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Beginning in the mid-1960s, Mexico encouraged the development of industrial assembly plants known as maquiladoras along its northern border and in selected areas of the interior. Although it began as a stopgap measure to employ men returning from the U.S. bracero worker program, the Border Industrialization Program soon became Mexico's principal development initiative for the border region. Since then, numerous scholars have evaluated the success of the plants by examining their impacts on the economy, the environment, and labor. This study adds to this research literature by assessing the impact of the maquiladora program from the perspective of the assembly line workers. It describes and analyzes the activities of a grassroots, participatory development effort to organize maquiladora workers for more than 20 years. Participatory approaches to development are defined and described in terms of the problems and challenges that animate this field of research. The findings demonstrate how participatory efforts at organizing constitute one of the few avenues available to workers to resist factory exploitation and improve their general well-being. The study confirms some of the shortcomings of participatory development theory, such as its conceptual ambiguity, significant time commitment, and general cumbersomeness, but it provides justifications for its continuance.

In this updated edition Chris Shilling: provides a critical survey of the field; demonstrates how developments in diet, sexuality, reproductive technology, genetic engineering and sports science have made the body a site for social alternatives and individual choices; and elucidates the practical uses of theory in striking and accessible ways

This survey of recent (post-1997) Western writing on the Stalin era focuses on the treatment of social & cultural issues by conventionally minded (empiricist) scholars, as well as those who employ postmodernist methodologies. Both schools are found to have major successes to their credit. The traditionalists were challenged first by revisionist social historians ('history from below') & later by protagonists of the 'cultural turn' who directed attention to identity formation, everyday life & symbolic communication. The innovators sometimes go beyond the limits of their evidence or confuse style with substance, but they have convinced most of their rivals that there was more disarray in government & popular disaffection than had previously been thought. Even so, the term 'totalitarianism,' if suitably redefined, can still be part of a serviceable analytical explanation, above all of political & juridical phenomena. Topics covered here include peasant revolts, gender relations, mass festivals, religious observance, academic life, science, & historiography. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: INTRODUCTION -- 1 Introduction -- Understanding the Connections between Social and Personal Problems -- Distress as a Sign -- Gradations in Distress -- Ordinary People in the Community -- Preview -- Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Researching the Causes of Distress -- Chapter 2: Measuring Psychological Distress. -- Chapter 3: Real-World Causes of Real-World Misery. -- Part III: Social Patterns of Distress -- Chapter 4: Established Patterns. -- Chapter 5: New Patterns. -- Part IV: Explaining the Patterns -- Chapter 6: Life Change: An Abandoned Explanation. -- Chapter 7: Alienation. -- Chapter 8: Authoritarianism and Inequity. -- Part V: Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Why Some People Are More Distressed Than Others -- Part II: RESEARCHING THE CAUSES OF DISTRESS -- 2 Measuring Psychological Weil-Being and Distress -- What Is Psychological Distress? -- Depression and Anxiety -- Mood and Malaise -- The Opposite of Well-Being -- Not Dissatisfaction or Alienation -- Not Mental Illness -- A Human Universal -- Diagnosis: Superimposed Distinctions -- Psychological Problems Are Real, But Not Entities -- The Linguistic Legacy of Infectious-Disease Epidemiology. -- Reification of Categories in Psychiatry. -- The Alternative: The Type and Severity of Symptoms. -- Reliability versus Certainty: The Fallacy of the Two-Category Scale. -- A Person Does Not Have to Be Diagnosed to Be Helped. -- How a Diagnosis Is Made -- Diagnosing Schizophrenia. -- A Sea of Troubles -- The Patterns of Symptoms: Galaxies, Nebulae, or Spectra? -- Mapping the 4,095 Correlations among Ninety-One Symptoms. -- A Circular Spectrum. -- The Multiplication of Diagnoses -- Conclusion: The Story of a Woman Diagnosed -- Appendix of Symptom Indexes -- Schizophrenia -- Paranoia -- Depressed Mood -- Manic Mood

How might social theory, public understanding of science and science policy best inform one another?. What have been the key features of science-society relations in the modern world?. How are we to re-think science-society relations in the context of globalization, hybridity and changing patterns of governance?. This topical and unique book draws together the three key perspectives on science-society relations: public understanding of science, scientific and public governance, and social theory. The book presents a series of case studies (including the debates on genetically modified foods an