Wannabes, Goths, and Christians
Wannabes, Goths, and Christians

Author: Amy C. Wilkins

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-11-15

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0226898482

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On college campuses and in high school halls, being white means being boring. Since whiteness is the mainstream, white kids lack a cultural identity that’s exotic or worth flaunting. To remedy this, countless white youths across the country are now joining more outré subcultures like the Black- and Puerto Rican–dominated hip-hop scene, the glamorously morose goth community, or an evangelical Christian organization whose members reject campus partying. Amy C. Wilkins’s intimate ethnography of these three subcultures reveals a complex tug-of-war between the demands of race, class, and gender in which transgressing in one realm often means conforming to expectations in another. Subcultures help young people, especially women, navigate these connecting territories by offering them different sexual strategies: wannabes cross racial lines, goths break taboos by becoming involved with multiple partners, and Christians forego romance to develop their bond with God. Avoiding sanctimonious hysteria over youth gone astray, Wilkins meets these kids on their own terms, and the result is a perceptive and provocative portrait of the structure of young lives.

Rockin' Out of the Box
Rockin' Out of the Box

Author: Mimi Schippers

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780813530758

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Employing the feminist insight that gender is a constantly shifting performance & not an essential quality related to sex, Schippers explores the gender roles, transgressions & assumptions of the men & women involved in the hard rock scene.

White Man Falling
White Man Falling

Author: Abby L. Ferber

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 1999-09-15

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1461647029

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Ferber's provocative critique examines white supremacists' firm belief that white men are becoming victims and the repercussions of their attempts to assert white male power.

Not in His Image (15th Anniversary Edition)
Not in His Image (15th Anniversary Edition)

Author: John Lamb Lash

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2021-09-18

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 164502136X

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“Lash is capable of explaining the mind-bending concepts of Gnosticism and pagan mystery cults with bracing clarity and startling insight. . . . [His] arguments are often lively and entertaining.”—Los Angeles Times Fully revised and with a new preface by the author, this timely update is perfect for readers of The Immortality Key. Since its initial release to wide acclaim in 2006, Not in His Image has transformed the lives of readers around the world by presenting the living presence of the Wisdom Goddess as never before revealed, illustrating that the truth of an impactful Gnostic message cannot be hidden or destroyed. With clarity, author John Lamb Lash explains how a little-known messianic sect propelled itself into a dominant world power, systematically wiping out the great Gnostic spiritual teachers, the Druid priests, and the shamanistic healers of Europe and North Africa. Early Christians burned libraries and destroyed temples in an attempt to silence the ancient truth-tellers and keep their own secrets. Not in His Image delves deeply into ancient Gnostic writings to reconstruct the story early Christians tried to scrub from the pages of history, exploring the richness of the ancient European Pagan spirituality—the Pagan Mysteries, the Great Goddess, Gnosis, the myths of Sophia and Gaia. In the 15th Anniversary Edition, Lash doubles down on his original argument against redemptive ideology and authoritarian deceit. He shows how the Gnostics clearly foresaw the current program of salvation by syringe, and places the Sophianic vision of life centrally in the battle to expose and oppose the evil agenda of transhumanism, making this well-timed update more relevant than ever. “Sometimes a book changes the world. Not in His Image is such a book. It is clear, stimulating, well-researched, and sure to outrage the experts. . . . Get it. Improve not just your own life, but civilization’s chances for survival.”—Roger Payne, author of Among Whales

Paid to Party
Paid to Party

Author: Jamie L. Mullaney

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2012-01-31

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 081355215X

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On any given night in living rooms across America, women gather for a fun girls’ night out to eat, drink, and purchase the latest products—from Amway to Mary Kay cosmetics. Beneath the party atmosphere lies a billion-dollar industry, Direct Home Sales (DHS), which is currently changing how women navigate work and family. Drawing from numerous interviews with consultants and observations at company-sponsored events, Paid to Party takes a closer look at how DHS promises to change the way we think and feel about the struggles of balancing work and family. Offering a new approach to a flexible work model, DHS companies tell women they can, in fact, have it all and not feel guilty. In DHS, work time is not measured by the hands of the clock, but by the emotional fulfillment and fun it brings.

