{"title":"Misplacing memory: the effect of television format on Holocaust remembrance.","authors":"N. A. Lisus, R. Ericson","doi":"10.2307/591620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/591620","url":null,"abstract":"The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles provides a case study of how museum designers use television formats to communicate and educate. A dramatic spectacle is created that shapes how visitors are to feel and think. This spectacle turns the museum into an emotions factory and functions as a 'format of control'. It exerts a 'creeping surrealism' upon the visitor that misplaces memory and history by degrees. The implications of being unable to transcend television formats in a post-Gutenberg-galaxy world are discussed.","PeriodicalId":365401,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of sociology","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133881629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The mirage of gender equality: occupational success in the labour market and within marriage.","authors":"S. Arber, J. Ginn","doi":"10.2307/591621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/591621","url":null,"abstract":"Malgre une egalite formelle des sexes en matiere de chances d'acceder aux memes emplois sur le marche du travail qui a stimule l'entree en masse des femmes dans la vie active, l'egalite des salaires demeure un voeu pieux. L'A. va etudier les facteurs de determination du niveau du salaire. Il montre que l'egalite est plus importante dans le secteur public fortement syndicalise. L'A. montre que les inegalites de statut social sont plus fortes au sein du menage que celles de revenu. Il affirme que le systeme patriarcal a su s'adapter a une situation d'egalite sans acorder de changement economique et que cela renforcerait l'ideologie de la domination masculine","PeriodicalId":365401,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of sociology","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128385479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conjugal power and synchronic differentiation in productive organization.","authors":"J. Cavounidis","doi":"10.2307/591656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/591656","url":null,"abstract":"Diachronic differentiation in productive organization is considered to have great significance for family relations. The transition from family-based production to wage-work is considered to have had important consequences for gender and generational hierarchies within the family and for relations with other kin. On the other hand, the significance for family relations of synchronic differentiation in productive organization has scarcely been explored. In this paper the issue of the significance of synchronic differentiation in productive organization for conjugal power relations is approached by examination of data from a comparative study of family relations in artisan and worker households existing side by side in time and place, in a community of Athens, Greece. Artisan wives were found to have much less conjugal economic power than worker wives. This difference in power can be traced to a structural difference between the two types of production engaged in. However, it results in a difference in conjugal power only because it occurs together with specific features of the wider material and cultural context which both groups share.","PeriodicalId":365401,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of sociology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132456838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Industrial accidents as a means of withdrawal from the workplace according to the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: a re-examination of a classic study.","authors":"Theo Nichols","doi":"10.2307/591655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/591655","url":null,"abstract":"IN rRODUC rION This paper revisits a classic study in the development of British industrial sociology which was conducted by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in the early postwar period and which still remains a common source for the idea that there is a relationship between industrial accidents and absenteeism. It is argued that the lack of any sustained appraisal of this study over the span of several decades has allowed the specific conclusions that the Tavistock researchers advanced about a relationship between industrial accidents and absenteeism to take on an apparent validity which was not always warranted on the basis of their own original evidence. In addition, and with specific reference to the social scientific explanation of industrial accidents, it is shown how far the explanations advanced by the researchers sometimes took the form of little more than convoluted forms of what today would be called 'blaming the victim'. More generally, and with reference to the sociology of sociological knowledge, the fact is recovered that this classic work of early postwar British industrial sociology was replete with assumptions about worker psychology that most certainly rivalled the gratuitous excesses about 'irrationality' that today are much more commonly believed to have been a feature of the earlier Hawthorne Experiments in the USA. In Britain the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations made a significant contribution to the postwar development of industrial sociology. One important set of empirical enquiries conducted by the Tavistock concerned industrial accidents, as is clearly acknowledged in a seminal review of its contribution by Brown (Brown 1967). This aspect of the Tavistock's work is not gone into in much detail by Brown however. The same brevity characterizes the treatment of the Tavistock's contribution in a more recent specialist review of the","PeriodicalId":365401,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of sociology","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124257137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women priests: from exclusion to accommodation.","authors":"A. Aldridge","doi":"10.2307/591661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/591661","url":null,"abstract":"The debate within the Church of England on opening the priesthood to women is analysed from the perspective of grid/group theory as a struggle between two competing models of the Church: the accommodationist and the exclusivist. The ascendancy of the accommodationist Church reflects the decline of status professionalism and rise of the formally rational modern profession, in which the criteria of occupational closure are themselves rationalized.","PeriodicalId":365401,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of sociology","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115604760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The normalization of recreational drug use amongst young people in north-west England.","authors":"Fiona Measham, Russell Newcombe, Howard Parker","doi":"10.2307/591497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/591497","url":null,"abstract":"An anonymous self-report survey of drug use among a cohort of 776 14-15 year olds in North-West England was conducted at the end of 1991, aiming to estimate prevalence and profile users. Six in 10 reported being offered drugs, and 36 per cent to using drugs (20 per cent in the past month). Over half of those offered drugs had tried them. Lifetime prevalence was highest for cannabis (32 per cent), with five other drugs each being used by 10-14 per cent. Three groups identified were cannabis smokers, solvents sniffers, and stimulant/psychedelic (or dance drug) users. The population parameters of drug use were estimated at 33-40 per cent, suggesting up to 200,000 local young adults have used drugs. Most significantly, the proportion of young women being offered and using drugs and the prevalence of drug trying amongst young people in 'middle-class' schools, suggests a substantial social