Rider Haggard’s imperialist fiction was often staged in Africa where Haggard as a very young man, from 19 to 25 years of age, had been first a civil servant (as junior secretary to the Governor of Natal, South Africa) and later tried his hand at ostrich farming (Stiebel 2001:21 ff). Back in England Haggard “divided […]
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Deconstruction
Building on the notion of differance, deconstruction sees social life as a series of texts that can be read in a variety of ways. Because of this multiplicity of readings there is, therefore, a range of meanings that can be invoked. Moreover, through each reading we are producing another text to the extent that we […]
The Social Relations of Reproduction
The idea that biological reproduction is a social activity, distinct from the activity of childrearing and determined by changing material conditions and social relations, is essentially Marxist. In The German Ideology, Marx defines ‘Three aspects of social activity": along with "the production of material life" and "the production of new needs," human procreation— reproduction within […]
Delayed Maturity among Professional Middle-Class Children
Professional middle-class parents are also aware that they are extending their own engagement in their children and that doing so represents a significant break from the practices of the past. Maria Ascoli is a stay-at-home mother of two; her husband has a degree in engineering, which he has parlayed into a position with a major […]
Delayed Launching among the Professional Middle Class
Parents from different socioeconomic classes had different visions of what a college education should offer their children. Professional middle-class parents who make efforts to ensure that their children are headed for high-status educational institutions do not expect those institutions to be vocational training grounds.22 To the contrary: in lieu of job preparation, elite parents talk […]
Adopting ICT in the. Mompreneurs Business
A Strategy for Growth?1 Yvonne Costin University of Limerick, Ireland ABSTRACT The advancing pace of women S entrepreneurial activity across the globe represents a promising trend to fuel economic development and socialprogress (Fitzsimons & O ’Gorman, 2005). Research has shown that women-led businesses have strong growth aspirations, are customer-oriented, value human capital and cultural aspects […]
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND CLIMATE
In addition to the underrepresentation of female faculty, concerns persisted regarding gender differences in the treatment of faculty. Several studies suggested women were evaluated more harshly and were less likely to be hired into academic positions (Lewin and Duchan, 1971; Steinpreis et al., 1999; Trix and Psenka, 2003; Wenneras and Wold, 1997). The literature also […]
Challenges from tongzhi communities
The rapid development of tongzhi (literally ‘comrades’, a term adopted in Hong Kong in the late 1980s as an identity for LGBTQ people; see also Martin in this volume and Tang in this volume) communities in China since 2000 poses another major challenge to institutionalised heterosexual monogamous marriage. Same-sex relationships have existed in China as […]
Aspirations for the Future
More and More Education Regardless of the demographic characteristics of the interviewed parents— their social class location, racial/ethnic identification, region of the country, marital status, age of children—they look toward higher education for their own children as a significant basis for securing an advantaged future. This is not an extraordinary group of parents. The National […]
DIMENSIONS OF THE REVOLUTION
For the puritan tradition, the sexual represented an oppressive presence by the self-consciousness with which its presence was excluded from public life and most of private life as well. In contrast, in less than three decades we have moved to practices that allow for images of the sexual to permeate our entire culture. The current […]