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Post-subcultural studies has emerged as a critical response to perceived difficulties with the previously dominant approach to subcultures associated with the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS). Alternative terms such as scene and tribe have been suggested in light of the...
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Transnational corporations (TNCs) have a central role to play in globalization. At the same time, globalization carries risks for the corporation, and not all of those associated with TNCs may support globalization. While much of the globalization literature suggests that corporations are...
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, tropes. Semiotics denies the notion that language \'mirrors\' reality. Rather, language creates reality. Semiotics, then, can … destructive aspect of food over others such as pleasure, identity and nurturing. Power is invested in those whose trope gains the …
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This paper explores the meaning of the concept of generational identity for a specific cohort of individuals born in … members' sense of identity and specifically asked 'Do you think of yourself as belonging to a particular generation?' Cohort …/political events. Indeed the majority of them do not have a strong generational identity and might be thought of as a 'passive …
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as a basis for an identity that may be remembered over a sustained period of time. For the parent of a stillborn child … there is no such basis and the claim for a continuing social identity for their son or daughter is precarious. Drawing on … interviews with the parents of 22 stillborn children, this paper explores the identity work performed by parents concerned to …
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People in sport tend to possess rather jaded perceptions of its colour-blindness and thus, they are reluctant to confront the fact that, quite often racism is endemic. Yorkshire cricket in particular, has faced frequent accusations from minority ethnic communities of inveterate and...
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economic and social well-being. The research aims to consider the influence of a high performing school on the boys’ identity … and the relationship between their identity and their engagement with education. First, a brief background on white …
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community level. This article addresses this deficit by demonstrating how the social identity of a place, home to a particularly … area with outsiders’ construction of a homogenous raced and classed identity for the place, namely, one where large …
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, that display various accounts of national identity in relation to a proposal for devolved democratic institutions within … proposal of the establishment of a devolved democratic assembly for Wales. In this sense the topics of national identity and … moral organisation of Welsh identity in relation to devolved forms of political organisation and representation. …
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Throughout the literature on time there has been an omission of the qualitative dimension of time in relation to the experience of time in different locales. This paper will explore the nature and role of time-use in prison. Based on intensive fieldwork in 8 male and female prison...
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