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This book provides tips for social workers and carers to look after
cared-for children at school.
The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology
course today demand materials from a publisher very different from
the norm. Texts that are organized the way the discipline
structures itself intellectually no longer connect with the
majority of student learners. This is not an issue of pandering to
students or otherwise seeking the lowest common denominator. On the
contrary, it is a question of again making the practice of
sociological thinking meaningful, rigorous, and relevant to today's
world of undergraduates. This comparatively concise, highly visual,
and affordable book offers a refreshingly new way forward to reach
students, using one of the most powerful tools in a sociologist's
teaching arsenal-the familiar stuff in students' everyday lives
throughout the world: the jeans they wear to class, the coffee they
drink each morning, or the phones their professors tell them to put
away during lectures. A focus on consumer culture, seeing the
strange in the familiar, is not only interesting for students; it
is also (the authors suggest) pedagogically superior to more
traditional approaches. By engaging students through their stuff,
this book moves beyond teaching about sociology to helping
instructors teach the practice of sociological thinking. It moves
beyond describing what sociology is, so that students can practice
what sociological thinking can do. This pedagogy also posits a
relationship between teacher and learner that is bi-directional.
Many students feel a sense of authority in various areas of
consumer culture, and they often enjoy sharing their knowledge with
fellow students and with their instructor. Opening up the sociology
classroom to discussion of these topics validates students'
expertise on their own life-worlds. Teachers, in turn, gain insight
from the goods, services, and cultural expectations that shape
students' lives. While innovative, the book has been carefully
crafted to make it as useful and flexible as possible for
instructors aiming to build core sociological foundations in a
single semester. A map on pages ii-iii identifies core sociological
concepts covered so that a traditional syllabus as well as
individual lectures can easily be maintained. Theory, method, and
active learning exercises in every chapter constantly encourage the
sociological imagination as well as the "doing" of sociology.
The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology
course today demand materials from a publisher very different from
the norm. Texts that are organized the way the discipline
structures itself intellectually no longer connect with the
majority of student learners. This is not an issue of pandering to
students or otherwise seeking the lowest common denominator. On the
contrary, it is a question of again making the practice of
sociological thinking meaningful, rigorous, and relevant to today's
world of undergraduates. This comparatively concise, highly visual,
and affordable book offers a refreshingly new way forward to reach
students, using one of the most powerful tools in a sociologist's
teaching arsenal-the familiar stuff in students' everyday lives
throughout the world: the jeans they wear to class, the coffee they
drink each morning, or the phones their professors tell them to put
away during lectures. A focus on consumer culture, seeing the
strange in the familiar, is not only interesting for students; it
is also (the authors suggest) pedagogically superior to more
traditional approaches. By engaging students through their stuff,
this book moves beyond teaching about sociology to helping
instructors teach the practice of sociological thinking. It moves
beyond describing what sociology is, so that students can practice
what sociological thinking can do. This pedagogy also posits a
relationship between teacher and learner that is bi-directional.
Many students feel a sense of authority in various areas of
consumer culture, and they often enjoy sharing their knowledge with
fellow students and with their instructor. Opening up the sociology
classroom to discussion of these topics validates students'
expertise on their own life-worlds. Teachers, in turn, gain insight
from the goods, services, and cultural expectations that shape
students' lives. While innovative, the book has been carefully
crafted to make it as useful and flexible as possible for
instructors aiming to build core sociological foundations in a
single semester. A map on pages ii-iii identifies core sociological
concepts covered so that a traditional syllabus as well as
individual lectures can easily be maintained. Theory, method, and
active learning exercises in every chapter constantly encourage the
sociological imagination as well as the "doing" of sociology.
Over the space of a few generations, women's relationship with food
has changed dramatically. Yet - despite significant advances in
gender equality - food and femininity remain closely connected in
the public imagination as well as the emotional lives of women.
