Divine Doctors and Dreadful Distempers examines the discourse of seventeenth-century English physicians to demonstrate that physicians utilized cultural attitudes and beliefs to create medical theory. They meshed moralism with medicine to self-fashion an image of themselves as k…
This book explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work' -- tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the 'clean/dirty' divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways in which dirty work iden…
Notes on Contributors -- Introducing Dirty Work, Concepts and Identities; R. Simpson, N. Slutskaya, P. Lewis & H.H̲pfl -- Dirty Work and Acts of Contamination; H.H̲pfl -- Stains, Staining and the Ethics of Dirty Work; S. Vachhani -- Reconceptualising Dirty Work: Investment Banking…
This book explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work' - tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the 'clean/dirty' divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways in which dirty work ident…
"This book explores new understandings and contemporary experiences of 'dirty work' -- tasks or roles that are seen to be disgusting or degrading. Through novel empirical sites that include nursing, medicalization, sex workers, sex call operators, financiers and women's magazine…
This book explores new understandings and contemporary experiences of dirty work - tasks or roles that are seen to be disgusting or degrading. Through novel empirical sites that include nursing, medicine, sex work, sex cal operations, finance and women's magazines, the book offe…
Argues that ritual is merely surface, beneath which lie status and power, the behavioral dimensions that drive social interaction. This book identifies status and power as the twin forces that structure social relations, determine emotions and link individuals to the reference g…
Numerous sociologists suppose that ritual is foundational for social life. Kemper, however, argues that status and power structure social relations, determine emotions and link individuals to the reference groups that deliver culture and administer preferences, actions, beliefs …