Transnational Family Life -- Urban Sociology -- European Sociology.The authors focus on families who organize their lives in transnational social spaces within and at the outer borders of Europe, to offer a new perspective on transnational family life and to advance the knowledge on borders drawn by social inequality, discrimination and political exclusion. They also discuss social mobility as …
1. Introduction -- Part I. Making Scientific and Medical Truths -- 2. Alzheimer’s in the Making -- 3. The Pharmaceuticalized Prostate -- 4. New Puberty; New Trans: Children, Pharmaceuticals and Politics -- Part II. Creating Subjectivities for “Patients” in Advertising -- 5. Prescribing Relational Subjectivities -- 6. You Will Protect Your Daughter, Right? -- Part III. Different HPV Vaccin…
Preface; José Casanova -- Part 1: Basics of Diffused Religion -- 1. The Theory of Diffused Religion -- 2. Socialization and Diffused Religion -- 3. Values and Global Society -- 4. Diffused Secular Religiosity -- 5. World Diffused Religions -- Part 2: Diffused Religion In Practice -- 6. Religion and Politics: A Peculiar Case -- 7. Religion and Values -- 8. Diffused Values -- 9. From Invisible R…
Chapter 1: Fathers on Leave Alone: Setting the Scene: Margaret O’Brien and Karin Wall -- Chapter 2: The Ethics of Care and the Radical Potential of Fathers ‘Home Alone on Leave’: Care as Practice, Relational Ontology, and Social Justice: Andrea Doucet -- Chapter 3: Fathers on Leave Alone in Norway: Changes and Continuities: Elin Kvande and Berit Brandth -- Chapter 4: Fathers on Leave …
1: Introduction: Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origin: Claudio Bolzman, Laura Bernardi, Jean-Marie Le Goff -- Part I: Comparison as Key Methodological Tool ad Challenging Perspective in Study of the Children of Migrants: 2: Damned of you do, Damned if you don’t: The Challenges of Including and Comparing the Children of Immigrants in European Survey Data: Laurence Lessard-P…
1. Introduction -- 2. Theory and Methods -- 3. Understanding Veganism -- 4. Queering Veganism -- 5. Demonstrating Veganism -- 6. Criminalising Veganism -- 7. Conclusion.This book focuses on the increasingly popular phenomenon of veganism, a way of living that attempts to exclude all animal products on ethical grounds. Using data from biographical interviews with vegans, the author untangles the…
Using a Life-World Approach to Understand Family Resilience -- Helping Families Survive and Thrive through the Premature Birth of an Infant -- Enhancing Coping and Resiliency among Families of Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease -- Translational Research and Clinical Applications in the Management of Cystic Fibrosis -- Improving Physician Self-efficacy and Reducing Provider Bias: A Family Scie…
1. Coffee and Death -- 2. Baby Boomers and the Death Café -- 3. Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action and the Colonization of the Lifeworld -- 4. Death Café Communicative Action -- 5. Death Sentiments and Death Themes -- 6. Enhancing Habermas with Erich Fromm and Kurt Wolff -- 7. Enhancing Habermas with Ray Oldenburg -- 8. Decolonizing the Lifeworld.This sociological work examines the ph…
Chapter 1: Bioethics Beyond Altruism -- Part I Stem Cells -- Chapter 2: Dead human bodies and embryos: Commonalities and disparities in ethical debate -- Chapter 3: The immortal life of ethics? The alienation of body tissue, ethics and the informed consent procedure within induced pluripotent stem cell research -- Chapter 4: On the everyday ethics of stem cell therapies in India -- Part II Assi…
1. Introduction -- 2. Beyond Body-Centrism: Contemporary Food Discourses and Feminist Research -- 3. A Smorgasbord of Food Femininities: Analysing Gender in Popular Food Discourses -- 4. Femininities-Lite: Feminist Empowerment and Diet Culture -- 5. Cooking Up Femininities: The Conflict Between Motherhood and Pleasure -- 6. Flavours of Feminism: The Personal is Personal -- 7. Unveiling a Patho…