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Individual And Society: Sociological Social Psychology, Lizabeth A. Crawford, Katherine B. Novak
Individual And Society: Sociological Social Psychology, Lizabeth A. Crawford, Katherine B. Novak
Katherine B. Novak
Welcome To Gsa, Program For 2013 Meeting, Linda A. Treiber
Welcome To Gsa, Program For 2013 Meeting, Linda A. Treiber
Linda A. Treiber
No abstract provided.
Mcjobs And Pieces Of Flair: Linking Mcdonaldization To Alienating Work
Mcjobs And Pieces Of Flair: Linking Mcdonaldization To Alienating Work
Linda A. Treiber
The Gender Of Sexuality, Virginia Rutter, Pepper Schwartz
The Gender Of Sexuality, Virginia Rutter, Pepper Schwartz
Virginia Rutter
An excellent analysis of the ways in which human sexuality is structured by gender but also by moral and political approaches - especially as it concerns gay and lesbian expressions and relationships - as well as by race and class. New to this edition is a major revision of chapter 5 on the politics of sexuality including gay and lesbian marriage, educational issues, teen sexuality - including 'hooking up' - and inequality issues.
The Encyclopedia Of Human Sexuality, Virginia Rutter
The Encyclopedia Of Human Sexuality, Virginia Rutter
Virginia Rutter
No abstract provided.
Public And Private Families: An Introduction, Virginia Rutter, Pepper Schwartz
Public And Private Families: An Introduction, Virginia Rutter, Pepper Schwartz
Virginia Rutter
No abstract provided.
The Diversity Of Human Relationships, Virginia Rutter, Pepper Schwartz
The Diversity Of Human Relationships, Virginia Rutter, Pepper Schwartz
Virginia Rutter
No abstract provided.
Handbook Of Family Diversity, Virginia Rutter, Pepper Schwartz
Handbook Of Family Diversity, Virginia Rutter, Pepper Schwartz
Virginia Rutter
The status of the American family has been the topic of considerable debate in recent years. As demographic changes make our country more multicultural and as new types of families continue to form and become more common, it is essential for sociologists, social workers, family researchers, and psychologists to understand the full range of diversity in American families. However, to varying extents, African American families, Latino families, Asian American families, poverty-stricken and near-poor families, lesbian and gay families, single-parent families, and stepfamilies have been marginalized from mainstream scholarship. As a result, students taking courses on families are typically not exposed …
Families As They Really Are, Virginia Rutter
Families As They Really Are, Virginia Rutter
Virginia Rutter
A fresh collection of original essays by leading scholars that focuses on how families operate in everyday life: what they are, how they work, and why they matter. Families as They Really Are goes to the heart of the family values debate by reframing the question about families from “Are they breaking down?” to “Where are they going, how, and why?” Essays in the book are not reprints; you won’t find them anywhere else. Each article is a new contribution to the research and theory about families, drawn from an interdisciplinary community of experts. The four parts of Families as …
Speaking Of Sexuality: Interdisciplinary Readings, Virginia Rutter, Pepper Schwartz
Speaking Of Sexuality: Interdisciplinary Readings, Virginia Rutter, Pepper Schwartz
Virginia Rutter
Speaking of Sexuality, Third Edition, presents leading classic and contemporary works in sexuality research and theory along with in-depth articles about timely issues from the popular media. The book chapters and journal articles, which have been carefully edited to make them accessible yet still rigorous, are enhanced by detailed part openers and chapter lead-ins that provoke critical thinking and class discussions. Incorporating the insights of a new coeditor, psychologist Terri D. Fisher, the third edition offers twenty-eight new book chapters and journal articles and two additional units--"Relationships and Sexuality" and "Sexual Health." This edition also integrates more selections on race/ethnicity …
The Love Test: Romance And Relationship Self-Quizzes Developed By Psychologists And Therapists, Virginia Rutter, Pepper Schwartz
The Love Test: Romance And Relationship Self-Quizzes Developed By Psychologists And Therapists, Virginia Rutter, Pepper Schwartz
Virginia Rutter
Love can seem like a hopeless riddle sometimes-but with this array of self-tests, created and used by psychologists and therapists, it's possible to take some of the mystery out of the mating dance. With quizzes that measure our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors with regard to such issues as intimacy, sexuality, jealousy, commitment and compatibility, The Love Test uses scoring keys and summaries to help readers evaluate their romantic lives...and find ways to improve them.
