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The authors take three particular sociological perspectives, and use them to offer a distinct and critical reading of criminology, highlighting the ways that crime is, first and foremost, a matter of social definition. They provide a good intnroductory text which will be of great value to students.
The authors take three particular sociological perspectives, and
use them to offer a distinct and critical reading of criminology,
highlighting the ways that crime is, first and foremost, a matter
of social definition. They provide a good introductory text which
will be of great value to students.
In the spirit of Ivan Illich's 1968 speech 'To hell with good
intentions', the book takes aim at a ubiquitous form of
contemporary ideology, namely the concept of global citizenship.
Its characteristic discourse can be found inhabiting a nexus of
four complexes of 'ruling' institutions, namely universities with
their international service learning, the United Nations and allied
international institutions bent on global citizenship education,
international non-governmental organizations and foundations
promoting social entrepreneurship, and global corporations and
their mouthpieces pitching corporate social responsibility and
sustainable development. The question is: in the context of
Northern or Western imperialism and US-led, neoliberal, global,
corporate capitalism, and the planetary Armageddon they are
wringing, what is the concept of global citizenship doing for these
institutions? The studies in the book put this question to each of
these four institutional complexes from broadly political-economic
and post-colonial premises, focusing on the concept's discursive
use, against the background of the mounting production of the
global non-citizen as the global citizen's 'other'. Addressed to
all users of the concept of global citizen(ship) from university
students and faculty in global studies to social entrepreneurs and
United Nations bureaucrats, the book's studies ultimately ask
whether the idea helps or hinders the global quest for social and
economic justice.
A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its
distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological
literature. Through detailed examples and analysis, it shows how
crime is a product of processes of criminalisation constituted
through the interactional and organizational use of language. In
this welcome second edition, the book reviews and evaluates the
current state of criminological theory from this "grammatical"
perspective. It maintains and develops its critical and subversive
stance but greatly widens its theoretical range, including
dedicated chapters on gender, race, class and the post-als
including postcolonialism. It now also provides questions,
exercises and further readings alongside its detailed analysis of a
set of international examples, both classical and contemporary.
A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its
distinctive and systematic contribution to the criminological
literature. Through detailed examples and analysis, it shows how
crime is a product of processes of criminalisation constituted
through the interactional and organizational use of language. In
this welcome second edition, the book reviews and evaluates the
current state of criminological theory from this "grammatical"
perspective. It maintains and develops its critical and subversive
stance but greatly widens its theoretical range, including
dedicated chapters on gender, race, class and the post-als
including postcolonialism. It now also provides questions,
exercises and further readings alongside its detailed analysis of a
set of international examples, both classical and contemporary.
In the spirit of Ivan Illich's 1968 speech 'To hell with good
intentions', the book takes aim at a ubiquitous form of
contemporary ideology, namely the concept of global citizenship.
Its characteristic discourse can be found inhabiting a nexus of
four complexes of 'ruling' institutions, namely universities with
their international service learning, the United Nations and allied
international institutions bent on global citizenship education,
international non-governmental organizations and foundations
promoting social entrepreneurship, and global corporations and
their mouthpieces pitching corporate social responsibility and
sustainable development. The question is: in the context of
Northern or Western imperialism and US-led, neoliberal, global,
corporate capitalism, and the planetary Armageddon they are
wringing, what is the concept of global citizenship doing for these
institutions? The studies in the book put this question to each of
these four institutional complexes from broadly political-economic
and post-colonial premises, focusing on the concept's discursive
use, against the background of the mounting production of the
global non-citizen as the global citizen's 'other'. Addressed to
all users of the concept of global citizen(ship) from university
students and faculty in global studies to social entrepreneurs and
United Nations bureaucrats, the book's studies ultimately ask
whether the idea helps or hinders the global quest for social and
economic justice.
"Who has the right to know?" asks Jean-Francois Lyotard. "Who has
the right to eat?" asks Peter Madaka Wanyama. This book asks: "what
does it mean to be a responsible academic in a 'northern'
university given the incarnate connections between the university's
operations and death and suffering elsewhere?" Through studies of
the "neoliberal university" in Ontario, the "imperial university"
in relation to East Timor, the "chauvinist university" in relation
to El Salvador, and the "gendered university" in relation to the
Montreal Massacre, the author challenges himself and the reader to
practice intellectual citizenship everywhere from the classroom to
the university commons to the street. Peter Eglin argues that the
moral imperative to do so derives from the concept of incarnation.
Here the idea of incarnation is removed from its Christian context
and replaced with a political-economic interpretation of the
embodiment of exploited labor. This embodiment is presented through
the material goods that link the many's compromised right to eat
with the privileged few's right to know.
Media Studies presents the first collection of studies of mass
media texts of various genres from an ethnomethodological point of
view. This distinct point of view derives from the analytical
attention to the way in which sense may be made of cultural
products, focusing on the logic of textual production that enables
its practitioners to avoid the stipulative classifications of
traditional content analysis, the sterility of hermeneutical
debates, and the ethical quagmires of the critique of ideologies.
This collection offers an advancement of the analytical ambitions
that require close attention be paid to the details of human
conduct in real time and to the articulation of descriptive
vocabularies which accurately characterize the concepts, reasoning,
knowledge, and upon which such conduct depends and exhibits. It
furthers both media studies and ethnomethodology, providing the
intellectual rigor sought after by practitioners of
ethnomethodology and an extension of this kind of inquiry into the
heart of media research.
This collection of new studies in ethnomethodology addresses
sociology's classical questions by developing that strand of
ethnomethodological inquiry dealing with membership categorization.
This book provides detailed studies of members' use of membership
categories across various settings from the O.J. Simpson trial, via
TV commercials and news headlines, to school staff and referral
meetings. The studies show that category use is occasional, that
culture is always internal to action; accordingly sociology's key
theoretical problems and substantive areas are re-specified in
terms of members' methods of membership categorization. This is the
first collection of original, unpublished studies by
internationally renowned practitioners of ethnomethodology of
members' uses of the descriptive resources of language to describe
persons. Co-published with The International Institute for
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis.
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