With extensive use of case materials, this volume describes and analyzes the significance of social movements like the struggle for abortion rights and gay rights for the large-scale transformations of key aspects of gender and family. Gender and social movements are also linked in a way that shows how events of the 19th century are relevant to understanding the struggles for change today.
With extensive use of case materials, this volume describes and analyzes the significance of social movements like the struggle for abortion rights...
By using a series of studies of contemporary mainstream Hollywood movies - "Blue Velvet, Wall Street, Crimes and Misdemeanors, When Harry Met Sally, sex lies and videotape, Do the Right Thing "- Norman K Denzin explores the tension between ideas of the postmodern, and traditional ways of analyzing society. The discussion moves between two forms of text: social theory and cinematic representations of contemporary life.
Denzin analyzes the ideas of society embedded in poststructuralism, postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and Marxism through the ideas of key theorists (Mills,...
By using a series of studies of contemporary mainstream Hollywood movies - "Blue Velvet, Wall Street, Crimes and Misdemeanors, When Harry Met Sally, s...
" Talking Difference provides an excellent critical review of a good selection of the research in language and gender published over the last 20 years, including a substantial amount from the area of psychology... I found this an exhilarating book, written with energy and wit. Crawford maintains a consistently critical approach, identifying contradictions and ambiguities in popular theories of gender difference, and exposing conceptual and methodological weaknesses in language and gender research. The volume is well-structured and readable; it will prove very valuable in undergraduate and...
" Talking Difference provides an excellent critical review of a good selection of the research in language and gender published over the last 20 years...
Using a joint insider/outsider approach, this book tells the story of a change agent group - a group of teachers - that was creating change in its organization setting, a network of independent schools. The group's focus was on empowerment and professional development for teachers in the network. The book describes virtually everything that happened in the group over its first seven years and summarizes what happened during its final two years. It explores the identity, work and evolution of change agent groups in organizations, with particular emphasis on teachers and educational change....
Using a joint insider/outsider approach, this book tells the story of a change agent group - a group of teachers - that was creating change in its org...
This book provides the first accessible introduction to neural network analysis as a methodological strategy for social scientists. The author details numerous studies and examples which illustrate the advantages of neural network analysis over other quantitative and modelling methods in widespread use. Methods are presented in an accessible style.
This book provides the first accessible introduction to neural network analysis as a methodological strategy for social scientists. The author details...
This volume is aimed both at more experienced editors, who may wish to skip over the advice offered in the introduction, as well as at those who are new to the craft and want to know how to begin work on publishing historical documents of interest to them.
This volume is aimed both at more experienced editors, who may wish to skip over the advice offered in the introduction, as well as at those who are n...
