Everyday Exchanges

Everyday Exchanges

Author: Evan Watkins

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780804730860

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Arguing against the perception that the capitalist marketplace permits no alternatives, the author shows that a kind of economic “common sense” conditions how people organize their everyday lives and understand their powers as social agents within markets that are far from monolithic and uniform.


European Others

European Others

Author: Fatima El-Tayeb

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published:

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1452932921

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Considers the complications of race, religion, sexuality, and gender in Europeanizing from below


Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Research

Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Research

Author: Norman K Denzin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1315421364

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Research -- 1. An Unfinished Dialogue about Problematizing Knowledge Production in the Peer Review Process -- 2. Critical Qualitative Research in Global Neoliberalism: Foucault, Inquiry, and Transformative Possibilities -- 3. Practices for the 'New' in the New Empiricisms, the New Materialisms, and Post Qualitative Inquiry -- 4. The Work of Thought and the Politics of Research: (Post)qualitative Research -- 5. Qualitative Data Analysis 2.0: Developments, Trends, Challenges -- 6. Critical Autoethnography as Intersectional Praxis: A Performative Pedagogical Interplay on Bleeding Borders of Identity -- 7. Writing Myself into Winesburg, Ohio -- 8. The Three Rs-Remembering, Revisiting, Reworking: How We Think, but Not in Schools -- 9. Teaching Reflexivity in Qualitative Research: Fostering a Research Life Style -- 10. Coda: The Death of Data -- Index -- About the Authors


Globalization/Glocalization: Developments in Theory and Application

Globalization/Glocalization: Developments in Theory and Application

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-29

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 9004500367

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In the immense literature on globalization, the work of Roland Robertson stands out. In particular, his insistence that globalization manifests itself primarily as glocalization, the simultaneity of the global and the local, of homogenization and heterogenization continues to influence how a wide variety of observers understand the process, including those who contest it. In honour of Robertson’s lifetime contributions, this volume brings together a set of essays that demonstrate the cogency of his approach, point out directions in which it can be further developed, and illustrate the insight it can provide in topics as varied as religion, football, wine, morality, and UFOs. Contributors include: Peter Beyer, John Boli, Didem Buhari Gulmez, Rebecca Catto, Richard Giulianotti, Ulf Hannerz, David Inglis, Paul James, Habibul Haque Khondker, Anne Sophie Krossa, Frank Lechner, Kristian Naglo, John H. Simpson, Manfred B. Steger, and George M. Thomas.


Postracial Resistance

Postracial Resistance

Author: Ralina L. Joseph

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2018-10-09

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 147984036X

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Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association How Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda Rhimes to their audiences and the industry workers behind the scenes, Ralina L. Joseph considers the way that Black women are required to walk a tightrope. Do they call out racism only to face accusations of being called “racists”? Or respond to racism in code only to face accusations of selling out? Postracial Resistance explores how African American women celebrities, cultural producers, and audiences employ postracial discourse—the notion that race and race-based discrimination are over and no longer affect people’s everyday lives—to refute postracialism itself. In a world where they’re often written off as stereotypical “Angry Black Women,” Joseph offers that some Black women in media use “strategic ambiguity,” deploying the failures of post-racial discourse to name racism and thus resist it. In Postracial Resistance, Joseph listens to and observes Black women as they perform and negotiate race in strategic ambiguity. Using three methods of media analysis—textual readings of the media's representation of these women; interviews with writers, producers, and studio executives; and audience ethnographies of young women viewers—Joseph maps the tensions and strategies that all Black women must engage to challenge the racialized sexism of everyday life, on- and off-screen.


Handbook of Health Survey Methods

Handbook of Health Survey Methods

Author: Timothy P. Johnson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13: 1118594746

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A comprehensive guidebook to the current methodologies and practices used in health surveys A unique and self-contained resource, Handbook of Health Survey Methods presents techniques necessary for confronting challenges that are specific to health survey research. The handbook guides readers through the development of sample designs, data collection procedures, and analytic methods for studies aimed at gathering health information on general and targeted populations. The book is organized into five well-defined sections: Design and Sampling Issues, Measurement Issues, Field Issues, Health Surveys of Special Populations, and Data Management and Analysis. Maintaining an easy-to-follow format, each chapter begins with an introduction, followed by an overview of the main concepts, theories, and applications associated with each topic. Finally, each chapter provides connections to relevant online resources for additional study and reference. The Handbook of Health Survey Methods features: 29 methodological chapters written by highly qualified experts in academia, research, and industry A treatment of the best statistical practices and specific methodologies for collecting data from special populations such as sexual minorities, persons with disabilities, patients, and practitioners Discussions on issues specific to health research including developing physical health and mental health measures, collecting information on sensitive topics, sampling for clinical trials, collecting biospecimens, working with proxy respondents, and linking health data to administrative and other external data sources Numerous real-world examples from the latest research in the fields of public health, biomedicine, and health psychology Handbook of Health Survey Methods is an ideal reference for academics, researchers, and practitioners who apply survey methods and analyze data in the fields of biomedicine, public health, epidemiology, and biostatistics. The handbook is also a useful supplement for upper-undergraduate and graduate-level courses on survey methodology.


The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood

The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood

Author: Anna Strhan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-01-26

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1474251129

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From recent sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church, to arguments about faith schools and religious indoctrination, this volume considers the interconnection between the actual lives of children and the position of children as placeholders for the future. Childhood has often been a particular site of struggle for negotiating the location of religion in public and everyday social life, and children's involvement and non-involvement in religion raises strong feelings because they represent the future of religious and secular communities, even of society itself. The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood provides a rich resource for students and scholars of this interdisciplinary field, and addresses wider questions about the distinctiveness of childhood and its religious dimensions in historical and contemporary perspective. Divided into five thematic parts, the volume provides classic, contemporary, and specially commissioned readings from a range of perspectives, including the sociological, anthropological, historical, and theological. Case studies range from Augustine's description of childhood in Confessions, the psychology of religion and childhood, to religion in children's literature, religious education, and Qur'anic schools. - Religious traditions covered include Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, in the UK and Europe, USA, Latin America and Africa - An introduction situates each thematic part, and each reading is contextualised by the editors - Guidance on further reading and study questions are provided on the book's webpage


Driving Culture in Iran

Driving Culture in Iran

Author: Reza Banakar

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-12-18

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0857728733

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Iran has one of the highest rates of road traffic accidents worldwide and according to a recent UNICEF report, the current rate of road accidents in Iran is 20 times more than the world average. Using extensive interviews with a variety of Iranians from a range of backgrounds, this book explores their dangerous driving habits and the explanations for their disregard for traffic laws. It argues that Iranians' driving behaviour is an indicator of how they have historically related to each other and to their society at large, and how they have maintained a form of social order through law, culture and religion. By considering how ordinary Iranians experience the traffic problem in their cities and how they describe traffic rules, laws, authorities and the rights of other citizens, Driving Culture in Iran provides an original and valuable insight into Iranian legal, social and political culture.


Psychology Library Editions: Child Development

Psychology Library Editions: Child Development

Author: Various

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-02

Total Pages: 5953

ISBN-13: 1351273833

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Psychology Library Editions: Child Development (20 Volume set) brings together a diverse number of titles across many areas of developmental psychology, from children’s play to language development. The series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1930 and 1993, with the majority from the 70s and 80s, includes contributions from many respected authors in the field and charts the progression of the field over this time.