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University of Melbourne
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-12-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-02-2007
DOI: 10.1002/9781405165518.WBEOSL044
Abstract: The term life course refers to the idea that the course of one's life is not just determined by a natural process of aging but is mainly shaped by social institutions and sociocultural values as well as by decisions and unexpected events. Thus the life course consists of life stages (e.g., childhood, youth, adulthood), status passages or transitions (e.g., from youth to adulthood, from student to professional), and life events (e.g., marriage, job loss, illness). Formal institutions such as the law and the welfare state ascribe rights and duties by age and formal status, and when, for ex le, to start a family and how to ide labor within the household are also structured by sociocultural norms and habits.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-02-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-11-2009
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 31-03-2016
Publisher: Duncker & Humblot GmbH
Date: 03-2011
DOI: 10.3790/SFO.60.3.57
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2004
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 09-2008
Publisher: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-07-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-01-2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 09-01-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S1474746412000668
Abstract: Large representative surveys have become a valuable resource to inform public policy in an increasingly complex modern world. They provide authority to policy since they are considered objective, neutral and scientific. In contrast, this article conceives the production of knowledge as an interactive process. We argue that the conduct of large social surveys tends to reinforce existing world views, power relations and a narrow construction of social issues. To illustrate this, we draw on a small exploratory study which examined the experience of responding to selected survey questions of the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia study (HILDA). We suggest that while more open approaches are required to capture the complexities of everyday life, these are unlikely to be implemented given the dominance of particular forms of knowledge.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-12-2014
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-02-2007
DOI: 10.1002/9781405165518.WBEOSA083
Abstract: The neurobiologists Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela introduced the term autopoiesis in the 1970s in order to describe how living systems (e.g., human, plant, cell, or microbe) produce and reproduce themselves. Combining the idea of autonomy and production, autopoiesis means in short the continual self‐production of living systems. The components of an autopoietic system reproduce themselves and the relations between them by these components and relations (Maturana et al. 1974 Maturana & Varela 1987). It is therefore operationally closed: the system determines the rules of reproduction relatively independently of its specific environment.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-11-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-02-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-02-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-02-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-02-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-02-2007
DOI: 10.1002/9781405165518.WBEOSI030
Abstract: In idualism emphasizes the importance of the in idual, for ex le the in idual's freedom, interests, rights, needs, or beliefs against the predominance of other institutions in regulating the in idual's behavior, such as the state or the church. A range of theories in different societal domains contributes to the dissemination of in idualistic ideas in society. In particular, economic and political liberalism are vehicles of in idualism.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2005
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-11-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-03-2023
DOI: 10.1177/14407833231162865
Abstract: Even though risk-taking is a common and widespread social experience sociological theorizing on the concept is scarce. This contribution aims to systematize and advance understanding of risk-taking and its different forms and how these connect to social inequalities and the social machinery. It considers risk-taking in the context of the debate about Bourdieu's theory of practice and Archer's theory of morphogenesis before suggesting a conceptual framework that outlines different rationales, dimensions, and the role of agency for understanding risk-taking as an in idual and as a collective activity. The concept highlights the ambivalent character of risk-taking as an expression and mode of reproducing inequalities and a crucial resource to overcome disadvantage and foster social change.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-05-2018
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 09-2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 21-02-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S1474746412000681
Abstract: In social policy debates and research over recent years, ‘risk’, ‘social inclusion’ and ‘the life course’ have become influential topics. In this themed section we will revisit these concepts and analyse how they have influenced policy debates and research in Australia and elsewhere. The contributions were developed as part of a research collaboration that brings together expertise from social policy, gender studies, risk sociology, social work, youth studies and research on ageing and old age. This introduction outlines the concepts and dimensions we found helpful for analysing social policy practice and research and the key arguments of the contributions.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-07-2014
Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Date: 1997
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-03-2006
DOI: 10.1111/J.1539-6924.2006.00746.X
Abstract: This article reviews the main approaches to risk in psychology and sociology and considers recent developments. It shows that research continues from a wide range of perspectives. Some developments in psychological thinking have recently acknowledged the importance of the cultural framing of risk perceptions and responses and the positive power of emotions to manage uncertainties, while some streams of work in sociology have moved toward more in idualist approaches. These converging processes open opportunities for cross-fertilization and for using insights from both disciplines in the development of research.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-06-2021
DOI: 10.1177/00113921211023518
