of sexual identity, the regulation of sexuality by societal norms, the regulation of sexuality by institutions, and the intersection of sexuality with globalization Examines the topic from a comparative, global perspective, with well-chosen case studies to illuminate the broader themes Includes interdisciplinary contributions from prominent historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and sexuality studies scholars Introduces important theoretical concepts in a clear, accessible way Trade Review“Each essay draws on an impressive array of secondary sources and the authors’ own primary research to highlight how the discourses and practices of sexuality that most people take for granted are in fact expressions of global, socially constructed, and historically contingent patterns.” (H-Histsex, March 2015) Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments ix Maps x 1 Introduction 1 Robert M. Buffington 2 Sexuality and the Nation-State 17 Sabine Frühstück 3 Sexuality and Modern Imperialism 57 Mytheli Sreenivas 4 Sex and Disease from Syphilis to AIDS 89 Laura J. McGough and Katherine E. Bliss 5 Sexuality and International Migration 119 Eithne Luibhéid 6 Sex Trafficking 151 Robert M. Buffington and Donna J. Guy 7 Sexuality and Mass Media 195 Hai Ren 8 Sexuality and the Contemporary World: Globalization and Sexual Rights 221 Richard Parker, Jonathan Garcia, and Robert M. Buffington Index 261

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Book SynopsisPacked with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place. Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the sex slave scare Includes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as a major component of the moral panic Devotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first edition as well as the moral panics concept itself Written by long-established experts in the field Designed to fit both self-contained courses on moral panics and wider courses on deviance Trade Review"This close reading of the facts behind a media story are the essence of Goode and Ben-Yehuda's work. They have taken the time and trouble to try and see what is a moral panic and what is true." (Metapsychology, March 2010)Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements viii Prologue 1 1 Enter the Moral Panic 20 2 The Moral Panic: An Introduction 34 3 Three Theories of the Moral Panic 51 4 The Moral Panic Meets Its Critics 73 5 The Media Ignite and Embody the Moral Panic 88 6 Deviance, Morality, and Criminal Law 109 7 Collective Behavior 129 8 Social Movements 141 9 Social Problems 150 10 The Renaissance Witch Craze 168 11 Drug Abuse Panics 197 12 The Feminist Anti-Pornography Crusade 218 Epilogue: The Demise and Institutionalization of the Moral Panic 245 References 251 Author Index 270 Subject Index 275

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Book SynopsisAimed at educators, sociologists, political scientists, and policy makers, this book will be hailed as the definitive assessment of the origins and evolution of performance funding.Trade ReviewThe 'definitive assessment' of performance funding in higher education... Council of Independent Colleges Newsletter An in-depth study of an important topic...enlightening and very thorough. Comparative Education Review The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations is the most comprehensive volume on the current state of performance funding in higher education. Contemporary Sociology The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education clearly articulates the origins, implications, and life cycles of performance-based funding as a complex function of higher education finance that is here to stay. Teachers College RecordTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. IntroductionConundrums of Performance FundingResearch Questions and a Preview of Methods and PerspectivesChapter Contents and Preview of Findings2. Putting U.S. Performance Funding in ContextConceptualizing AccountabilityAccountability to State GovernmentState Finance of Higher Education as AccountabilityThe Use of Performance Outcomes in State FundingContextualizing U.S. Performance FundingSummary and Conclusions3. The Varying Trajectories of Higher Education Performance Funding ProgramsHow Many States Have Adopted Performance Funding?Two Waves of Performance Funding AdoptionDifferent Stages of Performance FundingVarying Trajectories of Performance FundingSynopses of the Performance Funding Programs in Our Eight StatesSummary and Conclusions4. Origins of the First Wave of State Performance Funding Adoptions with Rachel Hare Bork, Sosanya M. Jones, and Blanca E. VegaExplaining the Rise of State Performance FundingTheoretical PerspectivesResearch MethodsBroad-Based Social Forces Giving Rise to Performance FundingSupporters of Performance Funding and Their MotivesOpponents and Their BeliefsCoalition FormationIdentification of Policy SolutionsAgenda SettingSummary and Conclusions5. Incremental Change in Florida, Ohio, and TennesseeSelection of Cases and InterviewsTheoretical FrameworkIncremental Change in Funding Levels for Performance FundingIncremental Change in Performance IndicatorsSummary and Conclusions6. Performance Funding DiscontinuedResearch and Theoretical PerspectivesFactors Contributing to Performance Funding Program DiscontinuationRisk Factors for Performance Funding DiscontinuationSummary and Conclusions7. Origins of the Second Wave of Performance Funding Adoptions with Sosanya M. Jones, Hana Lahr, Lara Pheatt, and Vikash ReddyObjectives and Theoretical PerspectivesResearch Methods and Data SourcesBroad-Based Social Forces Giving Rise to the Wave 2 ProgramsAdvocacy Coalitions Supporting Performance FundingMuted OppositionFormation of the Supporting CoalitionsIdentification of Policy SolutionsPolicy Windows Opening the Way for PF 2.0Similarities and Differences in the Origins of Wave 1 and 2 ProgramsSummary and Conclusions8. Summary and ConclusionsSummary of FindingsResearch and Theory ImplicationsWhat Is the Likely Future of Performance Funding?AppendixResearch QuestionsTheoretical PerspectivesResearch MethodsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisNew Third Edition!The Gender Knot, Allan Johnson''s response to the pain and confusion that men and women experience by living with gender inequality, explains what patriarchy is and isn''t, how it works, and what gets in the way of understanding and doing something about it. Johnson''s simple yet powerful approach avoids the paralyzing trap of guilt, blame, anger, and defensive denial that often results from conversations about gender. This edition features: Updated references, data, resources, and examples, especially in relation to issues of sexual orientation and gender identity (e.g., gay marriage, transgender/cisgender) A glossary of terms A new chapter, What Changes and What Does Not: Manhood and Violence, that provides an extended analysis of the causes of men''s violence as a patriarchal phenomenon Trade Review"The Gender Knot illuminates vast areas of previously unexamined and unnamed effects of 'power over' social systems, and provides a beacon of hope and a message of courage. This book is brilliant and life-changing"-Judith V Jordan, Ph.D., Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley Centers for Women, and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical SchoolTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part I | What Is This Thing Called Patriarchy? 1 Where Are We? 2 Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them, or an Us 3 Why Patriarchy? 4 Ideology, Myth, and Magic: Femininity, Masculinity, and ‘Gender Roles’ 5 Feminists and Feminism Part II | Sustaining Illusions, Barriers to Change 6 Thinking about Patriarchy: War, Sex, and Work 7 What Patriarchy? 8 It Must Be Women Part III | Unraveling the Patriarchal Legacy 9 Shame, Guilt, and Responsibility 10 What Changes and What Does Not: Manhood and Violence 11 What Can We Do? Unraveling the Gender Knot Appendix: Resources for Unraveling the Knot Notes Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisKill it to save it lays bare the hypocrisy of US political discourse by documenting the story of capitalism's triumph over democracy. Dolgon argues that American citizens now accept policies that destroy the public sector and promote political stories that feel right in the gut, regardless of science or facts.Trade Review"A precious trove of information and analysis for policy makers, "social partners", NGOs and researchers in quest of policies and consensus-building for barring the road to populism by strengthening democracy that should lead to an economy and society with a human face." Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations "Longtime activist and provocative thinker, Corey Dolgon, has written a compelling and timely new book, "Kill It to Save It," which explores neoliberalism, popular culture, the decline of public institutions, and the serious challenges activists and organizers face as we imagine a world beyond the crumbling edifices of U.S. capitalism." Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois, Chicago "Dolgon's analysis will be useful in efforts to oppose privatization and reassert the idea that government's main function is serving the people, not propping up business. What's more, Kill It to Save It...offers a clear and accessible look at how policy is crafted, marketed, and ultimately sold or rejected." - Rewire "The left is in disbelief by Trump's election. Thankfully, Corey Dolgon's book had anticipated such a development. Dolgon shows how capitalist hegemony and hyper-individualism reshaped America's national identity, making us ever more susceptible to embracing a Reality TV star who promises to "Make America Great Again" despite promoting the worst elements of the country's historical DNA. Required reading for those hoping not only to resist Trumpism, but envision a new left for the 21st Century." Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Author of Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America "A provocative, thoughtful, and engaging book, a must-read for people trying to find out "what's that sound and what is goin' down." Policymakers looking out for the interests of their corporate benefactors are selling our institutions to the highest bidders and idly looking away as the lives of the most vulnerable among us are pushed to the edge of survival." Rogelio Saenz, University of Texas at San Antonio "To understand the popularity of Donald J. Trump and the prevailing logic that turns billionaires into job creators, unions into job destroyers, and climate scientists into godless Communists, we need Corey Dolgon. .... Kill It to Save It is mandatory reading if we are to replace the neoliberal "common sense" with the radical possibilities of "good sense." Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Overall, the book is engagingly written and persuades the reader of the need to save our public institutions by investing in them, not by killing them." - Choice Reviews "I always love a good whodunit and like a good Agatha Christie mystery, Dolgon peels back the layers of neoliberalism to expose not only the crimes and who committed them, but the weapons they used and the fake alibis they told. If you want to know why reality TV politics and budget austerity killed our democracy and economy, read this book." Jim Hightower, Author, radio commentator, and editor of The Hightower Lowdown "There is no better time in US history to examine how common sense ideas have made American life and freedoms worse, not better - ours is a crisis many years in the making. This is a must read book if, like me, you are trying to make sense of a society that seems to have gone bonkers!" Dr. David G. Embrick, University of ConnecticutTable of ContentsIntroduction: In My Life; Part One: The Strange Life of Kill it to Save it: Origins, Theories and Myths; Part Overview: Why an Autopsy? The Politics of History; The Vietnamization of American; Mourning Again in America; Part Two: Learning American Style: The Life and Death of American Education; Part Overview: History of Learning American Style; How the Knowledge Economy Killed Knowledge, and Other Scary Stories Out of School; The University Burns While the Knowledge Factory Hums; Part Three: Junk Food, Junk Science, and Junk Freedom: Life and Death in America; Part Overview: History of Health in America; Industrialized Food and Industrialized Farmers; Junk Food, Junk Science and a Bad Case of Mad Truth Disease; Junk Freedom, Broken Windows, and Black Lives Matter; Part Four: The Life and Death of America’s Economy and Government; Part Overview: It’s the Political Economy Stupid; Beyond Voodoo Economics: The Myth of Marco Rubio; Shock Doctrines, Disaster Capitalism, and Smart ALECs; The Myth of Common Sense Austerity and the Slow Death of America's Economy; Epilogue: Innocents Abroad; Trouble at Home: Kill it to Save it Goes Global. Postscript.

