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Sport is one of the most ubiquitous activities of modern contemporary society. The pervasiveness of sport can be seen by the enormous amount of primary and second ary involvement in it by people of all ages and social strata. Sport penetrates into and plays a significant role in all of the social institutions. The functions of play, games, and sport is a major theme running through much of the work of social scientists. Although there is no definitive list, there are seven major categories of functions of play, games, and sport: in stinct, developmental-cognitive, mastery, social integration, socialization, social control, and personal-expressive. There is a substantial body of literature in the social sciences dis cussing the importance of each of these functions.

"The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies provides a contemporary and critical and scholarly overview of theorizing and research on masculinities as well as emerging ideas and areas of study that are likely to shape research and understanding of gender and men in the future. The forty-eight chapters of the handbook take an interdisciplinary approach to a range of topics on men and masculinities related to identity, sex, sexuality, culture, aesthetics, technology and pressing social issues. The handbook's transnational lens acknowledges both the localities and global character of masculinity. A clear message in the book is the need for intersectional theorizing in dialogue with feminist, queer and sexuality studies in making sense of men and masculinities. Written in a clear and direct style, the handbook will appeal to students, teachers, and researchers in the social sciences and humanities, as well as professionals, practitioners and activists"--

Part I. Festschrift in Honor of Norman K. Denzin: He Knew His Song Well Chapter 1. 'We Are Not Alone': An Introduction to Norman Denzin's 'Book of Friends'; Michael D. Giardina Chapter 2. One Day at a Time: A Four Act Play Performed by Norman K. Denzin; John M. Johnson Chapter 3. My Apprenticeship on the Prairie: Theory, Method, and Research in the Naturalistic Study of Social Interaction; Michael G. Flaherty Chapter 4. Norm Denzin's Empiricist Bent, Theory of the Self, and Focus on Paradoxical Agency; Michael A. Katovich Chapter 5. Norman Denzin: Building 'A Bigger Tent'; Harry Torrance Chapter 6. A Case of You, Norman; Arthur P. Bochner Chapter 7. In Praise of Norman Denzin; Laurel Richardson Chapter 8. It's a Wonderful Qualitative Life: Norman Denzin and the Building of a Qualitative Community; Mitchell Allen Chapter 9. Norman Denzin: Making Room for Capacious Inquiry; Stacy Holman Jones Chapter 10. Celebrating Norman K. Denzin; Robert E. Rinehart Chapter 11. Coming Out with Norman: Connecting Our Voices; Carolyn Ellis Chapter 12. Norman Denzin or a Life Dedicated to Social Transformation from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry; Aitor Gomez Gonzalez Chapter 13. I Seek You, ICQI; Sophie Tamas Chapter 14. A Moral Discourse: What Norman K. Denzin Does or Simply a Love Letter to My Dear Boss; Claudio Moreira Chapter 15. Three Movements for Norman Denzin; Bryant Keith Alexander Chapter 16. Denzin, Mills, and the Prophetic Pragmatic Promise and Task of the Sociological Imagination; Emily Noelle Sanchez Ignacio Chapter 17. Early Days in Champaign; Patricia Ticineto Clough Chapter 18. Fishing with the Goat: Honoring Norman K. Denzin; Joy Pierce Part II. Reflections Chapter A. Encounters at ICQI; Lubomir Popov Chapter B. Chance Encounters; Christopher T. Conner Chapter C. Ishmael's Oatmeal; James Salvo.

Humans have engaged in theatre for at least 50,000 years for good reason: it builds social connections, provides opportunities to learn, and creates meaning through storytelling. Perhaps most importantly, it is an enjoyable, and therefore self-reinforcing, activity. Theatre offers readers an introduction to the role that theatre plays in health and wellbeing, and provides guidance on how to incorporate it into professional health and social care environments, community spaces, and the family home. The book provides an overview of the current evidence demonstrating the effects of theatre on specific domains of health and wellbeing, including mental health, physical health, and public health, as well as its impacts on the education of health and social care professionals. Case studies illustrate the broad range of applied theatre methods currently in use across the human lifespan - from bedside theatre performed for children in hospital to theatre workshops for people living with dementia and theatre-based interpersonal communication training for medical students. Theatre also delivers plenty of practical advice on how to bring theatre into health and social care environments, including step-by-step instructions for specific activities, insights into potential barriers, and (most importantly) strategies needed to overcome them with empathy, collaboration, and creativity. This volume will be useful to professionals working in health and social care settings, as well as to theatre artists and educators who already are or who would like to work in health or social care settings with special populations.

