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In this era of rapid and unsettling change boys now more than ever face difficulties in establishing their self-image and status. In this original and challenging study Mike O'Donnell and Sue Sharpe explore how teenage boys from white, African-Caribbean and Asian backgrounds negotiate contemporary uncertainties to construct their gender identities. Drawing theoretical insights about how class, race and ethnicity critically affect the formulation of masculinities throughout, the authors examine: * the discrepancies between boys and girls' attitudes and expectations *the split between boys' formal acceptance of politically correct ideas and their informal behaviour amongst the peer group *boys' leisure pursuits including involvement in illegal activities and their selective identification with global youth culture. Uncertain Masculinities is a fascinating account of the complexity of contemporary boys' identities and will be of use to students of the sociology of youth and of gender studies.
Age and Generation introduces students to the main sociological and
anthropological issues surrounding this topic, from childhood to
old age, and focuses, in particular, on youth culture.
"Age and Generation" introduces students to the main sociological
and anthropological issues surrounding this topic, from childhood
to old age, and focuses, in particular, on youth culture.
The first two decades of the new millennium brought with it a chain
of crises and reaction headlined by the plane-bombing of New York's
Trade Center twin towers, the financial crash of 2007-8 and
subsequent austerity, and latterly Brexit, the rise and fall (for
now) of Donald Trump, including the Capitol attack, and Covid-19.
The health and political aspects of the virus are discussed in the
context of planetary well-being and climate change. Crises and
Popular Dissent brings these apparently disparate issues into focus
by addressing five thematic questions: Why from being the hegemonic
global ideology did liberalism go into crisis? What do populists
want that liberalism is not providing? Why is nationalism so
important to right populists? What part might social movements play
in a progressive revival? What might a participatory democratic and
progressive future mean for the planet and the species? The
concluding chapter is interactive asking readers to consider issues
raised in the text as individuals and members of groups.
O'Donnell's main focus is on liberalism and populism in the United
States, Europe and Britain, arguing for an internationalist rather
than nationalist perspective and response to the turmoil of the
period. A pattern emerges of right populism primarily as a reactive
phenomenon to immigration mediated by nationalism, partly obscuring
causes of structural inequality exacerbated by neoliberalism.
Particular attention is given to left social movement movements
such as Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter in building a
left radical response. O'Donnell provides an informed, integrated
and distinctive approach to the recent evolution of popular
dissent.
In this collection, innovative and eminent social and policy
analysts, including Colin Crouch, Anna Coote, Grahame Thompson and
Ted Benton, challenge the failing but still dominant ideology and
policies of neo-liberalism. The editors synthesise contributors'
ideas into a revised framework for social democracy; rooted in
feminism, environmentalism, democratic equality and market
accountability to civil society. This constructive and stimulating
collection will be invaluable for those teaching, studying and
campaigning for transformative political, economic and social
policies.
'Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism' explores and
re-analyses major events, debates and themes from the radical
developments of the 1960s and relates them to contemporary social
movements and issues.
Unlike many partisan accounts of the nineteen sixties this book
aims to give a considered explanation of the context in which the
sixties radical movements arose and, also, their significance from
the standpoint of various nations' actors, often ignored by North
American and West European standpoints. Secondly, it examines how
the radical decade sowed the seeds of various liberation or 'rights
movements' - initially in the West but also globally as movements
became increasingly diffused. Contributors' varied international
backgrounds and specialities provide expertise in examining the
international context. Thirdly, many nineteen sixties' radicals'
values and strategies recur in contemporary social movements;
albeit in different technological and, post 9/11, political and
cultural environments. Unravelling similarities and differences is
a key theme. Fourthly, many participants in sixties radicalism saw
it as 'cultural' as well as 'political' and in some historical
treatments as primarily or 'only' cultural. Detailed examinations
of this perspective involve critical discussion - particularly in
the light of the allegedly 'mere' (i.e. apolitical) cultural
hedonism and escapism of youth in the nineteen eighties and
nineties. Contrarily, the contributions here assess resonances
between the radical/libertarian emphasis on civil society
'freedoms' in sixties' cultural radicalism and, arguably, today's
more self-consciously political global human rights movement. The
conclusion suggests that, in some senses, the sixties live on today
in discursive and political themes.
The relationship of social structure to individual and collective
agency has been central to sociology from the outset. It remains so
in period in which poststructuralists have challenged the idea of
stable social structures and even the usefulness in social science
of the concept of structure itself. The historical trajectory of
the debate about the respective importance of structure and agency
and the relationship between the two provides the narrative context
of this collection of articles. The point of arranging this
collection of articles predominantly in historical sequence is not
simply a matter of convenience. Historical context has a major
impact on forming the concerns of sociologists and, equally
significantly, on the way they perceive and theorise the social
world. Volume One: Modernity, Sociology and the Structure/Agency
Debate Volume Two: Postmodernity - An End to the Structure /Agency
Dichotomy? Volume Three: Structure/Agency Theories Applied Volume
Four: Network Theory - Transcending the Traditional Limits of
Structure/Agency
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