page under construction
A
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)
Top
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)
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)
D
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)
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)
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)
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
H
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
J
K)
Keynesian demand management and economic theory (p. 86-90, 124,
129 book 3)
L
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.
O
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.
Q
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.
T
U
universalism ( p.123 book 3) rights to welfare for evrybody
V
W
Wage dispersion (p. 98 book 3)
welfare state (p. 118-28 book 3)
X
Y
Z
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