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Apocalypse in the Long Run: Reflections on Huge Comparisons in the Study of Modernity

Hall, John R. - In: Sociological Research Online 14 (2009) 5, pp. 10-10

of modernity tended to portray a secular trend toward the triumph of rationalized social order centered in diachronic … modernity through the articulation of rationalized diachronic time with the sacred strategic time of apocalyptically framed … 'holy war.' Overall, the 'empire of modernity' is a hybrid formation that bridges diachronic and strategic temporalities …

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'Whatever You Say Say Nothing': an Ethnographic Encounter in Northern Ireland and its Sequel

Finlay, Andrew Robert - In: Sociological Research Online 4 (1999) 3

a national conflict. The article discusses various forms of reflexivity, and concludes that 'analytical reflexivity …

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Dialectics and Modernity, Autonomy and Solidarity

Domingues, JosÈ Mauricio - In: Sociological Research Online 2 (1997) 4, pp. 1-1

This article connects the contemporary crisis of modernity to the crisis of the Welfare State in the West and to its so … far incomplete establishment in 'Latin'-America, with special reference to Brazil. The reflexivisation of modernity is …

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Emotions After Dark - a Sociological Impression of the 2003 New York Blackout

Yuill, Chris - In: Sociological Research Online 9 (2004) 3

, Simmel, Parks, and Jacobs into understanding the experience of modernity and city life by taking to the streets and directly …

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Worn Shoes: Identity, Memory and Footwear

Hockey, Jenny; Dilley, Rachel; Robinson, Victoria; … - In: Sociological Research Online 18 (2013) 1, pp. 20-20

This article raises questions about the role of footwear within contemporary processes of identity formation and presents ongoing research into perceptions, experiences and memories of shoes among men and women in the North of England. In a series of linked theoretical discussions it argues that...

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Embodying and Embedding Children's Sleep: Some Sociological Comments and Observations

Williams, Simon; Lowe, Pam; Griffiths, Frances - In: Sociological Research Online 12 (2007) 5, pp. 6-6

This paper, drawing on our own research findings data, explores the embodiment and embedment of sleeping in children …

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The Sociology of Health and Illness at the Turn of the Century: Back to the Future?

Williams, Simon; Annandale, Ellen Carol; Tritter, Jonathan - In: Sociological Research Online 3 (1998) 4, pp. 1-1

and embodiment; (iii) (bio)technology, and finally; (iv) the shifting configuration of health care in Britain. Underlying …

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Senses of Gender

Lim, Jason; Browne, Kath - In: Sociological Research Online 14 (2009) 1, pp. 6-6

This paper explores the testimony of trans respondents to Count Me In Too (a participatory action research project that examined LGBT lives in Brighton and Hove), and this analysis occasions the development of innovative concepts for thinking about understandings and experiences of trans...

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'I Love You to the Bones': Constructing the Anorexic Body in 'Pro-Ana' Message Boards

Ward, Katie J. - In: Sociological Research Online 12 (2007) 2

With reference to an \'online ethnography\' (Ward, 1999) carried out in the \'Anagrrl\' pro-anorexic (ana) asynchronous web based community, I explore the radical, underground web-based pro-ana movement. The \'pro-ana\' movement challenges established biomedical ideas surrounding the treatment...

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'Yobs' and 'Snobs': Embodying Drink and the Problematic Male Drinking Body

Thurnell-Read, Tom - In: Sociological Research Online 18 (2013) 2, pp. 3-3

The cultural linkages between the drinking of alcohol and the assertion of masculinity have been well explored. In particular, drinking alcohol is still assumed to be a site where masculinity can be tested and proved. However, equally, drinking can be seen to undermine and discredit the male...

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