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Human Flourishing: The Grounds of Moral Judgment
(Springer, 2008)
Caught in the Cultural Lag: The Stigma of Singlehood
(Psychology Press, 2005)
Developing a Sociological Model for Researching Women's Self and Social Identities
(Sage, 2003)
For those interested in researching the consequences of strong ideologies on women's identities, an empirical model that focuses our research attention on the self-identity and social identity of individual women may be ...
Exploring Good Practice in Child and Family Services: Reflections and Considerations
(Taylor and Francis, 2007)
The prospect of furthering good practice in child and family services is something that is in everybody¿s interest, service users, practitioners, policy makers, and academics alike. However, it is a task fraught with ...
Perfidious and Pernicious Singlism
(Springer, 2009)
Neoliberalism, the Special Period and Solidarity in Cuba
(Sage, 2008-06)
While the Cuban state¿s resistance to neoliberalism and to US dominance in
particular, has been vigorous, it is nonetheless subject to the constraints of neoliberal
hegemony, and has entailed a degree of accommodation: ...
Women Unbound: Single Women in Ireland
(Rutgers University Press, 2007)
Youth mentoring and the parent-young person relationship: considerations for research and practice.
(The National Youth Agency, 2008)
Over recent years, youth mentoring has become increasingly popular as an intervention for young people deemed to be in need of support. There is a need, however, to pay attention to the potential impact of mentoring on ...
Developing Children's Participation: Lessons from a Participatory IT Project
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2007)
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, advances in the sociology of childhood and the consumer rights movement have placed the spotlight on children¿s rights in society, challenging those working with children to ...
On power, habitus, and (in)civility: Foucault meets Elias meets Bauman in the playground
(Routledge, 2008)
Drawing on the work of Foucault, Elias, and Bauman, this article examines how the playground has articulated specific configurations of power/knowledge. Originallydesigned to cultivate virtue and counteract vice, the ...