Towards a Sociology of the Coast
Towards a Sociology of the Coast

Author: Nick Osbaldiston

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1137486805

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This book seeks to understand the coast as a place that has deep significance both historically and sociologically. Using several case studies in Australia, the author uses Max Weber’s approach to rationalisation to understand the different ways coasts have been interpreted throughout modern history. While today, coastal places are known for their aspects of lifestyle or adventure, their histories, underpinned by colonialism and industrialization, are vastly different. The author examines the delicate dichotomy between the alternative experiences the coast provides today, versus the ideals and values imposed upon it in times gone by. The author makes an ethical argument about the ways in which we use and experience the coast today will adversely affect the lives of future generations in an attempt to generate further discussion amongst students and scholars of the sociology of place, as well as coastal managers and stakeholders.

Towards the Sociology of Knowledge (RLE Social Theory)
Towards the Sociology of Knowledge (RLE Social Theory)

Author: Gunter Werner Remmling

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-03-23

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 100015579X

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The sociology of knowledge is an area of social scientific investigation with major emphasis on the relations between social life and intellectual activity. It is now an area central to most graduate and undergraduate courses in sociology. The present collection of readings explains the origins, systematic development, present state and possible future direction of the discipline. The major statements in the field were developed early in the twentieth century by Durkheim, Scheler and Mannheim, but the sociology of knowledge continues to engage the theoretical and empirical interests of contemporary sociologists who desire to penetrate the surface level of social existence. This book, with its carefully selected contributions and an introduction which relates the selections to the developmental pattern of the discipline, provides guidance and insight for the reader concerned with the topical issues raised by sociologists of knowledge.

Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy
Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy

Author: Carolyn Baker

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1991-06-28

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9027282935

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Through critical sociological appraisals of literary theory, research and pedagogy, this volume presents challenges to dominant psychological approaches in reading research and to mainstream discourses about reading and writing pedagogy. Bringing together the recent work of literacy researchers in Australia, Europe and North America, the volume offers novel critiques and theorisations from within political economy, neomarxist and critical theory, ethnomethodology, interactive sociolinguistics, poststructuralism and postmodernism. The volume is arranged in four sections; The Politics of Pedagogy; Reading in Classrooms; Reconstructing Theory; Reading the Social. This collection is provocative and innovative, offering clear alternatives for conceptualising literacy, for conducting literacy research, and for reconstructing the discourses and practices of reading and writing in schools. The volume is addressed to a broad audience of researchers, educators and students.

Towards a Sociology of Nursing
Towards a Sociology of Nursing

Author: Ricardo A. Ayala

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9811388873

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Towards a Sociology of Nursing offers fresh insights from recent research into the nursing profession. Nurses represent an important part of the professionally trained female workforce and, being a middle-class profession, changes in nursing reflect changes of many working women worldwide. Scholarship addressing these changes, however, often consists of narratives of nurses talking about themselves, which can be enriched by a sociological background that foregrounds hypotheses.​ In this book, Ricardo A. Ayala problematises the realities which inform, affect and shape nursing, offering new perspectives on the consequences of those social realities for the nursing profession and society more broadly. He draws on extensive field research with nurses in the workplace, spending time with them, interviewing key actors and reading and analysing documents critically through a distinctive sociological lens.

Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving
Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving

Author: Rebecca E. Olson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-09

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1317009169

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Once a synonym for death, cancer is now a prognosis of multiple probabilities and produces a world of uncertainty for carers. Drawing on rich, in-depth interview data and employing interactionist theories, Towards a Sociology of Cancer Caregiving explores carers' lived experiences, paying close attention to the ways in which spouse carers manage the ambiguity that pervades their orientations to the future, their responsibilities and their emotions. A detailed exploration of the temporal and emotional journeys of spouse carers of cancer patients, this volume raises and responds to new questions about how to conceptualise informal caregiving, offering a fresh theorisation of the uncertainty that now characterises cancer. As such, it will appeal to scholars of the sociologies of emotion, time and identity, and all those interested in the question of how to support informal carers.

Theoretical Studies Towards a Sociology of Language
Theoretical Studies Towards a Sociology of Language

Author: Basil Bernstein

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-11-23

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 113441367X

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The papers in this volume show the origin and development of Bernstein's theoretical studies into the relationships between social class, patterns of language use and the primary socialization of the child. 'Bernstein's hypothesis will require [teachers] to look afresh not only at their pupils' language but at how they teach and how their pupils learn.' Douglas Barnes, Times Educational Supplement 'His honesty is such that it illuminates several aspects of what it is to be a genius.' Josephine Klein, British Journal of Educational Studies

Crossroads of Rural Crime
Crossroads of Rural Crime

Author: Alistair Harkness

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2021-05-19

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1800436440

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Using the notion of ‘crossroads’ to provide a unique lens through which to examine the realities of rural crime, Crossroads of Rural Crime provides an understanding of the nature of rural life and ways in which transgression manifests itself in the context of a presumed rural-urban divide.

Class, Codes and Control: Theoretical studies towards a sociology of language
Class, Codes and Control: Theoretical studies towards a sociology of language

Author: Basil B. Bernstein

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0415302870

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'Bernstein's hypothesis will require [teachers] to look afresh not only at their pupils' language but at how they teach and how their pupils learn.'Douglas Barnes, Times Educational Supplement'His honesty is such that it illuminates several aspects of what it is to be a genius.'Josephine Klein, British Journal of Educati.

Shakespeare and the Environment: A Dictionary
Shakespeare and the Environment: A Dictionary

Author: Sophie Chiari

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-01-27

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1350110485

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While our physical surroundings fashion our identities, we, in turn, fashion the natural elements in which or with which we live. This complex interaction between the human and the non-human already resonated in Shakespeare's plays and poems. As details of the early modern supra- and infra-celestial landscape feature in his works, this dictionary brings to the fore Shakespeare's responsiveness to and acute perception of his 'environment' and it covers the most significant uses of words related to this concept. In doing so, it also examines the epistemological changes that were taking place at the turn of the 17th century in a society which increasingly tried to master nature and its elements. For this reason, the intersections between the natural and the supernatural receive special emphasis. All in all, this dictionary offers a wide variety of resources that takes stock of the 'green criticism' that recently emerged in Shakespeare studies and provides a clear and complete overview of the idea, imagery and language of environment in the canon.