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Book SynopsisUsing real-life examples, this book enables practitioners and students to consider the ethics and assess the impact of social media on their professional conduct, and their ability to maintain public confidence.Table of Contents1. Introduction ~ Claudia Megele and Peter Buzzi 2. Digital Professionalism and Social Media Ethics ~ Claudia Megele and Peter Buzzi 3. Social Media and Social Work with Children and Young People and Looked After Children ~ Claudia Megele and Sherry Malik 4. Social Media and Adult Social Work ~ Peter Buzzi and Sharon Allen 5. Social Media and Mental Health Social Work ~ Ruth Allen and Peter Buzzi 6. Social Media and Youth Justice: Challenges and Possibilities for Practice ~ Naomi Thompson and Ian Joseph 7. Social Media and ‘Communities of Practice’ and ‘Communities of Interest’ ~ Claudia Megele and Peter Buzzi 8. Social Media and Social work Regulation ~ Claudia Megele, Lyn Romeo and Peter Buzzi 9. Future Technology and Social Work and Social Care Practice and Education ~ Claudia Megele and Peter Buzzi

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection develops an exciting new approach to understanding the changing cultural, economic and social circumstances facing different groups of older people.Table of ContentsPrecarity and ageing: new perspectives for social gerontology ~ Amanda Grenier, Chris Phillipson and Richard A. Settersten Jr PART I: Life course perspectives on precarity How life course dynamics matter for precarity in later life ~ Richard A. Settersten Jr Precarious life, human development and the life course: critical intersections ~ Stephen Katz PART II: Precarity across situations Rereading frailty through a lens of precarity: an explication of politics and the human condition of vulnerability ~ Amanda Grenier Older workers and ontological precarity: between precarious employment, precarious welfare and precarious households ~ David Lain, Laura Airey, Wendy Loretto, Sarah Vickerstaff Precarity, migration, and aging ~ Karen Kobayashi and Mushira Mohsin Khan A framework to identify precarity in the social sciences: insights from qualitative research ~ Elena Portacolone PART III: Austerity, care and social responses to precarity Reconstructing dependency: precarity, precariousness and care in old age ~ Michael Fine From precarious employment to precarious retirement: neoliberal health and long-term care in the United States ~ Larry Polivka and Baozhen Luo Austerity and precarity: individual and collective agency in later life ~ Chris Phillipson; Conclusion: precarity and ageing in the 21st century ~ Chris Phillipson, Amanda Grenier and Richard A. Settersten Jr

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Book SynopsisAlice Bradbury discusses how the meritocracy myth reinforces educational inequalities and analyses how the recent educational developments of datafication and neuroscience might challenge how we classify and label children as we rebuild a post-pandemic schooling system.Table of ContentsIntroduction Ability and its use in schools How does the idea of ability relate to inequalities? The infl uence of neuroscience Data and the solidifi cation of ability Challenging ability, inequality and the myth of meritocracy in the post- pandemic era

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Book SynopsisHigher Education sectors across the world have experienced a gradual process of marketisation. This book offers a new interpretation on why and how marketisation has taken place within England and questions the rationale for further marketisation of Higher Education.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Dimensions of Marketisation 3. Policymaking in Higher Education: Understanding the Economy 4. Policymaking in Higher Education: Understanding Work and the Labour Market 5. Policymaking in Higher Education: Human Capital 6. Graduate Work in Modern Capitalism 7. The Graduate Labour Market 8. Earnings 9. The Misinterpretation of Graduate Work 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses important questions about tackling today's epidemic of loneliness among young people, exploring experiences of loneliness in early life and considering how social conditions of austerity, precarity, inequality and competitive pressures to succeed can dramatically influence these feelings.Table of ContentsAnimate, attune, amplify Finding oneself a loneliness agenda I’m new here: creating a new research project and a young person led research agenda PART I: The social conditions of loneliness Loneliness and poverty Being an outsider The education system, aspiration and loneliness PART II: The experience of loneliness Transitions Loss, grief and loneliness Being left out Online spaces and connection PART III: Building friendship and connection Asking for help and offering connection Youth work as a method Creativity and solidarity as method: the example of Missing and other stories New ways for thinking and feeling loneliness

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Book SynopsisThe field of digital technology in education has long been under-theorised. This book will enable the reader to reflect on the use of theory when explaining technology use and set out ways in which we can theorise better.Table of Contents1. What is theory? 2. What is theorising? 3. Theorising learning with technology 4. Teachers and technology: why does take-up seem so difficult? 5. A theory of technology 6. Optimism and pessimism when it comes to theorising technology 7. How can we theorise better?

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Book SynopsisThis book offers insights into the development of social welfare policies in Britain. By identifying continuities in welfare policy, practice and thought throughout history, it offers the potential for the development of new thinking, policy making and practice.Table of Contents1. Concepts, Continuities and Critique 2. A Brief History of British Social Welfare 3. Philosophical Binaries and Normative Judgements 4. Chocolate, Flowers and Social Welfare Reform 5. War: The Paradoxical Crucible of Welfare Reform 6. Gendered Perspectives on Welfare 7. Piacular Austerity: Sacrificing the Poor for the Rich 8. Universal Credit vs. Universal Basic Income: Strange Bedfellows? 9. Containing the Radicals and Regulating the ‘Other’: A History of the Strange Case of Social Work 10. W(h)ither Welfare After Brexit and COVID-19?