While women encounter food-related pressures and pleasures as
individuals, the social challenge to perform food femininities
remains: as the nurturing mother, the talented home cook, the
conscientious consumer, the svelte and health-savvy eater. In Food
and Femininity, Kate Cairns and Josee Johnston explore these
complex and often emotionally-charged tensions to demonstrate that
food is essential to the understanding of femininity today. Drawing
on extensive qualitative research in Toronto, they present the
voices of over 100 food-oriented men and women from a range of race
and class backgrounds. Their research reveals gendered expectations
to purchase, prepare, and enjoy food within the context of time
crunches, budget restrictions, political commitments, and the
pressure to manage health and body weight. The book analyses how
women navigate multiple aspects of foodwork for themselves and
others, from planning meals, grocery shopping, and feeding
children, to navigating conflicting preferences, nutritional and
ethical advice, and the often-inequitable division of household
labour. What emerges is a world in which women's choices continue
to be closely scrutinized - a world where 'failing' at food is
still perceived as a failure of femininity. A compelling rethink of
contemporary femininity, this is an indispensable read for anyone
interested in the sociology of food, gender studies and consumer
culture.
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Feminisms and Ruralities (Paperback)
Barbara Pini, Berit Brandth, Jo Little; Contributions by Jenny Barker Devine, Lia Bryant, …
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R1,609
Discovery Miles 16 090
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality
even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality
depend on intersections of several identities in each individual
life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the
majority of feminist academics or at least their urban
positionality once in the academy. It may equivalently be that
feminists have been influenced by stereotypes of rural women as
traditional and reactionary, and thus seen them as unlikely
exponents of gender equality, and an unfruitful focus for scholarly
energies. Perhaps the problem is a broader one, that is, reflective
of the much documented, but still apparent unwillingness of many
feminists to recognize and address difference in any of its
manifestations. Regardless, even with the recent interest in
intersectionality which has necessarily renewed and reenergized
debates in feminism about diversity and inclusion, the question of
how women are differently positioned because of their
non-metropolitan location has remained largely overlooked.
Over the space of a few generations, women's relationship with food
has changed dramatically. Yet - despite significant advances in
gender equality - food and femininity remain closely connected in
the public imagination as well as the emotional lives of women.
While women encounter food-related pressures and pleasures as
individuals, the social challenge to perform food femininities
remains: as the nurturing mother, the talented home cook, the
conscientious consumer, the svelte and health-savvy eater. In Food
and Femininity, Kate Cairns and Josee Johnston explore these
complex and often emotionally-charged tensions to demonstrate that
food is essential to the understanding of femininity today. Drawing
on extensive qualitative research in Toronto, they present the
voices of over 100 food-oriented men and women from a range of race
and class backgrounds. Their research reveals gendered expectations
to purchase, prepare, and enjoy food within the context of time
crunches, budget restrictions, political commitments, and the
pressure to manage health and body weight. The book analyses how
women navigate multiple aspects of foodwork for themselves and
others, from planning meals, grocery shopping, and feeding
children, to navigating conflicting preferences, nutritional and
ethical advice, and the often-inequitable division of household
labour. What emerges is a world in which women's choices continue
to be closely scrutinized - a world where 'failing' at food is
still perceived as a failure of femininity. A compelling rethink of
contemporary femininity, this is an indispensable read for anyone
interested in the sociology of food, gender studies and consumer
culture.
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Feminisms and Ruralities (Hardcover)
Barbara Pini, Berit Brandth, Jo Little; Contributions by Jenny Barker Devine, Lia Bryant, …
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R3,591
Discovery Miles 35 910
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Feminist concern with difference has rarely extended to rurality
even if it is now widely recognized that experiences of inequality
depend on intersections of several identities in each individual
life. This lack of concern may reflect the urban background of the
majority of feminist academics or at least their urban
positionality once in the academy. It may equivalently be that
feminists have been influenced by stereotypes of rural women as
traditional and reactionary, and thus seen them as unlikely
exponents of gender equality, and an unfruitful focus for scholarly
energies. Perhaps the problem is a broader one, that is, reflective
of the much documented, but still apparent unwillingness of many
feminists to recognize and address difference in any of its
manifestations. Regardless, even with the recent interest in
intersectionality which has necessarily renewed and reenergized
debates in feminism about diversity and inclusion, the question of
how women are differently positioned because of their
non-metropolitan location has remained largely overlooked.
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