Nancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from
dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to …

This address is a contribution to the study of “lived religion,” that is, the embodied and
enacted forms of spirituality that occur in everyday life. Like the children's books that ask …

Gender issues continue to be a prominent concern of academics and policy-makers, and
increasingly arise in various forms to be debated in the public sphere and popular media …

Although there is substantial support for the relationship between mentoring and work
performance, empirical research has yet to fully explore the plausible positive psychological …

Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse draws upon theories of time and space to
consider how informal care is woven into the fabric of everyday lives and is shaped by social …

In a pivotal section of Capital, volume 1, notes that, in order to understand the capitalist
production of value, we must descend into the 'hidden abode of production': the site of the …

This paper examines how some non-managerial/professional workers (mobile service
engineers) used mobile phones for work, with a central focus on phone use during working …

In this paper we explore some of the negative aspects of friendship. In so doing we do not
seek to join the debate about whether or not friendships are more or less important than …

Despite scholarly efforts to challenge the dualistic stereotype of men as rational and women
as emotion experts, academics have paid little attention to the issues that arise when gay …

Although organizational research on workplace friendships is well established, it has been
criticized for its predominately postpositivistic outlook, which largely focuses on how …