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the prejudices that emerged out of the collision of the two pandemics of 2020: COVID-19 and Racism.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Vini Lander, Kavyta Kay and Tiffany R. Holloman 1. BLAME the BAME - Javeria Shah 2. COVID-1984: Wake MBE Up When Black Lives Matter - Tré Ventour-Griffiths 3. Black Vaccination Reticence: HBCUs, the Flexner Report, and COVID-19 - LaTonia A. Siler-Holloman and Tiffany R. Holloman 4. Pregnancy, Pandemic and Protest: The Critical Reflections of a Black Millennial Mother - Sharon Anyiam 5. It’s Alive! The Resurrection of Race Science in the Times of a Public Health Crisis - Jon E.C. Tan 6. It’s Not Just Cricket: (Green) Parks and Recreation in COVID Times - Kavyta Kay 7. Muslim Funerals During the Pandemic: Socially Distanced Death, Burial and Bereavement Experienced by British-Bangladeshis in London and Edinburgh - Farjana Islam 8. Racial Justice and Equalities Law: Progress, Problems, and Potential - Robin Richardson 9. Out of Breath; Intersections of Inequality in a Time of Global Pandemic - Anon 10. An Exploration of the Label ‘BAME’, Other Existing Collective Terminologies, Their Effect on Mental Health and Identity Within a COVID-19 Context - Yemi Moses 11. COVID-19 in the UK: a colour-blind response - Jane Hinchliffe 12. Reviewing the Impact of OFQUAL’s Assessment ‘Algorithm’ on Racial Inequalities - Bruno Mallett 13. The Impact of COVID-19 on Somali Students’ Education in the UK: Challenges and Recommendations - Yusuf Sheikh Omar, Baar Hersi and Abdishakur Tarah Conclusion: Long COVID, Long Racism

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Book SynopsisExam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Build students'' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and approved by AQA.- Develop the knowledge required to master Year 2 topics with clear and accessible content coverage- Build confidence in the evaluative skills needed to assess sociological theories and research- Strengthen learning and revision with a wealth of practice and extension questions and activities

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Book SynopsisExplains why there is a crisis in caring for elderly people and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated itBecause government policies are based on an ethic of family responsibility, repeated calls to support family members caring for the burgeoning elderly population have gone unanswered. Without publicly funded long-term care services, many family caregivers cannot find relief from obligations that threaten to overwhelm them. The crisis also stems from the plight of direct care workers (nursing home assistants and home health aides), most of whom are women from racially marginalized groups who receive little respect, remuneration, or job security. Drawing on an online support group for people caring for spouses and partners with dementia, Elder Care in Crisis examines the availability and quality of respite care (which provides temporary relief from the burdens of care), the long, tortuous process through which family members decide whether to move spouses and partners to institutions, Trade ReviewAbel writes with empathy for direct caregivers as a family caregiver herself as well as a cancer survivor. While we are all familiar with how nursing homes failed during the pandemic, these stories of family members fighting for their institutionalized relatives, still feel new and crucially important to read. * Meika Loe, author of Aging our Way: Lessons for Living from 85 and Beyond *Drawing upon her deep knowledge and first-person accounts, from the nineteenth century to the COVID-19 pandemic, Emily Abel portrays both the joyful and heart-breaking aspects of family caregivers’ struggles to care for elderly people with dementia. This book will spur everyone to ask: why don’t we as a country do better for both the elderly and their caregivers? * Joan C. Tronto, author of Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality and Justice *Here you have a poignant, thoughtful, and extraordinarily useful account of trends that will curse us all unless we take action now. Call it investment in infrastructure, improved social insurance, commitment to common decency, or all of the above: we need a better, more sustainable system of care provision. The qualitative research highlighted here helps show us the way forward. * Nancy Folbre, author of Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family *The author's observations, anecdotes, and notes yield a perspective that challenges the current system of long-term care. The author eschews providing simplistic answers, allowing those most concerned—currently active caregivers—to speak for themselves. -- T. E. Getzen, emeritus, Temple University * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisGoes beyond the category of transgender to question the need for gender classificationBeyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do we need to mark people and places with sex categories? Do they serve a real purpose or are these places and forms just mechanisms of exclusion? Heath Fogg Davis offers an impassioned call to rethink the usefulness of dividing the world into not just Male and Female categories but even additional categories of Transgender and gender fluid. Davis, himself a transgender man, explores the underlying gender-enforcing policies and customs in American life that have led to transgender bathroom bills, college admissions controversies, and more, arguing that it is necessary for our society to take real steps to challenge the assumption that gender matters. <Trade ReviewWe will soon be reading books that are truly new, indeed revolutionary, in arguing that the future of gender will be the end of gender binaries altogether.How can future writers debate & essential sex differences when there are more than two sexes, or when some women and men who choose to become the other, and when some people want to be both or neither?Heath Fogg Daviss Beyond Trans: Does gender matter?, one of the first among many that I am sure are in the pipeline, invites readers to question why we care so much about labels and categories on drivers licences, passports and bathroom doors, and in sports and schools. * Times Literary Supplement *Both clear-eyed and eye-opening, Beyond Transchallenges all of usgender-nonconforming and cisgender, trans and gender-conforming, individuals and organizationsto ask ourselves why and how we are using sex classifications, what harm they might be doing, and just how theyre even defining & sex. A provocative and compelling book. -- Joshua Gamson,author of Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to KinshipIn a lively and accessible style, Davis questions the administrative and social practices of labeling individuals sex or gender solely in correspondence with the binary categories of female or male. He challenges the validity of sex-identifying documents and sex-segregated facilities or institutionseven competitive sportsas solutions to privacy, safety, or equality. This is a thought-provoking and highly relevant subject, perfect for todays political and cultural debates. -- Jamison Green,author of Becoming a Visible ManWhyand whenis it important to say whether somebody is a man or a woman? Those are the provocative questions Heath Fogg Davis poses in this informative exploration of gender markers . . . But even more provocative are the questions of how we determine what counts as & man and & woman in the first place, and why we imagine there can be only two genders. This is a great book for students and specialists alike who are interested in the profound transformation of gender we are all experiencing in the early twenty-first century. -- Susan Stryker,co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly and author of Transgender HistoryIn another major book about our current gender moment,Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?Heath Fogg Davis, a professor of political science at Temple University and a transgender man, makes the argument that the modern trans rights movement shouldnt be so heavily invested in integrating trans and gender-nonconforming people into our existing gendered institutions. Instead, Davis suggests, we should use the so-called & transgender tipping point to explode our bureaucratic definitions of gender altogether. * BuzzFeed News *In this important and original book, Davis argues that most bureaucracies should get out of the business of administering sex by classifying people as Female or Male. Drawing on a number of case studies, including identity documents, bathroom bills, college admissions, and sex-testing for athletes, Davis shows most policies for sex classification are not rationally related to legitimate government interests. Drawing on a range of literatures and methods, including critical race scholarship, feminist theory, auto-ethnography, and doctrinal legal analysis, Beyond Trans is applied political theory at its best. -- Paisley Currah,co-editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies QuarterlyThis highly recommended work offers clear, real-world discussions of issues facing transgender people, along with practical applications and solutions. * Starred Library Journal *Davis challenges readers to consider why binary sex identity categories are used so pervasively in our everyday lives, and whether such routine categorization is needed . . . The author, a transgender man of color, approaches this topic as both an expert scholar and an individual whose own identity has been subject to hostile scrutiny * Starred Publishers Weekly *Davis argues that current precedent that restricts discriminating against people on the basis of gender could be used to challenge laws or practices that discriminate against people perceived as falling outside the gender binary. More broadly, we can all work toward a change in perspective. Demanding that people conform to stereotypes of masculinity or femininity does everybody harm. So instead of trying to fit more people into societys preexisting categories, we might try rethinking whether we need those categories at all. * Quartz.com *[R]efreshing.Davis situates the struggle for transgender dignity and rights squarely within the larger framework of personal freedom and privacy concerns, and shows how removing institutional barriers to living beyond the gender binary can help everyone live fuller, freer lives. * Reason Magazine *Daviss solution-orientedBeyond Transis a necessary voice in current debates about the administration of sex and transgender identity. From the infamous bathroom bills to cis citizens objection to financing the medical expenses of trans military personnel (the specter of which Donald Trump backhandedly invoked during his transgender ban tweets), to womens colleges determining that sex-segregation and defining the boundaries of womanhood were necessary to a feminist project of education, Daviss book offers applicable solutions and applies the knowledge gained from the positionality of trans, intersex, and non-binary viewpoints. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Reading Beyond Transis like having ones window shades thrown open after arising from a long night of sleep: the sunlight burns the eyes, but it awakens them . . .Beyond Transfeatures accessible, clear prose and direct argumentation. Anyone with an interest in trans rights and the public application of gender theory would benefit from Davis book.Beyond Transis as much a call to remediate the harm done to trans, intersex, and gender non-conforming individuals as it is a plea for good reasoning. * Popmatters.com *Davis's book is the quintessential transgender issue primer. * Plentitude Magazine *Arefreshingly intersectional perspective on sex identity. . .takes a perhaps seemingly singular topic and makes it approachable through passionate and relevant analysis of modern issues. Davis time and again shows the importance of understanding transgender rights as a matter of all rights, and does so in a challenging, memorable, and accessible way. * Foreword Reviews *Davis constantly challenges the value of forcing people to adhere to a binary, successfully arguing that the problems far outweigh the benefits. * BUST.com *Readers may not agree with all of Davis's conclusions, but his method of discerning rational relationships provides a helpful way to create conversations about whether a particular instance of sex segregation is legitimate or problematic. It encourages us to become far more reflective about when and why we believe sex needs to be marked and managed. * Christian Century *