Abstract: This conclusion revisits the COVID-19 pandemic from the broader perspective of a changing global world. It raises questions regarding the opportunities for global learning under conditions of global isions and competition and includes learning from the Other, governing within a changing public sphere, and challenging national cultural practices. Moreover, it exemplifies how the society–nature–technology nexus has become crucial for understanding and reconstructing the dynamics of the coronavirus crisis such as the assemblages of geographical conditions, technological means and the governing of ignorance, the occurrence of hotspots as well as living under lockdown conditions. It finishes with some preliminary suggestions how reoccurring pandemics might contribute to long-term changes in human attitudes and behaviour towards the environment and a technologically shaped lifeworld.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-02-2007
DOI: 10.1002/9781405165518.WBEOSU001
Abstract: Uncertainty is characterized by cognitive and emotional elements. Uncertainty indicates unclear, ambiguous, or contradictory cognitive constructions, which cause feelings of uncertainty.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-11-2016
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 03-2015
DOI: 10.1086/679653
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-03-2007
DOI: 10.1108/01443330710722760
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of “risk” in relation to old age. Ideas are explored linked with what has been termed as the “risk society” and the extent to which it has become part of the organizing ground of how we define and organise the “personal” and “social spaces” in which to grow old in western modernity. A theoretical paper in three parts, including: an introduction to the relevance and breakdown in trust relations a mapping out of the key assumptions of risk society and ex les drawn from social welfarism to consolidate an understanding of the contructedness of old age in late modernity. Part of this reflexive response to understanding risk and old age is the importance of recognising self‐subjective dimensions of emotions, trust, biographical knowledge and resources. This discussion provides a critical narrative to the importance and interrelatedness of the sociology of risk to the study of old age.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-10-2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 31-08-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-02-2007
DOI: 10.1002/9781405165518.WBEOSR037
Abstract: Ulrich Beck introduced the term reflexive modernity (also called second modernity) by explicitly demarcating himself from postmodern approaches which would imply that current developments go beyond modernity (Beck et al. 2003).
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 16-10-2012
DOI: 10.1017/S1474746412000553
Abstract: Increasingly, social policies combine to intensify old risks and create new social risks with unequal consequences for men and women. These risks include those created by changing normative expectations and the resulting tensions between social policy, paid employment and family life. Policy reliance on highly aggregated standardised outcome data and generalised models of autonomous rational action result in policies that lack an understanding of the rationales that structure everyday life. Drawing on two Australian studies, we illustrate the importance of attending to the intersections and collisions of social change and normative policy frameworks from the perspective of in idual ‘lived lives’.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2011
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 23-08-2021
Abstract: This paper presents an annotation approach to examine uncertainty in British and German newspaper articles on the coronavirus pandemic. We develop a tagset in an interdisciplinary team from corpus linguistics and sociology. After working out a gold standard on a pilot corpus, we apply the annotation to the entire corpus drawing on an “annotation-by-query” approach in CQPWeb , based on uncertainty constructions that have been extracted from the gold standard data. The annotated data are then evaluated and sociologically contextualised. On this basis, we study the development of uncertainty markers in the period under study and compare media discourses in Germany and the UK. Our findings reflect the different courses of the pandemic in Germany and the UK as well as the different political responses, media traditions and cultural concerns: While markers of fear are more important in British discourse, we see a steadily increasing level of disagreement in German discourse. Other forms of uncertainty such as ‘possibility’ or ‘probability’ are similarly frequent in both discourses.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 25-01-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S1474746412000711
Abstract: ‘Risk’, ‘social inclusion’ and the ‘life course’ have become key notions in social policy after the Golden Age of welfare capitalism. This article reviews some of the key debates and developments in Australian social policy and research that underpin the contributions to this themed section. From ‘new social risks’ to ‘the great risk shift’ and the broader debates about the ‘risk society’ and ‘governmentality’, it reviews debates about social inclusion and the in idualisation of risk, the risk shift in service delivery and the understanding and researching of the new life course. It concludes with suggestions for more community based research to inform social policy.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-06-2021
DOI: 10.1177/00113921211020771
Abstract: With SARS-CoV-2 a new coronavirus is spreading around the world that challenges governments and triggers unprecedented social responses. Worldwide people have had to manage the experience of an uncertain new threat under very different conditions. A growing body of research and theoretical approaches tries to make sense of the social responses to the pandemic. This monograph issue contributes to the research on the first wave of the pandemic from the perspective of the sociology of risk and uncertainty. This includes a number of key topics such as care workers’ experiences in the Netherlands, stigmatisation and Othering in India, the multidimensionality of social inequalities in the experience of confinement in Argentina, mourning practices in Iran, discourses of legitimacy in Sweden, distrust in government in Hong Kong, risk communication in the UK, and fake news in social media. This introduction sets these contributions in the broader context of key debates in the sociology of risk and uncertainty such as rational, in-between and non-rational approaches to risk in everyday life, the Othering of social groups, the multidimensionality of risk and inequality, the debate about methodological cosmopolitanism, the discursive construction of legitimacy, the significance of (dis)trust for public engagement with risk, shortcomings in risk communication, and framing of fake news and conspiracy theories. The monograph concludes with reflections on perspectives for social learning, the importance of the society–nature–technology nexus for the understanding of the crisis, and finally, with envisioning possible pathways towards a new normal.
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