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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

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Rediscovery -- Chapter Previews -- 1 Education as Learned Effectiveness -- Education, Learned Effectiveness, and Health -- Education and Socioeconomic Status -- Education as a Root Cause of Good Health -- 2 The Association between Education and Health -- Defining Health -- Measuring Health -- Education's Correlation with Health Measures -- 3 Education, Personal Control, Lifestyle, and Health -- Education and Human Capital -- Designing a Healthy Lifestyle -- The Sense of Control Links Education to Healthy Lifestyle -- 4 Education, Socioeconomic Status, and Health -- Economic Resources -- Productive Activities -- Education, Socioeconomic Status, and Health -- 5 Education, Interpersonal Relationships, and Health -- Education, Marriage, and Social Support -- Marriage and Health -- 6 Age and Cumulative Advantage -- Accumulating Effects -- Amplifying Effects -- Decline Slowed or Only Delayed? -- Education's Cumulative Advantage -- 7 Specious Views of Education -- Education as Credential -- Education as Reproducer of Inequality -- Education as False Satisfier -- Education as Spurious Correlate -- Education, Inequality, and Health -- Education: The Solution, Not the Problem -- 8 Conclusion: Self-Direction Toward Health -- Learned Effectiveness Tops Access to Lucrative Positions -- Learned Effectiveness Provides Control over Lifestyle and Circumstances -- Education Has Pervasive, Cumulative, Self-Amplifying Benefits -- Lack of Education Turns Low Income into Privation -- Structural Amplification Concentrates Problems -- Resource Accumulation and Substitution Imply Structural Amplification -- No One Loses When Someone Gains Control -- Education: The Answer -- 9 Data and Measures -- ASOC: U.S. Nationwide Survey -- CCH: Illinois Statewide Survey

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

This volume contains essays on subjects such as: the centrality of social and cultural factors in language; discourse and social-cultural factors in understanding non-literal language; social factors in the interpretations of verbal irony; and stereotype processing and non-literal language

This book offers a new account of what makes science special among other human pursuits, critically engaging with a variety of approaches, especially constructivist and relativist studies of science and technology. It focuses on the studied 'lack of haste' of science, its relative stress-freeness and its socially sanctioned withdrawal from the swift pace of ordinary life. Unhastening Science offers a balanced and thoughtful argument which emphasises the dangers of cosseting science from the 'scourge' of internal competition while at the same time highlighting the need for 'distance' between the process of scientific thought and the faster machinery of politics, business, sports, and the media

Réflexion sur la nature, la généalogie et l'évolution de l'antiaméricanisme, réaction liée au statut de superpuissance des États-Unis, à leur rôle historique de laboratoire de la démocratie et à leur fonction de moteur de la mondialisation libérale. Il convient de s'interroger sur cette constante – née au XVIIIe siècle – de la culture française, qui s'apparente parfois à « un mystère français : la critique des dirigeants américains, exercice légitime et plus que nécessaire compte tenu de leur style et de leur comportement présent et passé, dérape invariablement dans la bêtise antiaméricaine. » (E. Conan)

Réflexion sur la nature, la généalogie et l'évolution de l'antiaméricanisme, réaction liée au statut de superpuissance des États-Unis, à leur rôle historique de laboratoire de la démocratie et à leur fonction de moteur de la mondialisation libérale. Il convient de s'interroger sur cette constante – née au XVIIIe siècle – de la culture française, qui s'apparente parfois à « un mystère français : la critique des dirigeants américains, exercice légitime et plus que nécessaire compte tenu de leur style et de leur comportement présent et passé, dérape invariablement dans la bêtise antiaméricaine. » (E. Conan)

'In diesem Artikel werden relevante Ergebnisse der gegenwärtigen Flüchtlingsforschung als spezieller Teilbereich der Globalisierungs- und Migrationsforschung vorgestellt. Dabei werden zwei Schwerpunkte gesetzt: Zum einen wird die These vertreten, dass insbesondere die sozial- und kulturanthropologische Forschung das Klischee von Flüchtlingen als 'passive HilfsempfängerInnen' durchbrochen und auf die wesentliche Bedeutung eines Aktiv-Seins für Menschen während und nach der Flucht hingewiesen hat. Zum anderen werden frauenspezifische Fluchtgründe und die Anerkennung von frauenspezifischen Verfolgungsformen erläutert. Abschließend werden genderspezifische Aspekte mit Fallbeispielen aus empirischen Studien der beiden Autorinnen näher ausgeführt.' (Autorenreferat)