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Book SynopsisOrganizations, like people, get stuck! They get ensnared in routines and processes, and they fall back into old habits. This is the dangerous period of inertia, the period that precedes failure, when organizations show signs of sluggishness.In Transforming the Clunky Organization Samuel B. Bacharach specifies why organizations fall into patterns of inertia and details the critical pragmatic leadership skills leaders need to regain organizational momentum. From Alfred Sloan, to Lee Iacocca, to Lou Gerstner, to Indra Nooyi, to Steve Jobs, to Jeff Bezos, Bacharach argues that their pragmatic leadership skills assured that their organization did not get trapped by the doldrums of inertia. He employs case illustrations to identify clunky tendencies and inertia within organizations across a wide range of business sectors including technology, finance, banking, home entertainment, and retail. Illustrations are drawn from organizations such as Amazon, Apple, Borders, Merrill LTrade ReviewA no-nonsense, straightforward approach to surmounting what [Bacharach] sees as the primary organizational challenge for business leaders, namely inertia.... This work offers well-thought-out methods for transforming struggling businesses. * Publishers Weekly *Table of Contents1. THE CHALLENGE OF INERTIA Sluggish Organizations: Clunky and Myopic The Inertia of the Clunky Tendency Sprawling Expansion The Inertia of the Myopic Tendency The Blinder Traps Reaching Potential: Leading for Discovery and Delivery Robust Discovery Contextual Competence: Leaders as Explorers Ideational Competence: Leaders as Innovators Focused Delivery Political Competence: Leaders as Campaigners Managerial Competence: Leaders as Sustainers 2. LEADING FOR ROBUST DISCOVERY Explore the Context Scan for Information Read Weak and Strong Signals Partner for Direction and Execution Facilitate Ideation Structure Information Flow Frame the Challenge Lead for Ideation Maintain Hot Group Culture 3. LEADING FOR FOCUSED DELIVER Campaign for Support Create a Coalition Mind-Set Anticipate Where Stakeholders Are Coming From Overcome Resistance Sustain Momentum Monitor for Tight and Loose Execution Maintain Commitment and Direction CONCLUSION: PRAGMATIC LEADERSHIP AND THE COUCH-POTATO ORGANIZATION

