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The present study is concerned with changes in marital satisfaction associated with the family career. It is based on a cross-sectional sample of 60 cases, equally divided between men and women respondents and the first three stages of the family life cycle. Factor analysis of several questionnaire measures of aspects of the marital relationship resulted in a general factor of marital quality with interpersonal features yielding the highest loadings. Two-way analysis of variance was applied to scores on this factor resulting in a significant stage effect (F = 3.23, p < 0.05) which was largely due to differences between stages within the sit of women respondents. Further interpretations drew on representative cases drawn from two extremes of the evaluative dimension. The findings accord with previous studies in emphasizing the importance of companionship and role sharing for marital quality. The value of establishing a balance of closeness and distance is noted.

1. City seclusion and social exclusion : how and why economic disparities harm social capital / Alina R. Oxendine -- 2. Social capital, social exclusion and rehabilitation policy in the Hungarian urban context / Katalin Fuzer and Judit Monostori -- 3. Cooperation and trust in urban residential communities / Annamaria Orban -- 4. Urban social poverty / Joseph D. Lewandowski -- 5. City life and film : narratives of urban social capital in Gran Torino / Gregory W. Streich -- 6. Staunch : Maori gangs in urban New Zealand / Rawiri Taonui and Greg Newbold -- 7. The care market : social capital and urban African funeral societies / Gift Dafuleya and Scelo Zibagwe -- 8. Social capital dynamics in the post-colonial Harare urbanscape / Innocent Chirisa -- 9. Urban development and social capital : lessons from Kathmandu / Urmi Sengupta and Sujeet Sharma -- 10. Disruptive social capital in Los Angeles : (un)healthy socio-spatial interactions among Filipino men living with HIV/AIDS / Lois M. Takahashi and Michelle G. Magalong -- 11. Gender relations, migration, and urban social capital in Hong Kong / Sam Wong -- 12. Discovering social capital among older adults in the urban communities of Shanghai / Chen Honglin and Wong Yu-Cheung.

Survenue le 30 août 1965, la catastrophe de Mattmark représente le plus gros accident industriel de l'histoire de la Suisse. Par la diversité d'origine des victimes cet événement acquiert une dimension internationale. Il suscite en Suisse et en Europe un débat sur les conditions sociales des migrations économiques et sur les conditions d'exercice professionnel des migrants. Nous nous sommes interrogés ici sur les grands thèmes liés à cette tragédie qui a entrainé la mort de 88 travailleurs. Premièrement, nos réflexions ont été liées au concept de mémoire avec l'objectif de vérifier si cette catastrophe représente véritablement un héritage historique. Deuxièmement, nous avons analysé à travers des entretiens avec les survivants et les familles des victimes quelles ont été leurs stratégies de survie et comment est-il possible de construire une mémoire collective et individuelle dans ce contexte. Troisièmement, la catastrophe a eu comme conséquence la naissance de plusieurs sentiments de solidarité – d'urgence, religieuse, émotionnelle – et la constitution d'une fondation pour prendre en charge les victimes, un fait unique à l'époque. Finalement, la catastrophe de Mattmark a aussi remis en question l'image-même de la Suisse et, à cet égard, est devenue un symbole des controverses politiques de l'époque.

This book offers a careful re-reading of Popper's classic falsificationist demarcation of science, stressing its institutional aspects. Popper's social thinking about science, individuals, institutions, and rationality is tracked through The Poverty of Historicism and The Open Society and Its Enemies as he criticises and improves his earlier work. New links are established between the works of the 1935-1945 period, revealing them as a source for criticism of the institutions and governance of science

"Mental illness stigma is rooted in a perceived lack of agency, but stigma itself undermines agency. While most philosophical accounts of the matter are concerned with the question of how much agency a person with mental illness has, this book asks how we can enhance the agency of people with mental illness. Humanizing Mental Illness explains and explores these connections, arguing that all of us can and should adjust our social practices to enhance the agency of people with mental illness. This agency is complicated and nuanced, as it is often directly constrained due to a person's symptoms and indirectly constrained due to stigma. Abigail Gosselin, both a scholar in the field of social philosophy and a person with a psychiatric disability, illustrates the importance of social interaction for developing and exercising agency. By overcoming mental illness stigma and by adopting certain epistemic and moral virtues, we can interact with people who have mental illness in ways that help enhance their agency and enable them to flourish. Humanizing Mental Illness demonstrates that we need to challenge our explicit and implicit biases and learn to interact with mental illness in more intentional, supportive, and inclusive ways."--

"One of the long-lasting impacts of neoliberal globalization is to subjugate our entire society to serve the market economy, resulting in a 'critical nexus' comprised of flexible and exploitative labor conditions, the reincarnation and reinforcement of gendered ideologies in the workplace, and a treadmill of environmental destruction. Fundamental obstacles to the global and local response to this unholy nexus include objective inequality between and within nations, subjective consequences of uneven development, and 'economism', in which solutions are framed in economic language and rules that ignore or marginalize social justice. Drawing on the social justice framework propounded by, among others, Amartya Sen, Md Saidul Islam and Md Ismail Hossain unpack this critical nexus, investigating how neoliberal flexible accumulation generates unique conditions, contradictions, and confrontations in labor, gender and environmental relations. They also examine whether and how a broader social justice can mitigate tensions and improve conditions"--Back cover

"This book adopts a new perspective on the transformation of social inequality by analyzing how it is experienced by individuals. Based on qualitative research among industrial workers and local experts in a region that has undergone deindustrialisation and transformation to a service-based economy, the author examines the loss of status among former manual labourers. Focus lies on their emotional experiences, nostalgic memories and attachments to their former places of work, to transformed neighborhoods, as well as to public space. Against this background the book explores the continued importance of class identity as workers attempt to manage the declining recognition of their skills and a loss of power in an "established-outsider figuration". A study of the transformation of everyday life and social positions wrought by changes in the social structure, in urban landscapes, and in the "structures of feeling", this examination of the dynamic of social identity will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and geography with interests in post-industrial societies, social inequality, class and social identity"--

Résumé Les notions d'« activité », d'« activité professionnelle », d'« emploi », de « travail », de « métier » sont proches, mais elles ne sont pas identiques. Leur utilisation entraîne des conséquences juridiques et sociales importantes, notamment pour le travail bénévole, dont la reconnaissance en tant que « véritable » travail représente un enjeu certain.