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Published: Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Vols. for 1953-61 issued by the University College of North Staffordshire; 1962- by the University of Keele. ; Journal of the Sociological Society, 1908-30; of the Institute of Sociology, 1931-52.

Sport as a specific form of physical activity plays an mportant role in cultural, economica and political devolopment of global society. Sport is an integral part of of individual forms of leisure, an opportunity for competitive activities, and in growing extent also substituable part of mass culture. Sport reflects given cultural climate and affects specific forms of proces of socialization. Top elite sport is for mass of people available via mass media, regular sportive activities are an effective tool against destructive impacts of sedentary society. Physical activity, physical fitness, wellness and sport form life style of people and are also part of profitable business. Sport is interrelated with important areas of social life, including politics and religion. For sociologists sport is a colourful field reflecting the dynamics of the change in the values, interests and activities of contemporary mankind.

This dissertation investigates Danish hearing health care and the rehabilitation of working-age people with onset hearing impairment. The focus is on the structure and function of Danish hearing health care and its impact on the hearing impaired, in terms of their experiences of the impairment and their conduct in relation to the rehabilitation service offered. The dissertation is based on a report from the Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI) on the effect of reduced hearing on labour-market attachment and working life, which raises the ostensible issues that there is a large group who seem reluctant to acknowledge their hearing impairment, and that many hearing- impaired persons do not continue to use hearing aids after the fitting, and that those who do use them continue to report communication difficulties in everyday life. By considering audiological rehabilitation from different qualitative sociological perspectives, the dissertation brings new insights into the continuing paucity of sociological literature around hearing disability, and into the construction of hearing disability and hearing disabled identities in clinical settings. In the dissertation, I present five articles that explore the research question in different ways. The articles are based on empirical data constructed by means of text analyses, observations, and interviews at two public hearing clinics in Denmark. In the first article, co-authored with Agnete Parving, we trace the history of those forms of rationality that comprise the present situation in hearing clinics. The article briefly describes the history of Danish audiology during the last 60 years, starting from the 1950s when audiology became a public service. The formation of the field of audiology is framed according to Bourdieu's conception of fields, which means that there are medical, technological, and rehabilitative subfields with different agents, roots, and interests. In the second article, I explore the patients' reasons for attending the hearing clinic, as up to 40 % of hearing-impaired people do not use their hearing aid as prescribed. The article describes how the reason for people seeking help at the clinic is often due to significant others who assist them in defining their 'need'. The theoretical basis of the article is theories of normality and meanings of normality, and is based on interviews with patients. In the third article, drawing on Foucault's theories on power/knowledge and Goffman's theory of interaction rituals, the article analyses 41 video-recorded encounters between audiologists and first- time users of hearing aids in two public hearing clinics in Denmark. The article identifies a ritualised pattern in the interactions, which helps explain how only some of the patients' experiences are allowed to be brought to the audiological encounter. In the fourth article, I explore how governmental rationalities and techniques for mobilising the elective consumer translate into audiological practice by 'studying though' policy. The article investigates the way in which neoliberalism can claim empirical validity and concludes that, on the conceptual level, a change has occurred from having been viewed earlier as passive clients of welfare to now being mobilised as active consumers. In present-day hearing clinics a co-presence of multilevel ways of governance has transpired and few of the hearing-impaired patients feel able to embrace the new consumer ethos. In the fifth article, I explore how working-age people confront and handle the medical diagnosis of the onset of hearing impairment, and what it means for their sense of identity. Based on interviews with hearing-impaired people, the article describes how, in order to overcome potential stigmatisation, 'passing' as normal becomes predominant for the impaired. Wearing a hearing aid works against the contemporary attempt to create socially ideal bodily presentations of the self, as the hearing aid is considered to be a symbolic extension of the body's lack of functionality. ; This dissertation investigates Danish hearing health care and the rehabilitation of working-age people with onset hearing impairment. The focus is on the structure and function of Danish hearing health care and its impact on the hearing impaired, in terms of their experiences of the impairment and their conduct in relation to the rehabilitation service offered. The dissertation is based on a report from the Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI) on the effect of reduced hearing on labour-market attachment and working life, which raises the ostensible issues that there is a large group who seem reluctant to acknowledge their hearing impairment, and that many hearing-impaired persons do not continue to use hearing aids after the fitting, and that those who do use them continue to report communication difficulties in everyday life. By considering audiological rehabilitation from different qualitative sociological perspectives, the dissertation brings new insights into the continuing paucity of sociological literature around hearing disability, and into the construction of hearing disability and hearing disabled identities in clinical settings. In the dissertation, I present five articles that explore the research question in different ways. The articles are based on empirical data constructed by means of text analyses, observations, and interviews at two public hearing clinics in Denmark.

Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis, by Siniša Malešević, Cambridge University Press, 2019, $89.99 (hardcover), ISBN 9781108425162, $29.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781108441247

There exist a variety of approaches to defining "class" but, as Joppke (1986, p. 55) points out, none of these approaches can avoid addressing, in a sympathetic or critical manner, "the two main sociological traditions which - more or less in mutual rivalry - have shaped the discussion on class up to the present" These are the Marxist and Weberian analyses of class, and it is this classical sociological tradition that needs to be briefly addressed first before we consider the structure of power relations in Malta. ; peer-reviewed

The article represents the analysis of basic theoretical approaches of the definitions of humour, comic and laughs from the ancient's representations to modern interpretations of these concepts by domestic and foreign scientists. The humour is studied from philosophy, linguistic, cultural and sociological points of views. On the basis of this analysis within the context of the sociology the author tries to formulate his own definition of humour which represents the synthesis of the described definitions of this concept. Political humour is studied as superordinate concept towards humour generally, in connection with that its specifics and main characteristics are determined with the basis of the determined concept.

