This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring animal rights and animal welfare; whether and under what circumstances animals are regarded as social actors with agency; media representations of human-animal relations; and the relation between animals and national identity.

Human and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Carter, Bob

Charles, Nickie

Psychology & Counseling

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

There are continuing difficulties within social science surrounding concepts of race. This book suggests that these difficulties stem from the uncertain ontological and epistemological status of ideas about race, itself a consequence of the recognition that concepts of race have all but lost their relevance as sociologically significant descriptions. This book surveys ways in which social scientists have attempted to come to terms with this situation, before developing an alternative approach based on recent work by realist authors. This approach offers a radical revision of orthodox debates about race concepts, about the possibility of a social science and about the nature of empirical research. This illustrated through two policy examples: an account of post war migration to the UK, and debates about trans-racial adoption in the UK and the USA.

Realism and Racism: Concepts of Race in Sociological Research (Critical Realism: Interventions)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

There are continuing difficulties within social science surrounding concepts of race. This book suggests that these difficulties stem from the uncertain ontological and epistemological status of ideas about race, itself a consequence of the recognition that concepts of race have all but lost their relevance as sociologically significant descriptions. This book surveys ways in which social scientists have attempted to come to terms with this situation, before developing an alternative approach based on recent work by realist authors. This approach offers a radical revision of orthodox debates about race concepts, about the possibility of a social science and about the nature of empirical research. This illustrated through two policy examples: an account of post war migration to the UK, and debates about trans-racial adoption in the UK and the USA.

Realism and Racism (Critical Realism: Interventions)

Industrial Relations in Education: Transforming the School Workforce (Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context)

All phases of education from pre-school to post-compulsory, in virtually all parts of the world, have experienced unprecedented reform and restructuring in recent years. Restructuring has largely been driven by a global agenda that has promoted the development of human capital as the key to economic competitiveness in the global market. This book adopts an inter-disciplinary approach drawing not only on education research but also from the fields of industrial sociology, management studies and labour process theory to locate the reform agenda within a wider picture relating to teachers, their professional identities and their experience of work. In doing so the book draws on critical perspectives that seek to challenge orthodox policy discourses relating to remodelling. Illustrating of how education policy is shaped by discourses within the wider socio-political environment and how unionization and inter-organizational bargaining between unions exerts a decisive, but often ignored, influence on policy development at both a State and institutional level, this book is a must read for anyone researching or studying employment relations.

Stevenson,Howard

Sociology

Non-manual workers are fast becoming the largest occupational category in Western capitalist countries. This is the first book to present a detailed socialist analysis of this much discussed change in the class structure of contemporary capitalism.  Focusing on the class position of managerial and supervisory workers, Robert Carter takes as his starting-point the inadequacy of both orthodox Marxist and Weberian models of class relations. Rather, he concurs with recent structuralist theorists of class who maintain that there exists between capital and labour in the process of producing a new middle class. He parts company from the work of these theorists, however, in his insistence that the organisation and consciousness of the new middle class have also to be examined because of the practical consequences these have on class relations.  The book therefore examines the historical rise of the middle class, both in the private and the state sector, together with the tendency of the class to respond to its changing relations with capital and labour by unionising. It is sharply critical of the dominant models of the causes and nature of white-collar unionism – both industrial relations and Weberian ones – and indeed rejects these models in favour of a perspective which views the extent and nature of middle-class unionism within the dynamics of class relations.

Capitalism, Class Conflict, and the New Middle Class (International Library of Sociology)

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Applied Linguistics as Social Science surveys the increasing dialogue between linguistics and social theory. The book shows how social theory, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics share a set of common concerns, and how an analysis of these to produce a social scientific account of applied linguistics helps to explain the interaction between social structures, human agents and language. Foreword • Introduction • Making connections: some key issues in social theory and applied linguistics • Sociology and ideas about language • Language as a cultural emergent property • Researching language learning: theories, evidence, claims • Social categories and theoretical descriptions • Social domain theory: interpreting intercultural communication • Language in the world: properties and powers • A social realist approach to research in applied linguistics

Applied Linguistics as Social Science (Advances in Applied Linguistics)

Sealey, Alison

Continuum

Ages 10 and up. These twelve real-life stories are sure to please the reader who enjoys tales of ghosts and strange visitations. This is not a true "horror" book. The tales are based on real claims--people who say they saw or experienced the event or on historical accounts of unsolved mysteries. Willowisp Press imprint.

Real-Life Scary Kids

Children's Books

Dils, Tracey E.

Schmidt, Bill

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Willowisp Pr

Ages 10 and up. These twelve real-life stories are sure to please the reader who enjoys tales of ghosts and strange visitations. This is not a true "horror" book. The tales are based on real claims--people who say they saw or experienced the event or on historical accounts of unsolved mysteries. Willowisp Press imprint.

Real-Life Strange Encounters

Haynie, Jeff

Originally published in 1986, the 1970s and 80s saw the emergence of the 'the new working class' or 'new middle class'. This book is an authoritative study of the 'white collar workers' relationship with their unions and analysis of their newly designated class. The authors drew extensively on original fieldwork and verbatim accounts from technical workers and foremen in industry. White Collar Workers examines the particular circumstances of different groups of workers and their functions in relation to capital and labour. It analyses changes in the composition of union membership and the effect of these changes on the structure and policy of unions.

White Collar Workers (Routledge Library Editions: Trade Unions)

Smith, Chris

Nichols, Theo

Armstrong, Peter

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Human and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives

Realism and Racism: Concepts of Race in Sociological Research (Critical Realism: Interventions)

Realism and Racism (Critical Realism: Interventions)

Industrial Relations in Education: Transforming the School Workforce (Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context)

Capitalism, Class Conflict, and the New Middle Class (International Library of Sociology)

Applied Linguistics as Social Science (Advances in Applied Linguistics)

Applied Linguistics as Social Science (Advances in Applied Linguistics)

Real-Life Scary Kids

Real-Life Strange Encounters

White Collar Workers (Routledge Library Editions: Trade Unions)