November Uri Community Diversity Project 2010, Joseph A. Santiago Mr, Riley Davis Ms, Richard V. Travisano Mr
November Uri Community Diversity Project 2010, Joseph A. Santiago Mr, Riley Davis Ms, Richard V. Travisano Mr
Richard Travisano
November is National Novel Writing Month. For the first time at the University of Rhode Island November was a month for the URI community to share their stories, poems, art, and photos with the world. The Writing to Model Diversity project intends to connect individuals across cultural boundaries and borders by sharing the stories and experiences that challenge our everyday experiences and the dreams of the future. Built on the efforts of the World Voice series, URI presents a book that shares the stories and culture of the students, faculty, staff, and community members who embrace the idea of becoming …
Student Learning In A Topically-Focused Introductory Sociology Course: Preliminary Results, Katherine Novak
Student Learning In A Topically-Focused Introductory Sociology Course: Preliminary Results, Katherine Novak
Katherine B. Novak
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, Indianapolis, IN, April 4-7, 2013.
One Marriage Under God By Melanie Heath, Virginia Rutter
One Marriage Under God By Melanie Heath, Virginia Rutter
Virginia Rutter
No abstract provided.
Stew Of Discontent:“Middle Class” Americans' Economic Populism In The 1990s And Beyond, Jonathan Martin
Stew Of Discontent:“Middle Class” Americans' Economic Populism In The 1990s And Beyond, Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Martin
This article highlights the hidden subtlety of ordinary Americans' economic populist sentiment, a longstanding and politically pivotal form of popular resentment concerning class inequalities. Based on my research in the late 1990s, I describe how economic populist attitudes in the United States can be much more complex than suggested in the relevant literature. I use data from interviews with a small number of “ordinary middle class” Americans to illustrate little known nuances in these attitudes and to highlight how such subtleties are overlooked in prevailing characterizations of public opinion. I suggest that the oversight is the result of the fragmentary …
Theorising Heterosexuality, 1996, Ed. D. Richardson, Virginia Rutter
Theorising Heterosexuality, 1996, Ed. D. Richardson, Virginia Rutter
Virginia Rutter
Reviews the book "Theorising Heterosexuality," edited by Diane Richardson.
Sex, Love, And Health In America: Private Choices And Public Policies, Ed. By E.O. Laumann And R.T. Michael, Virginia Rutter
Sex, Love, And Health In America: Private Choices And Public Policies, Ed. By E.O. Laumann And R.T. Michael, Virginia Rutter
Virginia Rutter
Reviews the book "Sex, Love, and Health in America: Private Choices and Public Policies," edited by Edward O. Laumann and Robert T. Michael.
The Gender Of Desire: Essays On Male Sexuality By Michael Kimmel, Virginia Rutter
The Gender Of Desire: Essays On Male Sexuality By Michael Kimmel, Virginia Rutter
Virginia Rutter
No abstract provided.
Freire Vs. Marx: The Tension Between Liberating Education And Student Alienation, Jonathan Martin
Freire Vs. Marx: The Tension Between Liberating Education And Student Alienation, Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Martin
The article cites a paper that compares Paulo Freire's concept of pedagogy and Karl Marx's concept of alienation in the U.S. educational context. Freire is well-known for having developed a student-centered teaching approach that assists learners in developing the awareness of their oppression. It mentioned that Marx would argue that the existing educational system naturally produces the forms of alienation and revolution can abolish the inequalities within schools.
Separating Together: How Divorce Transforms Families By A.J. Stewart, A.P. Copeland, N.L. Chester, J.E. Malley, And N.B. Barenbaum, Virginia Rutter
Separating Together: How Divorce Transforms Families By A.J. Stewart, A.P. Copeland, N.L. Chester, J.E. Malley, And N.B. Barenbaum, Virginia Rutter
Virginia Rutter
No abstract provided.
