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Andrew, Bradstock, Trotman Arlington, and Churches Together in Britain and Ireland., eds. Asylum voices: Experiences of people seeking asylum in the United Kingdom. London: Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, 2003.
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Reilly, Niamh. Women's human rights: Seeking gender justice in a globalizing age. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2009.
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Reilly, Niamh. Women's human rights: Seeking gender justice in a globalizing age. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2009.
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Fiske, Jo-Anne. Seeking alternatives to Bill C-31: From cultural trauma to cultural revitalization through customary law. Ottawa: Status of Women Canada, 2006.
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Sanderson, Laurie J. Feminine alienation in education: Seeking a redressing of the status quo. 1999.
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Liesen, Laurette T. Feminist and Evolutionary Perspectives of Female-Female Competition, Status Seeking, and Social Network Formation. Edited by Maryanne L. Fisher. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199376377.013.8.
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During the 1980s and 1990s, feminist evolutionists were instrumental in demonstrating that primate females, including girls and women, can be aggressive and seek status within their groups. Building on their insights, researchers from across disciplines have found that females use a variety of direct and indirect tactics as they pursue their reproductive success. To better understand women’s aggression and status seeking, one also must examine their social networks. Women must not only deal with the dynamics within their groups, they also must deal with pressures from other groups. Success in maintaining connections in one’s social network is vital for access to the various resources women need for their own reproductive success and to keep competitors in check. Overall, women’s social networks, while serving both supportive and competitive functions, profoundly impact on the reproductive future of women and especially the survival and future reproductive strategies of their children.
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Chryssochoou, Xenia. Social Justice in Multicultural Europe: A Social Psychological Perspective. Edited by Phillip L. Hammack. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199938735.013.18.
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Informed by Social Representations and Social Identity theories, this chapter argues that investigation of justice issues in multicultural Europe requires focusing on the ideological context in which justice is pursued or obstructed. Following Touraine (2005), it argues that two social representations of societal organization coexist in Europe with different implications for status, values, and justice attribution: one that organizes society and builds hierarchies in terms of merit; and another that organizes society according to cultural differences and to group membership. The use of each representation implies different criteria for distributive and procedural justice and emphasizes conflicts based on different memberships. A representation of society following a cultural order might hide the class membership of migrants and obstruct their individual mobility. Unable to fight in terms of class, migrants’ sole opportunity for seeking justice and equal treatment is to fight collectively by adopting an ethno-cultural or religious identity.
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Light, Ryan, and James Moody, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190251765.001.0001.
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Social networks fundamentally shape our lives. Networks channel the ways that information, emotions, and diseases flow through populations. Networks reflect differences in power and status in settings ranging from small peer groups to international relations across the globe. Network tools even provide insights into the ways that concepts, ideas and other socially generated contents shape culture and meaning. As such, the rich and diverse field of social network analysis has emerged as a central tool across the social sciences. This Handbook provides an overview of the theory, methods, and substantive contributions of this field. The thirty-three chapters move through the basics of social network analysis aimed at those seeking an introduction to advanced and novel approaches to modeling social networks statistically. The Handbook includes chapters on data collection and visualization, theoretical innovations, links between networks and computational social science, and how social network analysis has contributed substantively across numerous fields. As networks are everywhere in social life, the field is inherently interdisciplinary and this Handbook includes contributions from leading scholars in sociology, archaeology, economics, statistics, and information science among others.
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Bhugra, Dinesh, Antonio Ventriglio, and Kamaldeep S. Bhui. Therapeutic encounters. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198723196.003.0002.
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When individuals experience distress, they try to make sense of this and, in the first instance, may seek help from personal, folk, or social sectors. If these interventions do not work, they will contact the professional sector. It is likely that the healthcare system will direct their help-seeking behaviour. In addition, the explanatory models they have will direct them into help-seeking accordingly. Once therapeutic interaction has started, the explanatory models of the individuals, their families, carers, and those of the clinician will affect therapeutic engagement. Race, gender, social status, education, and economic status will all affect explanatory models and where individuals seek help. If different from that of the patient, the culture of the clinician will affect therapeutic alliance. Working with interpreters requires training if the primary language of the patient differs from that of the healthcare professional.
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Larsson, Tomas. The Rise of the Organic Foods Movement as a Transnational Phenomenon. Edited by Ronald J. Herring. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195397772.013.001.
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This article examines the rise of the organic foods movement to a position of power and influence around the world. The movement’s rise is attributed to the efficacy of “organic” as a mobilizing frame for a social movement, as well as to the institutional opportunities offered by states and international organizations. The article also discusses the organic foods movement as a model for other social movements seeking to attain transnational status.
