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Purpose The authors aimed to identify the nature of customer harassment against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender …
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This article explores how romantic love, desire, and social class are mutually influencing factors in the formation and enactment of heterosexual intimate relationships. Using qualitative interview data from a study of heterosexuality and love we analyse some of the ways in which social class...
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case for a distinctly sociological approach to central feminist concerns, I will take sexuality as a case study. Here I …
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Four decades ago, Whyte (1956), described how a new human expression had become universally evident. This was the notion of the 'Organisation Man', an early corporate culture characterised by the middle ranks of managers in large organisations, who were subject to a 'social ethic'. Under the...
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This article presents a social semiotic analysis of the social construction of male sexuality in the images of sexual … health posters and leaflets for young people aged 13 to 19 years old. It explores how male sexuality is managed at a visual … level in sexual health leaflets and posters, and examines the notions of masculinity, gender and sexuality which inform the …
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Critical sociolinguistics (conceived as Critical Discourse Analysis: CDA), which has a focus on inclusive and exclusive language within social practice, can be used to shed light on underlying aspects of recent debates about the appointment of homosexual bishops in the UK and USA. One strand of...
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' (2004), which examines the significance of class and sexuality in the lives of women who self-identify themselves as working … sexuality. I aim to offer an oversight of the project, taking account of the material and subjective inputs into working … and sexuality and the role they play in relation to identities and experiences. By drawing on and critically evaluating …
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qualitative study into health services targeted at gay men in London, explores the facilitation by service providers of social … networks among gay men. Networks are dependent upon reciprocity among their participants and the study examines how shared … diversity of narratives among the thirty eight gay male service users who were informants to this study. While narratives around …
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This article considers how knowledge about lesbians and gay men is produced in health and social welfare texts. It … looks at the consequences of a reliance upon the liberal 'ethnic model' of sexuality. The authors provide a critique of … 'anti-discriminatory practice' versions of sexuality categories which, in their view, assert the liberal model at the …
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sexuality into the Church as an institution. The furore over the proposed appointment of an openly gay bishop in the Church of …Sexuality is an obsession of the Christian Church. It is one of the social behaviours that it has tried most to control … sociology of the Bible. The current debate on sexuality in the Church highlights the need for sociology to begin to apply its …
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