Confronting privileges in feminist and queer movements /Elizabeth Evans and Éléonore Lépinard --Section oneIntersectionality and social movement organising --Borders, boundaries, and brokers : the unintended consequences of strategic essentialism in transnational feminist networks /Maria Martin de Almagro --Location matters : the 2017 women's marches as intersectional imaginary /Zakiya Luna --Changing core business? : institutionalised feminisms and intersectionality in Belgium and Germany /Petra Ahrens and Petra Meier --Intersectional complexities in gender-based violence politics /Sofia Strid and Mieke Verloo --Organising as intersectional feminists in the Global South : birth and mode of action of a post-2011 feminist groups in Morocco /Emmanuelle David --Intersectionality or unity? : attempts to address privilege in the gynecological self-help movement /Lucile Quéré --Section twoThinking through differences in feminist and queer movements --Disability and intersectionality : patterns of ableism in the women's movement /Elizabeth Evans --Difficult intersections : nation(ALISM) and the LGBTIQ movement in Cyprus /Nayia Kamenou --Feminist whiteness : resisting intersectionality in France /Éléonore Lépinard --Intersectional praxis from within and without : challenging whiteness in Québec's LGBTQ movement /Alexie Labelle --Paradoxes of intersectional practice : race and class in the Chicago anti-violence movement /Marie Laperrière --Intersectional politics on domestic workers' rights : the cases of Ecuador and Colombia /Daniela Cherubini, Giulia Garofalo Geymonat and Sabrina Marchetti --Queer Muslims, autonomous organising, and the UK LGBT+ movement /Abbie Bonane --Generational conflict and the politics of inclusion in two feminist events /Pauline Stoltz, Beatrice Halsaa and Christel Stormhøj --Conclusion: Privileges confronted? /Elizabeth Evans and Éléonore Lépinard.

Economic institutions are undergoing radical transformations, and with these has come a reconfiguration of labor market institutions, managerial conceptions of work, and the nature of authority and control over employees as well. Yet many of these changes remain poorly understood. This volume provides a sampling of state-of-the art theory and research in the field, and addresses a wide array of questions that are vital for managers, policy makers, labor unions, and employees themselves. How has new technology changed the job search process? How has the Great Recession affected racial boundaries within the labor market? What forms of managerial thinking underlie the proliferation of downsizing as a strategic practice? How have employees responded to labor market uncertainty? What shifts are unfolding within particular sectors, such as finance or health care? And how have norms been mobilized as a source of control over the performance of service work? By addressing these and other questions, this volume points the way forward for social scientific views of work and labor markets as pivotal institutions within contemporary societies.

A few years ago, together with Franz Schultheis, of the University of Saint-Gallen and coordinator of the social sciences network ESSE, we chose to study the international circulation of the categories and concepts that are in use in European social sciences. With the publication of the Dictionnaire des concepts nomades ("Dictionary of nomadic concepts"), that includes only a small number of quite lengthy entries, what we tried to propose were not ready-made solutions, or vademecums for the comparative academic, but a series of questions, or rather the means to ask crucial questions for anyone who practises history, political science, history of economic ideas, or comparative sociology. We did so with two considerations in mind: one political, and the other academic, both of which I will evoke in turn in this paper.

Introduction / Michael R. Botnick -- Community in Gay Male Experience and Moral Discourse / David Woolwine -- Part 1: HIV as 'The Line in the Sand' / Michael R. Botnick -- Part 2: Fear of Contagion, Fear of Intimacy / Michael R. Botnick -- Part 3: A Community Divided / Michael R. Botnick -- From Terra Incognita to Terra Firma: The Logbook of the Voyage of Gay Men's Community into the Israeli Public Sphere / Amit Kama.

London has long been a magnet for migrants, millions of whom have been attracted by its economic, educational and cultural roles as a truly global city. This book examines recent European migration to the London region through the narrated experiences of a large number of younger migrants from old' and new' EU member states, of varying educational and skill backgrounds. The research opens multiple windows into the lives of young EU migrants from six different countries before and after the 2016 Referendum on 'Brexit'. A key concept which lies at the core of the analysis is the interrelationship between geographical mobility and the youth transition to adulthood. Among the dimensions documented are study and employment trajectories, housing and social inclusion, identity and belonging, and transnational ties. By paying attention to young people's own accounts of their mobile lives, the research pushes the boundaries of traditional understandings of youth transitions and life paths. As an indispensable account of young EU migrants during the Brexit process, the book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students across the social sciences, especially those interested in migration, youth studies and European studies, as well as researchers and policy-makers.