The relevant literature suggests that ethical codes regulating mental health care are ‘more honoured in the breach than in the observation’ (Pritchard, 2001) and that current codes of good practice may, paradoxically, be bad for this. Patient-centred medicine with its emphasis o…
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This thesis uses the empirical setting of the UK retail book trade to critically assess sociological accounts of work and consumption and their relationship to the self. Drawing on talk with bookshop workers, representations of the book-trade and trade press, it examines the way…
The Epiphenomenal Mind is both a deflationary attack on the powers of the human mind and a defence of human subjectivity. It is deflationary because in the thesis I argue that consciousness is an epiphenomenal consequence of events in the brain. It is a defence of human subjecti…
This thesis outlines the development of the protests by students which took place in Britain from 1965 to 1972, and investigates the reasons for the occurrence of these protests at that particular time. This inquiry has used national and student newspapers, extensive archive mat…
Economic theory is capable of explaining the development and persistence of social conventions, such as conventions of cooperation, in the face of circumstances characterised by the Prisoners’ Dilemma. Such conventions can arise either because of labelling and the iterated natur…
The present research concerns itself with the underlying social content detected in the romance literature of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon (JLM/LGG), which applied to all his writings gives as a result a second meaning in his texts, that turns out to be his essenti…
The health of children is a matter of primary concern both to the state and to the individual, and the maintenance and restoration of that health are activities which take place both in the public domain and in the home. The recognition of the importance and interdependence of p…
Friendship has been extensively examined over recent years, particularly in the field of social psychology. I argue that, rather than friendship, other relationships implying friendship, which I term 'association', have been the focus of attention in these previous studies. This…
This work started from initial questions in the field of transcultural psychiatry concerning the effects of culture and of seclusion on Asian immigrant women's experiences and on their concepts of mental well - and ill-being and their behaviour in face of this. In presenting dat…
This thesis describes and analyses aspects of the social organisation of British news interview interaction. After a review of the sociological literature on the British news interview in Chapter 1, and a discussion of the evolution of news interviewing in Britain in Chapter 2, …
This thesis has several linked focuses: 1 I have argued for, and begun to develop, a theoretical and methodological framework too enable sociological research to encompass the affective dimension of human experience and action. 2.1 have put forward a model of culture as an affec…
The main causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries are infectious and parasitic diseases and malnutrition. While there is a growing consensus among health workers that these diseases are in the main preventable, approaches to health care have so far been curative…
This thesis analyses the development of economic and ideological forms of domination of the state over the exploited classes, Indians, African slaves and poor whites, in colonial Spanish America. Agriculture was throughout the colonial period the main economic activity both in t…
The first part of this thesis is concerned with the exegesis of Bourdieu's theory and the second part with critical investigations of his cultural analysis. In the interpretative analysis, I shall show that it is only through an understanding of his work as a whole that it is po…
This thesis is a text-based analysis of conceptions of the intellectual in relation to the political sphere. The specific instances studied relate, positively and negatively, to the socialist tradition in politics and culture. They are drawn from a variety of academic disciplina…
In this thesis I examine theoretical underpinnings to policies of equality of opportunity and in so doing, offer the case for: a) including classism within the realm of equality of opportunity policy; b) a re-evaluation of ethnic monitoring procedures to embrace contemporary con…
Children and young people who sexually abuse others have emerged as a problem since the early 1990s in the UK. This thesis attempts to provide a reflexive account and analysis of developments in policy, procedures and services in England during the past decade. It is based on em…
This dissertation effects a complete re-orientation of economic theory. It shows how the economic cannot be analysed separately from the political and the social, and lays the foundation for an integrated political economy. The work examines the philosophical difficulties faced …