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Hechtman, Lily. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190213589.003.0001.
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The introduction stresses that well-controlled long-term prospective follow-up studies helped establish the validity of ADHD in adulthood. No other publication brings together all these highly respected and well-established studies. The studies provide a comprehensive view of the impact of this condition in educational, occupational, social, emotional, and legal domains. The book also outlines factors that can influence long-term outcome and prognosis. These include treatment, IQ, socioeconomic status, and family functioning among others. This has current treatment implications for seeking more positive outcomes. Professionals can access these relevant factors in one place and use them in treatment planning.
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Schliesser, Eric. Society and Political Taxonomy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190690120.003.0006.
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This chapter discusses some of Adam Smith’s more important economic and political categories. It argue that it is misleading to understand Smith as a methodologic individualist. In particular, it argues that “society” is a crucial category in Smith’s political philosophy. But unlike the Stoicizing interpretation of Smith, this chapter argues that for Smith a society is not by definition harmonious. In particular, there is inherent class conflict between wage-earning and profit-seeking classes. Smith also diagnoses other sources of faction and pays particular attention to social orders. In addition, this chapter introduces Smith’s the nature of status quo bias when contemplating political change.
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Pu, Xiaoyu. Rebranding China. Stanford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503606838.001.0001.
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China plays a variety of status games, sometimes emphasizing its status as an emerging great power and other times highlighting its status as a fragile developing country. The reasons for this are unclear. Drawing on original Chinese sources, social psychological theories, and international relations theories, this book provides a theoretically informed analysis of China’s global rebranding and repositioning in the twenty-first century. Contrary to offensive realism and power transition theory, the book argues that China is not always a status maximizer eager to replace the United States as the new global leader. Differing from most constructivist and psychological studies that focus on the status seeking of rising powers, this study develops a theory of status signaling that combines both rationalist and constructivist insights. The book argues that Chinese leaders face competing pressure from domestic and international audiences to project different images. The book suggests that China’s continual struggle for international status is primarily driven by domestic political calculations. Meanwhile, at the international level, China is concerned about over-recognition of its status for instrumental reasons. The theoretical argument is illustrated through detailed analysis of Chinese foreign policy. Examining major cases such as China’s military transformation, China’s regional diplomacy, and China’s global diplomacy during the 1997 Asian and 2008 global financial crises, this book makes important contributions to international relations theory and Asian studies.
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Berg, Maxine. Luxury, the Luxury Trades, and the Roots of Industrial Growth: A Global Perspective. Edited by Frank Trentmann. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199561216.013.0009.
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Luxury and its discontents have become key areas of debate on our social condition in the late twentieth and early years of the twenty-first century. Luxury has become the common parlance of advertising and branding. It is part of the upscaling of consumer aspirations, and a turning away from the mass consumerism that underpinned consumer society from the 1960s to the 1980s. Aspirations are associated with luxury and designer goods, with lifestyle choices of affluence and distinction. Manufacturers give nearly every category of good they produce a premium brand; their products signal distinction and the pursuit of status. This phenomenon of upscaling, branding, and status-seeking through consumer goods has intensified dramatically since the 1980s, but it has also been with us a very long time. This article presents a global perspective on luxury, the luxury trades, and the roots of industrial growth. It examines luxury and consumption in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, social science theory and luxury, luxury's historical context, the debates over luxury goods, luxury and the global economy, and global export ware.
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Fung, Courtney J. China and Intervention at the UN Security Council. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842743.001.0001.
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What explains China’s response to intervention at the UN Security Council? China and Intervention at the UN Security Council argues that status is an overlooked determinant in understanding its decisions, even in the apex cases that are shadowed by a public discourse calling for regime change in Sudan, Libya, and Syria. The book posits that China reconciles its status dilemma as it weighs decisions to intervene: seeking recognition from both its intervention peer groups of great powers and developing states. Understanding the impact and scope conditions of status answers why China has taken certain positions regarding intervention and how these positions were justified. Foreign policy behavior that complies with status, and related social factors like self-image and identity, can at times mean that China selects policy options bearing material costs. China and Intervention at the UN Security Council offers a rich study of Chinese foreign policy, going beyond works available in breadth and in depth. It draws on an extensive collection of data, including over 200 interviews with UN officials and Chinese foreign policy elites, participant observation at UN Headquarters and a dataset of Chinese-language analysis regarding regime change and intervention. The book concludes with new perspectives on the malleability of China’s core interests, insights about the application of status for cooperation, and the implications of the status dilemma for rising powers.
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De Dreu, Carsten K. W., and Michael Giffin. Neuroendrocrine Pathways to In-Group Bounded Trust and Cooperation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190630782.003.0004.
