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Twenty-First Century Celebrity: Fame In Digital Culture
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ISBN: 978-1-78754-212-9

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Publication date: 16 November 2022

Krista M. C. Cline and Catherine M. Bain

While research on intergenerational service learning has focused on the benefits for the students, very few studies have focused on the older adults who are the recipients of the

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While research on intergenerational service learning has focused on the benefits for the students, very few studies have focused on the older adults who are the recipients of the service learning. For the current study, we were interested in the benefits of service learning for both the college students and the older adults who participated in a service-learning course. Qualitative data were collected from both the students in a sociology of aging service-learning class and the older adults who participated as recipients of the service learning. Data from the students were collected via student journals and open-ended questionnaire responses written by the students. Data from the older adults were collected via interviews by the students as well as open-ended questionnaire responses written by the older adults. The following themes emerged as benefits to students: (1) a better understanding and less fear of aging; (2) a desire to learn more about older adults; (3) a desire to engage more with older adults. The themes for the benefits to the older adults included (1) improved social connections and companionship and (2) becoming family. We found that engaging in intergenerational service-learning courses is beneficial to all those who are involved.

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Publication date: 21 June 2005

Ruth M. Mann

This chapter addresses a five-year phase of protest activity set in motion by fathers’ rights and shared parenting groups’ resistance to the Federal Child Support Guidelines…

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This chapter addresses a five-year phase of protest activity set in motion by fathers’ rights and shared parenting groups’ resistance to the Federal Child Support Guidelines, which were incorporated into Canada’s Divorce Act in 1997. Drawing upon Department of Justice discourses, parliamentary hearings and debates, and advocacy websites it examines the dynamics and outcomes of the protest cycle. It argues that the government’s legislative response signals a failure of fathers’ rights activism in Canada. This failure is a consequence of the collective identity that advocates and their supporters enact and celebrate in various public arenas, the effectiveness of feminist counteraction, and the contingencies of governance in Canada’s left-of-centre advanced liberal democracy.

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Studies in Law, Politics and Society
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ISBN: 978-1-84950-327-3

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Economics of Art and Culture Invited Papers at the 12th International Conference of the Association of Cultural Economics International
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ISBN: 978-0-44450-995-6

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Gender, Athletes’ Rights, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport
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ISBN: 978-1-78743-753-1

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Tales of Brexits Past and Present
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ISBN: 978-1-78769-438-5

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Publication date: 29 February 2024

Susanna Alexius and Janet Vähämäki

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Obsessive Measurement Disorder or Pragmatic Bureaucracy?
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ISBN: 978-1-80117-377-3

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Publication date: 12 December 2007

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld

While Americans have often believed that the United States has the best health care system in the world and that, as one of the wealthiest nations, we therefore must have the best…

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While Americans have often believed that the United States has the best health care system in the world and that, as one of the wealthiest nations, we therefore must have the best health care available to our citizens, researchers in medical sociology, public health and health services research have emphasized for decades that America tolerates extremes of wealth and poverty much greater than in many European countries. This toleration of extremes extends to the approach to the delivery of social and health services, as well as to consumer goods. Over 40 million Americans do not have health insurance and thus have limited access to expensive health care services (Morone & Jacobs, 2005b). Even more may have very poor health coverage, so that if a serious illness were to occur, the person would have a very hard time finding care and paying for that care. Even if people have coverage for major health care problems, many people do not have insurance that covers areas of health care such as vision care, dental care and audiology services. While these are not life threatening health care concerns, they are health care concerns that impact quality of life and even ability to achieve. A child who cannot see well has trouble succeeding in school. A person in pain from tooth problems has trouble concentrating on tasks, and poor oral health is one contributor to nutrition concerns among the elderly. Lack of access to hearing aids increases the social isolation of the elderly, but these services are not covered by Medicare, the federal program that does provide access to health care services for most of the elderly in the United States.

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Inequalities and Disparities in Health Care and Health: Concerns of Patients, Providers and Insurers
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ISBN: 978-0-7623-1474-4

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Publication date: 5 July 2005

Larry Patriquin

The system of government-run poor relief in England, dating from the sixteenth century, was not replicated in Europe until the mid- to late 1800s. In order to understand why, poor…

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The system of government-run poor relief in England, dating from the sixteenth century, was not replicated in Europe until the mid- to late 1800s. In order to understand why, poor relief must be placed within the socio-economic framework of capitalism, a system of surplus appropriation which originated in the novel class relations of English agriculture. The English way of dealing with poverty was distinctive and this distinctiveness was rooted in the unparalleled expansion of capitalism in that country in the early modern era. Assistance to the poor in England emerged alongside a qualitative social change, wherein an economy rooted in custom was transformed into one based on the competitive social relations of capitalism. The main conclusion of this article is that the welfare state was not a product of industrialization but of the class structure of agrarian capitalism.

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The Capitalist State and Its Economy: Democracy in Socialism
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ISBN: 978-0-76231-176-7

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Publication date: 23 October 2008

James A. Forte

SI offers a distinctive theoretical language for practice: a vocabulary and a grammar for identifying the personal troubles and joys of group members and for locating these…

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SI offers a distinctive theoretical language for practice: a vocabulary and a grammar for identifying the personal troubles and joys of group members and for locating these experiences in shared symbol systems and in associated social arrangements (Weigert, 1995). SI can provide the ideal base for social work and sociological helping work (Forte, 2004a, 2004b). It is a coherent organizing language that can guide practitioner thinking, acting, and feeling especially when professional action is blocked.

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Studies in Symbolic Interaction
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ISBN: 978-1-84855-127-5

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