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Are the social sciences a dying fire? This book skilfully lays out how, apart from their misguided approach to knowledge production and specializations, social sciences continue to remain prisoners of a prescribed historical, cultural and anthropogenic narrative.

THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES THE SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMATION SERVICE. THE SERVICE'S HISTORY, MODE OF OPERATION, UNIQUENESS, RECENT AND PROPOSED ACTIVITIES ARE DISCUSSED. THE SERVICE SEEKS TO INFORM LEGISLATORS AND THEIR STAFFS AS TO THE LIKELY SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF VARIOUS LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS WHERE THERE IS APPLICABLE EVIDENCE FROM SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH.

"This volume collects interdisciplinary essays that examine the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices (social, cultural, political, and economic) that undergird white ideological influence in America. In truth, the need to examine whiteness as a problem has rarely been grasped outside academic circles. The ubiquity of whiteness--its pervasive quality as an ideal that is at once omnipresent and invisible--makes it the very epitome of the mainstream in America. And yet the undeniable relationship between whiteness and inequality in this country necessitates a thorough interrogation of its formation, its representation, and its reproduction. Essays here seek to do just that work. Editors and contributors interrogate whiteness as a social construct, revealing the underpinnings of narratives that foster white skin as an ideal of beauty, intelligence, and power. Contributors examine whiteness from several disciplinary perspectives, including history, communication, law, sociology, and literature. Its breadth and depth makes The Construction of Whiteness a refined introduction to the critical study of race for a new generation of scholars, undergraduates, and graduate students. Moreover, the interdisciplinary approach of the collection will appeal to scholars in African and African American studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, legal studies, and more. This collection delivers an important contribution to the field of whiteness studies in its multifaceted impact on American history and culture"--

Affect -- Agency -- Biopolitics -- Civilization -- Coloniality of gender and power: from postcoloniality to decoloniality -- Cyborg and virtual bodies -- Development -- Diaspora -- Formal, informal, and care economies -- Embodiment -- Experience -- Feminist jurisprudence -- Feminist standpoint -- Gendered divisions of labor -- Governance -- Health -- Identities -- Institutions -- Intersectionality -- Intersexuality, transgender, and transsexuality -- Markets/marketization -- Materialisms -- Microphysics of power -- Migration -- Militarization and war -- Nature -- Norms and normalization -- Performativity and performance -- The personal is political -- Policy -- Politics -- Pop culture/visual culture -- Posthuman feminist theory -- Pregnancy, personhood, and the making of the fetus -- Prison -- Race and racialization -- Religion -- Representation -- Reproduction: from rights to justice? -- Science studies -- Sex/gender -- Sexual difference -- Sexualities -- State/nation -- Storytelling/narrative -- Subjectivity and subjectivation -- Temporality -- Transnational -- Violence.

Sport is one of the most ubiquitous activities of modern contemporary society, given the enormous amount of primary & secondary involvement by people of all ages & social strata. Sport penetrates into & plays a significant role in all social institutions. The functions of play, games, & sport is a major theme running through much of the work of social scientists. The following major categories of functions of play, games, & sport are delineated: instinct, developmental-cognitive, mastery, social integration, socialization, social control, & personal-expressive. There is a substantial body of literature in the social sciences discussing the importance of each of these functions. HA.

Table of Contents; List of Tables and Illustrated Material; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Chapter One; Chapter Two; The League of Nations Reacts to German-speaking Refugees; Evian Conference; The Relationship between Ireland and Britain in Relation to Policy Development; The Relationship between Ireland and Continental Europe in Relation to Policy Development; Case Study: The International Community in Action as Depicted in the Media-the Incident of the St Louis; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; The Role of the Department of External Affairs; The Role of the Department of Justice