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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions
Jan Ken Po, Ai Kono Sho"" ""Junk An'a Po, I Canna Show"" These
words to a simple child's game brought from Japan and made local,
the property of all of Hawaii's people, symbolize the cultural
transformation experienced by Hawaii's Japanese. It is the story of
this experience that Dennis Ogawa tells so well here.
This book calls attention to the impact of stigma experienced by
people who use illicit drugs. Stigma is powerful: it can do untold
harm to a person and place with longstanding effects. Through an
exploration of themes of inequality, power, and feeling 'out of
place' in neoliberal times, this collection focuses on how stigma
is negotiated, resisted and absorbed by people who use drugs. How
does stigma get under the skin? Drawing on a range of theoretical
frameworks and empirical data, this book draws attention to the
damaging effects stigma can have on identity, recovery, mental
health, desistance from crime, and social inclusion. By connecting
drug use, stigma and identity, the authors in this collection share
insights into the everyday experiences of people who use drugs and
add to debate focused on an agenda for social justice in drug use
policy and practice.
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology continues to be one of
the most sought after and cited series in this field. Containing
contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest, this
series represents the best and brightest in new research, theory,
and practice in social psychology. This serial is part of the
Social Sciences package on ScienceDirect, and is available online
beginning with volume 32 onward.
In this fifth book on sport and the nature of reputation, editors
Lisa Doris Alexander and Joel Nathan Rosen have tasked their
contributors with examining reputation from the perspective of
celebrity and spectacle, which in some cases can be better defined
as scandal. The subjects chronicled in this volume have all proven
themselves to exist somewhere on the spectacular spectrum-the
spotlight seemed always to gravitate toward them. All have
displayed phenomenal feats of athletic prowess and artistry, and
all have faced a controversy or been thrust into a situation that
grows from age-old notions of the spectacle. Some handled the
hoopla like the champions they are, or were, while others struggled
and even faded amid the hustle and flow of their runaway celebrity.
While their individual narratives are engrossing, these stories
collectively paint a portrait of sport and spectacle that offers
context and clarity. Written by a range of scholarly contributors
from multiple disciplines, The Circus Is in Town: Sport, Celebrity,
and Spectacle contains careful analysis of such megastars as LeBron
James, Tonya Harding, David Beckham, Shaquille O'Neal, Maria
Sharapova, and Colin Kaepernick. This final volume of a project
that has spanned the first three decades of the twenty-first
century looks to sharpen questions regarding how it is that
reputations of celebrity athletes are forged, maintained,
transformed, repurposed, destroyed, and at times rehabilitated. The
subjects in this collection have been driven by this notion of the
spectacle in ways that offer interesting and entertaining inquiry
into the arc of athletic reputations. Contributions by Lisa Doris
Alexander, Matthew H. Barton, Andrew C. Billings, Carlton Brick,
Ted M. Butryn, Brian Carroll, Arthur T. Challis, Roxane Coche,
Curtis M. Harris, Jay Johnson, Melvin Lewis, Jack Lule, Rory
Magrath, Matthew A. Masucci, Andrew McIntosh, Jorge E. Moraga,
Leigh M. Moscowitz, David C. Ogden, Joel Nathan Rosen, Kevin A.
Stein, and Henry Yu.
The first decades of the twenty-first century have been beset by
troubling social realities: coalition warfare, global terrorism and
financial crisis, climate change, epidemics of family violence,
violence toward women, addiction, neo-colonialism, continuing
racial and religious conflict. While traumas involving large-scale
or historical violence are widely represented in trauma theory,
familial trauma is still largely considered a private matter,
associated with personal failure. This book contributes to the
emerging field of feminist trauma theory by bringing focus to works
that contest this tendency, offering new understandings of the
significance of the literary testimony and its relationship to
broader society. The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma adopts an
interdisciplinary approach in examining how the literary testimony
of familial transgenerational trauma, with its affective and
relational contagion, illuminates transmissive cycles of trauma
that have consequences across cultures and generations. It offers
bold and insightful readings of works that explore those
consequences in story-Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family
Tragicomic (2006), Helene Cixous's Hyperdream (2009), Marguerite
Duras's The Lover (1992), Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy (1999),
and Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013),
concluding that such testimony constitutes a fundamentally feminist
experiment and encounter. The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma
challenges the casting of familial trauma in ahistorical terms, and
affirms both trauma and writing as social forces of political
import.
Georgia Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange
events, and mysteries in Georgia's history. Each episode included
in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the
book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested
in Georgia history. From the puzzle of lost confederate gold to a
woman who mysteriously spent her life waving at more than 50,000
passing ships, this selection of stories from Georgia's past
explores some of the Peach State's most compelling mysteries and
debunks some of its most famous myths.
Combining paid work with caring for children has become more
difficult for families as women's working hours have increased.
Over the past decade the issue of work-family balance has reached a
more prominent place on the policy agenda of many Western European
countries. However the preoccupations of governments have been
largely instrumental, focusing particularly on the goal of
increasing female employment rates in order to achieve greater
competitiveness and economic growth, and also in many countries on
raising fertility rates and promoting children's early learning.
This important book looks at the three main components of
work-family policy packages - childcare services, flexible working
patterns and entitlements to leave from work in order to care -
across EU15 Member States, with comparative reference to the US. It
also provides an in-depth examination of developments in the UK.
Variations in national priorities, policy instruments, established
policy orientations and the context for policy making in terms of
employment patterns, fertility behaviour and attitudes towards work
and care are highlighted. Gender inequalities in the division of
paid and unpaid work underpin the whole issue of work-family
balance. But what constitutes gender equality in this crucial
policy field? Jane Lewis argues that in spite of growing political
emphasis on the importance of 'choice', a 'real' choice to engage
in either or both the socially necessary activities of paid and
unpaid work has remained elusive. Work-Family Balance, Gender and
Policy is essential reading for students and scholars who wish to
understand the complex challenges facing families and family policy
and the opportunities for the future.
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