Building on the political perspective of Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, I propose a sociological approach to animal rights, which takes the various types of human-animal relationships that have developed historically as the basis of current human obligations to members of other species. ; Siguiendo la perspectiva política de Sue Donaldson y Will Kymlicka, propongo un enfoque sociológico de los derechos de los animales, que toma los diversos tipos de relaciones humano-animales que se han desarrollado históricamente como la base de las obligaciones actuales de los seres humanos hacia los miembros de otras especies.

The scientific article discusses the main tasks of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the legislative process. In particular, its activities related to taking into account the interests of the majority of the public of the republic and ensuring wide participation of the population in the process of adopting laws. The mechanisms of ensuring the priority of the interests of the people in the lawmaking process, the adoption of laws related to the needs of the population and their proposals are considered. It also discusses the role of the legislature in regulating social issues through legislation, as well as the role of sociological research in the process of passing laws. Lawmaking processes, general principles of sociological research, issues of raising legal awareness and culture of citizens, problems of studying and analyzing public opinion in the process of lawmaking and lawmaking, methodology of sociological research, goals of sociological research and their conduct in the system of relations in society are described

This article follows the approach originally pioneered by Juan Linz to the empirical study of nationalism. We make use of original survey data to situate the emergent social division around the question of independence within a broader constellation of power relations. We bring into focus a variety of demographic, cultural, behavioural and attitudinal indicators with which this division is associated. We emphasise the special salience of language practices and ideologies in conditioning, if not determining, attitudes towards independence. We stress the continuing legacy of what Linz famously referred to as a "three-cornered conflict" among "regional nationalists, the central government and immigrant workers," which has long conditioned democratic politics in the region. More concretely, we show how the reinforcing cleavages of language and class are reflected in, and indeed have been exacerbated by, the ongoing political conflict between pro-independence and pro-unionist camps in Catalonia. At the same time, we highlight that near half of the Catalan citizenry has come to register a rather intense preference in favour of independence; and we conclude that this sociological reality renders it quite difficult for Spanish authorities to enforce the will of the Spanish majority without appearing to tyrannize the Catalan minority.

Thispaper starts with an overview of the literature on gender differences in managerial bahaviour. Much of the research on management ignores or denies any difference between genders. On the other hand, research on management style and gender stereotypes demonstrates that there are real differences in culturally approved communication and interpersonal influence methods used by men and women (Palmer, 1993; Willis, 1990). Empirical findings from a study on women small business owners is used to explain androgyny. We review the evidence for the existence of a 'glass ceiling' causing discrimination against women in management. We then suggest a theoretical framework of the management process which can be used to analyse the various ways that gender stereotypes impact on the management processes used within management.When we talk about gender in management, few people would say that women have made great strides in every walk of life. Since the 1970s women have succeeded in combining careers with families and are moving into male-dominated professions such as law, industry and commerce, but are still not well represented in the more senior positions (Grimwood & Popplestone, 1993). In order to explain this phenomenon we will be discussing the sociological constuction of women and men as genders, 'women' and 'men' and 'masculinity' are socially and culturally produced and vary with the society and the social context (Symons, 1992). For many years, men were able to hold power at all levels because they were free of childbearing and child rearing responsibilities and so available to participate in social and political life.

This article follows the approach originally pioneered by Juan Linz to the empirical study of nationalism. We make use of original survey data to situate the emergent social division around the question of independence within a broader constellation of power relations. We bring into focus a variety of demographic, cultural, behavioral and attitudinal indicators with which this division is associated. We emphasize the special salience of language practices and ideologies in conditioning, if not determining, attitudes towards independence. We stress the continuing legacy of what Linz famously referred to as a &ldquo ; three-cornered conflict&rdquo ; among &ldquo ; regional nationalists, the central government and immigrant workers,&rdquo ; which has long conditioned democratic politics in the region. More concretely, we show how the reinforcing cleavages of language and class are reflected in, and indeed have been exacerbated by, the ongoing political conflict between pro-independence and pro-unionist camps in Catalonia. At the same time, we highlight that near half of the Catalan citizenry has come to register a rather intense preference in favor of independence, and we conclude that this sociological reality renders it quite difficult for Spanish authorities to enforce the will of the Spanish majority without appearing to tyrannize the Catalan minority.

Selected papers from the last three conventions of the Southern Sociological Congress. ; Reprint of the 1918 ed. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Today organized religion is more successful than ever before in the history of this country, yet at no time has it been more irrelevant and pointless for American society, for our economic, educational, political and family cultural sub-systems, or for the lives of individual members. Such weakness amid such strength is one of the tragedies of the times.

Selected papers from the last three conventions of the Southern Sociological Congress. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Family is dependent to social system, in many respects , but showing dependency, and degree of effectiveness of family from society and social system is necessary . This paper has investigated family as social group that our laws have not defined it clearly and its legal personality are not allowed. But in contemporary society, state's influence was causing changes in privacy .In this paper, relying on literature of sociology in relation family and government and put base on the Habermas theory , and relying on experience to analyze effect rules on current situation in contemporary family. Using existing documents and comments sociologists in this field was study guide. With studies done in different fields function, family were identified: independent nature family in the past. But now family as a private sphere with fading of roles and functions, with government entering into family privacy, it being dependent on other Institutions, especially political institution and changed its nature, thus family defined by rules and it is state family. Necessary maintenance and entity families privacy and its independence, creating a public sphere in society, as the interface areas between the family and political institution. By creating this area, and family with political institution and laws to coordinate action, families entity was preserved.