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Afterword: Embodiment, Social Order, and the Classification of Humans as Waste

Shilling, Chris - In: Societies 3 (2013) 3, pp. 261-265

], sociologists of embodiment have explored the corporeal consequences of social structures, while also highlighting how the bodily … and dis/ability. …

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Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Understanding Human Migration Patterns and their Utility in Forensic Human Identification Cases

Holobinko, Anastasia - In: Societies 2 (2012) 2, pp. 42-62

Human migration patterns are of interest to scientists representing many fields. Theories have been posited to explain modern human evolutionary expansion, the diversity of human culture, and the motivational factors underlying an individual or group decision to migrate. Although the research...

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Between Critical and Uncritical Understandings: A Case Study Analyzing the Claims of Islamophobia Made in the Context of the Proposed ‘Super-Mosque’ in Dudley, England

Allen, Chris - In: Societies 3 (2013) 2, pp. 186-203

Research highlights how usage and claims of Islamophobia tend to be simplistic and without nuance. Using a case study approach, this article considers the claims of Islamophobia made in relation to the proposed Dudley ‘super-mosque’. Setting out a narrative of the ‘super-mosque’, this...

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Conflict or Concert? Extending the Simmelian Triad to Account for Positive Third Party Presence in Face-to-Face Interviews with People Living with Parkinson’s Disease

Low, Jacqueline - In: Societies 2 (2012) 3, pp. 210-221

interviews, despite the fact that third party participation in interviews with people with chronic illness and/or disability …

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Privileged Mobility in an Age of Globality

Croucher, Sheila - In: Societies 2 (2012) 1, pp. 1-13

By 2050, the world’s population of international migrants is estimated to top 400 million. A small but growing number of those migrants are leaving well-developed, affluent countries best known for receiving immigrants to settle in less well-developed countries better known for sending...

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Double Dose: High Family Conflict Enhances the Effect of Media Violence Exposure on Adolescents’ Aggression

Fikkers, Karin M.; Piotrowski, Jessica Taylor; Weeda, … - In: Societies 3 (2013) 3, pp. 280-292

We investigated how exposure to media violence and family conflict affects adolescents’ subsequent aggressive behavior. We expected a double dose effect, meaning that high media violence exposure would lead to higher levels of aggression for adolescents in high conflict families compared to...

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Negotiating Deaf Bodies and Corporeal Experiences: The Cybernetic Deaf Subject

Horejes, Thomas P.; Heuer, Christopher J. - In: Societies 3 (2013) 2, pp. 170-185

their deafness as a disability and use technology as a means to negotiate their embodiment and experiences. The role of …Deaf people negotiate their embodiment through corporeal experiences to provide a perception of what it means to be … human. Some deaf people search for a framework where being deaf is human, not a disability. Other deaf people experience …

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Crossing the Color Line: Black Professional Men’s Development of Interracial Social Networks

Wingfield, Adia Harvey - In: Societies 4 (2014) 2, pp. 240-255

Sociologists have established that social networks often play an important role in hiring, promotions, and occupational mobility. For black workers, however, social networks can be racialized in ways that work to their disadvantage. In this paper, I consider how black professional men develop...

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Cross-Racial Interactions during College: A Longitudinal Study of Four Forms of Interracial Interactions among Elite White College Students

Byrd, William Carson - In: Societies 4 (2014) 2, pp. 265-295

College and universities present distinct opportunities to interact across racial and ethnic lines that may influence people’s prejudice toward different groups. This study examines the influence of four forms of cross-race interaction on traditional and modern forms of racial prejudice among...

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Understanding Digital Health as Public Pedagogy: A Critical Framework

Rich, Emma; Miah, Andy - In: Societies 4 (2014) 2, pp. 296-315

This paper argues on behalf of a public pedagogy approach to developing a critical understanding of digital health technologies. It begins by appraising the hitherto polarised articulations of digital innovation as either techno-utopian or techno-dystopian, examining these expectations of...

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