Table of contents
Businesses, boundaries and belonging: toward an ethnography of flexible specialisation
Ian Atkin, John HassardReviews literature on industrial choice, ethnography and flexible specialization. Investigates flexible specialization in more depth, claiming that before ethnographic description…
Making childcare work
Gill ScottExamines the Out of School childcare initiative in Scotland (in 1996) by gathering data from the 1991 census and carrying out questionnaire surveys and interviews with both…
Organisational dilemmas in community neighbourhood organisation: the Jerusalem experience
Hillel SchmidRecounts the merger of Jerusalem’s Neighbourhood Self Management Organizations (NSMOs) and Community Service Organizations (CSOs) into the Joint Community Neighbourhood Management…
Researching a traditional territorial organisation: analogy, verstehen and the sociological imagination
C.C. Harris, Richard StartupReports on a study of the state of the (Anglican) Church in Wales, which investigated the Church in Wales as a sociological institution through attitudes held by the clergy and…
Effect of age, gender and race on abortion attitude
Ranjita MisraExplores attitudes towards abortion in the USA and whether or not they have changed during the period 1977‐1993 (based on data from the National Opinion Research Centre’s General…
We’re all wackos – a new model of health
Janet ThorntonChucks out current notions on illness and health on the grounds that they are the result of a mechanistic view of reality. Points out the problems inherent in this approach …
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- Prof Colin Williams