Articles

Brontë Society | Brontë family

"Based on historic and ethnographic approaches, this volume examines how ideological images of Asian women are produced, circulated, appropriated, and... 
Women | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies | Women's studies | Manners and customs | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General | Asia | Asia Social life and customsHistory | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture | History | Social conditions | Culture-Study and teaching

This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated 'rust belt' of upstate New York. With insight and empathy,... 
Sex-oriented businesses | Sex oriented businesses | Case studies | Women | Women dancers | Family relationships | Self-perception in women | Femininity | Anthropology | Economic conditions | Social aspects | Northeastern States | Social conditions | Self-perception in women - Northeastern States

Since the end of the Second World War, society has been characterised by rapid and extensive political, economic, scientific, and technological change.... 
Public Health Policy and Practice | Labour Economics | Contemporary Social Theory | Political Sociology | Citizenship - Political Sociology | Political & Economic Anthropology | Economic Theory & Philosophy | Unemployment | Educational Research | Education Studies | Theory of Education | Ethnography & Methodology | Health & Society | Sociology of the Family | Sociology of Work & Industry | Public Health - Medical Sociology | Health Policy | Sociology & Social Policy | Social capital (Sociology) - Great Britain | Cohort analysis | Social capital (Sociology) | Social change

Seen through the eyes of parents, mainly mothers, "City survivors" tells the eye-opening story of what it is like to bring up children in troubled city... 
Poor children | City children | Poor families | Inner cities | Community-based child welfare | Longitudinal studies | Social aspects | Children with social disabilities | Sociology, Social Studies | Urban poor--England--Longitudinal studies | Community-based child welfare--England--Longitudinal studies | Poor families--Social aspects--England--Longitudinal studies | Inner cities--Social aspects--England--Longitudinal studies | Poor children--England--Longitudinal studies | Children with social disabilities--England--Longitudinal studies | City children--England--Longitudinal studies | Sociology | Political Science | England | Urban poor

Developments in IT and communication technology, coupled with the global 24 hour market, have led to boundaries between work and personal life becoming ever... 
Organizational change | Work and family | Frau | Lernende Organisation | Humanisierung der Arbeit | Unternehmenskultur | Organisationswandel | Telearbeit | Beruf | Lebensqualität | Erwerbstätiger | Kinderbetreuung | Arbeitsorganisation | Best-Practice-Modell | Arbeitszeitflexibilität | Mutter | Soziale Gerechtigkeit | Familie | Betriebsklima | Erwerbstätigkeit | Personalpolitik | Vater | Teilzeitbeschäftigung | Vereinigtes Königreich | Organizational Behavior | Business & Economics | Case studies

"For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted-relevant, real conversations about how race and... 
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global) | Feminism | African American feminists | United States | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory | African Americans | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies | Study and teaching

Research has traditionally shown high schools to be hostile environments for gay youth. Boys have used homophobia to prove their own masculinity and distance... 
Masculinity | Gay teenagers | High school students | Teenage boys | Homophobia | Attitudes | Homophobia in high schools | social psychology | Case studies | Great Britain | Boys | School | Inclusion | Sexuality

Single Women in Popular Culture demonstrates how single women continue to be figures of profound cultural anxiety. Examining a wide range of popular media... 
Single women | Gender, Race and Identity | Sociology of Culture and the Media | Popular Culture | Feminist theory

The Last Years of Long Lives is a unique account of that period of old age which precedes death. Based on 400 complete individual histories and covering a... 
Services for | Older people | Health and hygiene | Sociology, Social Studies | General Medicine | Longitudinal studies | Norway | Larvik

Why have the minutiae of how parents raise their children become routine sources of public debate and policy making? This book provides in-depth answers to... 
Parenting | Sociology: family & relationships | Children's Studies | Sociology of Childhood, Youth and Age | Working with Children and Families | Sociology/Marriage & Family | Child welfare | Family psychology | Social Policy and Welfare | Psychology of Relationships | Childhood and Youth | Parenting/Child Rearing | Child care & upbringing | Sociology of the Family | Family, Kinship and Marriage | Parent Participation | Social Psychology | Children, Youth and Family Policy | Social work | Social Work | Childhood, Adolescence and Society | Social Sciences | Learning & Instruction | Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging | Family | Parent and child

Family futures is about family life in areas of concentrated poverty and social problems where surrounding conditions make bringing up children more difficult... 
Urban poor | Economic aspects | Services for | Poor families | Poor children | Families | Political Science | Poor children - Services for

Birth control | Periodicals

During middle childhood, the period between ages 5 and 12, children gain the basic tools, skills and motivations to become productive members of their society.... 
Preteens | Child psychology | Longitudinal studies | Children | Child development

How should the corporate sector engage in fighting the global burden of the AIDS epidemic? India's relatively low HIV prevalence rate often raises the question... 
Employee health promotion | methods | HIV-positive persons | prevention & control | Social aspects | Patients | organization & administration | Prevention | HIV infections | Health Promotion | Employment | AIDS (Disease) | Organizations | Industrial hygiene | Case studies | India | FLOW OF INFORMATION | COMMUNICATION EFFORTS