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This paper draws on Japanese, British and other material for a comparative analysis of name-calling. Naming the other is a means of identification, helping to establish definitions of self. Definitional power is socially distributed: the power of the mainstream is orchestrated by expert...
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theoretical consideration of organisational transformation and power and their relationship to the identity of social workers. …
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There is a wealth of literature exploring the impact of parenthood on employment. However, this literature largely overlooks the experiences of parents of children with disabilities, for whom combining the care of their child with employment poses considerable challenges. Within the limited...
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This article offers a reflexive account of the processes, politics, problems, practicalities and pleasures of storying … identity, subjectivity and embodiment - in this case, a white, British, young, heterosexual, disabled, cisgendered woman with … sociology, disability studies scholarship and research, and current knowledges of the emotional work of qualitative researchers …
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disability writers view care as a category that pathologises those who are defined as its recipients and seek to avoid both the … paper argues that cultural stereotypes around disability within the medical model and within society confine the care made …
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the hierarchy of sexual knowledges which promote heteronormativity; the reliance upon fixed identity models of sexuality …
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Contemporary ideas and strategies of both \'risk\' and \'power\' are significant and dynamic influences in social theory and social action, and they can therefore be expected to have a substantial impact on the ways in which social work is constituted, practiced and evaluated. In this article, I...
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Research Resource: The CSPP specializes in comparative public policy research. Since 1991 it has developed a unique programme of cross-national cross-time surveys to monitor the transformation of post-Communist societies. In collaboration with the Paul Lazarsfeld Society, Vienna, more than 80...
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This article explores some ways in which women not living with an intimate partner talk about their relationships with men. Data are considered in relation to social theorising on the changing nature of intimate relationships. The analysis makes use of traditions in narrative analysis and...
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self as identity that can be extracted from his work can allow social theory to imagine actors who are simultaneously …
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