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Book SynopsisWhat is a 'symbolic revolution'? What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to understand? Using the exemplary case of Édouard Manet, Pierre Bourdieu began to ponder these questions as early as the 1980s, before making it the focus of his lectures in his last years at the Collége de France. This second volume of Bourdieu's previously unpublished lectures provides his most sustained contribution to the sociology of art and the analysis of cultural fields. It is also a major contribution to our understanding of impressionism and the works of Manet. Bourdieu treats the paintings of Manet as so many challenges to the conservative academicism of the pompier painters, the populism of the Realists, the commercial eclecticism of genre painting, and even the 'Impressionists', showing that such a revolution is inseparable from the conditions that allow fields of cultural production to emerge. At a time when the Academy was in crisis and when the increase in the number of painters challenged the role of the state in defining artistic value, the break that Manet inaugurated revolutionised the aesthetic order. The new vision of the world that emerged from this upheaval still shapes our categories of perception and judgement today - the very categories that we use everday to understand the representations of the world and the world itself. This major work by one of the greatest sociologists of the last 50 years will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, art history and the social sciences and humanities generally. It will also appeal to a wide readership interested in art, in impressionism and in the works of Manet.Trade Review"When does the publication of a book become an event? When it offers a new perspective that changes our way of thinking and, at the same time, appears at the very moment when it is needed. Manet: A Symbolic Revolution is an event of this kind, an overturning of points of view: a properly subversive and astonishing book."Libération"These lectures provide the fullest example of what it would take, within Bourdieu's theoretical scheme, to produce a truly sociological explanation of art."LA Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Editors� Note Translators� Note Lectures at the Collège de France 1998-1999: The Manet Effect Lecture of 6 January 1999 Lecture objectives: the symbolic revolution that Manet started Pompier painting Parenthesis: a social problem and a sociological problem State art and avant-garde academicism The mock-revolution Parenthesis on scientific populism An impossible research programme: the space of criticism From the familiar to the scandalous A painting full of incongruity The clash between the noble and the vulgar The affinity between different hierarchies �Realism/formalism�, a false dichotomy. Lecture of 13 January 1999 Question on the revolution in art. The game of the educated guess (�That makes me think of É�). Constructing the field of criticism. The effects of the work of art. The �intersubjective unconscious�. The intentionalist theory. Aesthetic transgression and solecisms. The rhetoric of euphemism and the effect of a title. The effects of composition. A symbolic bomb. The rationale of a painting. Using a painting within a painting to question painting. Intention and disposition. Lecture of 20 January 1999 Reply to a question on dialectics. Transgressions of the ethical order. Manet and Monet. The academic eye. Dispositional theory. The philosophy of intention. Intention and disposition. When a habitus come into contact with a space of possibilities. The example of writers. Critique of the notion of sources. The hypothesis of coherence. Lecture of 27 January 1999 Reflexive return to the previous lecture. Pre-constructed objects and technical impeccability. Epistemological breaks and social breaks. The theory of dispositions and scholastic bias. The philosophy of intention and the philosophy of disposition. Critique of genetic criticism. Critique of the iconographic tradition. The hermeneutic posture. Copies, parodies, and pastiches. A very strange exercise. Knowledge through the body. Lecture of 3 February 1999 Replies to two misunderstandings Of the right use of sources Listening to a lecture Internalists and Externalists Youthful works and school exercises The Intelligence of the Body The structural conditions of creation A total social fact An institutional crisis A formalist theory Finishing with the �finish� of the pompier painters. Lecture of 10 February 1999 Return to a hasty reaction. Limits of the formalist approach. The illusio as metabelief. The trap of dichotomous logics. Questioning the academic system and the historicisation of the work of art. Social history of academic art. Studios as elite schools. Corps and field. The field of publishing. Lecture of 17 February 1999 An academic art. Pompier art, aristocrats and nouveaux riches. The academic aesthetic. An integrated academic institution. Studios and rites of initiation. Portrait of a professor of the Beaux-Arts. On ragging. Consecration and the production of belief. A gradus ad parnassum. The Academy and academic painting. Technical and historical virtuosity. An aesthetic of readability A �dehistoricised� history. An aesthetic of the finished. Lecture of 24 February 1999 Manet�s critics. Parenthesis on the line separating the private from the public. Life style and style of the works. The abolition of meaning. The heretics and the orthodox. Nomination. The struggle for monopoly. Exhibition and consecration. The transformation of the school system. The defence of the corps. A crisis of belief. Durkheim�s morphological model and its limits. Lecture of 4 March 1999 External factors and the logic of fields: the surplus production of diplomas. � The reproduction of differences. � Disciplines and �refuge� positions. � The weakening of the state monopoly. � The contribution of the public to the revolution. � The sclerosis of the Salon and the generalised crisis of belief. � A comparison of the artistic milieus of Paris and London. � Manet and the Pre-Raphaelites. � Manet seen by Mallarmé. Lectures at the Collège de France 1999-2000: Foundations of a Dispositionalist Aesthetic Lecture of 12 January 2000 Doubts and reflexivity. Ð Birth of the artistic field. Ð A commentary of Mallarmé�s text on Manet. Ð A critique of criticism. Ð The Zola-Manet-Mallarmé paradigm. Ð The inconsistencies of Bar at the Folies-Bergère. Ð Mallarmé on Manet. Ð The structural homology between the artistic and religious fields. Ð Belief and the return to the sources. Lecture of 19 January 2000 Zola and Mallarmé. � Formalism, materialism and symbolism. � �Throwing yourself into the water� as a philosophy of action. � A practical aesthetic. Lecture of 26 January 2000 A critical look at the previous lecture: the need for a double historicisation. � A parenthesis on art criticism. � Back to Mallarmé�s article. � Framing to make cutouts out of the world. � A new economy of production. � When two histories meet. Lecture of 2 February 2000 Summary of the previous lecture. � Accounting for artistic forms: the infrastructure/superstructure model. � Models of historical processes. � The approach I take in this lecture: the habitus-field model. � Manet and the challenge to analysis. � Analytical method. � Beyond the continuous/discontinuous alternative. Lecture of 9 February 2000 Breaks v continuity. � The Salon des refusés of 1863. � For a rational form of eclecticism. � The Impressionist break with continuity (1): Impressionism foreshadowed. � The Impressionist break with continuity (2): parody. � The paradox of symbolic revolutionaries. � Accounting for charisma. � Technical factors. � Morphological changes. � Factors linked with demand. � A multifactorial model. � Specificity of the economy of symbolical goods. Lecture of 16 February 2000 The artistic field. � Social transformations and formal transformations. � A parenthesis on being �economical� with research. � The �painter of modern life�. � The fallacy of the short-circuit. � The gaze in Manet�s work. � The field as intermediary social space. � Artist societies. � A parenthesis on pseudo-concepts. � Aesthetico-political attitudes and positions in the field of art. � The field of criticism between the literary and the artistic fields. � A revolution in the field of art. Lecture of 23 February 2000 The production of belief. � The usefulness of the notion of field. � The field of criticism: its two dimensions. � Portraits of critics. � How the field of criticism operates. � The principle of competence. � When the notion of field guides the analysis. � Manet, the subject and object of the artistic field. Lecture of 1 March 2000 Mechanistic explanations and structural causality. � Bodily hexis. � Manet�s cleft habitus. � Manet�s capital. � The places where Manet accumulated social capital: 1) The Collège Rollin. � 2) The salon of Commandant Lejosne. � 3) The salon held by Manet�s wife. � 4) The studio of Thomas Couture. � 5) The Louvre Museum. � 6) The cafés and their fashionable bohemian crowd. � 7) Painters� studios. Lecture of 8 March 2000 A reminder on my approach. � Art as a �pure practice without theory�. � The author�s point of view and relationship to the public. � An aesthetic of effects. � Manet understood as a concrete individual. � Form and content. � The Manet effect. � Foils and fulcrums. � Analyses of Manet�s works. Opus Infinitum: Genesis and Structure of a Work Without End (by Christophe Charle) Manet the Heresiarch. Genesis of the Artistic and Critical Fields. (Unfinished Manuscript by Pierre and Mari-Christine Bourdieu) Introduction Chapter 1: Pompier Art as an Academic Universal Chapter 2: The Crisis in the Academic Institution Chapter 3: Break and Continuity Chapter 4: The Field of Criticism and the Artistic Field Chapter 5: The Heresiarch and Co. Chapter 6: Manet's Aesthetics Appendix Self-Portrait as a Free Artist: or �I Don't Know Why I Am Telling You That� (by Pascale Casanova) Summaries of the Lectures Published in L'Annuaire du Collège De France Notes Image Credits Index of Paintings Cited Index

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Book SynopsisSociology for Nurses has become a leading textbook and an invaluable companion for students wishing to get to grips with how sociology can positively transform professional nursing practice.This thoroughly revised new edition maintains its commitment to providing jargon-free explanations of sociological theories and evidence to show how studying sociology can be useful in all branches of nursing. Readers will develop a clear understanding of what sociology is and why it is essential to practice, gain deeper awareness of social issues such as gender, ethnicity, class and the life course, and become more familiar with the social contexts of health policy and nursing as a profession. With updates in every chapter, the third edition includes a new chapter on research methods, a reorganized collection of chapters on health policy, extended coverage of long-term illness and disability, as well as contemporary case studies on topical healthcare issues such as dementia, the ‘obesity epidemic’ and recent attempts to integrate health and social care. In addition, the book provides clearly defined learning aims, a useful glossary of sociological concepts, structured activities and questions for discussion, and annotated suggestions for further reading.The editors and contributing authors to the book have a wealth of experience teaching sociology to nurses at diploma and degree pre-registration and post-registration levels. Their book will continue to spark interest and debate among all student nurses, particularly those approaching sociology for the first time.Please visit the accompanying website at: http://www.politybooks.com/sociologyfornurses.Trade Review�A complete course of instruction under one cover, Sociology for Nurses is especially recommended as a Nursing School curriculum textbook and should be a part of every college and university library collection." Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Nursing and the Sociology of Health and Health Care 1. What is Sociology?Sarah Earle and Keith Sharp 2. Why Should Nurses Study Sociology?Sarah Earle and Barbara Green 3. What is Health?Sarah Earle 4. Nursing as an OccupationElaine Denny 5. Researching HealthCarol Komaromy Part II: Inequalities and Diversity in Health and Health Care 6. GenderGayle Letherby 7. The Family, Health and CaringGeraldine Brown and Corinne Wilson 8. Age and AgeingPat Chambers and Elaine Denny 9. Long Term Illness and ConditionsElaine Denny 10. DisabilitySue Ledger, Jan Walmsley and Lindy Shufflebotham 11. Social Class and HealthSarah Earle and Terry O’Donnell 12. Race and EthnicityPaula McGee Part III: Policy Influences on Health and Health Care 13. Policy in HealthKate Thomson 14. Managing in Health CareAlistair Hewison 15. Social CareCatherine Needham 16. Global HealthSarah Earle