transformation is underway in respect of recreational drug use. The results of this survey confirm a general trend apparent in other British studies. As this cohort is tracked into the mid 1990s, the sociological implications will be significant.","PeriodicalId":365401,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of sociology","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133154142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moral reasoning and political conflict: the abortion controversy.","authors":"J. Kelley, M. Evans, B. Headey","doi":"10.2307/591412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/591412","url":null,"abstract":"We argue that the abortion controversy has one major source--religion--and two less important ones--attitudes towards sexual permissiveness and women's employment. Traditional Christianity promotes opposition to abortion using three distinct modes of moral reasoning: through deductive moral reasoning, by the Christian world view's implication that abortion violates the sanctity of life and is a rebellion against God's design; through authoritative moral reasoning by appeal to Catholic dogma; and through consequentialist moral reasoning, as a means of control over sexuality and as a means of confining women's activities to the home. Even aside from Christian belief, adherence to traditional morality promotes opposition to abortion on these consequentialist grounds. We posit a model in which religious belief, anti-feminism, sexual permissiveness, and attitudes towards abortion are distinct concepts (a four-factor model) rather than all simply aspects of a single conservatism factor. We develop reliable, multiple item attitude scales; show that our four-factor model fits the data much better than the one-factor alternative; and test our hypotheses on new data from a large, representative national sample of Australia (N = 4540). Using maximum likelihood structural equation methods, we find that deductive reasoning from Christian belief is the most important source of opposition to abortion, with strong effects both direct and indirect. Exposure to the authority of the Catholic hierarchy is a real but weaker source of opposition. Consequentialist reasoning from traditional moral views on sex--partly buttressed by religion, partly independent of it--is also influential. But views on women's employment matter only a little, contrary to received wisdom.","PeriodicalId":365401,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of sociology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125269702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In the path of Daedalus: middle-class Australians' attitudes to embryo research.","authors":"L. Sullivan","doi":"10.2307/591220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/591220","url":null,"abstract":"In the Australian debate over the permissability of embryo experimentation, four lobby groups are equally divided into supporting and opposing parties, although for differing reasons. The scientific and the infertile women's lobbies support experimentation while the pro-life and feminist lobbies oppose it, and the recommendations of committees of enquiry as to a proper legal position tend to reflect representation of these groups in their memberships. Community opinion is often invoked as a way out of this stalemate, but little is yet known of levels of community support for the opposing views. The present survey elicited the views of middle-class Australians (345 respondents) on the acceptability of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo experimentation, and on the humanity of the embryo. It was found that while there was almost consensus support for IVF (90 per cent approval in principle), little more than half the respondents approved of embryo experimentation on the just-fertilized one-cell embryo, and this fell to only a third for the fourteen day embryo. This was despite the fact that more respondents regarded the embryo of a few days old as 'object/tissue' than as 'human/a baby'. Disapproval of embryo experimentation was more strongly associated with female sex, younger age, and fertility than with male sex, older age and infertility. Implications for the ethics of research policy are discussed.","PeriodicalId":365401,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of sociology","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129129739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women's labour force participation and socioeconomic development: influences of local context and individual characteristics in Brazil.","authors":"M. Evans, H. U. Saraiva","doi":"10.2307/591680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/591680","url":null,"abstract":"We address several key hypotheses about the effects of socioeconomic development on women's labour force participation during the transition from agriculture to industrialism. To this end, we explore differences in women's labour force participation in Brazil by education, marital status, age, and urban or rural residence. We also show how socioeconomic development affects the overall level of women's participation and the differentials by education, etc. Our data are drawn from a large 1973 PNAD (Pequisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicilos) survey conducted by the Brazilian census bureau. Socioeconomic development in different parts of Brazil ranges from pre-industrial agriculture to heavy industry. Using logistic regression, we show that the general level of women's labour force participation does not change with the level of development. Highly educated women are much more likely than the less educated to be in the labour force (net of other influences); this difference is substantially greater than in post-industrial societies. Somewhat surprisingly, the influence of education is the same across the range of development levels in Brazil. Single women are more likely to be in the labour force than married women, and the difference grows during development. Age has a curvilinear relationship to labour force participation, and the old are much less likely to participate in more developed places. Rural women are slightly more likely to be in the labour force at all levels of development.","PeriodicalId":365401,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of sociology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134070721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Streetlife and delinquency.","authors":"J. Hagan, B. McCarthy","doi":"10.2307/591339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/591339","url":null,"abstract":"The correlation between class and delinquency often observed in areal studies and assumed in prominent sociological theories is elusive in studies of individuals commonly used to test these theories. A restricted conceptualization of class in terms of parental origins and the concentration of self-report survey designs on adolescents in school have removed from this area of research street youth who were once central to classic studies of delinquency. We argue that street youth experience current class conditions that cause serious delinquency, and that life on the street is an important intervening variable that transmits indirect effects of control and strain theory variables, including parental class origins. Data gathered from nearly 1000 Toronto school and street youth are analyzed with important implications for the conceptualization of class and delinquency, testing and integrating sociological theories of delinquency, the measurement of delinquency, and the use of cross-sectional and longitudinal research designs. Our findings especially encourage incorporation of street-based samples into research on class-based aspects of theories of delinquency.","PeriodicalId":365401,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of sociology","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133900961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}