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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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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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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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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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theoretical consideration of organisational transformation and power and their relationship to the identity of social workers. …
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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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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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This article raises questions about the role of footwear within contemporary processes of identity formation and …
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on structural transformation and an understanding of the importance of identity in bringing about 'new' collective action …. The increasing predominance of 'identity' politics (e.g. in the realms of ethnicity and sexuality) in the arenas …
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