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Book SynopsisThe essential revision guide for A–level Sociology from trusted and best–selling author Ken Browne. Together with Sociology for AQA Revision Guide 1, this indispensable book provides everything you need to revise for the exams, with a clear topic–by–topic layout to recap key theories and central ideas. The revision guide maps perfectly onto Ken Browne, Jonathan Blundell and Pamela Law's Sociology for AQA Volume 2 with each topic cross–referenced to the main textbook so you can revisit any sections you need to. The book includes a guide to exam questions – and how to answer them – with sample worked answers showing how to achieve top marks. All specification options are covered, with exam tips throughout the book. With this revision guide to take you through the exam and Sociology for AQA Volume 2 to develop your sociological imagination, Ken Browne provides the complete resource for success in sociology.Table of ContentsAbout this guide 1. Preparing for the Exam and Answering Questions 2. Beliefs in Society 3. Global Development 4. The Media 5. Stratification and Differentiation 6. Theory and Methods 7. Crime and Deviance

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Book SynopsisEmpires have been the commonest form of political organization for most of recorded history. How should we best understand them? What are their principles and how do they differ from other political forms, such as the nation-state? What sort of relations between rulers and ruled do they express? Do they, as many have held, follow a particular course of “rise, decline, and fall”? How and why do empires end, and with what consequences? Is the era of empire over? This book explores these questions through a fascinating analysis of the major empires of world history and the present. It pays attention not just to the modern overseas empires of the Europeans, but also to the ancient empires of the Middle East and Mediterranean, the Islamic empires of the Arabs, Mughals, and Ottomans, and the two-thousand-year Chinese Empire. As Kumar shows, understanding empires helps us understand better the politics of our own times.Trade Review"An invaluable contribution to a field in which thoughtfully conceived, globe-spanning efforts remain all too few."—Times Literary Supplement "A marvellous book, the best available on this subject: fluent, authoritative and blessed with enormous range."—John A. Hall, McGill University "Sweeping yet succinct, globe-spanning but focused, Krishan Kumar's Empires is the most comprehensive and illuminating survey we now have of the past, present, and even future of the world's longest-lasting political form. A miracle of synthesis and compression."—David Armitage, Harvard University "This is a sharply argued book that builds on Krishan Kumar's already highly impressive oeuvre on empires and nationalism. Exploring both Western and non-Western empires, Kumar makes a bold claim: empires belong not just to the past but also, potentially, to a post-national future."—George Lawson, Australian National University "With clarity and precision, Kumar presents an original argument built on deep and convincing historical evidence from many empires over thousands of years of human history. It should be a must read for scholars of empires."—Richard W. Lachmann, University at Albany, SUNYTable of ContentsPreface Chapter One Empires in Time and Space Chapter Two Traditions of Empire, East and West Chapter Three Rulers and Ruled Chapter Four Empires, Nations, and Nation-States Chapter Five Decline and Fall Chapter Six Empire after Empire Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book will become the standard work on the life and thought of Émile Durkheim, one of the great founding fathers of sociology. Durkheim remains one of the most widely read thinkers in the social sciences and every student of sociology, anthropology and related subjects must study his now-classic books. He brought about a revolution in the social sciences: the defence of the autonomy of sociology as a science, the systematic elaboration of rules and methods for studying the social, the condemnation of racial theories, the critique of Eurocentrism and the rehabilitation of the humanity of 'the primitive'. He defended the dignity of the individual, the freedom of the press, democratic institutions and the essential liberal values of tolerance and pluralism. At the same time he was critical of laisser-faire economics and he defended the values of solidarity and community life. In many ways, Durkheim's rich intellectual heritage has become part of the self-understanding of our time. Despite his enormous influence, the last major biography of Durkheim appeared more than 30 years ago. Since then, the opening up of archives and the discovery of manuscripts, correspondence with friends and close collaborators, administrative reports and notes taken by students have all provided a wealth of new material about his life and work. Meticulously documented, Marcel Fournier’s new biography sheds fresh light on Durkheim’s personality and character, his relationship with Judaism, his family life, his relations with friends and collaborators, his political and administrative responsibilities and his political views. This book will be indispensable to students and scholars throughout the social sciences and will appeal to a wide readership interested in knowing more about the life and work of one of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth century.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 ASA 'History of Sociology Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award "Fournier's remarkable work of scholarship is a fitting tribute to a man who was an innovative and influential thinker, and who dedicated his entire career to advancing the cause of sociology."The Irish Times"Definitive … I doubt that we are likely to see another appraisal of Durkheim's life as systematic as Marcel Fournier's very soon. He has given the great man a decent burial."Literary Review"A monument of painstaking scholarship. It draws on a rich cache of newly available documents and will be an indispensable source for the foreseeable future."Times Literary Supplement"Durkheim comes alive; for that we owe Fournier a debt of gratitude: Essential"Choice"This beautifully translated book provides a rich, exhaustive, and exhausting account of Durkheim as one of the central founders of sociology, and of the era of French intellectual and social history in which he lived."Church Times"Fournier is the greatest living scholar of French sociology. With this work, he gives us a new Durkheim, a man broiled in the political controversies of his time, an academic patriarch who laid the foundations for a more cultural sociology."Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University"Marcel Fournier has provided a comprehensive intellectual biography of a key founder of modern sociology: Émile Durkheim. It is an invaluable complement to Steven Lukes’s earlier Émile Durkheim in that it provides in meticulous detail newly available contextual data, particularly of the last period in Durkheim’s life, such as his concern over the fate of Jewish Russian immigrants and the role of the modern university."Edward A. Tiryakian, Professor Emeritus, Duke University"Marcel Fournier sets a new standard for depth of scholarship and vividness of exposition in recovering the life of the founder of sociology. It ranks with the very small number of great intellectual biographies of those who laid down the tracks of modern social thought."Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania "Undoubtedly Émile Durkheim, A Biography takes our understanding of the French master to another level."Sam Pryke, University of WolverhamptonTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION Myths and Received Ideas Some Enigmas: New Documents The Life and Work of Durkheim Durkheim, Mauss & Co The Specific Intellectual Fin de siècle Melancholy: A World Changes ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART ONE: THE YOUNG DURKHEIM 1. A Jewish Education Respect for the Law and Devotion to the Book Embroidery: Extra Income A Humiliating Defeat Education: A Weapon 2. Ecole Normale Supérieure The Metaphysician: A Formidable Dialectician With the Republicans Against Dilettantism Towards Rationalism The Agrégation: A Very Difficult Ordeal 3. 