Why do people smoke? Taking a unique approach to this question, Jason Hughes moves beyond the usual focus on biological addiction that dominates news coverage and public health studies and invites us to reconsider how social and personal understandings of smoking crucially affect the way people experience it. Learning to Smoke examines the diverse sociological and cultural processes that have compelled people to smoke since the practice was first introduced to the West during the sixteenth century.
Hughes traces the transformations of tobacco...
Why do people smoke? Taking a unique approach to this question, Jason Hughes moves beyond the usual focus on biological addiction that dominates ...
Offers an introduction to the theory and application of communities of practice and their use in a diverse range of managerial and professional contexts, from education to human resource development. This book is useful reading for students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers with an interest in work, employment, and labour markets.
Offers an introduction to the theory and application of communities of practice and their use in a diverse range of managerial and professional contex...
Some of the best horror writers have come together to create a thrilling read. Don't miss authors like Steven Marshall, S.E.Cox, Kerry A. Morgan, Matthew Leverton, and Daniel Fabiani, Staci Bolli, Jason Hughes; Chris Bartholomew and more
Some of the best horror writers have come together to create a thrilling read. Don't miss authors like Steven Marshall, S.E.Cox, Kerry A. Morgan, Matt...
This research tradition has arisen from a specific set of historical, disciplinary and institutional conditions. The very emergence of 'documentation' is predicated upon a set of long-term processes in which humans have developed the capacity to use symbols and store knowledge such that it can be exchanged and inter-generationally transmitted.Consisting of an impressive list of contributors, the four volumes discuss the history, development and current debates alive in the field, such as the biographical turn in social science, the theoretical underpinnings to using human documents in social...
This research tradition has arisen from a specific set of historical, disciplinary and institutional conditions. The very emergence of 'documentation'...
Moral Panics in the Contemporary World represents the best current theoretical and empirical work on the topic, taken from the international conference on moral panics held at Brunel University. The range of contributors, from established scholars to emerging ones in the field, and from a working journalist as well, helps to cover a wide range of moral panics, both old and new, and extend the geographical scope of moral panic analysis to previously underrepresented areas. Designed from the outset to comprise a coherent and integrated set of viewpoints which share a common...
Moral Panics in the Contemporary World represents the best current theoretical and empirical work on the topic, taken from the international...
This insightful new study explores an emerging and growing interest in Sociology and Organization Studies which concerns the meanings and experiences of `dirty' work.
This insightful new study explores an emerging and growing interest in Sociology and Organization Studies which concerns the meanings and experiences ...