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This chapter examines the possibility, implied by evolutionary theory, that humans may have a biological preparedness for in-group bounded trust and cooperation and that such biological preparedness co-opts core neuroendocrine pathways to (a) sustain trust and cooperation within groups and (b) facilitate aggression against human enemies and rivaling out-groups. The chapter reviews evidence from studies linking (in-group bounded, parochial) trust and cooperation to oxytocin and to testosterone. The review suggests that oxytocin promotes trust in, and cooperation towards, in-group members more than towards individuals considered unfamiliar or out-group; oxytocin also enables aggressive defense toward rivaling out-groups, especially when these threaten the in-group. Testosterone associates with social status seeking. These works suggest that oxytocin is co-opted to enable and motivate individuals to fit into their groups and contribute to group efficiency and defense, whereas testosterone is co-opted to enable and motivate individuals to achieve status within and between groups.
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Halliday, Daniel, and John Thrasher. The Ethics of Capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190096205.001.0001.
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This book acquaints the reader with arguments for the moral foundations of market society, as well as the applications of these arguments. Broadly, the book encourages a distinction between capitalism construed as an ideal rather than as a label for the economic status quo and its associated injustices. These foundational arguments are compared with arguments in favor of socialism. Special attention is paid to historically significant figures such as Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, and F.A. Hayek. Later chapters deal with more specific and contemporary themes. These include problems not fully foreseen by historic proponents of market order, such as the challenges of climate change, competitive consumption, and the need for an institutionalized order for global trade. Other chapters focus on institutions familiar to most market societies, such as a welfare state, as well as alternatives, such as basic income. Overall, the book seeks to both revisit historically influential arguments for capitalism while also seeking to examine how these historical views stand up to contemporary challenges of economic justice. The book is written primarily for an audience of undergraduates (including majors in the humanities and the social sciences). But it would also be useful for anyone seeking a summary of major themes in political economy, particularly those with moral significance.
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Underwood, Marion K., Samuel E. Ehrenreich, and Diana J. Meter. Methodological Approaches to Studying Relational Aggression. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190491826.003.0005.
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Relational aggression hurts because it damages friendships and social status (Crick & Grotpeter, 1995). The subtlety of behaviors such as malicious gossip, social exclusion, and relationship manipulation poses serious challenges for researchers seeking to measure relational aggression in reliable and valid ways. This chapter will review the methods used to measure relational aggression: self-reports, parent reports, teacher reports, peer nominations and ratings, diary and experience-sampling methods, observational approaches, and innovative experimental methods. Advantages and disadvantages of each method will be discussed, and evidence for validity will be presented. The chapter will also highlight why choices about methods of measuring relational aggression matter by noting key research questions that are answered in different ways, depending on the method used. The chapter will conclude with a summary of where we stand in terms of evidence for validity and inter-rater agreement and will also offer suggestions for future research.
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Gamberini, Andrea. The Duke and the Culture of Individual Distinction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824312.003.0017.
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The great challenge posed by the construction of a state based around a noble and princely structure led first of all to confrontation with those republican ideals that continued to guide large and small communities in their day-to-day operation. Once again, the Visconti and the Sforza did not merely set about seeking a peaceful modus vivendi, but attempted to dismantle competing cultures through the development of an alternative model of social organization, based on distinctions among men. Communitary egalitarianism was opposed by the valorization of individual excellence, which the prince acknowledged on the basis of status, wealth, and local influence. This resulted in a frontal attack on the political subjectivity of the communities, which, however, reacted in different ways in the cities and in the countryside. This chapter focuses on these aspects.
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Togni, Giulia de. Fall-Out from Fukushima: Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation and Legal Protection after the Triple Meltdown. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Togni, Giulia de. Fall-Out from Fukushima: Nuclear Evacuees Seeking Compensation and Legal Protection after the Triple Meltdown. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Hernandez, Rebecca Skreslet. Authority by Articulation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805939.003.0004.
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Chapters 3 and 4 are intended as a bridge between what al-Suyūṭī has to say about himself as part of his efforts to project authority as the leading scholar of his time and what others say about him, including his modern legacy. Although al-Suyūṭī failed to convince many of his contemporaries of his status as a mujtahid and mujaddid (scholar sent at the turn of each century to bring about religious renewal), his articulation of the concepts of ijtihād and tajdīd have proven influential to later scholars seeking to connect their own projects of reform to the classical tradition. Al-Suyūṭī’s contribution to the wider “tajdīd genre” in Islamic thought allowed his vision of ijtihād and tajdīd to break free of the narrow context of his squabbles with other scholars to help shape how others would view these concepts in the future in their own intellectual and social contexts.