'Schopen' at the Lycée Professeur de lycée The Passion for Knowledge The Fashion for Pessimism The Faculties of the Soul. Conscious/Unconscious On Methodology Egoism/Altruism: Society Man is a Sociable Animal And God É The Noble Sadness of Research The Revue philosophique: Towards Sociology 'Something is not Right' A Research Programme 4. Travels in Germany Anthropology and the 'New Psychology' 'We Have A Lot to Learn from Germany' Towards a Positive Science of Ethics Individual or State? Back to the Lycée PART TWO: THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIOLOGY 5. The Bordeaux Years: Pedagogy and the Social Sciences 'A Large and Happy City' Pedagogy and the Social Sciences A Good Marriage 'What Has to be Done Has to be Done' New Colleagues Alfred Espinas: 'The First to be Drawn to Sociology' The Bordeaux School Classes and Lectures First Course on the Social Sciences Pedagogy: A Practical Theory Religion: A Sociological Phenomenon Forms of Sociability: The Family Marriage and Inheritance 'Happiness is Such a Relative Thing' The Critique of Economics Long Live The (French) Revolution A Young German Author: Ferdinand Tönnies Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Sociologist A Nephew's Education 6. Individual and Society: The Social Bond. The Doctoral Thesis Montesquieu and Political Science The Division of Labour? Crime and Punishment. Types of Solidarity 'Long Live Cooperation, Make Room for Individual Disagreements!' The Struggle for Survival Anomie A Celebration of Work The Utopia of a World Society The Soutenance A Few Misunderstandings A Message to Socialists 'Be Clear and United' Controversy 7. An Object, A Method and Some Rules A Position in Paris? The 'Espinas Affair' Sociology and Psychology An Observer in Paris René Worms: A Tireless Organizer Allies Amongst The Philosophers? Célestin Bouglé and the Younger Generation Some Good Reasons for Writing 'The Method' The Normal and the Pathological The Explanation for the Social Lies in Society For or Against? 8 1895: The Revelation 'The Year of Ethics' New Courses Reforming the Teaching of Philosophy A Discovery: The Vital Role of Religion The 'Religious Sciences' Section: Sylvain Lévy Marriage or Cohabitation? Crime and Mental Health The International Exhibition of 1895: Popularizing Sociology A History of Socialism Sociology and Democracy: Andler Versus Durkheim A Moral Crisis? PART THREE: A JOURNAL AND A TEAM 9 Converts: From Suicide to L'Année sociologique The Nephew's 'Personal Work' In Praise of Taine Suicide, or 'Rationalist Empiricism' Alcoholism and Heredity. The Critique of Racism Imitation The Taste for Free Enquiry and The Taste for Learning In Praise of Marriage and Large Families The Beneficial Effects of Revolutions and Wars The Altruism of Lower Societies The Dangers of Divorce A World of Emotions The Case for Decentralization 'Slashing at Water' 10 L'Année sociologique: Birth of a Team A Crop of Journals Plans for a Journal: Negotiations Making Converts 'Let Us Set to Work with a Good Heart' A Moment of Discouragement 'We Will Do Better Another Time' Publication Methodical Work A New Research Programme Differences of Opinion Why Simmel? Incest and the Separation of the Sexes 'A Good Piece of Work Botched' 11 The Dreyfus Affair and the Defence of Human Rights 'A Terrible Storm' The Intellectuals Mobilize The Stapfer Affair: 'The Sickening Spectacle of So Much Cowardice' In Defence of Individualism Individual Representations and Collective Representations The Republic versus the Army 12 A Failure? The Essay on Sacrifice A Working Holiday A Specialist Journal Religious Sociology Takes Priority: The Study of the Sacred A Failure? Bouglé on Equality The Next Volume of L'Année sociologique Ratzel, Richard and Steinmetz: Three Articles A Discovery: Spencer and Gillen Elections to the Collège de France: Gabriel Tarde or Henri Bergson? 13 A Word: Solidarity Paris 1900: A New Consciousness Great Scientific Events Cooperation, Solidarity and Social Education The Social Role of Universities. People's Universities Sociology: 'An Essentially French Science' 'Ardent Proselytism' Notes Critiques Ð Sciences Sociales Liberalism in Crisis? In Search of a Third Way The Sickness and the Remedy: A Greater Role for Professional Groups 14 L'Année in Crisis L'Année and Notes Critiques: A Planned Merger 'We Go On' The Role of Sociology in Secondary Education A 'Provisional' Method The Année, Volume IV Birth of the Prison Bibliographical Work: A New Crisis A Death Foretold: Mélanie Durkheim The Inner Sanctum: Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss at the Ecole pratique 'A Huge Amount of Work' From the Aruntas to the Price of Coal 'Scholarly Cooperation', Or What Speaking Durkheim's Language Means PART FOUR: PARIS AND THE SORBONNE 15 At the Sorbonne 'At a Standstill' 'An Outstanding Candidate' A Painful Change The New Sorbonne A Successor in Bordeaux The Inaugural Lecture A Great Success Academic Work is Serious Work 16 Le Grand Manitou and the Totem-Taboo Clan The Debate with Gabriel Tarde: Sociology and Social Sceince A Great Debate: Historical Method and Social Science 'Adorons le Totem, le Grand Manitou' A New Research Programme: Categories of Thought The Division of Labour in Society, Revised and Updated Disagreements? 17 The Next Generation 'Morality is on the Agenda' Lévy-Bruhl on Morality and the Science of Morals The Lectures on Moral Education A Role for Magic An Essential Tool The Dreyfus Affair: 'A Strict Duty to Participate in Public Life' L'Humanité: A Waste of Time? Holidays at Last! A New Post? A New Generation: Georges Bourgin, Maurice Halbwachs, Robert Hertz, and the Others From Matrimonial Organization and the Butchery Trade 18 The Evolution of Educational Thought, or Triadic Culture Knowing and Understanding our Educational Museum The Reformist and the Scholar: A New Faith Turning to History, Or The Quest for Origins A Theory of Change The 'Essential Characteristics' of the Education System The Three Great Ages of Education Towards a New Curriculum: Studying Man and Studying Nature Cartesianism, Or The National Temperament 19 Church, State and Fatherland The Separation of Church and State Morality Without God: Rebelling Against Tradition Patriotism or Internationalism? The Critique of Marxism The Question of Divorce Worries and Annoyance A Generation Goes Badly Astray: Bouglé Stands for Election; Mauss Goes to Russia L'Année sociologique Vol IX: 'The Life of Collectivities Is Not As Simple as That of Birds' PART FIVE: MORALITY AND RELIGION 20 A Tenth Anniversary Enemies and Competitors Durkheim's Collaborators Teaching and Juries: Facts! Disciplinary Conflicts Another Crisis at the Année. Magic, Death and Castes A New Balance An Exclusion Foretold 'I Certainly Owe a Great Deal to the Germans' Durkheim at 50: The Légion d'honneur and a Banquet 21 'Change the World' A Durkheimian Stance: The Cahiers du socialiste Pacifism and Patriotism 'We Are All Society's Civil Servants' Divorce. The Woman Question The Origins of Religion The End of Religion? Mauss's La Prière? A Chair at the Collège de France? Emile, Or The Sense of the Real Change the World 22 Regent of the Sorbonne 'A Time for Specific Knowledge and Accurate Methods' Generational Conflict; Les Jeunes Gens d'aujourd'hui Regent of the Sorbonne? Moving House. Commitments on All Sides The New-Style Année Ideals and Collective Effervescence The Methodical Socialization of the Next Generation Pedagogy: A Practical Theory 23 The Origins of Religious Life The 'Totemist School' Freud on Totem and Taboo Totemism as Elementary Religion 'A Sort of Electricity' A Sociological Theory of Knowledge The End of Religion? 'The New Sorbonne's Theology'. Some Strong Objections The Foreign Reception 24. A Lecture-Course, The Last Année and the End of an Era. Pragmatism. One Last Année A Bust and Promotion. Official Recognition The Fashion for Pragmatism Pragmatism and Sociology Bergsonism Versus Sociology. 'Creative Synthesis' Religion and Free Thought 'I Am A Grandfather' PART SIX: THE GREAT WAR 25 Unjustified Aggression Unjustified Aggression The University in a Difficult Position A Response to the 'Manifesto of German Intellectuals' Attracting Foreign Students The Monster Or L'Allemagne au-dessur de Tout A Letter to Americans Defending French Science The (Russian) Jewish Question 26 'Thinking of the Same Thing Day and Night 'Dreadful News' André's Campaign Or, Self-Abnegation Lettres aux Français The Insult The Last Article: 'Tomorrow's Politics' 'The Moral Greatness of France' Academic Propaganda in America 'A Last Burst of Energy and A Last Response to the Call of Duty': 'Introduction to Ethics' 'Better Die Than Live Like This' 'In Memoriam' 27 Epilogue Signs of the Times Bibliography Selected Works by Emile Durkheim Other Works Consulted

