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Aggregate demand deficiency
(p. 87 book 3) a condition in a national economy where full employment cant be guaranteed
                                                   due to a low level of consumer demands.
Americanization ( p. 12,61-65 Book 4) Refers to the impacts of American culture on other countries importing cultural products from the USA, including                                                                       media programes as well as the English language, as a means of cultural imperialism in order to promote economic                                                                     interests to importing countries. See also Anthony Giddens " Runaway World", 1999, Lecture 1 and Dorfman and                                                                     Mattelart's " How to read Donald Duck, Imperialist ideology in the Disney Comic" , 1975.
Androcentrism ( p. 111 Book 5) A way of thinking that focuses on the interests of men on the expense of women. Also met in eco-feminism .
Androgynous ( p. 54 Book 1) Sandra Bem's characterization of a person having feminine and masculine dimensions at the same time.
Animal experiments ( p. 143-4, 146-7, Book 2)

Animal rights :( p. 47 Book 5)
Animal welfare : ( p.138 Book 2)
Aromatherapy : (p. 3 Book 5)
Authority (p. 20, book 3)

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B

Biocentrism ( p. 106 Book 5)
Biotechnology ( p.85 book 5)
Biotechnology Corporations ( p. 22-3, 17-)20, 34-5, book 3
Bureaucratic power (p. 28-33, 39, 96, 69, 125-8, 136, 142-4, Book 3)

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C
Capitalism defining (p. 95, book 1)
                  and nations (p. 127, book 1)
                  and Modernity , Post-Fordism ( p. 129-32, 143, book 5)
                  Golden Age of and social democracy ( p. 85-6, 90, 92-3, 111, book 3)
                  and liberalism ( p. 105, book 3)
                  and Marxist theory(p. 91, 129-30, book 3, p. 97-8 book 1)
                  and unequal labour markets (p. 96 , book 3)
Class allignment (p.106 book1)
Class conflict (p. 119-20, 128-30, book 3)
class consciousness(p.98 book 1)
Coercion (p.16 book 3)
               & class conflict (p. 119, book 3)
               & Hayek's theory of competitive markets (p. 107-8 , book 3)
               & power , institutional, patriarchical, of welfare institutions (p. 16,17, 24, 73, 126-7 , book 3)
Collectivization of risk & social democracy (p. 124, book 3)
collective monologue (p.31 book 2)
Collective bargaining (p. 97 book ) about wages between trade union and employes.
Companionate marriage : (p. 50, book 3) a notion celebrated by Young and Willmott, 1957, of a new form of marriage where man and wife
                                           were equal partners
Competitive advantage (p. 94 book 3) of a successful firm of either cost or quality.
concrete operations (p.36 book 2) operations a child carries out that have to do with objects rather than abstract ideas.
Conservatism, and family life (p. 5, 46-7, 59, 60-3, 68, 69, book 3)
                         and the environment (p. 79,93-5, 99, book 5)
Consumption
, and lifestyle (p. 65, book 2)
                         and Marxist theory (p. 91, book 3)
                         and the scarity of of natural resources (p. 91, book 5)
                         and wages (p. 88, book 3)
                         reducing unsustainable levels of, (p. 22 , book 4)
                         social class and identity(p. 104-107, 111, 157 book 1)
correlation (p. 24 book 2)
contested conceps (p.48 book 2)
Cosmogenesis (p. 46, book 5)

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Delegation and bureaucratic power
(p. 30-33, book 3)
Domination (p. 21, book 3) imposed constraint and removal of choice.


Dualism (p. 48-50 , book 2)

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E

eco-feminism
( p. 60-1, 95, 109-12, book 5)
ecocentrism (p. 106, book 5)
economic neo-liberals (p. 89,90, book 4)
egocentric speech
(p.30 book 2)
Enlightment
(p. 20, book 5)
and post-modernism (p. 133, book 5)
environmentalism
(p. 34, book 1)
essentialist categories of gender
(p. 51-2, 57, 75 book 1)
ethnicity and religion (p. 57-59, 62-6, 72)

ethnic nationalism
(p. 145, book 1)
ethnocentric views
(p. 150, book 1)
evolution
(p. 9-18, book 2) :a theory created by Darwin Charles that sees the world of species as a dynamic system changing over time
                                            through natural selection as a result of interactions between these species and their environment.
               and religious knowledge (p. 45, book 5)
experts(p. 14, 20-1, 90, 103, 124-5, 128, 136, 139, 141-4, book 3)
             ( p. 4, 8-12, 19, 21, 29-33, 120, 123, 129, 151-2, 155-8, book 5)
               and the BSE crisi (p. 141-4, book 2)
               externalities (p. 101-7, 111, book 2)

