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This article examines the impact the category of \'whiteness\' has on individual interpretations of the American Dream. Via twenty-five life-history interviews, this article presents how US military male Veterans have varying interpretations of the collective idea according to their ethnic and...
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Race, Community and Conflict by John Rex and Robert Moore was published in 1967 and had a considerable public impact … describes and explains the immediate impact of the book and its more lasting contribution to sociology. Race, Community and …
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deconstructed. This is conceptualised through a reading of John Clarke's 'magical recovery of community'. Although cricket has been …
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This article argues that it is useful to compare the current recession with that which occurred three decades ago. Drawing on research undertaken at that time by Ray Pahl, it is suggested that four questions are once again revealing in the study of the current economic downturn: \'How have we...
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This note describes a study to discover the extent to which it would be possible to follow the respondents in a 1978/79 social survey in inner Liverpool. The follow up would be used to describe the ways in which peoples' circumstances had changed in the intervening 17 years. It would also...
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of the online community. I argue that cyber-ethnography's reflexive qualities allow the characteristics of the online … community to emerge. I demonstrate, through the cyber-ethnographic exploration of two feminist online communities, how the … participants define their own perimeters. I suggest that the online community has two main characteristics. Through its convergence …
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of the online community. I argue that cyber-ethnography's reflexive qualities allow the characteristics of the online … community to emerge. I demonstrate, through the cyber-ethnographic exploration of two feminist online communities, how the … participants define their own perimeters. I suggest that the online community has two main characteristics. Through its convergence …
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those that hinder it. The study involved the use of a participatory action research approach in a community setting. The …
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The workplace provides a very important context for the development of community. Structural changes that have occurred … in the workplace in the last 25 years have impacted on how community has been constructed and experienced in the … collectivism, such as teamwork hasundermined more genuine employee generated forms of community and solidarity. Through in …
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This article asserts that community matters, not least because of the continued importance of community demonstrated by … maintain 'community'. A sense of community is constructed through narratives of place and lifestyle to create an inclusive … the norms of community fall short of reciprocity or duty, making it a 'community without obligation'. …
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