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Book SynopsisReinforce understanding of the content examined in A-level Paper 1: Education with Theory and Methods, including Education, Methods in context, and Theory and methods.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions and answers with commentaries, this guide will help students aim for and achieve the highest grades.This Student Guide will help to:- Identify key content for the exams with our concise coverage of topics- Avoid common pitfalls with clear definitions and exam tips throughout- Reinforce learning with bullet-list summaries at the end of each section- Test knowledge with rapid-fire knowledge check questions and answers- Find out what examiners are looking for with our Questions & Answers section

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Book SynopsisReinforce understanding of the content examined in A Level Paper 2: Researching and understanding social inequalities.Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge check questions and sample exam-style questions and answers with commentaries, this guide will help students aim for and achieve the highest grades.This Student Guide will help to:- Identify key content for the exams with our concise coverage of topics- Avoid common pitfalls with clear definitions and exam tips throughout- Reinforce learning with bullet-list summaries at the end of each section- Test knowledge with rapid-fire knowledge check questions and answers- Find out what examiners are looking for with our Questions & Answers section

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Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book rethinks the role of these mediums in public sociology and what they can contribute to the discipline in the post-COVID world. It reconsiders the history and current conceptualizations of what sociology is, and analyzes what kinds of social life emerge in and through the interactions between ‘intellectuals’, ‘publics’ and ‘platforms’ of communication. Cutting across multiple disciplines, this pioneering work envisions a new kind of public sociology that brings together the digital and the physical to create public spaces where critical scholarship and active civic engagement can meet in a mutually reinforcing way.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Defining ‘the Public’ Chapter 2. The History of Platforms Chapter 3. Between Publics and Platforms Chapter 4. Sociology and its Platforms Chapter 5. The Past, Present, and Future of Public Sociology Chapter 6. Making Sociology Public Chapter 7. Making Platforms Public Chapter 8. Assembling Public Sociology

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Book SynopsisLeading academics take a distinctive new approach to the understanding of public sociology education in this perceptive new resource. Through pedagogical case studies and inter-contributor dialogues, they develop and challenge thinking in the field. Divided into three sections on the publics, knowledges and practices of public sociology education, it looks beyond the boundaries of academia to deliver fresh responses to key disciplinary questions including the purposes and targets of sociological knowledge. For students, academics and practitioners, it is a timely and thought-provoking contribution to debate about public sociology education.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Eurig Scandrett Section 1 ~ Publics Provocation I: Class, Gender and Identity: Axes of Structure and Difference in Subaltern Counter-Publics ~ Eurig Scandrett Mad peoples’ history and identity: education in the construction of mad studies ~ Elaine Ballantyne, Kirsten Maclean, Shirley-anne Collie, Liz Deeming and Esther Fraser ‘Seeing things differently’: gender justice and counter-hegemony in higher education ~ Lesley Orr and Nel Whiting Domestic abuse survivors: public sociology and the risks of speaking out ~ Julie Young A Public Sociology for Post-industrial Fife ~ Paul Gilfillan Public Sociology and the invisibility of class ~ Eurig Scandrett Dialogue I ~ Eurig Scandrett and Paul Gilfillan Section 2 ~ Knowledge Provocation II: ‘Really Useful’ public sociology knowledge ~ Eurig Scandrett Crossing the Quadrant: Policy Research and Public Sociology ~ Jan Law Convergences between public sociology, feminist theory and the praxis for refugee and asylum-seeking integration in Scotland ~ Laura Lovin Young people, alcohol, dialogical methods ~ Emma Wood Knowledge generated through participatory research with children ~ Maria Giatsi Clausen English Last: Displaced Publics and Communicating Multilingually as Social Act and Art ~ Alison Phipps, Tawona Sitholé, Naa Densua Tordzro and Gameli Tordzro The Construction, Role And Influence Of ‘Public Knowledge’ Within Community Planning Partnerships ~ Marion Ellison Dialogue II ~ Eurig Scandrett, Marion Ellison and Laura Lovin Section 3 ~ Practices Provocation III: Public Sociology Practices, Privatising Universities ~ Eurig Scandrett Precarity as an existential phenomenon within a post-industrial labour market ~ Phil Mignot and Ricky Gee Student – Public – Sociologist: On dialogue with our first public, and in widening access to higher education ~ Karl Johnson Experts by experience: Art, identity and the sociological imagination ~ John Docherty-Hughes, Elaine Addington, David Bradley, Linda Brookhouse. Jenny Bunting, Lorna Cosh, John Dane, Robert Lindsay and Christine Raffaelli Community engagement: cultivating critical awareness ~ Jim Crowther and Mae Shaw Reflections on five years of critical service learning: is it critical or are we social justice dreamers? ~ Sharon Hutchings and Andrea Lyons Lewis Trade unionism as collective education ~ Lena Wånggren Dialogue III ~ Eurig Scandrett, Jim Crowther, Sharon Hutchings, Karl Johnson, Mae Shaw, Lena Wånggren Conclusion ~ Eurig Scandrett

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Book SynopsisNordic countries lead the way in facilitating better work-family integration through their design of parental leave policies that encourage men towards life courses with greater care responsibilities. Based on original research, this compelling book offers a novel analysis of the everyday parental practices of fathers and parents in Norway as a way of understanding the workings of labour market and welfare policies, whilst considering how migrant fathers might relate to the expectations such laws generate. The authors showcase how this style of men’s care work constitutes a re-gendering of men by promoting ‘caring masculinities’.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The importance of leave design Fathers’ sense of entitlement to ear-marked and shared parental leave Decomposing policy design: outsider-within perspectives Flexible use of the father’s quota: Problems and possibilities Part 2: Caregiving – fathers in transition Masculinity and child care Home alone on leave or with the mother present Fathers experiencing solo leave: Change and Continuities Immigrant fathers framing parental leave and caregiving Part 3: Reconciling work and care Changing fathers and work–life boundary setting Negotiating parental leave and working life Workplace support of fathers’ parental leave use Managers: Irreplaceable in caregiving and replaceable at work Conclusions: Change in policies, fathers’ caregiving and the ideal-worker norm

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Book SynopsisDisproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) refers to the proportional overrepresentation of minority youth at each step of the juvenile justice system. This book addresses the issue of color-blind racism through an examination of the circular logic used by the juvenile justice system to criminalize non-White youth. Drawing on original data, including interviews with court and probation officers and juvenile self-reports, the authors call for a need to understand racial and ethnic inequality in the juvenile justice system from a structural perspective rather than simply at the level of individual bias. This unique research will contribute to larger discussions on how race operates in the United States.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Policy Born Out of Racist Myth Occam’s Razor: Racial/Ethnic Inequality Throughout Society Law Enforcement Contact with Juveniles: Arrests and Citations The Juvenile Justice System: Intake Decisions and Outcomes Juvenile Self-Reports of Deviant and Criminal Behaviour Data Issues and the Case for Self-Report Data Police, Juvenile Court and Juvenile Specialist Interviews Conclusion and Discussion

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Book SynopsisRe-examining C.Wright Mills’s legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline. It makes a case for the importance of developing a sociological imagination and provides the steps for how readers can do that. The unique text: • Offers succinct and wide-ranging coverage of many of the most important themes and concepts taught in first year sociology courses; • Has a global framework and case material which engages with decoloniality and critiques an overly white, western and developed world view of sociology; • Is woven through with contemporary examples, from social media to social inequality, big data to the self-help industry; • Rethinks and re-imagines what a critically committed, politically engaged and publicly relevant sociology should look like in the 21st century. This is a lively, engaging and accessible overview of sociology for all its students, teachers and people who want to learn more about sociology today. It is a welcome clarion call for sociology’s importance in public life.Trade Review"This is an innovative, thoroughly researched and well-written 21st Century introductory sociology text. Your students will love it!" Rhoda Reddock, The University of the West Indies"This is a comprehensive and critically engaged review of the discipline written by two passionate authors wishing to remind us all of the beauty of questioning and engaging with the ultimate purpose of sociological debates: to reshape, re-establish and ultimately reignite the reveal of the sociological imagination!" Athanasia Chalari, University of Northampton"The authors critically reflect on sociology's place in the world and persuasively argue that the 'sociological imagination' is more relevant than ever in this comprehensive account." Jenny van Hooff, Manchester Metropolitan University"Kerrigan and Nehring help us critically re-imagine society in this provoking and engaging publication which spans Western, global, and decolonising approaches." Adam Baird, Coventry UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: How to read this book? Making sense of society The sociological imagination What is 'the social'? Seven key moments in Western sociology Sociologies in a global world Decolonising sociology Structure, agency, power and conflict Difference, stratification and inequalities The social self Sociology in the early 21st century

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