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F

feminine (p. 44-6, 48, 53-4, 68-71, 75, book 1)
feminism (p. 34, 66-7, book1)
                critiques of medical and scientific knowledge (p. 26-9, book 5)
                critiques of sciences (p. 148, book 2)
                & family lives (p. 5, 46, 47, 59, 60, 64-8, 69 , book 3)
                & neo-Darwinism (p. 14, book 2)
                & social justice (p. 68, 132, book 3)
                & the environment (p. 79, 95, 99, book 5)
                & the welfare state (p. 118, 131-4, 145, 147, 153-4, 157)

flexibility (p. 93-102 book 3)
Fordism and Post-Fordism (p. 130-2, 147, 150)
fragmented identity (p. 29, book1 )
fragmented society (p. 4, 121, 129-37, book 5)
fundamentalism (p. 45, 64, book 5)


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G

gender (p. 1-3, 21-2, 44-76, 155-6, book 1)
               and criteria for selecting a mate (p. 15-18, book 2)
               and economic activity rates (p. 54, book 3)
               inequalities and flexible labour markets (p. 96, book 3)
               and religion (p. 57-61, 72, book 5)
              and scientists (p. 34, book 5)
               and the social democratic state (p. 91)
               and job security (p. 99, book 3)
genetic engineering, ( p. 85, book 5)
                                  arguments for and against (p. 11-14, book 3)
golden age of capitalism (p. 92-3, 95, 103, book 3)
                  and social democracy (p. 85-6, 90, 92-3, 111, book 3)
                  of family life ( p. 2-3, 47-50, 57-8, book 3)
                  of state welfare (p 117-28, 132, 145-6, 149-50, 153, book 3)

green conciousness (p. 81-2, book2)
green thinking


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I



identification
(p. 16 book 1)
industrialization (p.126 book 1)
interpellation (p. 19 book 1)
invisible elbow (p.106-110 book 2) a charactirization by Michael Jacobs of externalities
 invisible hand, the (p.88-90 book 2) a metaphor used by Adam Smith characterizing the price mechanism of markets.
IQ tests (p. 20-28 book 20


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  K)

Keynesian demand management and economic theory (p. 86-90, 124, 129 book 3)


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laissez-faire (p. 86, book 3)
lifestyle (p. 64 book 2- p.105-6 book1)



M

managerialism
(p. 143 book 3) the emergence of various managers in the welfare section and the belief that by giving them
                                                  more power will make the re-ordering of public sector institutions efficient.
manipulation (p. 16, book 3)

N

neo-Darwinists (p. 13-18 book 2)
nuclear family (p. 47, book 3) a family model consisting of man, woman and children.

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P

patriarchy (p.64, book 3)
persuasion (book 3, p. 17)
political ideologies(p.46 book 3)
price mechanism (p. 89 book 2)
privatized prudentialism (p. 147 book 3)
public patriarchy : ( Book 3, p. 65) A term used by Sylvia Walby (1991) to illustrate low-paid and low-status women's employment
in the welfare state and in jobs such as child and elder care that were traditionally done at home.





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R

Risk society (p. 136-7, 139-0, 145, 158 book 2)

S


shared resources (p. 81 book 2)
Social citizenship (p. 123 book 3) civil, social and political rights equally recognized to everybody.
social exclusion (p.108 book 1)
social polarixation (p.108 book1)

Social settlement(p. 137 book 3) the idea that the welfare state has been built upon assumptions about family, work and nation.
Spontaneous social order (p. 103 book 3) a liberal notion of social order without government involvment- ex. market as a form of s.s.o.


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U


universalism ( p.123 book 3) rights to welfare for evrybody


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W

Wage dispersion (p. 98 book 3)
welfare state (p. 118-28 book 3)


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Reference

Book 1: Woodward, K. (eds) (2000) Questioning Identity: Gender, Class, Nation, London, Routledge/ The Open University
Book 2:Hinchliffe, S. and Woodward, K.
(eds) (2000) The Natural and the Social: Uncertainty, Risk, Change, London, Routledge/ The Open University
Book 3: Hughes, G. and Fergusson, R. (eds)(2000) Ordering Lives: Family, Work and Welfare, London, Routledge/ The Open University
Book 4: Held, D. (eds)(2000) A Globalizing Worls? Culture, Economics, Politics, London, Routledge/ The Open University
Book 5: Goldblatt, D. (eds)(2000) Knowledge and the Social Sciences: Theory, Methods, Practice, London, Routledge/ The Open University

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