Divorce In Research Vs. Divorce In Media, Virginia Rutter
Divorce In Research Vs. Divorce In Media, Virginia Rutter
Virginia Rutter
What is the case for divorce? Researchers in the sociology of family tend to find that divorce's impact depends on what the comparison is: compared to a distressed marriage, divorce has its benefits. Meanwhile, policy makers and general audiences alike get much of their information about divorce research via the news media, where the negative consequences of divorce tend to be exaggerated, especially when comparisons, selection bias, or other research issues are neglected. Over the past 20 years, U.S. news coverage of divorce illustrates two key, intertwined topics: moral entrepreneurship using divorce as an issue and divorce research using (or …
Hegemonic Duopoly: Why Progressive Third Parties Rarely Win State House Elections, Jonathan Martin
Hegemonic Duopoly: Why Progressive Third Parties Rarely Win State House Elections, Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Martin
No abstract provided.
Fall From Grace: Progressives' Abandonment Of Bosnia, Jonathan Martin
Fall From Grace: Progressives' Abandonment Of Bosnia, Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Martin
No abstract provided.
Pedagogy Of The Alienated: Can Freirian Teaching Reach Working-Class Students?, Jonathan Martin
Pedagogy Of The Alienated: Can Freirian Teaching Reach Working-Class Students?, Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Martin
This article considers the possibilities for fostering critical consciousness (awareness and understanding of oppression) among American working-class students in the face of their often severe educational alienation. After noting the failure of existing critical pedagogical literature to address this problem adequately, it establishes the seriousness of the challenge in three ways. First, it describes how the most famous critical pedagogue, the late Paulo Freire, and one of his most eminent American followers, Ira Shor, recognized the special difficulty of working with highly alienated American students. Second, it documents the extensiveness and severity of educational alienation in the United States, especially …
"Just" Desserts: An Interpretive Analysis Of Sports Nutrition Marketing, Joylin Namie, Russell Warne
"Just" Desserts: An Interpretive Analysis Of Sports Nutrition Marketing, Joylin Namie, Russell Warne
Russell T Warne
Straddling the boundary between “junk” and not, sports nutrition is unique among processed foods. Between-meal snacks full of refined carbohydrates, sugar, sodium and even caffeine, qualities that render foods “bad” and off limits in other contexts, these products are consumed during the “work” of organized leisure, and increasingly as part of everyday life by non-athletes. Masquerading as healthy food, with ingredients, flavours and consumption patterns suggestive of children’s candy and adult desserts (Douglas, M. (1972). Deciphering a meal. Daedalus, 101(1), 61–81; James, A. (1998). Confections, concoctions, and conceptions. In H. Jenkins (Ed.), The children’s culture reader (pp. 394–405). New York: …
Are Women The New Dominant Sex?: Investigating The Impact Of Feminism On Masculine Roles And Identity, Lauren Boothby
Are Women The New Dominant Sex?: Investigating The Impact Of Feminism On Masculine Roles And Identity, Lauren Boothby
Lauren Boothby
Women are becoming the new dominant sex in Western society. Pursuing feminist equality reform results in a trend toward extremes. The trajectory of women’s rights needs to be examined in light of its effects on men. The present paper examines the decline of patriarchy and progression of matriarchy, as evidenced by female superiority in educational and vocational attainment, degrading representations of men – “the idiot man” – in popular sit-coms, and feminist ideological dominance in political and academic discourse. Normlessness and anomie result from the subversion of masculine roles. Sociological theories – including those of Mead, Goffman, Hochschild, Schutz, Durkheim, …
A New Social Physic: The Sociology Of Gabriel Tarde And Its Legacy, Sergio Tonkonoff
A New Social Physic: The Sociology Of Gabriel Tarde And Its Legacy, Sergio Tonkonoff
Sergio Tonkonoff
This article aims to present a reconstruction of Gabriel Tarde’s micro-sociology in order to highlight its current relevance. The author of the article attempts to show that its distinction lies in taking the immense diversity of small social interactions as a starting point for the analysis of both face-to-face situations and large-scale institutions and social processes. Here the social field is described as made up of multiple propagations of desires and beliefs that spread from one individual to other, taking countless directions, interfering with each other, forming networks, and escaping them in search of new connections. The author attempts to …