Feminist Fieldwork Analysis
Feminist Fieldwork Analysis

Author: Sherryl Kleinman

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2007-04-20

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781412905497

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Feminist Fieldwork Analysis teaches researchers how to think in terms of the feminist perspective and how to translate their research into feminist practice and analysis. This "tricks of the trade" guide gives researchers the principles for doing qualitative work, examples of solid feminist studies, and analytic questions to help identify feminist issues while in the field or at the desk. These issues aren't just about gender. Rather, they are about inequality. Feminist research sheds light on inequality so that people can undo it. Author Sherryl Kleinman offers angles for feminist analysis, or the things to keep in mind when doing fieldwork and developing an analysis. Key Features: Gives researchers five principles for doing, qualitative work and research: Each chapter provides a guiding feminist principle (which corresponds with the chapter title): Talk Is Action, Similarities Can Be Deceiving, Sexism Can Be Anywhere, The Personal Is Political, and Everything Is More Than One Thing. Contains real world examples of feminist fieldwork analysis: Engaging examples illustrate the principles as feminist researchers apply their findings to their everyday lives. Poses questions to bring to any feminist qualitative project: Kleinman incorporates analytical questions at the end of each chapter that encourage researchers to think about what to ask, where to look, and how to make sense of what they've seen and heard. Covers the entire research process: The principles and questions found in this book can be used at any stage of the research process, including choosing a setting, analyzing an observation, and writing a report. Helps researchers interpret data in new ways: By applying what they find in this book, researchers see things in the field they would not have noticed otherwise, or they might see connections between pieces of data that previously appeared unrelated. Book jacket.

Angry Abolitionists and the Rhetoric of Slavery
Angry Abolitionists and the Rhetoric of Slavery

Author: Benjamin Lamb-Books

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-03

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 3319313460

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This book is an original application of rhetoric and moral-emotions theory to the sociology of social movements. It promotes a new interdisciplinary vision of what social movements are, why they exist, and how they succeed in attaining momentum over time. Deepening the affective dimension of cultural sociology, this work draws upon the social psychology of human emotion and interpersonal communication. Specifically, the book revolves around the topic of anger as a unique moral emotion that can be made to play crucial motivational and generative functions in protest. The chapters develop a new theory of the emotional power of protest rhetoric, including how abolitionist performances of heterodoxic racial and gender status imaginaries contributed to the escalation of the ‘sectional conflict’ over American slavery.

Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions: Volume II
Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions: Volume II

Author: Jan E. Stets

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-18

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 9401791309

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Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions Volume II presents all new chapters in the ever developing area of the sociology of emotions. The volume is divided into two sections: Theoretical Perspectives and Social Arenas of Emotions. It reviews major sociological theories on emotions, which include evolutionary theory, identity theory, affect control theory, social exchange theory, ritual theory, and cultural theory among others. Social arenas where emotions are examined include, but are not limited to, the economy and the workplace, the family, mental health, crime, sports, technology, social movements and the field of science. All the chapters review the major theories and research in the area and each chapter ends with some discussion of directions for future research. The Sociology of Emotions is a fast growing and vital field in the broad discipline of Sociology. This volume II follows the Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions which was first published in 2006. In 2008, this first handbook received the “Outstanding Recent Contribution” in the Emotions Section of the American Sociological Association. With contributions from leading scholars from different areas in the discipline, such as neurosociology, culture, economics, mental health, gender, social movements, discussing state-of-art theory and research on emotions in sociology this volume will generate wider appeal to the sociological community.

Social Psychology
Social Psychology

Author: John D. DeLamater

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 0429972725

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Written by well-known sociologists John D. DeLamater, Daniel J. Myers, and Jessica L. Collett, this fully revised and updated edition of Social Psychology is a highly accessible and engaging exploration of the question "what is it that makes us who we are?". With hundreds of real-world examples, figures, and photographs and grounded in the latest research, the text explores such topics as self, attitudes, social influence, emotions, interpersonal attraction and relationships, and collective behavior. The book also explains the methods that social psychologists use to investigate human behavior in a social context and the theoretical perspectives that ground the discipline. Each chapter is a self-contained unit for ease of use in any classroom.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society

Author: Caroline Starkey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-30

Total Pages: 823

ISBN-13: 042988317X

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In an era which many now recognise as ‘post-secular’, the role that religions play in shaping gender identities and relationships has been awarded a renewed status in the study of societies and social change. In both the Global South and the Global North, in the 21st century, religiosity is of continuing significance, not only in people’s private lives and in the family, but also in the public sphere and with respect to political and legal systems. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society is an outstanding reference source to these key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject area. Comprising over 40 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into 3 parts: Critical debates for religions, gender and society: theories, concepts and methodologies Issues and themes in religions, gender and society Contexts and locations Within these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including activism, gender analysis, intersectionality and feminism, oppression and liberation, equality, bodies and embodiment, space and place, leadership and authority, diaspora and migration, marriage and the family, generation and aging, health and reproduction, education, violence and conflict, ecology and climate change and the role of social media. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and gender studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as cultural studies, area studies, politics, sociology, anthropology and history.