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Weinberg, Leonard, and Eliot Assoudeh. Political Violence and the Radical Right. Edited by Jens Rydgren. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274559.013.21.
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This chapter, on contemporary radical right violence in Western Europe and North America, begins with a definitional question: what do we mean by “radical right” or “radical right populism”? Relying on the work of Cas Mudde and others, the stress is on nationalism, exclusionism (certain groups are not considered part of the national community), elitism, and monism (the idea that political questions have only one correct answer). The chapter then seeks to understand the conditions that give rise to radical right violence, relying on the work of Ehud Sprinzak and others. The stress is on particularistic violence and its use against minority groups seeking to assert claims to improved status in society. Vigilantism, employing violence outside the law in order to exert social control over the minority, is a common attribute. Finally, the chapter reviews the major forms of radical right violence, emphasizing “lone wolf” attacks and ethnic riots.
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Mertus, Julie. Global Governance and Feminist Activism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.203.
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Competing narratives exist in feminist scholarship about the successes and challenges of women’s activism in a globalized world. Some scholars view globalization as merely another form of imperialism, whereby a particular tradition—white, Eurocentric, and Western—has sought to establish itself as the only legitimate tradition; (re)colonization of the Third World; and/or the continuation of “a process of corporate global economic, ideological, and cultural marginalization across nation-states.” On the other hand, proponents of globalization see opportunity in “the proliferation of transnational spaces for political engagement” and promise in “the related surge in the number and impact of social movements and nongovernmental organizations. Feminist involvement in global governance can be understood by appreciating the context and origins of the chosen for advancing feminist interests in governance, which have changed over time. First wave feminism, describing a long period of feminist activity during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, developed vibrant networks seeking to develop strong coalitions, generate broad public consensus, and improve the status of women in society. Second wave feminist concerns dominated the many international conferences of the 1990s, influencing the dominant agenda, the problems identified and discussed, the advocacy tactics employed, and the controversies generated. Third wave feminism focused more on consciousness raising and coalition building across causes and identities.
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Dale, Melissa S. Inside the World of the Eunuch. Hong Kong University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888455751.001.0001.
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This book tells the story of how Chinese palace eunuchs, a complicated and much-maligned group of people, struggled to insert a degree of agency into their lives. During the Qing dynasty, the imperial court was determined to limit the influence of eunuchs by imposing a management style based upon strict rules, corporal punishment, and collective responsibility. Emasculation and employment placed eunuchs at the center of the empire, yet also subjected them to servile status and marginalization by society. Seeking more control over their lives, eunuchs repeatedly tested the boundaries of subservience to the emperor and the imperial court. This portrait of eunuch society reveals that Qing eunuchs operated within two parallel realms, one revolving around the emperor and the court by day and another among the eunuchs themselves by night where they recreated the social bonds (through drinking, gambling, and opium smoking) denied them by their palace service. Emasculation did not produce the ideal servants; rather, eunuchs proved to be a constant source of anxiety and labor challenges for the Qing imperial court. The history of Qing palace eunuchs is defined by a tension between the role eunuchs were meant to play and the life they intended to live.
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Agrawal, Ravi. India Connected. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190858650.001.0001.
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Former chief CNN India correspondent and award-wining journalist Ravi Agrawal takes readers on a journey across the Subcontinent, through its remote rural villages and its massive metropolises, seeking out the nexuses of change created by smartphones, and with them connection to the internet. As always with India, the numbers are staggering: in 2000, 20 million Indians had access to the internet; by 2017, 465 million were online, with three Indians discovering the internet every second. By 2020, India's online community is projected to exceed 700 million, and more than a billion Indians are expected to be online by 2025. In the course of a single generation, access to the internet has progressed from dial-up connections on PCs, to broadband access, wireless, and now 4G data on phones. The rise of low-cost smartphones and cheap data plans has meant the country leapfrogged the baby steps their Western counterparts took toward digital fluency. The results can be felt in every sphere of life, upending traditions and customs and challenging conventions. Nothing is untouched, from arranged marriages to social status to business start-ups, as smartphones move the entire economy from cash-based to credit-based. Access to the internet is affecting the progress of progress itself. As Agrawal shows, while they offer immediate and sometimes mind-altering access to so much for so many, smartphones create no immediate utopia in a culture still driven by poverty, a caste system, gender inequality, illiteracy, and income disparity. Internet access has provided greater opportunities to women and changed the way in which India's many illiterate poor can interact with the world, but it has also meant that pornography has become more readily available. Under a government keen to control content, it has created tensions. And in a climate of hypernationalism, it has fomented violence and even terrorism. The influence of smartphones on "the world's largest democracy" is nonetheless pervasive and irreversible, and India Connected reveals both its dimensions and its implications.